East River Drive : Excellent TC clone

I wanted a tubescreamer type pedal to use as a boost for a valve amp to get some additional gain from my amp.

So far I have used it with the gain at minimum and level at maximum. Then I can use the tone to either keep a similar sound to the bypass (this seems to be about 10 o'clock) or make it a bit more trebly for solos.

My amp is single channel (Hayden Mofo 30W) and I didn't want to use a distortion or OD pedal to get clean/distorted sounds.

So I have the amp set at a mild crunch setting which I can clean up with guitar volume. Then when I kick in the ERD with gain at zero it produces a great classic rock tone. So I get a 2 channel amp from this pedal.

The gain sounds from the pedal sound pretty authentic, but I'm not planning on using it this way much.

I'd prefer if it was easier to change the battery (you have to open up the whole case), but no big deal.

In summary, a very good value tubescreamer clone with nice stylings and a very solid build.