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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

True North Tweed Drive

Jay Leonard J is running a series on Canadian pedals this week, and since in 2018 we officially moved to Canada (to be precise, Montreal!) we want to praise this effort by giving it some exposure. The "all Canadian rig" he's put together is comprised in most part by pedal…Click on the title for more

True North Tweed Drive

Tru-Fi COLORDRIVER Overdrive/Fuzz

Sometimes you can tell how much a videographer likes a pedal from how good is the music in his or her video of it. Well, it doesn't get much better than what Barrero did for the Tru-Fi COLORDRIVER 18v video below. This is an overdrive/ fuzz made in the USA…Click on the title for more

Tru-Fi COLORDRIVER Overdrive/Fuzz

Mad Professor Supreme Dual Overdrive

Mad Professor came out with a new dual overdrive called Supreme engineered in collaboration with famous blues guitarist Matt Schofield. The result is a two-in-one pedal with a Channel A mostly based on the company's low gain Royal Blue Overdrive (which shines with a neck pickup) and Channel B featuring…Click on the title for more

Mad Professor Supreme Dual Overdrive

Wampler Euphoria V2 D-Style Overdrive

The Wampler Euphoria is a popular pedal inspired to the Dumble Overdrive amps (aka D-Style) featuring a Bass knob functioning pre-gain, allowing you to dial in low-end that sounds thick, without muddying up your tone. A toggle switch lets you choose between three different styles of clipping: Smooth is low-gain, with…Click on the title for more

Wampler Euphoria V2 D-Style Overdrive

Way Huge Supa-Lead MKIII

Jeorge Tripps dug deep into the vault for this one: Based on the original Supa-Lead which was manufactured exclusively for a Japanese music store and limited to 40 pieces, the Way Huge Supa-Lead is a highly-modified take on one of Tripps's most unsung units; the Pork Loin. The Supa-Lead MKIII…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Supa-Lead MKIII

New Pedals: Old Blood Noise FAULT V2 Dual Overdrive/Distortion

The cool cats at Old Blood Noise Endeavors just unveiled V2 of their Fault dual overdrive and... the baby's got faders!!! Building on the core of the original two-gain pedal with separate footswitch for Gain 2, V2 maintains many of the same features and core sound, but includes a selectable…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Old Blood Noise FAULT V2 Dual Overdrive/Distortion

Moustache Audio Chevron Overdrive

The Ibanez Tube Screamer is the best selling pedal of all times, and also the most cloned one. The Moustache Audio Chevron Overdrive belongs to the family of TS emulation, and offers a "Swiss Knife" angle to the format, with five knobs (two gain and a three-band EQ) and three…Click on the title for more

Moustache Audio Chevron Overdrive

Idiotbox FX Power Drive

A development of their original take on the legendary Colorsound Power Boost (a pedal revered by David Gilmour), the Idiotbox FX Power Drive is a lot more than a boost pedal. Dirty, raw and full of gain, this is not a transparent pedal by any means. The high and low knobs…Click on the title for more

Idiotbox FX Power Drive

New Pedal: J. Rockett Audio Broverdrive Overdrive

The uncharacteristically tongue-and-cheekily-named Brotherdrive by J. Rockett is an original overdrive circuit that's incredibly versatile for a three-knob stompbox. The Brotone knob can alone confer a variety of qualities to the overdriven sound affecting both high end and the character of the overdrive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d86H-QgXdp8Click on the title for more

New Pedal: J. Rockett Audio Broverdrive Overdrive

Tonetuga FX Songbird Overdrive

The Songbird Overdrive by Tonetuga FX is presented as a general tone enhancer that has the ability to get your clean amp into breakup territory. It stacks well with other drives and can be used direct as a preamp, with the gain and volume knobs interacting with each other just…Click on the title for more

Tonetuga FX Songbird Overdrive

Hungry Robot Pedals: The Lumen

It's somewhat unexpected to see a new dirt box from Hungry Robot Pedals, a boutique manufacturer that has built its reputation through creative effects ranging from the spacey to the synthy. But The Lumen, a FET-based overdrive, is a device that still bears Hungry Robot's trademark quirkiness, in particular thanks…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot Pedals: The Lumen

The Friedman BE-OD is a popular and highly regarded emulation of a high-gain JCM amp, from a builder that's grown a stellar reputation for manufacturing great-sounding Marshall-style amps (the pedal is said to be a compact version of the Friedman BE100 amp). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtks9lbq5FM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVotKbmlDic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yx3KkT63uI The BE-OD overdrive pedal captures…Click on the title for more

Friedman BE-OD