Schaffer Replica Storm : AC/DC in a box

Does what it advertises: AC/DC-like tones.

I've owned this pedal for just under a week now. I won't pretend I know exactly how the circuit works, but it appears to be a clean-ish boost with some sort of compression built in. I'm saying clean-ish, because the boost does appear to have a bit of an EQ on board, which to me seems to accentuate mostly the mids to mid-highs.

I mostly use it as an always-on pedal in front of my amp. It respects picking dynamics and the guitar's tone control, and it plays quite nicely with other drive pedals (I currently use this one first in my signal chain as that appeared to work best).

The pedal (knobs, switch) feels well-built. The manual is short, but to the point. I would've liked a few "preset" examples for interaction between the knobs like the Strymon manuals offer, but it's fairly easy to dial in.

The one complaint I have is that the boost operates in the frequency of my amp's humming noise, amplifying this along with the guitar signal. My Marshall is largely to blame for that one though, and this also occurs with some other boost pedals.