Overdrive

While it is more compact than its predecessors, the Green Rhino Overdrive MkIV from Way Huge possesses more force than ever behind its mighty charge. Besides the original’s Drive, Tone, and Volume controls, this beastie features the MkII’s 100Hz control plus a new 500Hz control so you can boost or cut your mids and lows by 12dB each way. The Green Rhino Overdrive MkIV is as flexible as it is rambunctious. It is capable of taking your clean amp from pristine purity to punchy, dynamic rhythm tone.

Built to fulfill Joe Bonamassa’s sonic requirements, the Way Huge Smalls Overrated Special overdrive pedal provides you with a midrange boost that feels like a gut punch. Way Huge founder Jeorge Tripps modded the Green Rhino OD pedal for a more pronounced midrange and incorporated a Freq knob for fine-tuning the midrange emphasis. The outcome is a punchy tone you can sculpt for virtually any guitar, whether you are punishing the front end of your overdriven tube amp or beefing up your clean tone.

Designed alongside bluesman Joe Bonamassa, the Overrated Special Overdrive by Way Huge serves up a variety of bold, punchy grit. Jeorge Tripps hot-rodded a vintage Green Rhino OD for a more pronounced midrange and incorporated a Freq knob, allowing you to punch up the low mids. Drive, Tone, and Volume controls round out a simple user interface so you can connect and get right to it. Now in a Way Huge Smalls chassis, the Overrated Special Overdrive will easily find a home on your pedalboard.

A faithful reissue of the first-ever Way Huge stompbox, the Red Llama Overdrive MkII takes you from juiced clean tones to tight, bottom-heavy riffage and buttery leads. It is a continuation of where the legendary model left off in 1999. All the features that made the Red Llama OD so great remain where Mr. Huge left them. Season to taste whatever amp, dirty or clean, big or small—the pedal serves as a perfect compliment to them, with a lush harmonic palette accessible on the simple control panel.

Over two decades after the debut of the first-ever Way Huge stompbox, the Red Llama 25th Anniversary Overdrive pedal infuses a luscious boutique amp-esque Tweed overdrive directly into your amp. Leveraging a CMOS circuit, the Red Llama dishes out responsive and transparent tube-like dynamics and tone. The anniversary edition comes in a more compact enclosure with a Hi Cut knob for seasoning any amp to taste. Only 1,000 Red Llama 25th Anniversary Overdrive pedals will be available worldwide.

The aptly named Saucy Box Overdrive from Way Huge lends that coveted “special sauce” to your instrument tone. Transparent and natural, the Saucy Box Overdrive preserves every bit of your guitar and amp’s meticulously dialed-in tone. It responds to your guitar’s volume and tone controls expressively and beautifully. Discrete clean boost and overdrive signal paths even out the optimum ratio of both with one Drive control. Meaning, increasing the pedal’s gain automatically reduces its clean boost and vice versa.

The Soul Driven overdrive pedal from boutique guitar effects pedal maker Xotic isn’t just your average, run of the mill drive stomp. It delivers creamy drive tones that push harmonics to the forefront while keeping your core tonal characteristics intact. Central to its amazing dynamic response is a Mid Boost knob that lets you dial in just the right amount of mid frequencies. A Tone pot powered by a special circuit, meanwhile, lets you go from tight bottom ends to hyper-bright highs.

The V7 Tube Drive from budget guitar effects maker Xvive is an extremely versatile drive pedal that can deliver all the tube-style overdrive you need. This pedal purrs at low gain settings, dishing out a warm, vacuum tube overdrive, but becomes a menacing, growling monster once you kick it into high gear. Crank that Drive pot all the way up and you can get pretty close to full-on clipping fuzz saturation. The Tube Drive is a true pint-sized overdrive powerhouse.