Overdrive

Loved by players worldwide, the Nobels ODR-1 gives you a natural, tube amp-esque overdrive that is affordable and flexible. It creates anything from slight grit to howling crunch with a singing sustain and solid midrange. The Spectrum knob allows you to adjust the deep-mid and treble frequencies, creating a palette of tonal colors. The ODR-1 includes a low (2k) output impedance and high impedance (1m) input so your signal stays clean. It has graced the pedalboards of prominent players and professional studio musicians worldwide.

The engineers at Nobels have taken the sound of their iconic ODR-1 Overdrive and loaded it into a more compact package. The ODR-Mini Green Overdrive serves up the exceptional tone you seek from the ODR-1. It also boasts several new features sure to make it a classic in its own right. The ODR-Mini includes glow in the dark position markers and true bypass switching. It carries the same Level, Spectrum, and Drive knobs as its big brother and gives you that familiar natural overdrive sound loved by many.

The Morning Star Overdrive lights up all the fundamental components of an exceptional blues breaker pedal, but NUX has incorporated something special to enhance the high-frequencies. Engage its footswitch to provide extra overhead with saturated grit to your clean tones. If you wish to drive your high-frequencies to a different stratosphere, press/hold the footswitch to on the Shine circuit that imparts another level of tone brightness. With the Morning Star Overdrive, you can go from blues breaker to blues sky rocket.

The Getaway Driver from Orange is a 70s amp-in-a-box style pedal featuring a simple three-knob layout comprised of Gain, Volume, and Bite (tone). While the pedal is capable of imparting its vintage vibe on any amp, it shines when utilized with your amp’s clean channel, even ones that include a bright cap. The Getaway Driver also makes a nice clean boost, with high Volume and low Gain driving amplifiers over the edge into classic overdrive.

Get vintage TS9-esque tones or modern super high-gain aggressive tones with the Bones Texas overdrive pedal from Radial Engineering. The magic inside is a discreet high-gain drive circuit that allows you to impart bluesy textures or when pushed hard, creates harmonically lush tones that are beefier compared to a Texas Longhorn and more fun than a rattlesnake necktie. The Bones Texas pedal leverages a distinct high-performance buffering circuit and is designed for clean, rhythm lead playability.

The FACEPUNCH from Randall is an overdrive pedal that features true bypass and comes with Smooth, Frequency, and Punch functions. It is a discreet transistor designed frequency-selective boost pedal with a triode overload kind of response. It is well matched to drive the front end of your tube amp to take it into intense gainland through the Punch control’s signal level and the Freq knob to beef up or tighten your tone plus a Smooth control for setting the very top end edginess.

The LEF-321 Bluesy may be the bigger version of budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer Rowin’s bite-sized Blues pedal, but it’s still a lot smaller than your average stompbox. Packed into its tiny full metal shell is a Marshall Bluesbreaker-style overdrive with true vintage tube amp edge of break up sound. You get two toggle switchable modes to work with—Normal and Fat—plus the regular complement of Volume, Tone, and Gain knobs for precise tone shaping and control.

Can’t bring an amp to a gig? With the LEF-331 Matchbox direct input (DI) box from budget guitar effects pedal maker Rowin, you won’t have to. This amazing transparent DI box lets you plug directly into a mixer or a venue’s sound system. It also comes with a built-in cab sim to give your signal that distinct amp sound, plus a gain switch that lets you cut or boost your signal by up to 20dB either way.

Rowin’s LEF-301C DIST-III pedal continues the high gain legacy set by the budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer’s earlier DIST-I and DIST-II distortion stomps. The LEF-301C DIST-III’s tone hews closer to the classic dirt served up by a Pro Co Rat, especially when you engage the switchable Vintage mode via the DIST-III’s two-position selector toggle. The other mode, Turbo, is like a Rat on steroids. It features vintage Rat sound but with an extra helping of gain, sustain, and harmonic body.

Budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer Rowin already have a tiny, pocket-sized Dumble amp-style overdrive pedal in the LEF-315 Dumbler, but it looks like they thought it wasn’t small enough yet. Enter the LN-315 Gumble, a BITE-sized overdrive that serves up the high-end, high-gain sound of a rare boutique Dumble amp. The Gumble features the typical Volume, Gain, and Tone control knob layout and comes with a two-way selector switch that lets you toggle between Normal and Bright modes.

The LN-301B Hunk is a classic British-style distortion pedal that serves up high gain dirt with a full bodied middle frequency. The Hunk features two distinct yet classically British crunch styles that you can choose using a two-position selector switch: a Marshall plexi-style Normal mode and a unique mid-shaped mode called Boost. It has the usual complement of Volume, Gain, and Tone control knobs, with that last one specially designed to put you in charge of the Hunk’s middle frequencies.

The LEF-302B ODRIVE II from budget guitar effects maker Rowin is all tube amp drive, all the way. It puts you in full control of the classic natural sound of a tube amp on the edge of breaking up. That’s not all; the LEF-302B ODRIVE II also features a two-way toggle that lets you switch between Warm and Hot modes. Warm mode gives you a great mid-gain overdrive tone perfect for playing rhythm. Switch over to Hot mode and you get a blistering lead tone.

The LEF-328 Tube Pusher is, as you may have guessed from the name, is another Tube Screamer-style overdrive pedal from budget guitar effects pedal maker Rowin. It continues Rowin’s tradition of stuffing massive sound into tiny packages, serving up a warm tube-like overdrive that sports a very wide dynamic range. The LEF-328 Tube Pusher comes with a two-position toggle that lets you between the low peak and extremely transparent Normal mode and a louder, high peak Boost mode.

The Sabbadius 80 Overdrive Tone is a pure analog overdrive pedal that gives you an incredibly warm sound and lengthy sustaining singing notes. It can go from a booster to an extreme overdrive with exceptional tone control. The 80 Overdrive Tone creates plenty of force and does not remove the brilliance or color of the sound of your guitar. It also features a true bypass mechanical footswitch. Each unit has been meticulously handcrafted and tested for the most excellent tonal production by Argentina’s Nicolas Sabbadin.