I tried the V2 today, I'm gonna play with it more tomorrow, but it sounds REALLY great. I was surprised how clean the clean channel is, and it's the SS preamp too. The graphic EQ also makes a HUGE difference depending on how you set it. I've had a few EQ pedals that made subtle differences, but this one really changed the tone. That sustain boost on the SS dirty channel is that Randall SS grind, and when it's pushed in it gives off a really solid rhythm tone. The only thing I have negative to say about it (and this is true for almost all high gain amplifiers) is that depending on how you set it, it'll get noisy. A noise gate of some sort would be good if you set your amp to "death metal" style gain, but it also gives off massive chunk, and we have it on a 2x12 MTS cab! No joke, it sounds huge. Randall makes awsome cabs too man, I can't remember when I got that huge a tone from a 2x12. I was actually impressed with their cabs, so I am running the R212CS MTS cab with my Randall head right now. Last thing...this thing is LOUD! I mean I had the volume up to 9 o clock and the master barely at 8 and it's loud as hell. This thing was meant to be gigged with