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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

LPD Pedals Seventy4 Distortion

Golden pedals are normally either Klon clones or Plexi-style distortions. The Lawrence Petross Design' Seventy 4 is the latter, an in-the-box recreation of the full distortion delivered by Marshall Plexi and Master Volume amps from the mid to late '70. This box offers an extra dose of gain for good…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Seventy4 Distortion

New Pedal: Catalinbread CB30 Vox-Style Overdrive

The latest pedal by Portland, Oregon's Catalinbread is the CB30, a simple Vox-AC30-style overdrive with Treble and Bass knobs. With this baby, it's all in that elusive "chimey" tones you get from saturating the circuit, so we'll let you hear it, without further ado, in the videos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YkbE-LbBc&t=46s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmOFX_dlnY…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread CB30 Vox-Style Overdrive

MXR Dookie Drive V3

The MXR Dookie Drive is an overdrive pedal celebrating the 25th anniversary of Green Day's legendary album Dookie, and the band's "dirty and punchy with the perfect amount of articulation to express the musicality of his fast, melodic riffs." Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar tone on Green Day’s groundbreaking album Dookie sounded dirty…Click on the title for more

MXR Dookie Drive V3

Hotone Mojo Attack Nano Legacy Floor Amp

Reviews for musical gear have always been riddled with conflicts of interest - let's just say that a reviewer writing for a publication that runs an ad about the product he's reviewing is not in the ideal position to be objective... This is why videos like the ones streaming below…Click on the title for more

Hotone Mojo Attack Nano Legacy Floor Amp

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

Designed by pedal videographer Eric Merrow as an all-in-one gain solution for any pedalboard, the Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon is multi-gain stage overdrive featuring an extra boost with separate footswitch and controls. The amount of boost can be controlled through the orange knob and it's placed before the drive,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

New Pedals: NUX Steel Singer Drive

The most affordable Dumble-style pedal out there (street price is just under $50!), the NUX Steel Singer is an analog overdrive that recreates the tone of less popular of the two Dumble amps (the Steel String Singer) at a tiny fraction of the cost. Expect smooth high end and the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: NUX Steel Singer Drive

Analog Alien Rumble Seat Drive/Delay/Reverb

The Analog Alien Rumble Seat is a three-footswitch pedal featuring Overdrive, Delay and a simple one-knob Reverb emulating the vintage spring reverbs of early Fender Black Face amps. Each effect can be turned on or off through its dedicated footswitch. The drive is extremely flexible and can act as a…Click on the title for more

Analog Alien Rumble Seat Drive/Delay/Reverb

Valco BloodBuzz – Fuzz and Drive

Valco, a Canadian company that - intriguingly! - doesn't seem to have a web presence, put out a new pedal called BloodFuzz, a tribute to the rare Lovetone Cheessource of '90s. The circuit comprises of a Fuzz and a Drive circuit in parallel, several videographers picked up on it, check…Click on the title for more

Valco BloodBuzz – Fuzz and Drive

RYRA The 808 Overdrive

Mike Hermans in this video takes a look at the Rock Your Repaired Amp 808 overdrive, an emulation of the original tube screamer and its legendary mids hump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1fQxJLgY3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmLa_eHE4mQ The Rock Your Repaired Amp 808 pays tribute to a classic loved by blues players across the globe. The 808 has seen…Click on the title for more

RYRA The 808 Overdrive

Vertex Steel String Drive MkII

The Vertex Steel String Clean Drive was voiced after the legendary Dumble Steel String Singer, apparently, the reference unit they had was serial #1. It features just three controls – Gain, Filter (tone) and Volume. It sounds killer with lap-steel guitar. Released in 2020, the MkII version adds a toggle…Click on the title for more

Vertex Steel String Drive MkII

Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto Overdrive + Filter

The newly released Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto, is a Germanium based Rangemaster variant overdrive (bordering on a fuzz) with features that improve on the original design by allowing the players to tailor the voicing of the pedal to complement their guitar and signal chain, thanks to a Tone knob…Click on the title for more

Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto Overdrive + Filter

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Although many guitarists prefer to defer gain-related duties to traditional, "one function" analog stompboxes, the case for multi-mode, digital dirt boxes has become more and more compelling with the advancement of digital and DSP technology in the audio realm. The BOSS OD-200, with its powerful processor and 32-bit/96KHz sampling rate,…Click on the title for more

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive