You can turn the distortion all the way down on the DarkRay and just blend it in a little bit or you can get an over driven tube amp sound with it pretty easily. There’s two different mid points. Also, you can turn the distortion all the way down and blend all the way up and you get two different mid points too. You can also run just the clean channel and it sound really smooth and punchyYeah that's the Dark Ray plasma purple. For me the Darkray distorted sounds are not interesting though. Wifey likes the purple ones too, and they do have their charm.