There are more overdrive pedals on the market now than we can keep track of, but most have common ancestors, design decisions, even designers, or components. As a result, there should be only so much ...

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Faithfully capturing a snapshot digital reproduction of any real guitar amp has for several years been the province of Kemper with their Profiler and, in more recent years, Neural DSP with the Quad ...

It’s an open, gritty but not spitty, low to mid-gain overdrive that offers a lot of clarity and definition. Where the original lacked in level, all of the modern versions improved on this and one of ...

The TightDrive from Amptweaker allows guitar and bass players to take control of that all important tone and overcome any unwanted delay that can slow down the sound as it moves through an amp's ...

Hey, guitar players: still hunting for that perfect overdrive pedal? Feel like you’re on a never-ending search for that distinct crunch that exists only in your mind? Then we’ve got something for you: ...

Since the pandemic’s “hobby boom” grew the guitar effects pedal market exponentially, overdrive pedals are a dime a dozen. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of clones and variations on ...

Last year, Tone Box released a uniquely menacing overdrive unit shaped like a human skull where red LEDs lit up the orb sockets. Now the company has announced a new Skull Crusher in steel or gold ...

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