ToadWorks Death Rattle II

Don't get freaked out by all the shiny knobs. Remember you are basically dealing with three effects in a single pedal, so they are neccesary. This thing sounds good at every setting I have tried.

OK, I got this to add some dirt to my little Fender Pro Jr., a 15 watt 1x10, with my Nashville Tele, and sometimes an old Washburn hollowbody with humbuckers. Seems to like the Tele more.
PLEXI: The Plexi gave me the sound I was looking for. It definitely will push your sound towards the Marshall range. If I can get a deep overdrive crunch out of my setup, anyone can.
TWEED: The tweed is a great model of a Fender. Very clear and clean, with the breakup coming at just the right spot. I don't use the tweed a lot, because essentially it sounds what my amp and guitar sound like by themselves. Thats a testimony to Toadworks for getting it right!
BOOST: NOT a clean boost. This is a Fat boost, it will add some more girth and crunch, but hey, when you want a boost isn't that what you are looking for anyway? I am. NOTE* This boost works independently of the overdrive, unlike a Fulldrive. It does pop a little when you kick it in, but I love despite its faults.

Gig it without a backup and have never had one problem. Very sturdy tank, I could unplug it to defend myself if neccesary.

I emailed them and got a quick and coutreous reply. They seem like the kind of guys who really care about making great pedals and standing behind them.

I lead worship in a large churcha nd play about 2-3 times a week. The Death Rattle name is always hillarious to me in a church, but hey God loves to be praised with rock 'n roll as much as anything else. If it were lost or stolen I would replace it as soon as my wife would let me! Very musical and very useful 3-in-1 pedal.
I played other pedals like Fulltones and Line 6 stuff, but this is as close to Marshall stack sound as you can get in a box. The Boost and Tweed were icing on the cake. Plus the Toadworks website is pretty clever www.virtualtoad.com

self explanitory not much to it if you can turn a nob this pedal is for you .

I use a tele and a les paul studio through a boss tu-2>>>>Vox wah>>>keeley compressor>>>big muff>>>>keeley phat mod bd-2>>>>death rattle>>>Fender twin amp and this pedal is amazing and I wish I would have bought it a long time ago.Toadworks masterd it when they put the seperate gain nob on it and it sounds good with both guitars.The plexi side sounds best with humbuckers than with my tele's single coils but still a pleasing sound and I cant get this pedal to sound bad and I have tried.I even pulled 2 other dirt boxes out of my pedal board so this will take their place . The boost is the pedals secret weapon its like having 3 pedals that sound great

have only had it for a short time but its an all metal case and is really solid

again Ive only had it a short time so I haven had to deal with customer support yet

I play rock and roll mostly and venture into alot of todays rockin country and this pedal will work for whatever I do .

Three foot switches and seven knobs, I was a little intimidated by that. It turns out the controls are so intuitive it takes only a few hours playing until you've got it down. The only thing I needed for reference was the update paper slip to tell me which gain control to use for each channel. Yup, a separate gain control for the "Plexi" channel. Ryan seems to have read the reviews of the first model and fixed all the complaints.

My current set up is Tribute S-500>Toadworks "Mr. Squishy">Death Rattle> Rocktron "Tsunami" chorus/delay>Fender Vibro-Champ. The "Boost" (which now works independently or additively with the distortion channels) is really quiet, the "Tweed" channel likewise. The "Plexi" channel is slightly noisy but can be controlled by the output level knob. One of the things that makes this and the "Mr. Squishy" so easy to use is the limiting ability of the level controls. The "Tweed" channel is a lovely Fender like overdrive, kind of like my Champ turned up to 10. The "Plexi" channel is serious raging distortion, especially in combination with the Boost on. The Boost has a nice full bottom and clear ringing highs, I can actually get electro-mechanical feedback out of a six watt amp. Using the Boost alone with Mr. S makes some really pretty sounds. One problem that I had was my practice cable allowed a lot of noise to get into the effect, switching to my Cobalt Cables interconnect solved that problem.

It's built like a tank, the actual postage by USPS Priority Mail was $10.80. We'll see how it holds up but the build quality is very solid.

I've sent humorous e-mails to ryan after buying each of his effects and he comes back rapidly with funnier missives. I'm sure from the pride he obviously has in his products that he would be easy to deal with if a problem cropped up.

If it were stolen or lost, I would you buy one again. Where else can you get an elaborate handmade by space monkeys effect that has a price/performance ratio like this thing? I try not to buy Chinese merch. and this costs like Chinese built by somebody who cares about his products. As mentioned earlier, all of the previous niggles about the original D.R.as noted by your reviewers have been fixed. And, heck, this and its stable-mate require you to firmly grasp the box to unplug cables.