D16 Group Devastor 2 €49

A tube-style distortion that takes things rough but somehow always manages to stay smooth, Devastor 2 is billed as a multiband distortion. With each filter acting on an exact copy of the input signal, there’s some room for overlap, and there’s a choice of nine signal routings in which the distortion and filters can be swapped or combined. The Devastor 2 often feels more like a saturator than a true, balls-to-thewall degradation machine, but this is actually the one on the testbench that we’d most like to ‘play’ like an instrument, waggling the resonant analogue-style filter cutoffs and notching up the often-too-reserved Preamp dial in order to push the signal into harder territory. d16.pl VERDICT 8.8