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Tube Screamer Inspired

Audiostorm Quad Screamer Overdrive

The Audiostorm Quad Screamer is a fascinating Tube Screamer variant made in the UK. It gives you four push buttons that allow you to mix and match LED, MOSFET, Silicon and Germanium diodes, and then alter the resulting overdrive through 5 controls, including two unusual "Bright" and "Dirty" switches placed…Click on the title for more

Audiostorm Quad Screamer Overdrive

New Pedal: Mythos SUSMARYOSEP! v2

Nashville-based Mythos has updated their SUSMARYOSEP! RJ Ronquillo signature 3-in-1 pedal, featuring a treble booster, Herculean overdrive, and slapback echo. The name comes from a Filipino saying, slang for "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" The pedal includes RJ's "desert island" effects all in one pedal, making it a swiss army knife…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Mythos SUSMARYOSEP! v2

Cusack Music Screamer Fuzz Selenium

John Cusack had a supply of rare selenium rectifiers, an obsolete technology that has potentially never been used in a pedal before, and created a modified version of his screamer fuzz. Enter the Screamer Fuzz Selenium. The result is a dark and full fuzzdrive with a thick creamy texture. With…Click on the title for more

Cusack Music Screamer Fuzz Selenium

JHS Screamer 3 Series

The JHS Screamer 3 Series is the latest addition to the Kansas City-based company line of $99, 3-knob + 1 toggle stompboxes. In case you are still left to wonder, YES, it's a Tube Screamer-inspired overdrive. The idea behind the JHS 3 Series, now comprising a total of 11 different…Click on the title for more

JHS Screamer 3 Series

Eastwood BB-01 Manalishi Drive

One-sixth of a new line of pedals unveiled in early 2022 by the established guitar builder, the Eastwood BB-01 Manalishi Drive is a simple 3-knob take on the Tube Screamer overdrive circuit. Compared to the original, the Manalishi drive has a wider gain range, easily getting into distortion territory at high…Click on the title for more

Eastwood BB-01 Manalishi Drive

Ibanez Vemuram TSV808 Tube Screamer

The Ibanez TSV808 is a collaboration with Vemuram, a popular boutique pedal manufacturer in Japan. Billed as a “Next Generation Tubescreamer” the TSV808 is a marriage of the Tubescreamer and Vemuram’s Jan Ray overdrive. Aesthetically it looks fairly similar to the standard Tubescreamer, but underneath the hood it combines the…Click on the title for more

Ibanez Vemuram TSV808 Tube Screamer

Colombo Utopia Overdrive

The Colombo Utopia is a 3-voice, hand-made, analog overdrive hailing from Italy. The 3-knob configuration gives access to the classic Volume, Tone and Gain (Overdrive) parameter, but it's the central toggle switch that opens up some interesting options: The Vintage mode delivers a tone in the style of a TS808,…Click on the title for more

Colombo Utopia Overdrive

Ibanez TS808 TAMURA-MOD Tube Screamer

The world is full of Tube Screamer clones and variants, but the Ibanez TS808 TAMURA-MOD is a little more than that: a mod of the most popular overdrive ever by the engineer who designed the original circuit back in 1979! Mr. Tamura has spent the past three years analyzing hundreds…Click on the title for more

Ibanez TS808 TAMURA-MOD Tube Screamer

Vntage Tone Bifurcator Dual Overdrive

Vntage Tone (yes, Vntage doesn't have an "i") is a boutique pedal builder out of Mexico, and the Bifurcator Dual Overdrive is their dual overdrive comprising two of their drive circuits in parallel: the Klon-style Prometheus and the VT 4558 Screamer. The Klon-style side (right channel) adds a Body control…Click on the title for more

Vntage Tone Bifurcator Dual Overdrive

Vanilla Sundae English Toffee Iscream

Based out of Boise, Idaho, Vanilla Sundae Pedals focuses on hand-made compact dirt boxes with names (and colors) borrowed by ice cream classics. The English Toffee Iscream is their take on the classic dual op-amp circuits of the late '70s - early '80s, read Tube Screamer 808. While this pedal…Click on the title for more

Vanilla Sundae English Toffee Iscream

Vintage Guitar Nerds Boostache

Greece is becoming a powerhouse in the field of pedal manufacturing and Vintage Guitar Nerds, founded in 2018 by UK-based Dimitris Loizos, is a welcome new company in this crowded arena. The Boostache is their first and so far only release and was actually designed by ST Electronix, an overdrive…Click on the title for more

Vintage Guitar Nerds Boostache

Nordvang Gravity Drive V2

Nordvang is a Danish pedal company that launched in 2020 and quickly turned ears with a series of dual-channel pedals featuring two different flavors of overdrive each. The Gravity Drive (whose name is inspired by John Mayer's namesake song) offers a Tube Screamer-style circuit on side A (left side) and…Click on the title for more

Nordvang Gravity Drive V2