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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

The Klon Centaur Pedal and the Best Klon Clones in 2024: A Buyer’s Guide

Perhaps the most legendary (and expensive) guitar pedal of all time, the Klon Centaur was one of the first boutique stompboxes, proving that an overdrive could be more than just a dirt box. Created by Bostonian Bill Finnegan in 1994, the pedal and its innovative circuit (which uses an IC…Click on the title for more

The Klon Centaur Pedal and the Best Klon Clones in 2024: A Buyer’s Guide

Mezzabarba Even Drive

For the electric guitar elite looking to drop close to a grand on an overdrive, there's the Mezzabarba Even Drive, hailing from a country that specializes in spending temptations: Italy. An all-tube preamp the Even uses two 12AX7 tubes to faithfully reproduce the sound of the company's own and renown…Click on the title for more

Mezzabarba Even Drive

Bleak District Electric Terra Overdrive

Inspired by both the Tube Screamer and the Klon, the Bleak District Electric Terra Earthly Overdrive meets the criteria of modern saturation stompboxes by providing a wide array of organic-sounding dirt tones, through a unique 5-knob interface controlling a hybrid circuit featuring both Germanium and Silicon diodes. The Gain level…Click on the title for more

Bleak District Electric Terra Overdrive

New Pedal Kit: StewMac International House of Overdrive

Buying a great sounding overdrive pedal is one of the simple pleasures in the life of an electric guitarist. Building one from scratch is not as simple, but a lot cheaper and - when the device is finished - source of immense pride. The $69 StewMac International House of Overdrive…Click on the title for more

New Pedal Kit: StewMac International House of Overdrive

Universal Audio UAFX Enigmatic 82 D-Style Pedal

Overdrive and amp fanatics are surely familiar with the unattainable Dumble amps (the Overdrive Special model, in particular), the most expensive guitar amplifiers on earth, hand-built and customized on order for stars of the caliber of Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Mayer. There's a not-too-small niche of pedal builders dedicated…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Enigmatic 82 D-Style Pedal

New Pedal: KittycasterFX Mohair Fuzztortion

Hand-built in Portland, OR, the KittycasterFX Mohair is a high quality five-transistor fuzz/distortion that offers a modern take on the classic muff sound, providing thick, sustaining leads with a more open, responsive feel. It's not a direct clone of any specific design but is fine-tuned for a unique sound and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: KittycasterFX Mohair Fuzztortion

Origin Effects Halcyon Blue Overdrive

The Origin Effects Halcyon Blue Overdrive is the third release in the British company's Halcyon series, a line of pedals inspired by evergreen classics utilizing a proprietary system called Adaptive Circuitry that automatically tweaks the effect’s voicing in real-time in response to pick attack and volume changes, improving dynamics and…Click on the title for more

Origin Effects Halcyon Blue Overdrive

LPD Lucent V2 Boost/Overdrive

Arizona-based builder LPD pedals put out their take on the venerable Marshall Blues Breaker style OD, called the Lucent. Featuring the classic tone/gain/level controls as well as a clipping diode toggle that switches between the classic Blues Breaker voicing and a custom voicing with more headroom, gain, and smoother EQ.…Click on the title for more

LPD Lucent V2 Boost/Overdrive

TWA Chemical Z Dual Overdrive

Based on the classic Tube Screamer, the TWA Chemical Z is a dual overdrive pedal designed by Japanese engineer Susumu Tamura, who was actually the original creator of that iconic green overdrive. The peculiar trait of this pedal is that it's a TS variant tuned for heavy guitarists, featuring a…Click on the title for more

TWA Chemical Z Dual Overdrive

Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd V2

Massachusetts' Electronic Audio Experiments unveiled V2 of its Halberd overdrive, an original circuit presented as "a medium-gain device with the harmonic fullness and grind of a much higher-gain pedal." Version 2 comes in a compact enclosure (about 2/3rds the size of V1) and features a redesigned circuit that ditches the…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd V2

Best Dumble-Style Pedals for your Needs & Budget | A Buyer’s Guide

Check out also our Guide to Overdrives by Type. Most of us will never get to play through an original Dumble amp, and in all likelihood, nobody reading this article will ever own one. Dumble tone has become legendary, and the fact that these amps sell for the price of a…Click on the title for more

Best Dumble-Style Pedals for your Needs & Budget | A Buyer’s Guide

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects The Lover Overdrive

The Empty Head Effects The Lover is proof that dirt boxes (overdrives in particular) don't have to be straightforward and lacking gin imagination. With its controls named after love-related nouns, the Lover reminds us that love can be found everywhere, and feeds both the guitarists' passion for pedals and the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects The Lover Overdrive