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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

Reeves Electro Leo Overdrive

Owned and operated by Marcus Reeves, UK's Reeves Electro builds point-to-point pedals like no other builder does. Because of the limited supply of pedals that can be built this way, Marcus opens his shop for orders only once in a while, announcing the date in advance, and placing orders in…Click on the title for more

Reeves Electro Leo Overdrive

Vanilla Sundae English Toffee Iscream

Based out of Boise, Idaho, Vanilla Sundae Pedals focuses on hand-made compact dirt boxes with names (and colors) borrowed by ice cream classics. The English Toffee Iscream is their take on the classic dual op-amp circuits of the late '70s - early '80s, read Tube Screamer 808. While this pedal…Click on the title for more

Vanilla Sundae English Toffee Iscream

Maestro Ranger Overdrive

Part of the 2022 relaunch of the Maestro line, the Ranger is a simple 3-knob, two-mode overdrive pedal inspired by the sound of vintage tube amps. Besides your regular Gain/Level/Tone knobs, through a handy toggle switch, the Ranger offers Hi and Lo modes that deliver high and lo-gain tones. This…Click on the title for more

Maestro Ranger Overdrive

Modal Effects Disruption Modular Pedal

Even though guitar pedals are, in their classic format, already a modular concept, more than one company has flirted with the idea of creating a modular pedal that can host several interchangeable effects. Nashville-based Modal Effects is coming out with a new take on this idea. Their Disruption modular pedal…Click on the title for more

Modal Effects Disruption Modular Pedal

Spruce Effects Yosemite Real Spring Reverb + Overdrive

Those determined to get an "Analog" spring reverb will realize, at some point, that the format requires more space than any other analog pedal - unless they are happy with a weird, vaguely reverb-like BBD-based effect. This is due to the fact that the only way to produce a good-sounding…Click on the title for more

Spruce Effects Yosemite Real Spring Reverb + Overdrive

Crazy Tube Circuits Constellation

The Crazy Tube Circuits Constellation is a multimode pedal of "anything Germanium" delivering voicings of fuzzes and boosters inspired by classic pedals. An all-analog multi-mode germanium fuzz pedal with all the “greatest hits” of fuzz onboard. In addition to a Fuzz Face mode and 3 Tone Bender modes, also has…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Constellation

Crazy Tube Circuits Space Charged V2 Tube Ovredrive

Notwithstanding the company's name, the Space Charged was Crazy Tube Circuits' first real tube overdrive. It runs with an internal voltage of 40v and comes with a 12AY7 preamp tube inside the pedal, but that can be switched with other tuber models (12AX7, 12AT7, 12AU7, 5751 ) for varied color…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Space Charged V2 Tube Ovredrive

One Control Honey Bee Overdrive

Japanese stompbox manufacturer One Control has gotten a lot of attention in recent years for their high-end mini-pedals, forged in collaboration with star designer Bjorn Juhl, previously involved with Mad Professor and BearFoot FX. Bjorn's most popular stompbox design pre-dating his involvement with third parties is the Honey Bee OD, a circuit…Click on the title for more

One Control Honey Bee Overdrive

GTown Amps HolyGrail V2 Overdrive

GTown Custom Amps is a Russian pedal builder that's getting noticed for its Dumble-inspired, hand-built devices, including amps. The HolyGrail V2 is their "regular" D-Style pedal, as opposed to the company's 335, which more specifically recreates the tone of Larry Carlton, a renowned Dumble amp user. The HolyGrail, with its…Click on the title for more

GTown Amps HolyGrail V2 Overdrive

Greer Amps Soma 63 Vintage Preamp

Greer Amps has released the Soma 63 Vintage Preamp, a must-have for vintage amp lovers that was rewarded the Best in Show award at NAMM 2019. Utilizing Greer's new XFR platform, this pedal delivers real amp-like tone, including a real transformer to simulate everything about amplifiers; in this case, vintage…Click on the title for more

Greer Amps Soma 63 Vintage Preamp

One Control Strawberry Red Overdrive DLX

The One Control Strawberry Red Overdrive DLX (as in Deluxe) is an upgrade to one of the Japanese company's most popular overdrive pedals. Part of the BJFE series designed by Bjorn Juhl, the SRODDLX retains the versatile tone of the Mini Strawberry Red but makes it even more so by adding…Click on the title for more

One Control Strawberry Red Overdrive DLX

Dophix Michelangelo Overdrive Plus

One of the best aspects of our Stompbox Exhibits is that they allow us to get acquainted with new and often "emerging" boutique pedal brands. At our recent Montreal event Sonic Circuit (co-organized with MUTEK), we hosted a board by Italian builder Dophix, a company that echoes its country's artistic…Click on the title for more

Dophix Michelangelo Overdrive Plus