After spending most of my life trying to find the perfect lead sound, I think I have finally stumbled across it in the most unlikely of places….yes a pedal suited more for blues playing, The Boss BD-2 Blues Driver!But this isn’t it is simply amazing, cranking up the gain a bit gives me the perfect creamy lead sound I have been looking for, and by backing off on the volume on the guitar it gives a lovely crunchy rhythym sound. Obviously this isn’t for metal (have the Mt-2 Metal Zone for that), but I love it!I also love the fact it is very responsive to picking and you can get clean picked notes rather than messy messy distortion!The pedal has a few of a nicely overdriven tube amp, and also enables you to drive a tube amp harder when set up like a boost pedal.I would certainly give this pedal your consideration.