Dept. 10 Dual Distortion £249

While its control surface works exactly the same as the Dual Drive, the Dual Distortion has more gain overall and a beefier voicing; it’s more high-gain modern than classic vintage. With Channel 1’s Clean and Crunch voicings and Channel 2’s OD 1 and OD 2, you’re covered from solidly fat clean chording right through to harmonic-laden high-gain leads. As with the Dual Drive, the speaker simulation here is nicely authentic, offering up a complete sound that both records well and will give you a great front-of-house feed as an alternative or a complement to your amp. USB recording is a doddle to set up – you just set the Dept. 10 pedal as the audio input in your DAW.

As with its sibling, there’s plenty of flexibility available in changing from one channel to the next, which can be radical or something more subtle, such as setting up two crunch sounds with slightly different gain settings.

VERDICT An excellent range of functionality in a pedal that will suit those who gravitate towards heavier guitar tones