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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: 29 Pedal JFET Boost

Boost pedals are a necessary, if not wildly exciting, necessity for pretty much any electric guitar player. The 29 Pedal JFET is presented as a reimagining of the most humble of stompboxes, by a company that has proven uber-competent in the realms of tone-preservation and enhancement. The JFET's circuit gives…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: 29 Pedal JFET Boost

Updated Pedal: Summer School Electronics Gladys V2

The Summer School Electronics Gladys V2 is an enhanced iteration of the Syracuse, NY-based company's Gladys Low/Mid Gain Overdrive pedal. The new circuit offers increased headroom and a higher gain range, coupled with a 2-band active EQ and silent switching functionality, expanding its tonal palette and adaptability to a variety…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Summer School Electronics Gladys V2

Cornerstone Colosseum Dual Overdrive (Klon + BB)

Emilio at Cornerstore Gear has released a fair number of dual overdrive pedals but for the Cornerstone Colosseum he wanted to do something to please his company's most involved fans, letting them choose the two types of drive included in the circuit. The response was overwhelming: they wanted a Klon…Click on the title for more

Cornerstone Colosseum Dual Overdrive (Klon + BB)

All-Pedal Alcmene Overdrive

The super-large family of Klon clones has gained another small member wiht the All-Pedal Alcmene, a mini stompbox that perfectly captures the core characteristics of the expensive original unit. Featuring the classic Klon 3-knob layout and Germanium clipping diodes, the Alcmene's circuit offers higher headroom and dynamic response than your…Click on the title for more

All-Pedal Alcmene Overdrive

New Pedal: Tallon Electric Dual Drive

As hinted by its name, the Tallon Electric Dual Drive gives you two overdrives in one pedal, with separate footswitches and controls, one inspired by the Blues Breaker and the other by the Centaur Klon. A toggle switch lets you reverse their order. Both circuits aren't exact replicas of their…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tallon Electric Dual Drive

REVV Chat Breaker Overdrive

It's not even close to being April 1st, but the Canadian sense of humor, known for stretching beyond official joke dates, is giving us the REVV Chat Breaker, the first stompbox ever created in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence - Chat GPT, to be precise. But this is not a joke,…Click on the title for more

REVV Chat Breaker Overdrive

New Pedal: Idiotbox Heavy Weapon

Those among you interested in heavy distortion pedals should take a look a the Idiotbox Heavy Weapon, a dual distortion/overdrive pedal described by the builder as "probably the HEAVIEST effect of all time." It consists of two existing Idiotbox circuits in one: the bop row of controls is the company's…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Idiotbox Heavy Weapon

UAFX Woodrow ’55 Ovedrive

Part of a three amp-in-a-box pedal addition to the Universal Audio pedal line, the UAFX Woodrow '55 is an Authentic end-to-end emulation of the classic ’50s 1 x 12-inch combo amp, recreating the warm tube-style breakup tones of the Fender tweed amps. Like the previous three pedals in the series,…Click on the title for more

UAFX Woodrow ’55 Ovedrive

Great Eastern FX Design-A-Drive

From Great Eastern FX co, the UK builder who brought us the celebrated Small Speaker Overdrive last year comes a new drive with a unique tone-shaping system. The Design-A-Drive's main feature is a 6-way width control that ranges from thin to fat and controls the contour and response of the…Click on the title for more

Great Eastern FX Design-A-Drive

Alameda Angry Hornet

The Alameda Angry Hornet is one of two pedals released by a (we assume) Californian company better known for their guitars. It's a circuit that blends a Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1b with a Vox Treble Booster. Although the two circuits can't be separated (there is only one footswitch that turns them…Click on the title for more

Alameda Angry Hornet

New Pedal: Oneder Onederwall Dual Distortion/Fuzz

Although it features a (truly beautiful) flowery image on its case, the Oneder Onederwall is not exactly a device for the delicate guitarist: it's a dual channel, routable pedal merging a new, Russian-flavored Muff circuit with the distortion circuit of the company's Oneder Drive MkII. While Channel 1 (the fuzz)…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Oneder Onederwall Dual Distortion/Fuzz

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Mini

The Jackson Audio Golden Boy Mini is not a smaller version of the popular Texan company's Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive - the two units are as big - but rather a streamlined one, which a more affordable price tag. Taking the (uber-trendy) concept of transparent overdrive to new heights, the…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Mini