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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

Forest Effects Onça

Now discontinued, the Forest Effects Onça is a natural-sounding, JFET-based amp-in-a-box made in the UK. There's also a mini version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ATMtw4eE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPS9CYAkT9Y Forest Effects Onça, Builder's Notes Onça is a class A single ended amplifier in a box, using a pair of JFET's in the place of tubes.…Click on the title for more

Forest Effects Onça

Electronic Audio Experiments Dagger V2

The Electronic Audio Experiments Dagger V2 is a simplified version of the company's own Longsword op-amp drive, featuring only the original's gain stages and dual band shelving EQ. This new version adds a series of improvements, including a shift toggle that delivers thicker or tighter overdrive. The 2-knob EQ section…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Dagger V2

Electronic Audio Experiments Model feT V3

The Electronic Audio Experiments Model feT V3 is a transistor-based preamplifier designed around the Sunn Model T amplifier. While it excels at heavy tones when pushed, it is far more than just an amp for stoner rock and doom metal. On its own, it is a rather clean amplifier with…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Model feT V3

One Control Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard

The Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard is the latest interaction - the first one in mini version - of this popular low-gain overdrive circuit by designer Bjorn Juhl (of Mad Professor fame), celebrating its twentieth anniversary. This is, in its essence, an amp-in-a-box recreating the warm and syrupy tone…Click on the title for more

One Control Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard

Volta 1987 V2 Dual Plexi Overdrive

The 1987 v2 is a two-channel overdrive designed to sound like a Plexi hot-rod pushed to the max. Hand-made in Italy by a company that recently changed its name from Nabla to Volta Custom, this is, in essence, an overdrive with a foot-switchable boost appropriately called "11," whose gain can…Click on the title for more

Volta 1987 V2 Dual Plexi Overdrive

Acorn Amps Solid State

Peavey's solid-state amps have been subject to many sarcastic jokes by tube amps snobs, little matters that they were the sonic centerpiece of the groundbreaking power rock sound of bands like Pixies and Queens of the Stone Age. Acorn Amps Solid State is here to fix this with a pedal…Click on the title for more

Acorn Amps Solid State

New Pedal: Tubesteader Magnezium Dual Tube Preamp

Voiced after the legendary Magnatone Super 59 M80 amp, the Tubesteader Magnezium is the latest dirt box by a Montreal-based small builder who specializes in gain pedals with real tubes in them. Equipped with a pair of 12X7 tubes operating at full 250VDC, this pedal offers two separate gain channels:…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tubesteader Magnezium Dual Tube Preamp

New Pedal: Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp

The Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp is a pedal for those who like simple things: it's a two-gain stages preamp with just one knob and one on/off footswitch. Inspired by an RCA data sheet from the '50s, the Aces' circuit uses both Germanium and Silicon components to deliver a saturated tone…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp

Beetronics Royal Jelly Fuzz/OD Blender

Uber-cool Brazilian manufacturer Beetronics unveiled the Royal Jelly pedal at NAMM 2018. The company portrays this pedal as a unique "Fuzz/OD blender," since it can run both effects in parallel, and also offers blending features, so that instead of switching sounds you just layer them - you can even blend in…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Royal Jelly Fuzz/OD Blender

Pedal Update: Dunn Effects Pvrifier V2 LoFi Filter Drive

The Dunn Effects Pvrifier is a take on the circuit of the Ibanez LF7, a lo-fi analog filter overdrive pedal that has recently found a niche of fans among the stompbox collectors. A lot more flexible and useful than the original unit, the Pvrifier features a Hi- and Lo-pass filters…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Dunn Effects Pvrifier V2 LoFi Filter Drive

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

The 3rd Power Love Drive is an overdrive pedal built by the Nashville-based amp company owned and run by guitarist Dylana Nova Scott of San Francisco's '80s glam-metal band Vain. R.J. Ronquillo seems sincerely excited about it, describing it as "one the most amp-like overdrives / preamp pedals I've ever…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

Joining the numerous club of Plexi-style overdrives, the Malaise Forever Iron Fistula uses JFET transistor to emulate tube amp saturation, and introduces some interesting mods to the classic Marshall-inspired pedal circuit. One of these is an EQ section with an active bass control (Body) placed in the circuit just before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive