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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

Missing Link Audio Superb Reverb

The Missing Link Audio Superb Reverb is a Fender Black Face in a box - spring reverb included. Replicating the crisp and articulate tone and the slightly scooped voicing of the original, this pedal provides a wide range of amp-like tones through the simple interaction between your guitar's volume and…Click on the title for more

Missing Link Audio Superb Reverb

Messiah Guitars Eddie Boostdrive

The Messiah Guitars Eddie Boostdrive is a Eddie Haddad 2-in-1 signature pedal with a one-knob MOSFET boost placed before a two-mode soft-clipped drive pedal with a 3-band EQ. Each channel has its dedicated footswitch. The two overdrive voicings, accessible via the Mode toggle, are the following: wither silicon diode clipping…Click on the title for more

Messiah Guitars Eddie Boostdrive

J. Rockett Audio Designs HRM V2 D-Style Overdrive

In this uber-thorough article, we've covered in-depth the increasingly popular niche of overdrive pedals emulating the legendary Dumble amps. Nashville builder J. Rockett Audio, a company fascinated by everything overdrive, is featured in that list with three stompboxes: the Dude, the Lenny, and the more recent HRM, now upgraded to…Click on the title for more

J. Rockett Audio Designs HRM V2 D-Style Overdrive

Bondi Effects Del Mar mk2 Overdrive

Jon Ashley of Bondi effects will tell you that the Del Mar mk2 is not a Klon nor a Tube Screamer or a Blues Breaker, but a combination of the best elements of them. The two gain voicings can be switched via a central toggle, with the lower position delivering…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects Del Mar mk2 Overdrive

Horrothia Triage Preamp

From a UK-based builder of high-end effects with a less-is-more approach comes the Horrothia Triage Preamp, a discrete transistor pre-amplifier. Born from a rib of the company's low-gain overdrive Teeth, with which it shares some circuit and tonal similarities, the Triage is both a front-end preamp and an overdrive, featuring…Click on the title for more

Horrothia Triage Preamp

New Pedal: Vaderin Pedals Radio Dirtman Fuzz/Drive

The Vaderin Pedals Radio Dirtman is a hybrid fuzz/drive pedal by a Philly-based company, and, although it's not mentioned in the name, this is a v2 of an existing circuit featuring an expanded Tone control that's more useable, wide-ranging, and sweet-sounding, in particular on the lower end of the frequency…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Vaderin Pedals Radio Dirtman Fuzz/Drive

New Pedal: Palmer The Solarist Fuzz

With two channels based on the venerable Fuzz Face and Rangemaster, the Palmer The Solarist is a bona fide fuzz + boost on steroids. The pedal offers 3 clipping options per channel: on the Fuzz side you can choose between a pair of Germanium diodes (GT404B transistor), Silicon ones (NTE123),…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Palmer The Solarist Fuzz

PRS Horsemeat Transparent Overdrive

Although the name might suggest Klon references, the PRS Horsemeat is an overdrive sporting an original circuit that adds harmonic midrange richness without affecting the tone's high-end. Designed by Paul Reed Smith himself to satisfy his own ear, the Horsemeat can work both as an overdrive or a clean boost…Click on the title for more

PRS Horsemeat Transparent Overdrive

DOD 250 Overdrive Preamp

The new DOD 250 is a faithful reissue of an evergreen classic first released in the early '70s by circuit designer David Oreste Defrancesco (aka, DOD) as an attempt to create a pedal that could deliver a range of tones from boost to slightly saturated to distorted, something few pedals…Click on the title for more

DOD 250 Overdrive Preamp

New Pedal: FFX Goldmember Dual Overdrive

The FFX Goldmember is a German-made dual overdrive designed to respect your playing dynamics and provide you with maximum tone flexibility. The company's second dual overdrive, the Gold Member features on the right-hand side a drive that can offer a wide range of tones, from clean boost to pushed drive,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: FFX Goldmember Dual Overdrive

Fish Circuits Model One Overdrive

Our homie (as in Montreal-based) Mike Poisson has recently launched the first pedal from his new company, the Fish Circuits Model One, an overdrive featuring an original circuit. Hosted in a vintage-looking, custom trapezoidal case, this is a drive that can do more than one thing, and do it well:…Click on the title for more

Fish Circuits Model One Overdrive

Lang Amps Overdrive/Boost

The Lang Amps Overdrive/Boost is the debut stompbox by the Las Vegas-based amp builder and sports an original circuit based on a novel approach to clipping. While four (Level, Tone, Drive and Boost) out of the 6 knobs on the pedal do what's expected in any overdrive with an extra…Click on the title for more

Lang Amps Overdrive/Boost