This pedal will last forever.  I have not had any battery problems with it (I unplug chords when I'm done with them) and it is made from hard durable steel.  It is easy to adjust the sound and to do simple things such as change the battery.  You can adjust the tone, the amount of distortion, and the level.  It comes with a little packet of tones that tell you how to get different sounds (although its much more fun to mess around with it before looking at that packet.  I recommend this pedal to any guitar player looking for a new sound.