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 # What is it?
 
-Stompbox is a guitar amplification and effects application - a digital pedalboard.
+Stompbox is a guitar amplification and effects application, arranged as a digital version of a guitar pedalboard.
 
 This github repository is the front-end for the software (the core codebase is [here](https://github.com/mikeoliphant/stompbox), to be used either as a remote interface to an actual pedalboard implementation, or as a standalone VST plugin.