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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

7 of the Best Tube Screamer Clones, Variants and Reissues in 2024

Welcome to our super-thorough buyer's guide to the best Tube Screamer clones and reissues, including TS-inspired variants/evolutions. For a wider perspective on all types of drive pedals, you may want to check out our article about the best overdrives organized by type, or navigate to our overdrive category. --- [lwptoc…Click on the title for more

7 of the Best Tube Screamer Clones, Variants and Reissues in 2024

New Pedal: Catalinbread SideArm Overdrive

A Tube Screamer variant, the Catalinbread SideArm Overdrive is one of two new pedals featured in the launch of the 6-pedal "''70s Collection" series, also including four older circuits with fresh (green) new looks. The immediately noticeable difference between this pedal and a regular Tube Screamer is the addition of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread SideArm Overdrive

Line 6 POD Express

Those who've been around "long enough" will have fond memories of the day in 1998 when they saw, and then heard the very first Line 6 Pod. It was the first mass-produced device to deliver, in a rather small package and rather faithfully, the tones of a myriad of different…Click on the title for more

Line 6 POD Express

Browne Amplification Carbon X Dual Bluesbreaker

Pedal connoisseurs - in particular those deeply invested in the quest for the best overdriven tone - should be familiar with Kansas City's own Browne Amplification, a boutique builder of high-end dirt boxes. The Carbon, a Blues Breaker variant, was the pedal that put them on the map; the Carbon…Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Carbon X Dual Bluesbreaker

Silktone Overdrive+

From one of the most buzzworthy American boutique amp makers comes a new overdrive with a wide tonal palette, some interesting features, but mostly, a tone likely to seduce many electric guitar connoisseurs. Enter the Silktone Overdrive+. With an original analog circuit utilizing a combination of JFETs, op-amps and a…Click on the title for more

Silktone Overdrive+

Benevale Colt 45 Overdrive

Built by a boutique NYC-based company, the Benevale Colt 45 was designed with recording in mind - to achieve that perfect level of touch-sensitive breakup when playing through a tube amp. It can also work as an always-on foundational pedal pushing other overdrives and fuzzes to higher gain levels. If…Click on the title for more

Benevale Colt 45 Overdrive

NUX ‘6ixty5ive Overdrive

The NUX ‘6ixty5ive Overdrive is the latest amp-in-a-box by a Chinese builder that's getting an increasing number of fans in the US of A. Just like the overdrive pedal it takes inspiration from (in tone and color), the Vemuram Jan Ray, it's voiced after the Black Panel Fender amps of…Click on the title for more

NUX ‘6ixty5ive Overdrive

Updated Pedal: Hudson Electronics Broadcast AP-II

The Broadcast preamp pedal from UK builder Hudson Electronics has a stellar reputation and made several best-of lists when it came out a few years ago. The AP version of it, recently updated to the dual version, named Broadcast AP-II, is an evolution of the original design engineered in collaboration…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Hudson Electronics Broadcast AP-II

Browne Amplification Gritador

The Browne Amplification Gritador is a take on the Tube Screamer overdrive by a Kansas City-based company that was able to earn the trust of tone connoisseurs thanks to a series of simple but great-sounding devices inspired by classic circuits - the Protein above them all. The clue is in…Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Gritador

Van Diemens Red Ochre Deluxe Treblebooster

Inspired by the name of a secluded Tasmanian beach near the builder's house, the Van Diemens Red Ochre Deluxe is a high-quality, hand-built Treble-booster recreation available in two colors (Hammered Gold and Hammered Charcoal) with a 3 position rotary or toggle switch offering a few extra voices. No compromises were…Click on the title for more

Van Diemens Red Ochre Deluxe Treblebooster

Beetronics Wannabee Beelateral Buzz

The Beetronics Wannabee Beelateral Buzz represents the LA via Brazil company's entry into not only the expanding market of the dual channel overdrive but also the multifaceted universe of "Klones:" the pedal comprises a Blues Breaker-style circuit (aka Circuit #0) and one inspired by the Klon Centaur (aka Circuit #1),…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Wannabee Beelateral Buzz

Browne Amplification Carbon V2

A stompbox that made our Best New Pedals of 2021 list, the Browne Amplification Carbon is the Blue side of the company's Protein dual overdrive, a high-end Blues Breaker-inspired circuit. Released in 2023, V2 adds a toggle switch that offers a darker voice through a hi-cut filter. The Carbon was…Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Carbon V2