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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

Haunted Labs Witch Hammer Overdrive

Here's a demo of the Witch Hammer Overdrive by emerging NC manufacturer Haunted Labs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7SL1B_kBuM The WITCH HAMMER is an overdrive pedal with enough tonal ability to tear the pages from Malleus Maleficarum itself and burn them at your feet. The WITCH HAMMER encapsulates the screams, chants, spells, and conjuring from centuries…Click on the title for more

Haunted Labs Witch Hammer Overdrive

Anasounds High Voltage Overdrive

French pedal manufacturer Anasounds just unveiled a new Plexi-style overdrive called High Voltage Overdrive dedicated to the admirers of the overdriven sounds of AC/DC - hence the name derived from the hard rockers' legendary album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWS9HfGUlg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u2pxUhhaRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DrG0PwmcDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bryYL5-zCFc As Malcolm Young said “nobody would pay attention to anything that was going on until…Click on the title for more

Anasounds High Voltage Overdrive

GFI System Jonassus Dual Channel Overdrive

Today, most major pedal videographers unveiled, in unison, a video of the Jonassus, a brand new dual overdrive channel by Indonesian manufacturer GFI System with a shared tone knob. This stompbox gives you a more articulate and dynamic low gain channel on the left side, and powerful high gain goodness…Click on the title for more

GFI System Jonassus Dual Channel Overdrive

Reuss ‘Wine and Roses’ Steve Wynn signature pedal

Genres come and go, but a select few create ripples that are felt long after the movement seems to have run its course. Shoegaze is finally being recognized for its massive influence and, after years of being insipid and formulaic, actual Country Music that resembles its roots is popular again.…Click on the title for more

Reuss ‘Wine and Roses’ Steve Wynn signature pedal

SoundBrut DRVA Mk.II Overdrive + Boost

The DRVA, an Overdrive with Boost pedal by Swedish / Turkish manufacturer Soundbrut, was highlighted by Premier Guitar in January 2018 with a flattering review and "Premier Gear" Award. At Summer NAMM 2018 the company unveiled a "MK.II" of the same circuit with these additions: Treble-cut: Treble-cut pot is added…Click on the title for more

SoundBrut DRVA Mk.II Overdrive + Boost

JHS Pedals Bonsai Multi-Overdrive

We were just wondering if JHS was going to announce a new pedal (or two) for this year's NAMM, when the answer was delivered to us through these two video demos of the Bonsai Multi-Overdrive - and what an answer! The JHS Pedals Bonsai offers, reportedly, exact replicas of nine rare, classic…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals Bonsai Multi-Overdrive

Ethos TWE-1 overdrive

The Ethos TWE-1 Overdrive is a compact version of a family of preamps, built by manufacturer Custom Tone, that got progressively smaller - you can find them all here. The soundbite the company uses to present this stompbox is "Clean-to-Scream with just the turn of your guitar's volume control" - which…Click on the title for more

Ethos TWE-1 overdrive

One Control Baby Blue OD

A full size pedal by One Control, known for manufacturing high end mini-pedals, the Baby Blue OD is an overdrive peculiarly based on a fuzz circuit (the BJFe creation FUZZ 1). Because of this, it sounds like a mix of the two effects, thanks to a "discrete circuit that combines…Click on the title for more

One Control Baby Blue OD

Burnt Audio Effects Smooth Driver

Assembled and built in Moorhead, Minnesota, The Smooth Driver is... A light-medium overdrive built by Burnt Audio Effects. It can be easily dialed in for light grit, creamy leads, or anywhere in-between. Built with high quality parts to ensure the best tone with the lowest noise floor. True Bypass ensures…Click on the title for more

Burnt Audio Effects Smooth Driver

8 Gain Pedals you’ll be able to try at the upcoming BK Stompbox Exhibit

The 8th Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit is coming up fast (it's free, RSVP here!) and we want to share some of the tasty sonic treats you'll be able to experience at our pedal party! Here's a gallery of 8 great gain pedals (7 overdrives and 1 distortion) you'll be able to…Click on the title for more

8 Gain Pedals you’ll be able to try at the upcoming BK Stompbox Exhibit

Chase Bliss Audio Condor Analog EQ

The Minneapolis based manufacturer Chase Bliss Audio has been specializing in an "army knife" approach to stompboxes, offering great sounding devices boasting an incredibly wide palette of features, accessible both from the front and top panels (on the latter, each of their pedals has their signature two rows of dip…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Condor Analog EQ

Southampton Pedals Indie Dream Overdrive

Hosted in our Stompbox Booth, at NAMM 2018 Southampton Pedals unveiled a new device that should arouse interest among all the guitarists out there into genres like dream pop, psych rock, and shoegaze: it's called the Indie Dream! Overdrive on the right side, delay and reverb on the left - both effects can be…Click on the title for more

Southampton Pedals Indie Dream Overdrive