I like overdrives. Overdrives are my favorite guitar effect, it’s soft clipping which creates a smoother tone than hard clipping distortion and fuzzes and a lot of ODs enjoy being stacked. And there’s so many flavors of them.
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In the answer above I posted about the different OD types.
In particular though, I’m beginning to like a few different styles of OD – notably the Dumble style OD, the Transparent style OD and the Clean/Tone booster. I’ll give examples of each:
Dumble Style ODs
There are many of them out there mostly modeled on the Dumble Overdrive Special type sound.
Hermida/Lovepedals Zendrive
The original D-style OD pedal that kind of created the blueprint for others to follow.
J Rockett The Dude
A nice top-mounted D-style pedal
Way Huge Overrated Special
Wampler Euphoria
A very versatile option
Vertex Ultraphonix
Another top mounted option
Mad Professor Simble
Now discontinued, but have heard lots of great things about it
Amplified Nation Big Bloom
Kingsley Page DS
Expensive, but a tube powered D-style pedal
Tubesteader Beekeeper
Another tube powered D style pedal
Ethos Overdrive
Definitely one of the most complicated in depth D-style pedals..
G-town Holy Grail Overdrive
certainly looks the part of a homemade dumble pedal
Shin Dumbloid
Same thing for the dumbloid…
MXR Shinjuku Drive
MXR made a mass produced version of the Dumbloid..
Transparent (non coloration) overdrives
Note that I’m not going to include Klon type ODs here because Klons are not actually transparent and do color the tone..
Greer Lightspeed
Nobels ODR-1
Wampler Belle
Maxon OOD9
MXR Timmy
JHS Morning Glory
Seymour Duncan Forza
Earthquaker Westwood
Xotic Soul Driven
Clean/Tone boosters
Note that many of these include ‘Dumble’ style clean overdrives as well
Vertex Steel String
J Rockett Archer Clean
J Rockett Lenny
Greer Special Request
Xotic EP Booster
Mythos Luxury Drive
Catalinbread Epoch Boost
Dunlop EP101
Chase Tone Secret Preamp
ClinchFX EP-Pre
Benson Germanium Boost
Kingsley Squire
Ethos Clean II
Cornerstone Gladio SC
Tubesteader Lightkeeper
Keeley Katana
JHS Prestige
Effectrode Fire Bottle
Xotic Super Sweet Booster
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