It's a very perverse and vulgar type of distortion. When played through an amp (or amp sim) it can make you sound really gritty, sharp edged and funky.
I'm currently recording a sideproject using a deliberately badly tuned guitar and the Punkifier used as a d/i box, making my guitar sound as if it's wildly raping the input jack of an analog mixing board. (that's exactly the type of sound I've been looking for, for years!)
Reliability/Durability:
The thing gives me the feeling it's sucking up batteries faster than I can drink beer, then again it's the only stomp box I use with batteries. I could easily hook up an adapter but I won't, that wouldn't be punk enough.
Ease of Use:
Well it works the way it works. Four knobs and a stomp button to turn it on or off - a seemless switch btw. The "menace" knob is for the output volume of the effect sound.
Customer Support:
I never had to deal with customer support.
Overall Rating:
the dealer said this stomp box was the worst he ever had until I played it. Because it had proved unsellable to anyone else, he gave me a 50% discount.
Yea, I really like this nasty thing. It brightens my sessions. All the other distortions I ever tried were way too clean for me, or too metallic, or too bluesrock like. And I make what I call Punk-Wave TripRock with industrial and electro influences. It's just right for me and I love it!
