Finally had a chance to plug it in and have a play. At first I thought it was disappointingly lacking in treble, then saw in the manual that there is a treble trim pot inside - I didn't have one of those little jewellers screwdrivers but managed to get the end of an oversized crosshead screwdriver in there and tweak it up a bit and all was well on that front.
The EQ control (the middle one) is flat when fully clockwise and that's how it sounds nicest to me right now.
The Brown 'channel' is the lower gain of the 2 and is a really nice full-range sound - no honk or wild emphasis anywhere (gets a little more mids as the gain goes up but nothing TS-like or anything like that)
The Red mode has a control that works from a minimum gain setting (still a nice amount) at noon then increases gain as you turn it away from noon - to clockwise it's a regular gain control, but anti-clockwise it has a kind of resonance effect that's pretty cool.
Imagine a kind of "cocked wah effect with its mix turned down to about 30%" - it's like that - it's not like a straight filter effect, it kind of makes your ear go 'eh, wassat?' - I suspect it'd make a gainy sound stand out a bit in a live setting - never come across anything like it, but it's still fairly subtle (at home volume anyway)
It's really responsive to the volume knob, which I like.
I wonder if I can get it on vertically instead of the Timmy? (should have tried that earlier)
Red ones are better.
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Yep I'd read about it going first so it is (and if I did put it on the board I'd put it after the true-bypass tuner probably)
To the comment above about not being flexible to use with different guitars - to be clear the tiny external controls are really easy to change as with any pedal (with your vertical fingertip, or plectrum inserted), just hard to *accidentally* change, and the internal ones don’t really need faffing with.