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Expand Achilles Amp Overdrive Kit Achilles Kit Analogman Prince of Tone Amp-like overdrive
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A single-channel adaptation of the legendary King of Tone, with a few added features not found in the original dual-channel pedal.
Expand Amethyst Analog Delay PCB Amethyst BOSS DM-2 Delay Delay
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One of the earliest analog delay effects to use a bucket brigade chip, and still widely considered among the best ever.
Expand Andromeda Natural Overdrive PCB Andromeda Nobels® ODR-1 Overdrive
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A unique overdrive pedal whose complex drive tone earns it a spot on the pedalboards of many Nashville studio musicians.
Expand Andromeda Natural Overdrive - Nobels ODR-1 Clone Andromeda Kit Nobels® ODR-1 Overdrive
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A unique overdrive pedal whose complex drive tone earns it a spot on the pedalboards of many Nashville studio musicians.
Expand Anomaly Vintage Distortion kit Anomaly Kit Crowther Hot Cake Distortion
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An adaptation of a one of the original boutique overdrive/distortion pedals from the 1970s, notable for its method of overdriving an op-amp directly rather than using diodes for clipping.
Expand Anubis Silicon Fuzz - Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe PCB Anubis Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe Fuzz / Distortion
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An adaptation of the classic Tone Bender Mk. II circuit using silicon transistors and a Big Muff-style tone control.
Expand Apollo Preamp Drive Mk. I - Catalinbread WIIO Apollo Mk. I Catalinbread® WIIO Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the Hiwatt amplifier used by Pete Townshend of The Who during their “Live at Leeds” performance from 1970.
Expand Apollo Preamp Drive Mk. I - Catalinbread RAH Apollo Mk. II Catalinbread® RAH Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the custom Hiwatt amplifier used by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin during their “Royal Albert Hall” performance from 1970.
Expand Arcturus Natural Overdrive PCB Arcturus Nobels ODR-S Overdrive Special Overdrive
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A variation of the more famous ODR-1 with a full three-band tonestack and germanium diode clipping.
Expand Argent Silicon Fuzz PCB Argent BOSS® FZ-3 Fuzz Silicon fuzz
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An all-transistor silicon fuzz with similarities to the Tone Bender, Fuzz Face and Big Muff.
Expand Artemis Preamp Drive Mk. II PCB Artemis Mk. II Catalinbread® SFT V2 Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An updated adaptation of the Ampeg® SVT, a legendary high-powered bass amplifier that first appeared in 1969. It uses cascaded mu-amp stages in place of tubes for amp-like tone in a small box.
Expand Asteria Preamp Drive Mk. I PCB Asteria Mk. I Catalinbread® Formula No. 5 (V1) Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the Fender® Deluxe 5E3 amplifier from 1955, a classic low-wattage amplifier noted for its harmonically-rich breakup that can be achieved at low volumes.
Expand Asteria Preamp Drive Mk. II PCB Asteria Mk. II Catalinbread® Formula No. 5 (V2) Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the Fender® Deluxe 5E3 amplifier from 1955, a classic low-wattage amplifier noted for its harmonically-rich breakup that can be achieved at low volumes.
Expand Asteria Preamp Drive Mk. III PCB Asteria Mk. III Catalinbread® Formula 55 Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the Fender® Deluxe 5E3 amplifier from 1955, a classic low-wattage amplifier noted for its harmonically-rich breakup that can be achieved at low volumes.
Expand Atom Fuzz Drive PCB Atom ETI Fuzztone Fuzz, overdrive
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A simple yet effective drive circuit originally designed by Dan Coggins of Lovetone and Dinosaural as a DIY project for Electronics Today Magazine.
Expand Aurora Compressor/Sustainer PCB Aurora Ross / Dyna Compressor Compressor / Sustainer
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The original guitar compressor, still a favorite of guitarists after over 40 years. The Aurora makes several improvements to the original circuit as well as adding a few new features.
Expand Aurora Deluxe Compressor PCB Aurora Deluxe Keeley Compressor Plus Compressor
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An expanded version of the classic Keeley Compressor with an added clean blend, treble control, and output buffer.
Expand Aurum Amp Overdrive PCB Aurum BOSS® OD-2 Overdrive Amp-like overdrive
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The first in a series of legendary pedals using BOSS’s “discrete op-amp” topology that overdrives more like an amplifier than traditional diode-clipping circuits.
Expand Azure Analog Chorus PCB Azure BOSS® CE-2 Chorus Analog chorus
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One of the most revered chorus pedals of all time, it uses analog BBDs to modulate the signal, resulting in the warm, rounded tone characteristic of this era.
