MI Audio Crunch Box

Sheer Fun in little space.

I wanted to praise an recommend this pedal in the very first entry of this blog as it worths every single penny of the very reasonable prices it can be had second hand.

Here's some things you need to know about it:


-It "transforms" a clean amp with its Marshall-esque sound with quality and authority.

-It has more lows than the average OD/distorion pedal, great for single coils.

-The first editions can be had for prices around 70/80€, wich is a very fair price for this beast.

-It probably wont do ultra-doom metal, but with the gain set at 9 o'clock it gives a very nice tone for hard rock, so it has plenty distortion on tap, go figure.

-Not too noisy for this kind of pedal, not dead silent either.

-It can accept voltages up to, at least, 18 volts wich provides  more headroom and probably better frequency response:

that's not really a necessity with electric guitars, BUT it's handy with SYNTHS and other line level instruments that tend to overdrive the input of regular guitar pedals and choke things too much.

-True bypass.

-It does not clean that well when you roll off your guitar volume pot, it loses highs. I find it cool because it gives you a darker and cleaner version of the Marshall tone, kinda Cream era Clapton sound. But it's not super-transparent in that regard (as a Tweed Deluxe amps tend to be, for instance).