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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

Pogo Pedals Zen Ray Overdrive

Pogo Pedals is a new Chicago-based boutique pedal company that aims at "bridging the gap between classic sound and modern player. It launched its first product in 2020, the Zen Ray, a vintage-sounding overdrive that can produce smooth low to medium drive while offering a wide range of tone sculpting…... Click for more

Pogo Pedals Zen Ray Overdrive

Chris Rocha El Valiente

Famed Latino guitarist Chris Rocha recently unveiled his signature overdrive El Valiente, released in collaboration with Little Endian Engineering. Recreating his signature warm, clean and slightly saturated tone, the pedal features two modes, green and red, which can deliver a wide range of tonal results, from transparent to heavy. Hear…... Click for more

Chris Rocha El Valiente

SNK Pedals Bodybreaker Drive

Hand-made in New Jersey, the SNK Pedals Bodybreaker is an aggressive Fet boosted op amp overdrive/distortion with MOSFET clipping. Two EQ knobs go a long way in sculpting your tone: Tone controls overall brightness, while Mid Focus is centered on mid frequencies, delivering both scooped and mid boosted tones - and…... Click for more

SNK Pedals Bodybreaker Drive

Vox Nu-Tube ValvEnergy Series

We already wrote in this blog about Korg's new Nu-Tube technology just about one year ago, when Ibanez announced the Nu Tube Screamer, a version of the venerable overdrive featuring the new device KORG had recently developed: a new kind of vacuum tube much smaller than the original ones and…... Click for more

Vox Nu-Tube ValvEnergy Series

Klon Centaur and Klones Top 10: The Andertones’ Blindfolded Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjQXTMfxYY The fine-eared folks at UK guitar shop Andertons had the nerve to rank ten 3-knob Klon-style pedals (including the original Klon Centaur). The result is a truly experience-based "Klon Centaur and Klones Top 10." Watch the full video above or check out the results directly in our interactive gallery,…... Click for more

Klon Centaur and Klones Top 10: The Andertones’ Blindfolded Challenge

Walrus Audio Warhorn Ages

Reverb just released a new pedal exclusive linked to their upcoming Pedal Movie. It's the Walrus Audio Warhorn / Ages, a dual overdrive that embeds the two existing pedals in one enclosure. Here's the launch video directly from Reverb.com, you can order it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRbwfJS58Ro The Ages Five-State Overdrive and…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Warhorn Ages

Keeley El Rey Dorado Plexi-Style Overdrive

Based on Robert Keeley's own JTM 45/100 full-stack, the Keeley El Rey Dorado features two gain modes accessible through the Power Toggle: old school crunch in Low Power mode (louder, has more girth, fewer harmonics), super lead tones in the High Power mode (more compression, more harmonics and a more…... Click for more

Keeley El Rey Dorado Plexi-Style Overdrive

Bardic Audio Devices The Beast Distortion/Fuzz

Michigan-based Bardic Audio Devices focuses mostly on bass pedals, but their Beast Distortion/Fuzz is bound to find a fan-base among guitarists with noisy tendencies. The Beast is a very tweakable dirt box based on an op-amp design, with a separate clean boost channel with a blendable Octave-up that adds up to…... Click for more

Bardic Audio Devices The Beast Distortion/Fuzz

Mosky Audio Obsessive Drive

For those interested in getting the signature overdrive tone of a pedal made by a controversial American company, without supporting that company, the Chinese-built Mosky Obsessive Drive does a good job at recreating that brand's responsive high-gain stompbox whose name is inspired by a psychological condition affecting obsessive-compulsive people. On…... Click for more

Mosky Audio Obsessive Drive

NRG Effects Purrer Dual Channel Overdrive

The NRG Effects Purrer is a hand-made (in the UK) Dual Channel Overdrive for the tone lovers out there. The two channels are represented as a smiling orange cat and an angry, red one - we'll let you guess which one is the louder of the two... Its five knobs…... Click for more

NRG Effects Purrer Dual Channel Overdrive

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Golden Boy is a signature Bluesbreaker clone designed with guitarist Joey Landreth using Jackson Audio's popular Broken Arrow Overdrive (a TS evolution) as a template, including the separate boost footswitch and three-way EQ. Unlike most pedal overdrive, it's fully MIDI controllable. The pedal features a unique 4-preset…... Click for more

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

New Pedals: Darkglass ADAM Distortion (on Guitar)

Our most loyal readers are aware that we don't cover bass pedals in this blog, but some videos are emerging of the Darkglass Electronic ADAM used on guitar, and it sounds very interesting! If you want to have your mind blown, though, you need to check out this pedal's innovative…... Click for more

New Pedals: Darkglass ADAM Distortion (on Guitar)