Bogner XTC Red pedal, got on a trade for the Uberschall pedal [didn't care for that one]. Has some decent high gain type tones. Really comes alive with the bass, middle & treble open about 2/3rds. Gets real noisy with the volume past 1/2. Set for unity gain & you're good.
Yes not gain so much but anything past 1/2 way on the volume it get very noisey.
Seems Reinhold needs to go back to the drawing board & add noise reduction.
I looked at the guts tho circuitry is top notch.
If you used just this pedal by itself & nothing else it would be less noise than with other pedals in the chain.
I have an ISP gate that works fine.
The pedal does sound good tho.
The Uberschall pedal was a dud for me.
And the guy i swapped XTC red for Uber with has the Uberschall listed again on CL so he musta not liked it either.
Haven't tried the blue.