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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

NativeAudio Makoyii Drive

Deceptively simple-looking, the NativeAudio Makoyii Drive hides sophistication under its three-knob layout: it's an amp-like overdrive/distortion with adaptable compression able to deliver a variety of tones including sustained cleans, tight crunch, and wooly distortion - sometimes even bordering on fuzz. With its circuit delivering asymmetrical clipping, it features a unique…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Makoyii Drive

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 on the title for more

MXR Timmy Overdrive

Pedal Line: Catalinbread Elements

The latest trend among boutique builders seems to be to release... lines of pedals, a bunch at a time! Following (probably) JHS's lead, the Catalinbread Elements is a new line of rather inexpensive yet hand-made one-knob pedals comprising - for now - three devices: Fuzz, Distortion and Overdrive. While we'll…Click on the title for more

Pedal Line: Catalinbread Elements

Shnobel Tone Mid Driver

YouTuber Roman from Shnobel started manufacturing guitar pedals in the early '20s under the Shnobel Tone label. The Shnobel Tone Mid Driver, unveiled just before the NAMM 2022 show, is his take on the "mid-rich" overdrive a-la Tube-Screamer, although it's not a clone. The pedal's circuit is a variant on…Click on the title for more

Shnobel Tone Mid Driver

Lauren Audio Mustang V2 Preamp

Run by a recording engineer, Lauren Audio is a one-man builder based in California that offers custom amplifiers and preamps and, also a bunch of pedals, among which a preamp stompbox emulating the most legendary channel strip, the Neve 1073: enter the Lauren Audio Mustang V2. The Mustang has a…Click on the title for more

Lauren Audio Mustang V2 Preamp

Best Vox-Style Pedals & Vox-In-a-Box Overdrives in 2023

Welcome to our comprehensive guide to the best Vox-Style pedals and Vox-in-a-Box overdrives! If you are interested in pedals inspired by other classic amps, you may want to check out our articles about the best Plexi-Style pedals, Dumble-style drives, and Fender-in-a-box pedals. Coverage of similar stompboxes can be found in…Click on the title for more

Best Vox-Style Pedals & Vox-In-a-Box Overdrives in 2023

Mad Professor Simble Overdrive

One of the most convincing D-Style compact pedals, the Mad Professor Simble, just like a real Dumble, lets you EQ the signal before or after the overdrive. The Accent control adjusts the brightness before the drive, and Contour sets the brightness after the drive stage. It can really sing with…Click on the title for more

Mad Professor Simble Overdrive

New Pedal: Davey Design Electronics 1979/1990

Hand-made in Australia, the Davey Design Electronics 1979/1990 is a high quality, cool-looking, uber-tweakable double overdrive blending a TS-style circuit with a Klon-style one. The two circuits have their own footswitch so that they can be activated separately or stacked on top of each other. The order of the drives…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Davey Design Electronics 1979/1990

UAFX Dream ’65 Reverb Ovedrive

Part of a three amp-in-a-box pedal addition to the Universal Audio pedal line, the UAFX Dream '65 Reverb is an authentic emulation of a Fender Deluxe Reverb, with several added features. Like the previous three pedals in the series, this is a multi-mode, studio-grade, stereo stompbox with presets and deep…Click on the title for more

UAFX Dream ’65 Reverb Ovedrive

MXR Super Badass Dynamic Overdrive

The MXR Super Badass line already includes a very popular distortion pedal (that made our list of the best 10 distortions of all time) and a fuzz. A Guitar Center exclusive, the MXR Super Badass Dynamic Overdrive is presented as a touch-sensitive overdrive that sounds like a revved-up tube amp…Click on the title for more

MXR Super Badass Dynamic Overdrive

New Pedals: One Control Tornado Drive

The One Control Tornado Drive is a new collaboration between pedal designer Björn Juhl with Japanese celebrity guitarist TK (Tory Kitajima), part of a new line of pedals called TORNADO Fx. There are two versions of this original, non-clone, high-gain overdrive circuit: Aluminum and Brass, with the latter featuring a…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: One Control Tornado Drive

Ami Effects Umami

Made in France, the Ami Effects Umami aims - we guess - at being to tone what umami is to food: delicious. It's a rather transparent device that can do boost and overdrive and features a carefully designed set of controls including two gain stages and a 2-way EQ section…Click on the title for more

Ami Effects Umami