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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

Hamstead Soundworks Comet Interstellar Driver

In the global race to build an overdrive pedal that's "versatile, transparent, dynamic and/or full of character" (those are the words that everyone's after in this niche) Cambridgeshire's Hamstead Soundworks is faring very well indeed, having released a couple of very well-received drive pedals. The brand new Comet can be…Click on the title for more

Hamstead Soundworks Comet Interstellar Driver

New Pedal: Handy FX Minotaur Klone

The Handy FX Minotaur Overdrive is a new addition to the ever-growing family of K-style overdrives, aka Klon Centaur clones, aka Klones. The Klon Centaur is the most buzzworthy guitar pedal out there, with original units selling for over $5,000. Although the Minotaur shares the simple 3-knob layout of the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Handy FX Minotaur Klone

Spun Loud Effects Litigator Overdrive

We've been talking about the "Beano Tone" a few weeks ago in relation to this pedal, the warm yet edgy sound that became the signature of Eric Clapton early sound when he was playing with the Blues Breakers. The Spun Loud Effects Litigator Overdrive gives us another opportunity to check…Click on the title for more

Spun Loud Effects Litigator Overdrive

Crazy Tube Circuits Crossfire Dual Overdrive

Fender "Black Panel" or "Blackface" amps were made in the mid-'60s and came to define the sound of a blues guitar legend: Steve Ray Vaughan. The Ibanez Tube Screamer, on the other hand, is - simply put - the most popular overdrive pedal ever made. This overdrive/amp combo (in that…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Crossfire Dual Overdrive

Victory V4 Copper Preamp

The Victory Amps V4 Copper is a tube preamp pedal made in the UK that can take over the preamp section of your amp (as long as it has an FX loop) with the handy effect of adding an extra channel to your regular setup - actually, two, since this…Click on the title for more

Victory V4 Copper Preamp

DSM & Humboldt Silver Linings Overdrive

The Silver Linings Overdrive is the first collaboration between DSM & Humboldt outside the uber-popular amp-simulating Simplifier line (launched at our own NAMM 2019 Stompbox Booth), which brought the two Chilean companies to the forefront of the amp/cab modeler scene. A very tweakable drive/preamp engine with an extra dual boost…Click on the title for more

DSM & Humboldt Silver Linings Overdrive

One Control Purple Plexifier V2

It might be mini, but, at $179, the One Control Plexifier is not exactly affordable. That’s actually the company’s angle: raising the standards of the mini format, and that's exactly what this pedal does, a high-end mini Plexi pedal offering a very responsive distortion with a gain range of +6dB…Click on the title for more

One Control Purple Plexifier V2

Wampler Pantheon Overdrive

There always a lot of curiosity when Wampler unveils a new overdrive, since the Indiana-based builder has built a super-solid reputation for its gain pedals, through a series of popular models like the Sovereign Distortion and the Tumnus overdrive. The company's new pedal, called Pantheon, is a circuit voiced after…Click on the title for more

Wampler Pantheon Overdrive

Pedal Update: Free The Tone Red Jasper RJ-2V

The Free The Tone Red Jasper RJ-2V is the redesigned reissue of this popular Japanese low-gain overdrive that had to be discontinued in 2018 due to component shortage. This is a pedal whose smooth highs, punchy mids, full yet tight lows, and natural compression resemble the tone of a tube…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Free The Tone Red Jasper RJ-2V

Caroline The Blues overdrive

Launched on April 1st by Caroline Guitar Co as a pretend joke, The Blues is a Dallas Rangemaster evolution presented as a gentler cousin to the company's Hawaiian Pizza transistor fuzz-drive. If the Pizza is 30% drive, 70% fuzz, then this is more like 80% drive, 20% fuzz. The toggle…Click on the title for more

Caroline The Blues overdrive

ThorpyFX The Bunker Distortion/Overdrive

The Bunker is ThorpyFX's reimagining of the legendary Lovetone Brown Source pedal, designed in collaboration with the original builder. A “brown sound” Marshall style overdrive, that can be pushed into distortion, in a stout, board friendly size. This version is smaller and louder while offering extra tonal flexibility through a…Click on the title for more

ThorpyFX The Bunker Distortion/Overdrive

New Pedal: True North Pedals Tweed Deluxe

The True North Pedals Tweed Deluxe is the dual-channel drive that expands on a rather popular boutique Tweed-style overdrive pedal made in Canada. The unit was created to satisfy popular demand. Formerly known as the Aurora Dual Drive, this pedal adds the boost side of the company's Northern Lights (a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: True North Pedals Tweed Deluxe