The Jan Ray was designed to recreate the classic tone of an overdriven 1960s Blackface amp. One of the original 'transparent drives', the Jan Ray doesn't transform your tone or change the relationship between your guitar and amp. It doesn't compress or colour the sound as much as a TS style drive would. The Jan Ray pushes the front-end of your amp hard enough to add some sweet sustain and breakup. You can think of it more as the spark that ignites a good guitar and amp combination! The Jan Ray can take your tone from mild to fat and saturated (think of an overdriven 1960s Fender Super Reverb set to the ‘Magic 6' setting).