The Southern Stalker is a booster overdrive pedal from Colombo Audio Electronics, an analog circuit built to push an amp into the kind of drive associated with Southern guitar playing of the mid twentieth century. RockBoard's PedalPedia describes its intent plainly: "Southern Stalker borrows its voice from the myths of the past, offering the possibility to recreate the typical Southern tones of the second half of the last century."1
As a combined boost and overdrive, it sits between a clean boost pedal and a fuller overdrive pedal: the boost side lifts the signal into the front of an amp, while the overdrive side adds its own grit. Players comparing it with other drive types can see how it differs from a distortion pedal or a fuzz pedal, which reshape the signal far more aggressively.
Power and practicalities
The pedal runs on 9V DC, center negative, and draws 13mA, which is a light load that any standard pedalboard supply can handle.1
Where it sits in Colombo's range
Colombo Audio Electronics builds a small line of analog drives, and the Southern Stalker is the booster/overdrive member of it, borrowing its voice from the myths of the past and offering the possibility to recreate the typical Southern tones of the second half of the last century. The maker's other overdrives each take a different inspiration1:
The Southern Stalker is a booster overdrive from Colombo Audio Electronics, a pedal that combines a boost stage with overdrive in a single analog circuit1. Within the maker's range it sits alongside their other drive pedals, and its character is that of a booster overdrive rather than a straight boost or a straight overdrive1.
Players weighing a Tube Screamer-style drive against something else may find the Boss SD-1 vs Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer comparison useful background when placing the Southern Stalker among its rivals.
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Sources (1)
- Southern Stalker by Colombo Audio Electronics, RockBoard PedalPedia, 2026