This high-quality stomp box has the warm sound of a hand-selected 12AX7 vacuum tube. In addition, the VT999 offers an integrated and switchable noise gate with adjustable threshold that keeps your signal noise-free. The VT999 provides the ultimate in distortion-laced tone shaping, with an onboard 3-band EQ and dedicated Gain and Master output level control. This unit is used, has been tested and sounds great!