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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

Maxon Apex 808 Overdrive

Developed with Susumu Tamura, the original designer of the 808, the Maxon Apex 808 incorporates a particularly desirable op-amp, that was sourced for this pedal after listening to over 100 vintage units, to mimic the best of the many versions of this legendary stompbox. At low levels, the Apex808 generates…Click on the title for more

Maxon Apex 808 Overdrive

Spiral Electric FX Red Spiral Drive Channel

A collaboration with SHOE pedals, the Red Spiral Drive, by Spiral Electric FX, is a three-mode, dynamic overdrive with amp-like character that can do it all: low, mid and also high gain. The Low range is intended for clean boost, dynamic enhancement, and light drive. This is great for boosting…Click on the title for more

Spiral Electric FX Red Spiral Drive Channel

Kink Pedals Straya Dual Drive

From Australia comes the Kink Pedal Straya, a dual overdrive with an 808-style circuit on the right channel and a modified Gov'nor styled circuit on the left one. Each side has its separate footswitch, Gain, Tone and Volume knobs and a toggle switch giving you two clipping options (harder and…Click on the title for more

Kink Pedals Straya Dual Drive

Vemuram Jan Ray Overdrive

Japanise builder Vemuram is not the most well-known brand in the world of pedals but has a super-solid reputation among tone connoisseurs for their hand-wired overdrives built with top-notch components and rigorous engineering. The Vemuram Jen Ray drive is probably their most popular pedal, designed to recreate the punchy and…Click on the title for more

Vemuram Jan Ray Overdrive

Tonewave FX Preset Preamp+Overdrive

Hand-built in Portugal, the Tonewave FX Preset is a 5-knob pedal that gives you the double function of working both as an overdrive and a preamp. Here's how it sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzMRcVsWFFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV79-iMNQpU Tonewave's Preset is a preamp but also an overdrive... Your choice! Mainly designed to be an "always on…Click on the title for more

Tonewave FX Preset Preamp+Overdrive

Sabbadius Triple Trouble Boost/Overdrive/Fuzz

Based in Córdoba, Argentina, Sabbadius is a custom pedal show that also offers some hand-wired stock stompboxes. The Triple Trouble, probably the most ambitious of the lot, is a rather complex beast developed in collaboration with guitarist Tommy Katona of Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute band Texas Flood. A tribute to the…Click on the title for more

Sabbadius Triple Trouble Boost/Overdrive/Fuzz

Wren and Cuff Garbage Face – J. Mascis Signature Fuzz

We somehow missed the CME presentation video of this Wren and Cuff muff-style fuzz earlier this year, a pedal developed during a two-year collaboration with legendary Dinosaur Jr. guitarist J. Mascis. The Garbage Face features, in one pedal the guitarist's favorite gain chain with a Rangemaster-style treble boost (which can…Click on the title for more

Wren and Cuff Garbage Face – J. Mascis Signature Fuzz

Bogner Burnley High Gain Overdrive

The Bogner Burnley is a three-knob high gain overdrive featuring a custom transformer built by legendary audio engineer Rupert Neve. A two-way toggle switch selects between a tight and aggressive and more mellow and warm distortion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGHaSOV3lW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjC6fibQ-0 https://www.youtube.com/embed/PmshJoYxQXw The Burnley is a distortion pedal with a 100% analog circuit…Click on the title for more

Bogner Burnley High Gain Overdrive

Greer Southland Harmonic Overdrive

Another debutante at our upcoming Stompbox Exhibit will be Greer Amps, the pedal and amp boutique manufacturer founded in 1998 in Athens, GA. Greer will be showcasing - among others - their brand new Southland Harmonic Overdrive, which is built on the platform of its very successful older brother Lightspeed.…Click on the title for more

Greer Southland Harmonic Overdrive

Mission Engineering Velocity Overdrive

Built on the Nutube technology unveiled by KORG in 2015, the Mission Engineering/NuAudioTechnology Velocity Overdrive is an overdrive and distortion pedal featuring two gain settings, accessible through a toggle switch. The LO mode delivers subtle overdrive and can be used to push your amp for a natural breakup and delivers…Click on the title for more

Mission Engineering Velocity Overdrive

Joyo BAATSIN Multi-Overdrive

Overdrives are the most popular effect for guitar, but, since hardly anyone plays with more than one of them at a time, the idea of a pedal that can deliver many flavors of overdrives in different modes is definitely intriguing - as long as you can digest the idea of…Click on the title for more

Joyo BAATSIN Multi-Overdrive

Jackson Audio Belle Star Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Belle Star is an overdrive born from the collaboration between the Huston based company and Drew Shirley from the band Switchfoot, a guitarist known for using small, low-wattage amps. To recreate that signature sound. the Belle Star relies on an original, MOSFET-based clipping circuit that delivers low/mid…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Belle Star Overdrive