The Dookie Drive Comes Back Around In 1994, alt-rocking guitarists everywhere emulated (but never quite duplicated) Billie Joe Armstrong's gut-busting guitar tone on Green Day's pop-punk masterpiece, Dookie. Success, however, felt a lot like “Pulling Teeth,” at least according to Sweetwater's Green Day devotees. So, why is Billie Joe's overdriven tone so hard to reproduce? For starters, he's Billie Joe Armstrong. Beyond that, his tone was built on a dyad of modded amplifiers — one tuned for clean sounds, the other tuned for dirty. The MXR DD30 Dookie Drive captures the sound of these two amps and packs them into a single, scorching stompbox. Using the pedal's Blend knob allows you to morph between the two amp sounds in a wet/dry fashion, arming you with a harmonic-rich sound that's full of depth and dimension. Whether “Basket Case” is in regular rotation or you're looking for a flexible yet focused dual-dimensional