impulse buy after I was made at my wife.  amp stands for everything I despise.  Cheap.  Made in China.  Solid State.  yet the OD is old school and to die for.  It's my first VOX.  I cascade OD and this OD functions just on the edge of dysfunction, and it's totally addictive.  I plug it thru a 4X12 which really loses the SS tone.  It just oozes MAD tone.  Obviously I had to strip a guitar cord to plug into large 8 Ohm speakers.  I own 3 other tube Amps (Ampeg, Fuchs and Blackheart) and 2 or 3 (2 Marshall, Roland) solid states.  This amp fills a very nice void other Amps can't provide.  It's user friendly, does what it's supposed to do.  I read a review where the reviewer said it's the best thing VOX has done in 40 years.