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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

Tsakalis AudioWorks Room #40 Marshall-in-a-Box

Evidently, among electric guitarists, the sonic thirst for Plexi-style overdrives is hard to quelch. Athens' Tsakalis AudioWorks is the latest stompbox builder to release a Marshall-in-a-box pedal inspired by the tones of that company's legendary tube amps that defined the sound or rock'n'roll. Using jfet technology, the Room #40 can…Click on the title for more

Tsakalis AudioWorks Room #40 Marshall-in-a-Box

Kourbis Plexivibe Preamp/Overdrive

Marshall-inspired pedals are still among the all-time favorite of rock guitarist, and the Kourbis Plexivibe, hailing from Greece, is a solid, hand-built take on the format, featuring two 12AX7 tubes inside the case, and vintage NOS materials as a true Marshall amp. The PlexiVibe has three modes, accessible through a…Click on the title for more

Kourbis Plexivibe Preamp/Overdrive

Cornerstone Gladio D-Style Double Preamp

Whether you call them D-Style pedals or Dumble-inspired overdrives, gain stompboxes attempting to emulate the voicing of the ultra-rare Dumble amps are probably the second most hyped overdrives after the (still unreachable) Klon clones. Based in Varese, Italy, Cornerstone Gear is a family-owned company focused on designing and hand-building guitar…Click on the title for more

Cornerstone Gladio D-Style Double Preamp

UAFX Ruby ’63 Top Boost Amplifier

Part of a three amp-in-a-box pedal addition to the Universal Audio pedal line, the UAFX Ruby '63 Top Boost Amplifier is an authentic emulation of a Vox AC30, with 3 x Amp modes, 3 x Cabinet emulations and 2 x Boost modes that capture the sparkling cleans and rich overdrive…Click on the title for more

UAFX Ruby ’63 Top Boost Amplifier

Vs Audio BlackBird Deluxe Drive + Tremolo

The Vs Audio BlackBird Deluxe expands on the Greek company's Blackbird overdrive, adding several features (including a bias tremolo) to this amp-in-a-box circuit replicating the tone of Brownface and Blackface Fender amps. Voiced after the liquid-sounding and touch-sensitive tremolo circuit of the Brown Deluxe, the Vibrato has its own separate footswitch…Click on the title for more

Vs Audio BlackBird Deluxe Drive + Tremolo

Coppersound Strategy v2 Preamp / Overdrive

Massachusetts builders Coppersound have updated their Strategy Preamp / Overdrive to a v2 edition. Featuring 30db of clean boost, powerful tone shaping, and a touch sensitive overdrive mode all with the help of a studio-grade Burr Brown Op-Amp. As part of their pickguard series, the Strategy v2 is available in…Click on the title for more

Coppersound Strategy v2 Preamp / Overdrive

Sinvertek N5+ Drive

A boutique Chinese manufacturer on the rise, Sinvertek offers a "more is more" approach to stompboxes by providing extremely deep functionality for each one of their product, with a price tag that is extremely competitive compared to similarly fully-featured pedals made in the US or Europe. Their latest drive, the…Click on the title for more

Sinvertek N5+ Drive

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

Mythos Air Lane Drive (Novo Guitars collab)

The Mythos Air Lane Drive is a limited edition, stripped-down, dual overdrive pedal built in collaboration with Nashville's Novo Guitars. The two channels have their own footswitch and gain knob and are based around the same single transistor topology, each slightly tweaked, including hard-clipping diode arrangements made to optimize stacking.…Click on the title for more

Mythos Air Lane Drive (Novo Guitars collab)

New Pedal: MTL Assembly Too Positive Stereo Drive

The MTL Assembly Too Positive is a minor release from the Quebec-based creator of the Count to 5, but still a uniquely useful device for guitarists on a mission to build a full stereo rig. The concept is not complicated, but rather underexplored: a stereo overdrive with 2 independent drive…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: MTL Assembly Too Positive Stereo Drive

UAFX Amp-In-A-Box Pedals

Through Sweetwater, Universal Audio has announced three new amp-in-a-box pedal additions to their UAFX line, currently available for preorder at $399 each. Like the previous three pedals in the series, these are multi-mode, studio-grade stompboxes with deep functionality and connectivity. Each pedal in the UAFX series allows you to bypass…Click on the title for more

UAFX Amp-In-A-Box Pedals

Colombo Audio Pulse Driver BK Butler-Style Drive

Hailing from Italy, the Colombo Audio Pulse Driver is a fully customizable overdrive inspired by the sound of the 1983 BK Butler combo amp, famously used by David Gilmour, Eric Johnson, Billy Gibbons and Joe Satriani among others. The pedal recreates that 12AX7 tube design without an actual tube, recreating…Click on the title for more

Colombo Audio Pulse Driver BK Butler-Style Drive