A really cool stomp box for noise with knobs for Level, Tone, Dist(Distortion). The best feature is it's ability to generate feedback when the footswitch is depressed and held. This kicks in the "Superfeedbacker", and the tone of the feedback is set with the Overtone knob. The name of this pedal was changed by Boss from "Super Distortion & Feedbacker" when a lawsuit was brought against them by DiMarzio, Inc. for using the name "Super Distortion" which is a registered trademark for a guitar pickup.
Anywho yes it feedbacks, kinda like a one trick pony but with and other pedals the trick gets better!!!! I like to run a pitch shifter right after this...throw that overtone up an octave or two :) think of what a micro synth or octave generator could do if this came before it...
Good Points: FEEDBACK, DIST can be completely dialed out,
Bad Points: weak tone, volume drop when on (even when dist is at min), distortion sucks (but you knew that already)
When I and other reviewers say this pedal is not worth buying for it's distortion, we mean it! There is nothing at all special about the distortion here. You most likely own more than one pedal that does this middle of the road kind of distortion far better. It has decent high end and almost no low end.
Now the real reason we're all here is for the feedback function. It generates a tone to simulate feedback for the note you hit as you step on the pedal. You can hold indefinitely. This has a ton of uses. E -bow style passages, heavy drone, shoegaze. Now sure, lots of delay pedals and samplers and other gear can generate a tone, but I've found lots of uses for this because it's so damned simple. I have a pretty stripped down noise rock setup and I don't really use lots of gadgets and generally stick to just my distortion pedal. This simple addition made for some SunnO style drone that was to die for.
I wouldn't recommend this pedal to anyone looking for distortion, it's tinny and unremarkable. If you think the feedback generator sounds interesting, you should give it a go.
Good Points: Feedback generator is incredibly simple and has tons of uses.
Bad Points: The distortion is pretty worthless.
Good Points: Works great with other pedals to produce noise.
Bad Points: Not a reliable source of Dist.
Good Points: -nice feedback generator, the noise it creates is linear and continuous
Bad Points: -bad volume drop
-bad kind of distortion
Good Points: The feedback is a cool feature.
Bad Points: I wish it didn't drop in volume when turned on, and the distortion could be better, espescially since it's called "Super Distortion".
Good Points: The feedbacker section sounds pretty good whatever you run thru it, vocals and drums are excellent thru this
Bad Points: The distrotion section is soooooo bad
The feedback you hold a note and press the pedal and it holds the note. However the note sounds synthy and it's tremaloed. Nothing like feedback. Get a DD3 it does the excact same thing.
Good Points: Interesting idea
Bad Points: But fails.
Good Points: This pedal has a nice, smooth, tube-like distortion. Decent battery usage.
Bad Points: The volume of the distortion is lower than the volume of the dry (clean) signal. Will not feedback pitches below and above a certain range. When the pitch is held it is tremoloed.





