I bought it hoping it would play very nicely in clean mode, no distortion, so RHCP songs like Snow, Scar Tissue and the like would sound nice on it. However, even though it plays quite well with some distortion, I couldn't get a clean sound out of it in any way, even with the gain set to the absolute minimum. Even then, the consonance of two or more thicker strings was always accompanied by a grunt. So, it is absolutely impossible to play a riff on Snow with the sound like on the record, since there is a consonance of thicker strings. I also tried keeping it on longer and nothing improved. What's even worse, at the end of the Scar Tissue riff, the combo somehow didn't like the consonance of the thick and thin string and expressed this by adding a kind of speaker rapping somewhere outside the played harmony, so it completely distorted it, so that the listener would think that the player is a total beginner and deaf and/or slacker when he makes such a false note 10 times in a row. The only solution would be not to play that thick string there, but what kind of combo is that when you have to take such precautions? Again, it didn't do it with all two-tones, when I hit the next fret with a thick string, the combo somehow took it without additional resonance. So all in all unusable misery for me and it doesn't matter that it was hand built - unusable for gaming. Maybe I had a defective piece, but I'd rather not try my luck again.