Works well with pedals or just by itself for some classic marshall crunch. The real spring reverb is nice too. I have recorded straight into my interface from the headphone output and it sounds surprisingly good. Looks good, sounds good for the price and it’s very light to carry which is great! If you think the amp is too bright on the overdrive channel, just turn your guitars tone knob down a little bit and thank me later. Overall I enjoy this amp more than the Marshall Origin 5 combo which was almost twice the price. Very nice little amp!