Stomp Under Foot Motor Honey Superdrive

The Motor Honey Superdrive is a preamp overdrive and distortion pedal from Stomp Under Foot, a maker of handmade pedals in the USA. Stomp Under Foot describes it as a circuit developed over many years of tweaking and modifying, built to sit naturally in a rig whether the amp is running clean or already pushed into breakup.¹

Its defining feature is that it holds two circuits in one box. Each side can be tailored to work together or independently, depending on what a player needs, so the pedal can act as a low-gain grit box on one setting and a fatter distortion on the other. Stomp Under Foot describes its range as "everything from low-gain grit to fat, juicy distortion."¹

Two circuits, one pedal

The two-circuit layout is the pedal's main selling point. Because each side can be set to work alone or stacked with the other, a player can use one side as a boost or light drive into the other, or run either on its own as a single overdrive or distortion. Stomp Under Foot frames this as a way of tailoring the pedal to the player's needs rather than locking it into one voice.¹

For players exploring this territory, the Motor Honey Superdrive sits among preamp pedals and distortion pedals, and Stomp Under Foot's range includes other drive-adjacent designs such as the Skinner Box, Guv'nor and Brit Box¹.

Power and practicalities

The pedal runs on a 9V battery or a 2.1mm 9V adapter only, and it is true-bypass, so it stays out of the signal path when switched off.¹

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