Riot Mini : I never knew I needed one. I just found out!

All those thick, creamy, meaty, juicy high-gain rock tones, modern AND vintage are right here. I really think this deserves to be in a the "Marshall-in-a-box" category, especially when the voicing switch is in the "vintage" position. This pedal can evern go toe-to-toe with the Xotic SL Drive - they have slightly different mid-range structures, and the Riot has more bass but never gets flubby at high gain like the SL Drive does.

I am particularly impressed at three things: 1) Even at quite high gain settings, the sound and character of your pickup selections still come through well, and, 2) it sounds unusually awesome when rolling back the guitar volume, 3) does an "almost clean" volume boost in addition to "holy crap that's a lot of distortion" distortion.

Drawbacks - With as much distortion as this pedal delivers (a lot!) comes more noise. Not really a fault, that goes with the territory past 2 o'clock on the dial (which is already more gained up than I need to be fair). And mini pedals have mini knobs which are fiddly.

Other than that, if you think you need one, you probably do.