I bought the new MXR Rockman pedal at midnight this morning. Feel free to shame me—I deserve it—but…

…I grew up loving that sound on “Hysteria” (Edit: by Def Leppard) and after I learned what made it, desperately wanted a Rockman but couldn’t afford it.

I looked to see if anyone ever tried to clone it into a pedal. Nope. No one ever did it.

I thought to myself: “Man, if they made a pedal of this one day I’d be so stoked.” I even drew up a design for outside of the pedal that illustrated what parameters could be tweaked.

So when this leaked a little while back, I knew I’d be grabbing one. The write up on Sweetwater further convinced me once I saw there’s a stereo mode.