The Roosevelt Drive is an analog overdrive pedal from 3rd Power, built around the company's take on a classic vintage '80s MOSFET overdrive circuit. RockBoard's PedalPedia describes it as "a transparent amp-like overdrive with a 3-band EQ for shaping or refining the feel and character of your instrument without the drive effect taking over your tone"1. In other words, it is aimed at players who want added drive that keeps the base tone of their guitar and amp intact, with bass, mid and treble controls to fine-tune how it sits in a rig.
What it does
The Roosevelt Drive sits in the transparent overdrive camp: rather than coloring the signal heavily, it is designed to add amp-like drive while a 3-band EQ shapes or refines the feel and character of the instrument1. That makes it a candidate for players who like their clean tone and want a drive pedal that works with it, in the same family of uses as other overdrive pedals.
Status: re-imagined as the Love Drive
The Roosevelt Drive is no longer the current version of this circuit. In August 2022, 3rd Power re-imagined the Roosevelt Drive as the new and enhanced Love Drive pedal1.
For players shopping today, the Love Drive is where this design lives on, described as new and enhanced relative to the Roosevelt Drive1.
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Questions
Is the 3rd Power Roosevelt Drive still available?
No. As of August 2022, 3rd Power re-imagined the Roosevelt Drive as the new and enhanced Love Drive pedal. The Love Drive is the current version of the circuit, so players looking for the Roosevelt Drive today would be looking at the Love Drive instead.
What kind of overdrive is the Roosevelt Drive?
It is an analog overdrive pedal based on a classic vintage '80s MOSFET overdrive circuit. 3rd Power describes it as a transparent, amp-like overdrive with a 3-band EQ for shaping or refining the feel and character of the instrument without the drive effect taking over the tone.
Sources (1)
- Roosevelt Drive by 3RD Power, RockBoard PedalPedia, 2026
