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Wrought Iron Effects Sting Overdrive

Based in Amery, Winsconsin, Wrought Iron Effects is one of those custom guitar gear builders that isn't shy to try all sorts of new things, from effects hosted in vintage radio enclosures to straps for vegetarians that look just like leather. The Excalibur-themed Sting Overdrive is probably one of the…Click on the title for more

Wrought Iron Effects Sting Overdrive

Pogo Pedals Zen Ray Overdrive

Pogo Pedals is a new Chicago-based boutique pedal company that aims at "bridging the gap between classic sound and modern player. It launched its first product in 2020, the Zen Ray, a vintage-sounding overdrive that can produce smooth low to medium drive while offering a wide range of tone sculpting…Click on the title for more

Pogo Pedals Zen Ray Overdrive

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Golden Boy is a signature Bluesbreaker clone designed with guitarist Joey Landreth using Jackson Audio's popular Broken Arrow Overdrive (a TS evolution) as a template, including the separate boost footswitch and three-way EQ. Unlike most pedal overdrive, it's fully MIDI controllable. The pedal features a unique 4-preset…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto Overdrive + Filter

The newly released Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto, is a Germanium based Rangemaster variant overdrive (bordering on a fuzz) with features that improve on the original design by allowing the players to tailor the voicing of the pedal to complement their guitar and signal chain, thanks to a Tone knob…Click on the title for more

Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto Overdrive + Filter

Formula B Super Plexi Overdrive

The Formula B Super Plexi Distortion is a two-channel overdrive pedal with a clean boost on one side and a Marshall JTM45 emulation on the other, using transistors to mimic the character of the tubes. Each channel features its own footswitch, and a toggle switch lets you place the boost…Click on the title for more

Formula B Super Plexi Overdrive

Vaderin Pedals Tone Fox Overdrive Distortion

Vaderin Pedals is a new, Los Angeles-based builder specializing in dirt boxes. The Tone Fox is an overdrive/distortion "designed to shape your tone through a crisp-yet-warm tube-like gain stage featuring tight lows, thick mids and present highs." The Teeth knob behaves in a rather original way: clockwise for increased volume, symmetrical…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals Tone Fox Overdrive Distortion

Jackson Audio Belle Star Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Belle Star is an overdrive born from the collaboration between the Huston based company and Drew Shirley from the band Switchfoot, a guitarist known for using small, low-wattage amps. To recreate that signature sound. the Belle Star relies on an original, MOSFET-based clipping circuit that delivers low/mid…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Belle Star Overdrive

Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd Overdrive

Boston's Electronic Audio Experiments just unveiled a new flexible Overdrive called Halberd, in the words of the builder "a discrete transistor overdrive circuit designed for the greatest possible dynamic range and note clarity." Not to be filed under the "transparent ods", and based on a circuit blending silicon and germanium…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Plumes Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices just unveiled a new pedal, which - rather surprisingly - appears to be a Tube Screamer evolution, named Plumes Overdrive. Of course, this ain't your regular green overdrive clone, but an entirely redesigned circuit presented as a "small signal shredder" and featuring three clipping voices selectable through a…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Plumes Overdrive

PedalPalFX PAL 959 Plexi Emulator Overdrive

Plexi-style stompboxes, i.e. amps-in-a-box emulating the sound of Marshall amps, never seem to be going out of style, and the 959 Plexi Emulator from Venezuelan builder PedalPalFX PAL is a solid new entry in a crowded field we covered in depth in this Plexi-style pedals shopping guide. The 959 uses the same circuit schematic…Click on the title for more

PedalPalFX PAL 959 Plexi Emulator Overdrive

Wren and Cuff Two Five Overdrive

Wren and Cuff recently unveiled the Two Five Overdrive, a pedal that runs on 25v, and because of this features an extended dynamic range, more headroom and a lot more output than your regular stompbox. A Voice toggle switch alternates between a circuit featuring two Mosfet transistors used as diodes and…Click on the title for more

Wren and Cuff Two Five Overdrive

Nanolog Audio Reinvents Distortion with the WaveFunction Overdrive

Is it possible to reinvent the distortion pedal? Canada’s Nanolog Audio thinks so. The Edmonton, Alberta, pedal maker has introduced the WaveFunction, a versatile pedal that uses both traditional and innovative techniques to produce a range of overdriven tones. At the heart of the WaveFunction is a new approach to…Click on the title for more

Nanolog Audio Reinvents Distortion with the WaveFunction Overdrive