Light Overdrive Pedal

Blending with the tone of the guitar and amplifier this pedal has rich harmonics and complex but smooth clipping.

Light overdrive pedal.

Along with fuzz and delay overdrive is the essential guitar effect. In some pedals the level knob doesn t have a lot of boost. Therefore it is all down to your ear training and playing skills. Well this one will blow your amp in lead mode.

Tube screamer like but with more range. That said a tubescreamer circuit is really good as a light overdrive in a solid state amp. And it gets really loud. Again i really think all of those pedals are excellent transparent overdrives.

Well simply put it s the clearest most natural feeling and best overdrive we ve heard for the player looking for a natural drive tone. The best overdrive pedals are traditionally there to add flavour or colour to an existing sound usually achieved from a driven tube guitar amp. It s not enough distortion for me for my main solo tone but it would be great for a blues solo tone. Built using the legendary green overdrive chip the 805 overdrive.

The overdrive pedals we have reviewed above have all the qualities a guitarist need when it comes down to tone enhancement. Think of it like the sauce on a plate of food. The best transparent overdrive pedals share a lot of the same characteristics. Seymour duncan 805 overdrive pedal guitar overdrive pedal with bass mid treble level and drive controls add a hot rodded and enhanced overdrive to your pedalboard with the seymour duncan 805 overdrive.

It runs a single 12au7 tube giving natural preamp style light distortion. I want to amend my reply to say that i ve purchased the stunt monkey tone grenade and it s become my favorite transparent drive. The lightspeed organic overdrive is a very natural sounding overdrive. While overdrive pedals tend to have a smaller range of gain than say distortion or fuzz pedals their ability to interact with a tube amp and tap into tube saturation means that in practice an overdrive with a decent volume boost available will have as much gain as you ll ever need depending of course on your choice.

Joyo vintage tube overdrive is often compared to sound just as good and sometimes with a little more head room than a ts 808. The basic components are already there but by adding one other subtle element the overall effect can be so much more pleasing. This is a great pedal for light to medium overdrive sounds. It sounds good with my late 90 s mim strat pickups.

Remember that if not properly set up your overdrive pedal might end up producing a hissing or contrary sound.