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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

Thermion Freeway Interface Amp

Amp and cab simulators in the shape of a pedal have been gaining momentum in the last decade, but we have never seen something quite like the Thermion Freeway, a tweaker's dream stereo preamp/USB interface/headphones amp with FX Loop and a 6-mode reverb! Looking like a Tech 21 SansAmp on…... Click for more

Thermion Freeway Interface Amp

Keeley Noble Screamer Overdrive

The Tube Screamer and the Nobels ODR-1 have less in common than most people may expect: they are both green and they are both overdrives. But the color of the latter has often led to the misguided assumption that it was a clone of the former, while it's not. The…... Click for more

Keeley Noble Screamer Overdrive

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Life Support

Hailing from London, UK, the Intensive Care Audio Life Support is - to quote the manufacturer's playful description mocking medical language - an "all analogue overdrive and distortion pedal for the treatment of Bland Guitar Syndrome and Excessive Aural Dryness." Or, to put things into perspective, an overdrive + boost.…... Click for more

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Life Support

Universal Audio UAFX Lion Plexi Overdrive

The Universal Audio UAFX Lion (annnounced today and available for preorder) integrates the Californian company's UAFX line of pedals, which already comprised three amp-in-a-box devices with a pedal emulationg the classic tone produced by a Marshall Plexi amp. Just like the three pedals that preceeded it, the Lion offers a…... Click for more

Universal Audio UAFX Lion Plexi Overdrive

Humanoid Pedals The Entity Overdrive

Hailing from an up-and-coming North Carolina-based builder, the Humanoid Pedals The Entity is a medium gain overdrive with characteristics similar to the Klon Centaur, but not a Klone by any measure. "Transparent" and "touch-sensitive" are the buzzwords in this case, granted by a two clipping stage circuit employing different diode…... Click for more

Humanoid Pedals The Entity Overdrive

Electro-Harmonix Hot Wax Dual Overdrive

Dual Overdrive by Electro Harmonix we missed to cover last year, the Electro-Harmonix Hot Wax fuses our Hot Tubes and Crayon pedals into one powerful dual-overdrive. Use each individually or stack them with the Crayon driving the Hot Tubes. Master EQ and Blend controls provide the tonal flexibility power players demand.…... Click for more

Electro-Harmonix Hot Wax Dual Overdrive

Eventide Riptide Stereo Uni-Vibe / Overdrive

The Eventide Riptide is a stereo overdrive + Uni-Vibe pedal with dedicated bypass footswitch and three dedicated controls for each effect. Notably, the Riptide offers two distinct voicings per effect, indicated by LED color above the engaged footswitch. The green drive offers a classic, mid-forward voicing, while the red drive…... Click for more

Eventide Riptide Stereo Uni-Vibe / Overdrive

Horrothia FX TEETH Discrete Low-Gain Overdrive

From the descriptions of its pedals, UK's Horrothia FX clearly devises its creations as tools for solving very specific sonic problems, coming from a distinct recording engineering angle. The company's discrete low-gain overdrive Teeth, a 9 transistor design, all analog design, using no IC opamps, was imagined as a necessary…... Click for more

Horrothia FX TEETH Discrete Low-Gain Overdrive

Fjord Fuzz Loke Tape Echo

If you think that Fjord Fuzz's pedals look all the same and they are all fuzz pedals - "because it's in the name!" - you are at once quite right and quite wrong, although the Norwegian company sure makes a LOT of fuzzes! Enter the Fjord Fuzz Loke, a very…... Click for more

Fjord Fuzz Loke Tape Echo

New Pedals: Thorpy FX Have Blue

Part of the UK company's "Vintage Reimagined" series, the Thorpy FX Have Blue is not a Blues Breaker variant (as the name might have suggested) but a Rangemaster one. Beware, this is a highly modified circuit that can do a lot more than boost your high frequencies. As a matter…... Click for more

New Pedals: Thorpy FX Have Blue

New Pedal: Catalinbread SuperCharged Overdrive (Legacy Edition)

The Catalinbread SuperCharged Overdrive (Legacy Edition) is a reissue of one of the first pedals released by the Portland builder, with some updates and new features. The original circuit - a rather peculiar one featuring equipped with eight MOSFET devices, all stacked into one another - has been redesigned to…... Click for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread SuperCharged Overdrive (Legacy Edition)

Caline Pegasus (Klon Clone)

The Caline Pegasus is a super-affordable, straightforward "Klone" that gets mixed reviews on Amazon but sells quite well. It gets a thumbs up in the intheblues video review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv58_Vy4ro4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR0my8I20Nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUZC8SLVslY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3bzj3DNSg ... Click for more

Caline Pegasus (Klon Clone)