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OVERDRIVE PEDALS

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• 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

Sinvertek N5+ Drive

A boutique Chinese manufacturer on the rise, Sinvertek offers a "more is more" approach to stompboxes by providing extremely deep functionality for each one of their product, with a price tag that is extremely competitive compared to similarly fully-featured pedals made in the US or Europe. Their latest drive, the…Click on the title for more

Sinvertek N5+ Drive

New Pedal: Mythos SUSMARYOSEP! v2

Nashville-based Mythos has updated their SUSMARYOSEP! RJ Ronquillo signature 3-in-1 pedal, featuring a treble booster, Herculean overdrive, and slapback echo. The name comes from a Filipino saying, slang for "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" The pedal includes RJ's "desert island" effects all in one pedal, making it a swiss army knife…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Mythos SUSMARYOSEP! v2

Mythos Air Lane Drive (Novo Guitars collab)

The Mythos Air Lane Drive is a limited edition, stripped-down, dual overdrive pedal built in collaboration with Nashville's Novo Guitars. The two channels have their own footswitch and gain knob and are based around the same single transistor topology, each slightly tweaked, including hard-clipping diode arrangements made to optimize stacking.…Click on the title for more

Mythos Air Lane Drive (Novo Guitars collab)

New Pedal: MTL Assembly Too Positive Stereo Drive

The MTL Assembly Too Positive is a minor release from the Quebec-based creator of the Count to 5, but still a uniquely useful device for guitarists on a mission to build a full stereo rig. The concept is not complicated, but rather underexplored: a stereo overdrive with 2 independent drive…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: MTL Assembly Too Positive Stereo Drive

UAFX Amp-In-A-Box Pedals

Through Sweetwater, Universal Audio has announced three new amp-in-a-box pedal additions to their UAFX line, currently available for preorder at $399 each. Like the previous three pedals in the series, these are multi-mode, studio-grade stompboxes with deep functionality and connectivity. Each pedal in the UAFX series allows you to bypass…Click on the title for more

UAFX Amp-In-A-Box Pedals

Colombo Audio Pulse Driver BK Butler-Style Drive

Hailing from Italy, the Colombo Audio Pulse Driver is a fully customizable overdrive inspired by the sound of the 1983 BK Butler combo amp, famously used by David Gilmour, Eric Johnson, Billy Gibbons and Joe Satriani among others. The pedal recreates that 12AX7 tube design without an actual tube, recreating…Click on the title for more

Colombo Audio Pulse Driver BK Butler-Style Drive

LPD Pedals Sixty8 Overdrive

LPD Pedals is an Arizona-based builder that seems to have a keen interest in the sound of Marshall Plexi amps, since five out of six of their releases are pedals recreating different flavors of that legendary tone - while the sixth is a delay. The Sixty8, available also in a…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Sixty8 Overdrive

Shnobel Tone Frank Simes Overdrive

The Shnobel Tone Frank Simes Overdrive is a collaboration between Shnobel Tone and guitarist, songwriter, composer and record producer Frank Simes. Frank Simes is a session and touring guitarist who has played with the likes of Stevie Nicks, The Who, and Don Henley. The Frank Simes Overdrive is a derivative…Click on the title for more

Shnobel Tone Frank Simes Overdrive

Imperial Electrical Zeppelin

As you may have guessed from the name, the Imperial Electrical Zeppelin is an amp-in-a-box inspired by the immortal guitar sound of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, built by a new company hailing fron New Zealand founded by Ben Fulton of Red Witch Pedals. This pedal distills the sound of the…Click on the title for more

Imperial Electrical Zeppelin

New at NAMM 2022: Ovaltone Forty5 Drive Gear (Plexi-Style)

Hailing from Japan, the Ovaltone Forty5 is a mini Plexi-style drive we stumbled upon at NAMM 2022. Its low to mid-gain overdrive tone is inspired by the sound of the Marchall JTM45. It has controls for Volume and Drive, responds well to dynamics and can take a hotter input when…Click on the title for more

New at NAMM 2022: Ovaltone Forty5 Drive Gear (Plexi-Style)

New at NAMM 2022: Krunch Kabinets Krunch Drive

The pedal debut by a Californian company manufacturing amp heads and cabinets, the Krunch Kabinets Krunch Drive is a 5-knob overdrive with extra boost where the two circuits are stacked on top of each other (boost first in the chain) and have separate footswitches. The circuit, built in collaboration with…Click on the title for more

New at NAMM 2022: Krunch Kabinets Krunch Drive

Imperial Electrical Appetite (Slash in a box)

Presented at the NAMM 2022 show with a projected availability for the late summer, the Imperial Electric Appetite is a pedal that puts the modified Plexi sound of Guns'n'Roses guitarist Slash, in a box. Imperial Electrical is a new company out of New Zealand founded by Ben Fulton, the owner…Click on the title for more

Imperial Electrical Appetite (Slash in a box)