| When I first got mine, I was having problems with it. It has a definite threshold on how you have to play through it. If you play fast, the fuzz will drop out of the signal and leave the notes that come through flat or sounding as if you are muting them when you're not. Basically the pedal doesn't track your playing very well.
However, if you are playing slower, rythmic stuff, then this pedal really packs a lot of fuzz. Especially with the "Deep" button engaged. This little guy has a lot of bite. I've picked up a standard distortion pedal for what the El Grande can't do. However, what the El Grande can do, it does very well. I also think I got a lemmon because no one else seems to notice the "issue" I have with mine with thiers. I also run active pickups, and that might come into play since this is an analog stomp.
Do a thread search. There are several threads on the El Grande alone in this section of the forums. You will find plenty of talk about it. I like what this pedal does when it does it. I'm going to send it off to a pedal geek to see if a widget inside is f'd. | 