Expand Azure Analog Chorus Kit Azure Kit BOSS® CE-2 Chorus Analog chorus
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One of the most revered chorus pedals of all time, it uses analog BBDs to modulate the signal, resulting in the warm, rounded tone characteristic of this era.
Expand Binary Dual Fuzz PCB Binary Darkglass® Duality Bass fuzz
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A bass fuzz with two distinct voicings that can be blended together in any ratio, from vintage warmth to searing, gated chaos.
Expand blueshift_dc2_pcb Blueshift BOSS® DC-2 Chorus
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Expand Cadmus Dual Boost PCB Cadmus ZVEX Super Duper Dual-stage boost
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A two-channel boost composed of identical MOSFET gain stages. The boosts can be cascaded in series or selected independently.
Expand Calliope Vintage Fuzz - Catalinbread Karma Suture Calliope Catalinbread® Karma Suture (Ge/Si) Fuzz / Overdrive
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An adaptation of the Interfax Harmonic Percolator, with additional controls for diode clipping and pre-gain bass. Silicon and germanium versions are both supported.
Expand Calypso CMOS Drive PCB Calypso Catalinbread® SCOD Overdrive
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An overdrive using cascaded CMOS inverters in an amp-like topology, with a result that lands somewhere between Marshall and Orange in tone.
Expand Cascade Amp Overdrive PCB Cascade Washburn® Stack in a Box Amp-like overdrive
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The first drive pedal that used JFETs to simulate the topology of cascaded tube gain stages for natural amp-like breakup.
Expand Celeritas Organic Overdrive PCB Celeritas Greer Lightspeed Overdrive
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A high-end transparent overdrive with low parts count inspired by the Timmy and Zendrive.
Expand Ceres Preamp Drive PCB Ceres Catalinbread® Sabbra Cadabra Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the signature tone of Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath, achieved by combining a Rangemaster-style treble booster with a Laney Supergroup amp.
Expand Cerulean Amp Overdrive V2 PCB Cerulean Marshall® Bluesbreaker Overdrive
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A classic overdrive effect that was designed to mimic the Marshall Bluesbreaker amplifier from the 1960s, the Bluesbreaker is also the source circuit for a number of high-dollar "boutique" guitar pedals.
Expand Cerulean Amp Overdrive V2 Kit Cerulean Kit Marshall® Bluesbreaker Overdrive
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A classic overdrive effect that was designed to mimic the Marshall Bluesbreaker amplifier from the 1960s, the Bluesbreaker is also the source circuit for a number of high-dollar "boutique" guitar pedals.
Expand Charon Overdrive - Ibanez CR5 Crunchy Rhythm Charon Ibanez® CR-5 Overdrive
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An under-appreciated Ibanez drive pedal originally marketed toward rhythm guitarists, but versatile enough for a wide range of applications.
Expand Chroma Parametric Boost PCB Chroma BOSS® SP-1 Spectrum Boost / Parametric EQ
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One of the rarest BOSS effects, a single-band swept-frequency EQ. Modified to boost the overall signal level so it can be used as a boost pedal if desired.
Expand Cirrus Dynamic Overdrive PCB Cirrus Ibanez® ST-9 Overdrive
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An updated version of the Tube Screamer featuring a frequency-adjustable midrange boost that can be placed either before or after the drive stage.
Expand Comet Vintage Distortion PCB Comet BOSS® DS-1 Distortion Distortion
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A classic distortion pedal that has been in continuous production for over 40 years, blending ideas from the Big Muff, RAT and Distortion+.
Expand Corvus Distortion/Sustainer PCB Corvus EHX Op-Amp Big Muff Distortion/Sustainer, Fuzz
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The 1978 redesign of the classic Big Muff Pi, using op-amps instead of transistors. Famously used by Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream.
Expand Corvus Distortion/Sustainer Kit Corvus Kit EHX Op-Amp Big Muff Distortion/Sustainer, Fuzz
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The 1978 redesign of the classic Big Muff Pi, using op-amps instead of transistors. Famously used by Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream.
Expand Crescent Amp Distortion PCB Crescent MI Audio Crunch Box Amp-Like Distortion
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A Marshall-like distortion pedal noted for its high-gain “stack of amps” tone.
Expand Cumulus Vintage Overdrive PCB Cumulus Ibanez® OD-855 Overdrive
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An early overdrive circuit inspired by the Distortion+, but with the first appearance of the tone control that would later be used for the Tube Screamer.
