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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

OVERDRIVE SHOPPING GUIDES:
• The 3 Best Overdrive Pedals per Type
• The 10 Best Budget Overdrive Pedals (New & Used)
• Best Tube Screamer Pedals and Clones
• Best Blues Breaker Clones and Evolutions
• Best Klon Centaur Clones
• Best Plexi Style Overdrives
• Best Dumble-Style Pedals
• Best Tweed-Style Overdrives
• Best Vox-Style Pedals
• Best Clark Gainster/Hoochee-Mama Clones

Below, the latest news about fuzz pedals

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon

Crazy Tube Circuits, a Greek company that apparently learned electronics by staring at the sun and listening to Blue Cheer records, built this three-panel monster. It's not a pedal. It's a manifesto in a metal box. Enter the Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon. Four fuzz voices in the center panel: ff is…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon

Jam Pedals Tubedreamer MK2

Another Tube Screamer clone? In 2025? Really, JAM? Except it's not. Not exactly. The Tubedreamer Mk2 starts with the classic 808 recipe—JRC4558D chip, asymmetrical clipping, that mid-hump that made the original famous. But then JAM did something brave. They added a switch that bypasses the clipping stage entirely. No diodes.…Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Tubedreamer MK2

Argonaut Electrical Overdrive

Born in the 1970s when men were men and circuits were stuffed with components the size of your thumb, what you find inside the Argonaut Electrical Overdrive was a modular plug-in thing that some German engineer probably threw together after three beers, accidentally creating the sound of God clearing His…Click on the title for more

Argonaut Electrical Overdrive

TWA Source Code Overdrive

For decades, the TubeScreamer has been a staple on pedalboards worldwide. Now, prepare for its ultimate evolution. Totally Wycked Audio has unveiled the Source Code, a next-generation soft-clip overdrive designed by none other than Susumu Tamura, the original creator of the legendary TS808. This isn't just another clone; it's a…Click on the title for more

TWA Source Code Overdrive

Empress Effects Drive

Empress Effects, a Canadian builder known for making pedals for people who read manuals for fun, hasn't entirely shied away from dirt boxes: their Heavy Menace is a precision kill box. But a loose, interactive overdrive? That seemed beneath them. Until they patched a discontinued Germ Drive circuit into the…Click on the title for more

Empress Effects Drive

New Pedal: Caroline Aron Graves Overdrive

So you want to know about the Caroline Aaron Graves Overdrive. Fine. Caroline Guitar Company, the same lunatics who made you fall in love with a reverb tank that sounds like a falling building, decided to build a pedal that is not just a pedal. It is a goddamn sermon.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Caroline Aron Graves Overdrive

Warm Audio Throne of Tone Dual Overdrive

In the realm of boutique overdrive, few pedals have achieved the mythical status of the dual-channel classics inspired by vintage British amps. Following in the footsteps of royalty like the Analogman King of Tone, Warm Audio brings its philosophy of accessible authenticity to the arena with the Throne of Tone.…Click on the title for more

Warm Audio Throne of Tone Dual Overdrive

Greer Southland Harmonic Overdrive

You want overdrive that doesn't sound like you plugged your guitar into a blender full of bees. The Greer Southland Harmonic Overdrive walks that line. It's been kicking around for a while now and has earned its reputation through sheer reliability and good tone. It started as a modded version…Click on the title for more

Greer Southland Harmonic Overdrive

ThorpyFX Kudu Overdrive

How many different types of overdrives can one Englishman churn out? Adrian Thorpy seems determined to find out. The ThorpyFX Kudu started as a modified circuit gifted to Thorpy by Dan Coggins—the legendary Lovetone wizard who's been making guitarists poor since the 90s. Coggins handed over a tweaked classic at…Click on the title for more

ThorpyFX Kudu Overdrive

Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

The original TONEX ONE (blurb below) was already a marvel: AI Machine Modeling, hyper-realistic amp captures, and a full rig's worth of tones in a box barely larger than a matchbook. But it had one glaring limitation. To edit presets, load new Tone Models, or organize your sounds, you needed…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

Portland's Catalinbread built its reputation on the Dirty Little Secret, a Marshall-in-a-box that conquered high-gain British roar. But every coin has a flip side. the Clean Little Secret is that flip, a low-gain foundation overdrive inspired by the Bluesbreaker, the combo amp that basically invented the "edge of breakup" before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

Athens isn't the first place you think of when someone says "cranked British amp." But Tsakalis AudioWorks is making a strong case for reconsidering that assumption. The AC Master is two classic circuits sharing a single enclosure: a VOX AC30 Top Boost overdrive and a Rangemaster-style treble booster. Not a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive