Mythos Pedals Envy

The Mythos Pedals Envy, sold as the Envy Pro Overdrive NV-9, is an analog overdrive pedal from Nashville-based stompbox company Mythos Pedals¹. Its circuit is openly inspired by the Ibanez Tube Screamer, the green box Mythos itself calls "the most iconic pedal of all time"². Rather than copy it straight, the Envy reworks the formula with increased output, an expanded drive range and a thickened low end, plus push-button switches for low end and clipping¹.

The Mythos Pedals Envy is an analog overdrive stompbox that takes the Tube Screamer formula and gives it increased output, an expanded drive range, and a thickened low end, making the TS formula more useful for every player¹.

A Tube Screamer with more output and a thicker low end

The Tube Screamer is, by common agreement, one of the most copied circuits in the overdrive world. Tone Island calls it "one of the most copied and modded overdrive pedals in history"⁴, and Guitar World has described it as "easily one of the most popular and heavily copied circuits in the overdrive pedal industry"⁵. The Envy sits squarely in that family: on That Pedal Show, Mick called it "obviously very closely related to the tube screamer"⁶.

What Zach of Mythos did with the Envy, as Mick put it on That Pedal Show, was address "the two things that annoy people about tube screamers": the compression that comes from the clipping diodes, and the lack of bottom end⁶. The pedal answers both with two push buttons, one either side of the Tone knob⁶.

The controls break down like this:

The Lows switch is the headline feature for many players. MusicRadar's Jonathan Horsley described it as "a quick way of dialling in some hefty low-end to fill out your [electric guitar sound]" when engaged, while set neutral the tone circuit behaves more like a typical TS¹. On That Pedal Show, Mick described the up position as "more traditional Tube Screamer territory"⁶.

There is also a detail modders will appreciate: the op amp is socketed, so a DIY-minded player can swap it out and fit a preferred chip¹.

For context on where the Envy stands among TS derivatives, it is worth knowing that not every reviewer hears big differences between them. In a Tube Screamer shootout for Gearnews, Marcus Schmahl wrote: "To me the Tubescreamer tone is fine and most TS pedals sound very comparable to each other."⁷ The Envy's switches are exactly the kind of feature that aims to move a derivative out of that "they all sound alike" pile.

What reviewers said

The most substantial published verdict comes from That Pedal Show, which compared the Envy NV-9 Pro against an Ibanez TS 9, a BK Butler Tube Driver and the Hagerman 12AX7 Overdrive through Two-Rock and PRS amps in November 2024⁶. Mick's conclusion was favorable on both counts:

Specifically, he found that with the clipping diodes out and the bottom end back in, the pedal becomes a more full-range, versatile overdrive with tons of headroom, and that it sounded more like his old 808 than the TS 9⁶.

MusicRadar's launch coverage carried the maker's own framing, which doubles as a fair summary of the pitch¹:

RockBoard's PedalPedia entry also lists a review by Distinctive Guitar for players who want a second opinion on video³.

Power and practical details

The Envy runs on 9V DC with a center negative plug, the standard arrangement for modern pedalboards³. Its current draw is approximately 15 mA per Mythos Pedals' own product page², a light load that leaves plenty of headroom on a typical isolated power supply. The pedal is analog throughout³.

Where it sits in the Mythos lineup

Mythos Pedals builds a range of drives around classic circuits, including the Klon-style Mjolnir family and the dual-circuit Herculean overdrives. The Envy is the company's Tube Screamer-style offering, and its socketed op amp and switchable clipping make it the most mod-friendly of the bunch¹.

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