Expand Dynamo Reactive Distortion PCB Dynamo Bixonic Expandora Envelope-controlled distortion
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Loosely based on the RAT, but with an optocoupler that dynamically sets the gain based on the input signal level, making for a highly unique and often untamed drive effect.
Expand Eclipse Boost / Preamp PCB Eclipse Korg SDD-3000 Preamp Boost, preamp
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An adaptation of the bypass preamp section of the Korg SDD-3000 digital delay, notably used by The Edge, Daniel Lanois and others.
Expand Elite Boost/Preamp PCB Elite Fender Elite/Clapton Preamp Boost
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A pedal conversion of the MDX mid-boost/preamp circuit originally developed for the Fender Elite Stratocaster in 1983, later redesigned for the Eric Clapton signature Strat.
Expand Elysium Ambient Delay Kit Elysium Kit Ibanez® EM5 Echomachine Delay
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An analog-voiced digital delay that emulates vintage tape echo units, with heavy filtering and a soft-clipping overdrive on the repeats.
Expand ember-metal-distortion-pcb Ember Amptweaker Tight Metal Metal distortion
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A high-gain metal & hard rock distortion pedal by James Brown, formerly of Peavey where he designed Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 and Joe Satriani’s JSX amps.
Expand Emerald Resonant Phaser PCB Emerald BOSS® PH-1r Phaser Phaser
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A four-stage JFET-based phaser similar to the Phase 90, but with with a frequency-dependent feedback control that accentuates the phase effect.
Expand Emerald Resonant Phaser Kit Emerald Kit BOSS® PH-1r Phaser Phaser
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A four-stage JFET-based phaser similar to the Phase 90, but with with a frequency-dependent feedback control that accentuates the phase effect.
Expand Ephemeris JFET Booster PCB Ephemeris Xotic EP Booster JFET boost/preamp
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A hybrid JFET/BJT boost circuit loosely based on the preamp section of the Echoplex EP-3 tape delay.
Expand equinox-marshall-guvnor-pcb Equinox Marshall® Guv'nor Overdrive
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A low-to-mid-gain overdrive featuring a unique dual-stage drive control and amp-like 3-band tone stack.
Expand Equinox Amp Overdrive Kit Equinox Kit Marshall® Guv'nor Overdrive
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A low-to-mid-gain overdrive featuring a unique dual-stage drive control and amp-like 3-band tone stack.
Expand Fractal Parametric Overdrive PCB Fractal Pearl® OD-05 Overdrive Parametric overdrive
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A versatile overdrive with a single-band parametric EQ, allowing adjustable boost or cut from 100 Hz to 4kHz.
Expand Fusion Dynamic Distortion PCB Fusion Suhr® Riot™ Distortion
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A versatile distortion/overdrive noted for its Marshall-like “stack of amps” tone.
Expand Gaia Preamp Drive Mk. I Gaia Mk. I Catalinbread® CB30 Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the Vox® AC30, a legendary British amplifier responsible for the signature guitar tones of the 60s and 70s. It uses cascaded mu-amp stages in place of tubes for amp-like tone in a small box.
Expand Gaia Preamp Drive Mk. II PCB Gaia Mk. II Catalinbread® Galileo Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the signature tone of Brian May from Queen, achieved by combining a Rangemaster-style treble booster with a Vox® AC30 amp.
Expand Gale Booster/Limiter PCB Gale SoloDallas® SVDS Booster, Optical Limiter
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A pedal adaptation of the Schaffer-Vega Diversity System (SVDS), the first widely-used wireless system for guitar, famously used by AC/DC, Van Halen, Kiss, and Pink Floyd.
Expand Gladiator Dual Overdrive Kit Gladiator Kit King Tone Duellist Dual-channel overdrive
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A popular dual-channel overdrive first released in 2015 that combines a stripped-down Tube Screamer with a hot-rodded Bluesbreaker.
Expand graviton-metal-distortion-pcb Graviton BOSS® HM-2 Metal Distortion
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A unique distortion effect favored by extreme metal guitarists for its characteristic “buzzsaw” sound. It also works very well as a versatile high-gain effect in other styles of music.
Expand Graviton Metal Distortion Kit Graviton Kit BOSS® HM-2 Metal Distortion
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A unique distortion effect favored by extreme metal guitarists for its characteristic “buzzsaw” sound. It also works very well as a versatile high-gain effect in other styles of music.
