Always looking for ways to save room on my pedal board, I realized that I love the tone of my ROC distortion pedal, but I wish it took up less space. So began the quest for a single channel ROC. I ended up stripping away the 'boost' channel, shrinking it down, and changing the EQ part of the circuit. The new EQ controls give you a high cut and two distinct voices. The 'Brown Note' distortion pedal was born. This is still the fire-breathing, face-pummeling, everything-on-10 wall of distortion pedal that made the ROC so awesome, just in a smaller package. If you have the space, and need the flexibility of an extra channel and two knob tone shaping, get the ROC. If however, you're like me and pedal board space is at a premium, the ROC's little brother, the 'Brown Note', will deliver that modern heavy rock n' roll tone that made the ROC famous.