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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

Frost Giant Osiris Overdrive

The Frost Giant Osiris is an original overdrive circuit based on a circuit that introduces some innovation in a pedal niche that's been mostly developing around a few established designs, with the specific goal of turning small amps into huge-sounding tone monsters. Running internally at 18v, the Osiris is a…Click on the title for more

Frost Giant Osiris Overdrive

Custom Tone Ethos Overdrive Preamp

Designed by Vermont-based builder Custom Tone, the Ethos Overdrive is the original, "deluxe-expensive" version of what became, after its release, a family of increasingly more streamlined pedals inspired by the tone of the uber-boutique Dumble amplifiers - aka D-Style Overdrives. An extremely versatile and tweakable analog device, the Ethos features…Click on the title for more

Custom Tone Ethos Overdrive Preamp

The Best Dumble Pedals (or D-Style Overdrives) in 2023

Check out also our Guide to Overdrives by Type. Most of us will never get to play through an original Dumble amp, and in all likelihood, nobody reading this article will ever own one. Dumble tone has become legendary, and the fact that these amps sell for the price of a…Click on the title for more

The Best Dumble Pedals (or D-Style Overdrives) in 2023

Wampler Tumnus V2 Overdrive

In the seemingly neverending competition to build the best Klon Centaur Klone, the Wampler Tumnus, with its mini format and tone remarkably faithful to the original, has been one of the most successful pretenders. There's also a Tumnus Deluxe version with extra sculpting options. Here are the demos of the…Click on the title for more

Wampler Tumnus V2 Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold V2

The EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold V2 is an authentic emulation of a Model T Amp from Sunn, a solid-state amp known for its loud and bassy tones manufactured by a Portland-based company founded in 1967 that was acquired by Fender in 1985 and unceremoniously terminated in 2002. The amp's dark…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold V2

New Pedal: Marshall DriveMaster Reissue

The original Marshall DriveMaster was a Plexi-style pedal released in the early '90s and voiced after a JCM800 amp. It was intended to be the successor of the Guv'nor, the first amp-in-a-box inspired by the Marshall Plexi tone, but didn't reach the same popularity. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Marshall…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Marshall DriveMaster Reissue

Vahlbruch Kaluna High Voltage Tube Overdrive

German pedal builder Vahlbruch has just unveiled their latest overdrive, the Kaluna overdrive, a high voltage original circuit operating at 250v, and featuring an ECC83/12AX7 tube under its hood. The tube actually requires a little 30 second warm-up, during which the status LED will flash for while the pedal remains in…Click on the title for more

Vahlbruch Kaluna High Voltage Tube Overdrive

Fish Circuits Model One Overdrive

Our homie (as in Montreal-based) Mike Poisson has recently launched the first pedal from his new company, the Fish Circuits Model One, an overdrive featuring an original circuit. Hosted in a vintage-looking, custom trapezoidal case, this is a drive that can do more than one thing, and do it well:…Click on the title for more

Fish Circuits Model One Overdrive

BOSS OD-3 Overdrive

The BOSS OD-3 is the third generation of the revered OD-1, but with more controls. It sounds like a refined version of the Ibanez Tube Screamer, which was built to compete with the OD-1 and was close to being an OD-1 clone with an added mid-bump. Its sound is often…Click on the title for more

BOSS OD-3 Overdrive

Origin Effects RevivalDRIVE Compact

California's Origin Effects, makers of the most beastly overdrive to ever walk the face of the earth (the RevivalDrive) had the sensible idea of creating a more contained version of that 12-knob "monster." Enter the RevivalDrive Compact. About one third the size of its non-compact brother, and sporting only one…Click on the title for more

Origin Effects RevivalDRIVE Compact

Browne Amplification Atom Overdrive

The Browne Amplification Atom is the latest gain pedal by the Kansas City-based creators of the Protein, one of the most talked about boutique dual gain pedals of the last few years. It's actually directly related to that pedal, since it's the green side of it, therefore an Nobels ODR-1-inspired…Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Atom Overdrive

Warm Audio Centavo (Klon clone)

The Warm Audio Centavo is exactly what it looks like: a Klon Clone with the exact same case as the original Klon, but a price tag that's a lot more affordable. The US company is specializing in replicas of various vintage and rare gear (from pedals to mics to outboard…Click on the title for more

Warm Audio Centavo (Klon clone)