Expand Halo Deluxe Distortion/Sustainer PCB Halo Deluxe Cornish P-1 Distortion/fuzz
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An adaptation of David Gilmour’s favorite Ram’s Head Big Muff with added transistor buffers for lower noise and cleaner switching.
Expand Heliodor Amp Overdrive PCB Heliodor BOSS® OD-3 Overdrive Amp-like overdrive
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The final entry in a series of legendary pedals using BOSS’s “discrete op-amp” topology that overdrives more like an amplifier than traditional drive circuits.
Expand Helios Classic Distortion PCB Helios Pro Co® RAT Distortion Distortion
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A distortion pedal with a very distinctive and tight mid-to-high-gain character that made it a staple in the rigs of 1980s hard rock bands.
Expand Helios Vintage Distortion - Pro Co RAT Clone Helios Kit Pro Co® RAT Distortion Distortion
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A distortion pedal with a very distinctive and tight mid-to-high-gain character that made it a staple in the rigs of 1980s hard rock bands.
Expand Hexeract CMOS Drive PCB Hexeract EHX Hot Tubes Overdrive
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The first commercial pedal to use cascaded CMOS inverters for overdrive, a technique that lends an asymmetric warmth very different from traditional clipping diodes.
Expand Hypercube Fuzz / Distortion PCB Hypercube BOSS® FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz Fuzz, Distortion
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A vintage-flavored octave fuzz with some modern improvements, this pedal has enjoyed increased popularity in recent years due to the association with bands such as Electric Wizard and Deftones.
Expand Isotope Amp Overdrive PCB Isotope IVP Tube Voice Tube-Like Overdrive
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The overdrive channel of the Intersound IVP Preamp, adapted for pedal use.
Expand L4 Bass Preamp L4 Bass Preamp Lab Series® L4 Preamp
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A pedal adaptation of the two-channel preamp of the Lab Series® L4 bass amplifier from the late 1970s, a downtuned relative of the legendary L5.
Expand L5 Preamp PCB L5 Preamp Lab Series® L5 Preamp
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A pedal adaptation of the two-channel preamp of the Lab Series® L5 amplifier from the late 1970s, often considered to be the best solid-state amp ever designed.
Expand L5 Preamp Clean Channel PCB L5 Preamp Clean Channel Lab Series® L5 Preamp Preamp
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A pedal adaptation of the first channel of the Lab Series® L5 amplifier from the late 1970s, often considered to be the best solid-state amp ever designed.
Expand L5 Preamp Drive Channel PCB L5 Preamp Drive Channel Lab Series® L5 Preamp Preamp
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A pedal adaptation of the second channel of the Lab Series® L5 amplifier from the late 1970s, often considered to be the best solid-state amp ever designed.
Expand Lumin Sonic Enhancer - BBE Sonic Stomp DIY Project Lumin BBE® Sonic Maximizer EQ / Sonic Enhancer
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A unique tone-shaping tool that allows you to enhance the clarity of your signal by phase-correcting the low, mid and high frequencies separately.
Expand Lumin Sonic Enhancer Kit Lumin Kit BBE® Sonic Maximizer EQ / Sonic Enhancer
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A unique tone-shaping tool that allows you to enhance the clarity of your signal by phase-correcting the low, mid and high frequencies separately.
Expand Maelstrom Bass Drive PCB Maelstrom Darkglass® Microtubes B3K Bass overdrive
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A CMOS-flavored bass overdrive with tones spanning across decades, from vintage warmth to modern bite and aggression.
Expand Maelstrom Bass Drive kit Maelstrom Kit Darkglass® Microtubes B3K Bass overdrive
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A CMOS-flavored bass overdrive with tones spanning across decades, from vintage warmth to modern bite and aggression.
Expand Malacandra Overdrive PCB Malacandra Xotic® AC/RC Booster Boost / Overdrive
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A flexible drive pedal that can go from clean volume boost to smooth overdrive. Includes a 2-band tone stack for treble & bass.
Expand meridian-compressor-exciter-pcb Meridian Guyatone® PS-021 Compressor / Frequency Enhancer
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A gem from the 1980s, this effect combines a Dyna-style compressor with an exciter that enables control over the even & odd harmonics.
Expand Meteor Vintage Distortion PCB Meteor Ibanez® SD-9 Sonic Distortion Distortion
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A hard-edged distortion pedal from the early 1980s, notably used by Scott Henderson and John Shanks.
