The Direct Drive Low Gain was born when Ronni had a request at B-Custom to shift the gain character of our Direct Drive to a very early British style sound, more of the KT66 vibe with lots of fatness and clarity. Ronni and I tweaked this design over a few months in 2007 (I think) until we got to the version that we sell now through B-Custom, We pushed a little more bottom through the overdrive circuit to make the G string "cough" just a bit like those early KT66 tube amps do when pushed. The extra clarity, sweetness and fat response add up to the Direct Drive Low Gain (DDLG in web talk)....we can talk about the pedal at length in this thread.