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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

Vertex Steel String Drive MkII

The Vertex Steel String Clean Drive was voiced after the legendary Dumble Steel String Singer, apparently, the reference unit they had was serial #1. It features just three controls – Gain, Filter (tone) and Volume. It sounds killer with lap-steel guitar. Released in 2020, the MkII version adds a toggle…... Click for more

Vertex Steel String Drive MkII

Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto Overdrive + Filter

The newly released Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto, is a Germanium based Rangemaster variant overdrive (bordering on a fuzz) with features that improve on the original design by allowing the players to tailor the voicing of the pedal to complement their guitar and signal chain, thanks to a Tone knob…... Click for more

Rare Buzz Effects Piccolo Falsetto Overdrive + Filter

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Although many guitarists prefer to defer gain-related duties to traditional, "one function" analog stompboxes, the case for multi-mode, digital dirt boxes has become more and more compelling with the advancement of digital and DSP technology in the audio realm. The BOSS OD-200, with its powerful processor and 32-bit/96KHz sampling rate,…... Click for more

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Sitek Freya (Joss Allen Signature) Boost + Overdrive

Freya is a family-run pedal company based in Poland that focuses on hand-building gain pedals. Designed in collaboration with metal guitarist Joss Allen, the Sitek Freya is a Boost + Overdrive combo featuring a low to mid-gain drive and a transparent high headroom booster. The overdrive circuit features a toggle…... Click for more

Sitek Freya (Joss Allen Signature) Boost + Overdrive

Mad Professor Super Black Overdrive

The Super Black is a new amp-in-a-box by Mad Professor that recreates the valve circuitry of the Black Face Fender amps from the'60s and their classic mid-scooped tone. The pedal also features a handy second overdrive (inherited from the company's Sweet Honey OD) triggered by a separate footswitch. The Compression…... Click for more

Mad Professor Super Black Overdrive

Formula B Super Plexi Overdrive

The Formula B Super Plexi Distortion is a two-channel overdrive pedal with a clean boost on one side and a Marshall JTM45 emulation on the other, using transistors to mimic the character of the tubes. Each channel features its own footswitch, and a toggle switch lets you place the boost…... Click for more

Formula B Super Plexi Overdrive

Vaderin Pedals Tone Fox Overdrive Distortion

Vaderin Pedals is a new, Los Angeles-based builder specializing in dirt boxes. The Tone Fox is an overdrive/distortion "designed to shape your tone through a crisp-yet-warm tube-like gain stage featuring tight lows, thick mids and present highs." The Teeth knob behaves in a rather original way: [turn it] clockwise for increased…... Click for more

Vaderin Pedals Tone Fox Overdrive Distortion

Anasounds Element Analog Spring Reverb

Straight from France comes the Anasounds Element, with Le Bon, La Brute and Le Truand in tow. The Element is an all-analog spring reverb transducer unit, which connects to one of three different real spring reverb tanks to add the finest in reverb to any amps without one or whose…... Click for more

Anasounds Element Analog Spring Reverb

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

Marrying sustainability and vintage look, The Ranch, by French pedal builder Collision Devices, is a drive with separate boost footswitch and an added dynamic tremolo that's gaining "buzz status" among the pedal connoisseurs. Interestingly, more than half of the pedal's presentation text is about materials (it's made of US Walnut…... Click for more

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

The Jackson Audio El Guapo is available for sale from our favorite indie pedal store The Sound Parcel - buying it there you'll support our site as well! --- The Google searches for this pedal have gone through the roof in the last week, so we'd issue a StompBuzz Alert!…... Click for more

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

MG Music Midnight Rambler Overdrive

A tribute to the sound of The Rolling Stones (and more specifically their late '60s/early '70s tone), the Midnight Rambler Overdrive, by Brazilian company MG Music, borrows a sophisticated circuit used in high-end preamps to deliver a warm and balanced overdrive with vintage character. A second footswitch adds extra gain,…... Click for more

MG Music Midnight Rambler Overdrive

Echoline Pedals Everest Overdrive

Hand-built in the UK, the Echoline Pedals Everest Overdrive emulates the driven tone of valve amps thanks to an original design featuring two special NOS germanium diodes in conjunction with Texas Instruments Op-Amps for a warm valve amplifier-like feel. Responsive, rich and articulate, this simple three-knob drive might be what the…... Click for more

Echoline Pedals Everest Overdrive