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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

Spaceman Polaris Resonant Overdrive

If you think overdrive pedals are due for a facelift, you've got to check out the Spaceman Effects Polaris, a hand made medium-gain overdrive with a series of unexpected tone shaping features, including a "2-pole resonant filter, controllable via expression pedal for filter sweeps and out-of-this-world overdrive tones." The filter…... Click for more

Spaceman Polaris Resonant Overdrive

New Pedals: Shotmaker The Heroine Deluxe

Guitarists who enjoy complex and unusual gain circuits should take a look at the Heroine Deluxe, by Canadian/Polish builder Shotmaker Industries. This is a high gain distortion that, through its three gain stages, can deliver a wide range of dirty tones. Here's a quick look at the controls: Pre controls…... Click for more

New Pedals: Shotmaker The Heroine Deluxe

Teisco Overdrive

The Teisco Overdrive is a simple low- to medium-gain transparent overdrive with an added Kick toggle switch that takes it into medium-gain territory. Introduced at NAMM 2020, it integrates the new (and gorgeous looking) Teisco line of guitar pedals launched the previous year. This low-gainer is designed to be harmonically…... Click for more

Teisco Overdrive

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

Fans of Eric Clapton's tone with the Blues Breakers (a band from the '60s headed by John Mayall), might be familiar with the term "Beano Tone," a warm yet edgy sound that became the signature of those records. If you are wondering what amp Clapton used with that band, you…... Click for more

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

SUV Pedals High Rider Overdrive

German pedal company SUV Pedals has only two pedals under its belt, but that's enough to gain attention among tone lovers. Henning from EytschPi42 posted this glowing review of the High Rider, a mid-gain overdrive that's perfect to push your amp beyond its inevitable gain limits. The pedal features a…... Click for more

SUV Pedals High Rider Overdrive

Greenchild Amplification Klazo Drive

Greenchild Amplification's most recent design is the Klazo Drive, an overdrive featuring a unique design based on "current driven transconductance amplifier topology with floating diodes" that deliver musical clipping across the entire frequency spectrum. Check out the videos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5kN46YUpH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOt1NxeKJ9o Our Klazo Drive is a smooth sounding overdrive designed…... Click for more

Greenchild Amplification Klazo Drive

McGregor Pedals Crunch Plus Overdrive

Vancouver's McGregor Pedals recently unveiled an "upscale" version of their Crunch Transparent Overdrive, the Crunch Plus. This circuit adds a third gain stage and a second clipping stage to the original circuit, giving you the transparent tones of its cousin a low gain but taking things to a new level…... Click for more

McGregor Pedals Crunch Plus Overdrive

Jetter Pedal X Overdrive

Based in Marietta, Georgia, Jetter Gear is a pedal manufacturer exclusively dedicated to dirt boxes - and increasingly focused on overdrives - that makes an effort to "keep as much of the build process in-house or closely under our direct control." Their circuit boards are designed and manufactured in the…... Click for more

Jetter Pedal X Overdrive

Bogner Ecstasy Blue Mini Plexi in a Box

The Bogner Ecstasy Mini Blue is the compact version of the company's popular blue pedal, recreating the tone and setting of their renowned Plexi-style Ecstasy amp through a higher internal voltage that allows for increased headroom. EytschPi42 and Alberto Barrero have only good things to say about this pedal in…... Click for more

Bogner Ecstasy Blue Mini Plexi in a Box

Westminster Effects Geneva Amp Sim V2

As its rhombic graphic pattern suggests, the Westminster Effects Geneva V2 encapsulates in a compact stompbox the tones of a classic Vox AC30 amp, including cab emulation, which can be turned on and off through a toggle switch - in off position, the Geneva works as a regular overdrive. Just…... Click for more

Westminster Effects Geneva Amp Sim V2

Nabla 1987 v2 Dual Channel Hot Rodded Plexi Overdrive

The 1987 overdrive by Italian boutique builder Nabla is a two-channel amp-in-a-box pedal designed to sound like a Plexi hot-rod pushed to the max. "Hot Rod" is a popular mod done to Marshall Plexi amps like the JTM45 or the 1989 Super Lead to make them sound more aggressive. The…... Click for more

Nabla 1987 v2 Dual Channel Hot Rodded Plexi Overdrive

Orion Effekte Schwarzweiss Overdrive Booster

The Orion Effekte Schwarzweiss Overdrive Booster is a warm, low gain Overdrive+Booster, comprised of the circuits of the German company's popular SCHWARZ overdrive (controlled through the black knobs), and the WEISS, a brand new boost circuit (controlled by the white knobs). The two words mean "black" and white" so you…... Click for more

Orion Effekte Schwarzweiss Overdrive Booster