I bought this pedal used at a local shop for about twenty bucks and it has been in heavy use ever since. I also own the Boss DS-1 and this pedal seems to have more tonal possibilities with the tone knobs. I have used the pedal with bass guitars by turning the bottom tone up and keeping some lows. It's not meant for a bass ideally and is not near as versatile as a bass fuzz pedal but sounds good.