I remember how the real Splawn QR had a lot of buzz around one and I had to have it! Well I got one- two actually as the first one broke in shipping. it had 2 channels- the first one was clean and it sucked. The second channel had 3 gain stages called "Gears" of OD. I didn't really care for any of them, then again, I'm not much of a JCM800 fan, which it is based upon. It was also waaaaay too loud for me, which might be a positive for someone who plays bigger places, but it was beyond overkill. I did like how it felt. I could feel and hear that this was a tube amp - if that makes sense. So, if you want a JCM800 with cascading gain levels, get it, but for me, its just some other marshall mod.