This is my second Tone Hammer pedal. The first one was the original black/ dark green box. To me it seems that the build quality was better in original, specifically in paint and also pre/post and ground lift buttons - those are a bit flimsy and alligned at different depth between each other. Soundwise it is the same good old Tone Hammer. Overall design/function i think is better here than in v2 of this preamp.