I am very privileged to have the Punch Tone pedal for testing at my premises- first & foremost, a big thank you to brother SEEKZ for the consideration.
This Made in Singapore pedal mirrors what the Crunch Box (MI Audio) has to offer by virtue of its drive tone. The Punch Tone (PT) is a distortion box, capable of being mild-mannered at lower gain settings & some in-your-face assault once the relevant dials are turned up but a metal-type distortion it is not, let's be clear on that.
As a stand alone pedal, if you are looking for some crunch in your drive, the PT has some good voicings to offer; from blues mongers to some angst-ridden music, you'd do well to check this pedal out. I'm not bent on comparing it to the above-mentioned Crunch Box because doing so would be rather convenient but it propagates a superficial understanding of what the PT can do. I personally prefer this pedal as it has a cascading gain circuitry at the helm translating into impressive saturation & the triggering of second order harmonics.
Nevertheless, I have pushed the PT's performance envelope by adding a TS7 in the chain as a drive booster. What I get is one of the fattest, crunch tone this side of the Marshall Menace & the pedal's tone sweep allows me to smoothen proceedings with ease- I'm sure many of us appreciate crunch better with less top end sizzle, especially for that woolly, neck humbucker, woman tone.
With this in mind, the PT doesn't quite manifest its distortion capacity when utilized as a booster owing to its inherent intensity; we'd do better with mild-type boosters for our amp's dirty channel & we have our Tubescreamer (or its variants) for that task. All in all, thumbs up to the PT.
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