Caroline Guitar Company releases Aaron Graves Overdrive pedal at $199

May 1, 2026 · 3 sources

Caroline Guitar Company lists the Aaron Graves Overdrive at $199.00 and says it is "Available from our retailers now"¹. The maker describes it as a "Preamp/Power Amp Drive"¹. Guitar Pedal X reported on May 28, 2026 that no UK dealers had it yet².

The pedal brings back the "Mode B" circuit from the company's Haymaker and Icarus V1. Caroline says it heard people missed that circuit "because it resembled power amp clipping," and that it added a second gain stage to its classic voicing "to balance the two drive styles more evenly"¹. The maker also says the bass voicing selector came from listening to players who work in studios, use humbuckers or favor the neck pickup¹.

Guitar Pedal X lists the controls as Level, Hair/Gain, Tone, Voice and Bass, with Voice switching between Preamp (higher gain and more compression) and Power-Amp, and Bass offering Most Bass, Bass-Cut or More Bass². It describes the pedal as a Compact edition in a 1590BB-style portrait format². Caroline gives the dimensions as 2 x 6 x 4 in and the weight as 18 oz, in green and "BALTIM-ORANGE" colorways¹.

Caroline says a portion of sales proceeds will go to Fork & Spoon Records¹. Delicious Audio reports the pedal was named after Aaron Graves, founder of Fork & Spoon Records and the band Those Lavender Whales, who died in 2019³. A comment posted under that article and attributed to Patrick of Fork & Spoon says the pedal is dedicated to the Aaron Graves from Columbia, South Carolina, who started the label and wrote the songs for Those Lavender Whales³.

Guitar Pedal X describes the pedal as giving the preamp from the Parabola Pawnshop Tremolo and Météore Lo-Fi Reverb a stand-alone outing². Caroline says customers had asked for that preamp as its own pedal¹. The pedal sits in the site's overdrive category¹.