ANIMATO is a distortion pedal with a wide range of tones! While maintaining a low-center-of-gravity low-end, the wide tone range allows for creation of everything from bright, edgy sounds to focused, clear mid-range lead tones. This is a handmade distortion that is packed with the crispness and warm texture of analog that you can hear in Old Rat and DS-1. A very pleasant distortion. Animato is both wild and smooth. This means it has a very wide range of versatility and can be adapted to a wide range of songs. RAT (OLD), which is usually referred to as distortion, has good distortion but the tone is thin. Furthermore, the muddy distortion that is often found in many things, the crushed, unbearable distortion that is hard to listen to, these things have nothing to do with Animato. Of course, these things can be effective in some cases, but they are not ideal. It has a wide range of adjustment, a good attack, and responds reliably to the guitar volume. If you use a smooth tapered volume, you can achieve a smoother intonation. Even when used at full distortion, the metallic texture and definition are not lost, and you can produce pitched distortion without relying on the power of an amplifier.