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The 3 Best Overdrive Pedals per Type in 2023

Welcome to the most comprehensive article you'll find online about the best overdrive pedals on the market! Since "overdrive" is an umbrella term that includes several types of circuits with their own sonic character, we thought it would be best way to organize this guide by type - because comparing…... Click for more

The 3 Best Overdrive Pedals per Type in 2023

Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Strymon, a company that built its name on clean, warm and lush tones, has finally entered the "dirty" pedal distortion market with Riverside, described as "the culmination of a thorough analysis of numerous analog and vacuum tube circuits." The company's goal was to deliver a new world of harmonically rich, versatile,…... Click for more

Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Reissue: EarthQuaker Devices White Light Overdrive

The EarthQuaker Devices White Light was one of the early pedals released by the Ohian company, helping to put it on the map when it wasn't yet established. With the reissue of this 2011 pedal in a limited 2,000-unit run, the builder is launching a series revisiting its older stompboxes,…... Click for more

Reissue: EarthQuaker Devices White Light Overdrive

Volta The Blue Overdrive

Volta Custom is a new Italian pedal builder dedicated to high-end, hand-made, super-tweakable dirt boxes. The Blue is their flagship overdrive, and those of you who are planning on attending Summer NAMM 2021 will be able to check it out at our Delicious Audio Stompbox Booth. As abundantly clear from…... Click for more

Volta The Blue Overdrive

REVV Tilt Overdrive + Boost (Shawn Tubbs Signature)

Canadian amp and pedal maker REVV has teamed up with Nashville's guitarist and popular YouTuber Shawn Tubbs (whose videos we aggregate in this blog) to release the REVV Tilt, an overdrive + boost pedal with a peculiar EQ section. Hailing from Music City, Shawn cares about tone very much, and…... Click for more

REVV Tilt Overdrive + Boost (Shawn Tubbs Signature)

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

After the Ages Overdrive and the Eras Distortion, we would be lying if we said that we didn't see this one coming: the multi-mode fuzz Walrus Audio Eons. Built on the same form factor of the aforementioned pedals, and therefore featuring 5 modes, the Eons is born to do all…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

MXR Timmy Overdrive

The MXR Timmy is a faithful recreation (in mini format) of the Paul C Audio Timmy Overdrive, designed in collaboration with the original engineer, Paul Cochrane. The (hand-made) original is one of the most popular overdrives out there, and this MXR version will allow the Timmy's tone to be more…... Click for more

MXR Timmy Overdrive

Audiostorm Quad Screamer Overdrive

The Audiostorm Quad Screamer is a fascinating Tube Screamer variant made in the UK. It gives you four push buttons that allow you to mix and match LED, MOSFET, Silicon and Germanium diodes, and then alter the resulting overdrive through 5 controls, including two unusual "Bright" and "Dirty" switches placed…... Click for more

Audiostorm Quad Screamer Overdrive

Source Audio Ultrawave Multiband Distortion

After an initial limited batch sold directly through the manufacturer, The Source Audio Ultrawave is now widely available through all the shops that carry the Boston company's pedals. We also learned that there is a bass version of it. This is a multi-mode, multi-band distortion pedal presented as a "Stereo…... Click for more

Source Audio Ultrawave Multiband Distortion

JET Pedals Mr Jax Overdrive Chris Rocha Signature

The JET Pedals Mr Jax is a Chris Rocha signature high-gain overdrive with a wider than usual tonal range, in particular for a three-knob dirt box. This is because there is an awful lot going on under that red hood: A Tone knob that sounds transparent at noon but that…... Click for more

JET Pedals Mr Jax Overdrive Chris Rocha Signature

IK Multimedia X-Drive Multi-Mode Gain Pedal

Italian powerhouse IK Multimedia, a multifaceted builder of hardware and software for musicians, unveiled four new, multi-mode pedals powered by the algorithms of their popular audio plugin Amplitube. This post will take a closer look at the gain pedal in this line, called X-Drive. This is a multi-mode, do-it-all kind…... Click for more

IK Multimedia X-Drive Multi-Mode Gain Pedal

IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-GEAR Pedals

IK Multimedia's first major success back in the early days of digital recording was AmpliTube, one of the very first amp simulation plugins that allowed mixing engineers to record clean guitar parts and apply amp and cab character to the signal while mixing. That piece of software kept growing as…... Click for more

IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-GEAR Pedals