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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

New Pedal: Free The Tone Overdriveland

There's a new kid in the block where the Dumbe-style amp-in-a-box pedals live, and you should take it seriously because it's coming from a Japanese builder that has proven its worth over and over: enter the Free The Tone Overdriveland. Designed by veteran engineer Yuki Hayashi, one of the most…... Click for more

New Pedal: Free The Tone Overdriveland

Wampler Triumph Overdrive

The Wampler Triumph Overdrive is one of two releases in a new $99 line of pedals called "Collective" dropped by one of the most dominant US boutique builders in the dirt box field. Following the clue from other successful boutique manufacturers like JHS and EQD, who have recently released extremely…... Click for more

Wampler Triumph Overdrive

Beetronic Nectar Tone Sweetener

The Beetronics Nectar is a high-end yet straightforward dirt box that, with only 3 knobs + 1 toggle, delivers an incredibly wide and dynamic range of tones, from vintage tweed-style crunch to a full-bodied overdrive, and even a modern high-gain fuzz. The toggle selects the mode (drive or fuzz), while…... Click for more

Beetronic Nectar Tone Sweetener

VS Audio Royal Flush Dual Overdrive

We entirely missed the VS Audio | Royal Flush Dual Overdrive because it was released in 2016, just before we started our daily coverage of pedal releases. But good things stick around for a while, and new videos of it refocused our attention on this very well-received device. A dual…... Click for more

VS Audio Royal Flush Dual Overdrive

Thorpy FX The Dane MkII Overdrive

Originally built to meet the tone requests of Danish Pete of The Andertones, the Thorpy FX The Dane evolved into a flexible low gain overdrive + boost pedal that can meet the needs of a wide range of guitarists. The new MkII condensates the same circuit into a compact, black…... Click for more

Thorpy FX The Dane MkII Overdrive

New at NAMM: EarthQuaker Devices Blumes

The EarthQuaker Devices Blumes is an overdrive pedal that can deliver a wide range of tones, from crunchy to clean. This pedal is based on the classic screamer circuit, but with some modifications that make it more suitable for bass players. The Blumes is an all-analog pedal that uses internal…... Click for more

New at NAMM: EarthQuaker Devices Blumes

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

The Origin Effects Halcyon Gold is the British company's take on the Klon Centaur circuit, the most influential, modded, and cloned overdrive circuit ever. As expected from a company that got us used to an intelligent approach to reinventing classic effect designs, this is not a simple clone (or klone,…... Click for more

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

API TranZformer GTR EQ+Overdrive

A name nothing short of legendary in the pro audio realm, API entered the stompbox niche in 2017 with the TranZformer GT, an EQ + compressor inheriting the company's technology used in their mixing consoles' channel strips. As good as it sounded, that pedal had an obvious downside: it was…... Click for more

API TranZformer GTR EQ+Overdrive

Electronic Audio Epxeriments The Bard Preamp

The Electronic Audio Epxeriments The Bard Preamp pays homage to the Music Man HD130, a classic guitar amp known for its unique blend of a solid-state preamp and a tube power amp, delivering a rather unique tone. Capturing the soul of these iconic amps, The Bard takes you on a…... Click for more

Electronic Audio Epxeriments The Bard Preamp

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

A collaboration with AZ guitar store Pedal.ly aimed at supporting veterans, and only available to purchase there, the Westminster Armistice is a versatile overdrive that can deliver tones useful for genres as disparate as blues and metal. Controls for Timbre, affecting the high-mids, and Texture, adding compression and saturation, are…... Click for more

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

At $35, the Joyo Vintage Drive is an incredibly affordable Tube Screamer clone delivering more defined mids and a wider gain range. We added it to our article about the best Tube Screamer original pedals, clones and variants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVHnlY7NJA... Click for more

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive

Mesa, Arizona's LPD Pedals in recent months has been releasing more streamlined pedals than the company got us used to, and the Embers Overdrive is their four knob take on the simplest and probably most hyped stompbox of all times: the Centaur Klon. This Klon-inspired circuit adds a Bass knob…... Click for more

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive