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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

The 10 Best Budget Overdrive Pedals (under $100), according to Mr. JHS (New & Used)

A Guide to the Best Budget Overdrive Pedals Recently the guys at JHS Pedals have been stepping up their YouTube channel with videos not necessarily just focused on the company's product, but also on vintage stompboxes and generic advice about pedals. We stumbled upon this video with company founder Joshua Heath…... Click for more

The 10 Best Budget Overdrive Pedals (under $100), according to Mr. JHS (New & Used)

Adventure Audio Glacial Zenith V2 Routable Drive/EQ/Boost

Rochester, NY, pedal builder Adventure Audio just announced version II of the Glacial Zenith. From a functionality perspective, what sets this Overdrive + Boost apart, besides its versatile EQ section, is the ability to let you route the three circuits the way you prefer - keeping the drive in the center…... Click for more

Adventure Audio Glacial Zenith V2 Routable Drive/EQ/Boost

First video of the Lunastone Blue Drive

We took a video of the Lunastone Blue Drive at our Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2018 (the second one under here). It's a medium gain overdrive built with blues in mind, and features a combination of cascade coupled gain stages and diode clipping. You can get tones from sustain-y clean…... Click for more

First video of the Lunastone Blue Drive

Zorg Effects Small Basstar

Originally built as a smaller/simpler version of this beast of a pedal, the (French) Zorg Effects Small Basstar is a peculiar overdrive obviously intended for bass but also intriguing-sounding on guitar. The circuit also gained its own quirks during the designing process. The controls are pretty self explanatory, the toggle switch in the…... Click for more

Zorg Effects Small Basstar

VFE Dragon Dynamic Overdrive

In a few words, the VFE Dragon overdrive deconstructs the logic behind all the most popular overdrive circuits (i.e. cutting bass before distortion and cutting treble after it) and lets you play with it through separate knobs controlling a Lo-Pass and a High Pass filter. A drive pushing up to 50db…... Click for more

VFE Dragon Dynamic Overdrive

Two Notes Le Crunch Overdrive

The Two Notes Le Crunch is a great pedal if you need a very versatile dual channel drive that can get you from Hendrix-like Plexi cleans to… well, Hendrix-like drive. It also features great extras like a cab sim and a great sounding XLR-out, as well as a headphone out.…... Click for more

Two Notes Le Crunch Overdrive

Bondi Effects Sick As High Shredroom Overdrive

A limited run of 30 units, Bondi Effects' Sick As High Shredroom Overdrive is a variation on the company's extremely popular Sick As circuit, designed in collaboration with Earthling Designs. The two Australian builders create a more articulate and aggressive pedal with a more open top end, more gain to tap,…... Click for more

Bondi Effects Sick As High Shredroom Overdrive

LPD 68 Deluxe Pedal

The Lawrence Petross Design 68 Deluxe is modeled after the '68 Marshall, a classic plexi modeler for the Hendrix fan. This is a bigger version of the original pedal with two extra footswitch, one to toggle between the two overdrive gain settings, and the other to kick in an extra boost.…... Click for more

LPD 68 Deluxe Pedal

One Control Jubilee Red AIAB

Japanese pedal manufacturer One Control has built a solid reputation with its mini-pedal series designed by Björn Juhl, in particular with regard to amp-in-a-box devices like the Strawberry Red Overdrive or the (non-mini) Honey Bee OD. The latest Overdrive in this series is called Jubilee Red AIAB (as in "Amp in a…... Click for more

One Control Jubilee Red AIAB

EWS Little Brute Drive II

The EWS Little Brute Drive II is an updated version of this well-received mini overdrive by the Japanese manufacturer. It has mini-knobs for volume and tone, which were under the hood trim pots in Mk I. Check out the latest video demos of the Little Brute II below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw_cfYio4mA Here's a spectacular video…... Click for more

EWS Little Brute Drive II

Anasounds Savage Overdrive

This Klone overdrive called Savage was staring at us in a very French way from the Anasounds' board at our NAMM 2018 Stompbox Booth, so we took a video of it (at the bottom of the post). That was a custom version of it with an extra toggle switch that…... Click for more

Anasounds Savage Overdrive

Carl Martin 2018 DC Drive

The 2018 DC Drive is smaller and updated version of Carl Martin's classic overdrive pedal. Besides the size, the main upgrade consists in the new Regular/Fat switch, which adds - in Fat mode - more gain for a modern sound. Here are a few videos of this pedal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqHnRQUEZXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_S0Nd6dCGY We…... Click for more

Carl Martin 2018 DC Drive