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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)

Jetter Gold Standard Dual Overdrive

The Jetter Gold Standard is a dual overdrive pedal that combines the company's versatile Gold Shift and low-gain Helium circuits in a single enclosure and optimizes them for maximum perfect integration when stacked. The two sides have separate footswitches and the Gold Shift circuit, first in the chain, has…... Click for more

Jetter Gold Standard Dual Overdrive

New Pedal: Foxgear Plex 55 Amp

Just like its twin sister Tweed 55, the Foxgear Plex 55 is not a regular overdrive simulating a Plexi amp, but an actual miniature, 55w power amp + preamp in pedal format that mimics the behavior and harmonic content of the classic Marshall amps. This means that you can (and…... Click for more

New Pedal: Foxgear Plex 55 Amp

Balaguer Fission Drive V2 Overdrive/Distortion

V2 of the Balaguer Fission Drive is a pre-amp-overdrive that offers two voices (Modern and Vintage) in one stompbox, selectable through a toggle switch. The new circuit delivers improved clarity and attack and features top-mounted jacks. Thanks to its three gain knobs (Pre, Post and Master) Fission can deliver…... Click for more

Balaguer Fission Drive V2 Overdrive/Distortion

Greer Amps Royal Velvet Overdrive/Preamp

We are in full overdrive blooming season, folks! It feels like all we've been blogging about, in the last few weeks, is: new overdrives. Greer Amps, a company with a pretty darn good track record in this niche, just announced the Royal Velvet, an amp-in-a-box with preamp inspired in equal…... Click for more

Greer Amps Royal Velvet Overdrive/Preamp

Mesa Boogie’s New Overdrives: Cleo, Dynaplex and Gold Mine

California-based amp builder Mesa/Boogie announced the release of three new overdrive pedals, built by the team who worked on their Mark Five and Dual and Triple Rectifier amps. Here's the info about each one of them: Cleo: transparent, responsive, low to medium gain boost/overdrive with vintage amp-like voicing. Dynaplex: as the…... Click for more

Mesa Boogie’s New Overdrives: Cleo, Dynaplex and Gold Mine

Cusack Meta Plexi Overdrive/Distortion

We first saw the Cusack Meta Plexi at NAMM 2020 but we kind of lost track of it until today, thanks to the video below by Mike Hermans. The pedal has an enthusiastic written review here. This take on the classic Marshall tone gives you all the expected settings and…... Click for more

Cusack Meta Plexi Overdrive/Distortion