When I bought it 5 years ago, it was a good buy. Today I do not know. The pedal is versatile in the sense that it can provide the dist to many different amps and make it work. However, the pedal-sided in it that you can not tune in a particularly wide range of distortion sounds. Very robust design. Boss metal box is well with all of their pedals. For heavy use has gummiflärpen sitting around the hole in which "screw" that holds the battery door / foot switch moves destroyed. This does not change how the pedal behave. One of the knobs has become slightly bent, nor does it affect other than cosmetic.