The MXR Custom Badass ’78 Distortion is a pumped up factory-modded pedal with huge amp stack tones and old school tube amp-like distortion. It’s designed to give over-the-top soaring leads and rich, saturated rhythms. It’s easy to use, with three knobs - crunch, tone and distortion - so you can choose between two different modes of diode and LED clipping, boosting the harmonic content of the distortion. The pedal works well with clean, dirty or overdriven amps.