Thats very cool info you shared. Let me a bit more clear on why I advice the MXR;

Plugging to a clean amp, with the eq’s set right and drive knob set low the mxr can sound very alike to the OD Glove. Infact in a blind test I guess many would fail to identify which is which. The poor side of the mxr is if the gain knob is maxed it gets very fuzzy.

“Info on mxr SBA; This to me is a copy pedal, the eq’s can make it sound like a ts9-OCD or rat. Sure it sounds not as good as non of these but still useful. Youtube video’s till now to me never reflected this, I noticed it when I borrowed from a friend and started comparing to my own pedals.”

By boosting the mxr (knob set low) with the glove, one can get distortion the glove or mxr can’t produce on its own. This sound is exactly (as you mention) EHX isn’t offering currently, a dist. thats in the vains of something like the MI Audio crunchbox.

I do also own a metalzone, takes the glove as a boost very well but musically one simply jumps to another genre (metal instead of rock) so its not ideal nor is the Metal Muff.

In short thats why I made the topic, atleast from the pedals I tested till now that mxr is the closest sounding to the glove.