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PIRACY. IT'S A CRIME. the early 2000s. I was so blessed to have been born in 2001 and experienced the 2000's. What felt like the afterglow and evolution of 90's culture, forever lost in the 2010's, with 2020's riding on the nostalgia of the 90's and 2000's. It feels like I got the last breaths of the authentic feeling and culture of the 2000's. This circuit was something I wanted. I had always been intrigued by the boss XT2 XTORTION. a commercial failure from boss, this pedal is underlooked, underthought of, and a sleeper. It did need some tuning to bring out the most in the circuit, so mine has a different voice but still has the XT2 character. It is a truly unique sounding distortion pedal. The punch knob employs some sort of magic that gives the distortion a deep mids crunch, that feels like authentic nu metal, even though nobody was likely using this pedal. with external 3 mode clipping toggles for both soft and hard clipping, you get many different gain voices that are not available with the original. Then- I wanted to add one of my favorite muff variants- an elk sustainar with endless tonal options. with the addition of a bias control that can slam the muff even louder, or create broken glitchy decay, you get sounds you never knew a muff even had. 3 way clipping on the muff interacts far differently than on the xt2. on the muff, it genuinely feels like 3 different circuits. Lastly- 3 way mids toggles that adjust either the low pass or high pass mids on the tone knob- theres deep scoop, stock, and flat. Naturely, the big muff has very scooped mids since the tone control is a low pass or high pass, filtering out the middle frequencies. This toggle changes that, allowing for deeper tone control. Made with soft touch, relay true bypass. This pedal feels like a blurred mesh of the best era of music.