I have it working better than before but had to max things right out to get a working clean sound; minimum gain, max master and channel volume. It sounds OK but you lose headroom on your other channels, if they're too loud then the clean sound is inaudible by comparison. On the whole I'm very, very happy with the PodExpress especially for the very small amount of money, but Line6, if you're listening, maybe a little more headroom on the only clean amp?