The Hot Cake V2 will give you a thick distortion tone with a little extra to it when cranked. The Presence control hits you with a pleasant mid-range boost as you turn it up, with nothing too harsh. The Hot Cake doesn't use a treble cut circuit for its distorted tone, keeping your raw guitar tone unchanged.

The Hot Cake V2 is pretty transparent and doesn't colour your tone like many overdrives we've used before. Picking and power chords all shine through very well, with no loss of articulation during alternate picking runs. Shredders will be very happy with this one.