Expand Naos Classic Overdrive - Yamaha OD-10MII Overdrive PCB Naos Yamaha OD-10MII Overdrive Overdrive
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A simple yet effective drive circuit that combines a Tube Screamer-style clipping section with a Big Muff-style tone control, it’s more transparent than a Tube Screamer with less of a midrange emphasis.
Expand Nebula Vintage Distortion Nebula Maxon® DS-830 Distortion
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A vintage-inspired distortion that uses both hard and soft clipping along with an active boost or cut for both bass and treble frequencies.
Expand Nimbus Dynamic Overdrive PCB Nimbus Maxon® OD-820 Overdrive
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A modern reimagining of the classic Tube Screamer circuit, featuring a dual drive/blend control adapted from the Klon Centaur.
Expand Nysiad Germanium Fuzz PCB Nysiad Germanium Cornish NG-2 Misbiased fuzz
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A variable-bias silicon & germanium fuzz designed to emulate “imminent amp death”, the sound of a blown power tube or output transformer right before it all goes up in smoke.
Expand Obsidian Metal Drive PCB Obsidian BOSS® MZ-2 Metalizer Overdrive / distortion
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The analog section of an obscure all-in-one digital metal pedal, featuring a JFET circuit very similar to the BD-2 Blues Driver and OD-2 Overdrive.
Expand Onyx Volume Swell PCB Onyx BOSS® SG-1 Slow Gear Volume swell
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One of the rarest BOSS effects, it acts as a sort of slow noise gate by gradually fading in the signal when it detects pick attack.
Expand Parhelion Vintage Overdrive PCB Parhelion Boss® OD-1 OverDrive Overdrive
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A precursor to the Tube Screamer, known for being the first overdrive effect to utilize diodes in a negative-feedback arrangement for clipping purposes.
Expand Perelandra Boost/Overdrive V2 PCB Perelandra Xotic® BB Preamp Overdrive
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A flexible drive pedal that can go from clean volume boost to smooth overdrive. Includes a 2-band tone stack for treble & bass.
Expand Perelandra Deluxe Boost / Overdrive PCB Perelandra Deluxe Xotic® BB Preamp Boost, overdrive
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A flexible drive pedal that can go from clean volume boost to smooth overdrive. Includes a 2-band tone stack for treble & bass as well as a clipping diode switch and midrange tone control.
Expand Photon Booster/Line Driver PCB Photon SD Pickup Booster Booster & Pickup Enhancer
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A Class-A amplifier capable of up to 25dB of clean gain, this pedal also has a unique Resonance feature that enables a single-coil pickup to sound like a vintage or modern humbucker.
Expand Plexus Amp Overdrive PCB Plexus Brown Sound in a Box II Amp-like overdrive
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A classic DIY design that uses mu-amp stages to get a sound reminiscent of Van Halen’s classic “brown sound” based around his 1968 Marshall Super Lead amp.
Expand Polyphemus Optical Compressor PCB Polyphemus Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone Compressor / overdrive
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An inventive optical compressor noted for its long sustain and blendable overdrive, designed by Howard Davis, best known as the designer of the EHX Memory Man and Electric Mistress.
Expand Poseidon Silicon Fuzz - Catalinbread Katzenkonig Poseidon Catalinbread® Katzenkönig Fuzz / Distortion
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A hybrid circuit that combines a silicon Tone Bender with the diode clipping and tone control from the RAT Distortion.
Expand Prism FET Amplifier - Boss FA-1 Prism BOSS® FA-1 FET Amplifier Boost / Preamplifier
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An extremely loud and tonally-flexible boost/preamp with a two-band EQ, most notably used by The Edge of U2.
Expand Prism FET Amplifier Kit Prism Kit BOSS® FA-1 FET Amplifier Boost / Preamplifier
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An extremely loud and tonally-flexible boost/preamp with a two-band EQ, most notably used by The Edge of U2.
Expand Protolith CMOS Distortion PCB Protolith Stone Grey Distortion Distortion
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Originally derived from a Japanese electronics textbook from the 1980s, it uses cascaded CMOS stages alongside traditional diode clipping for its unique drive tone.
Expand quantum-ibanez-mostortion-pcb Quantum Ibanez® Mostortion Overdrive / Distortion
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A reproduction of a rare and very expensive low-to-mid-gain overdrive with 3-band EQ that is popular in the Nashville scene.
Expand Quantum Mosfet Distortion Kit Quantum Kit Ibanez® Mostortion Overdrive / Distortion
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A reproduction of a rare and very expensive low-to-mid-gain overdrive with 3-band EQ that is popular in the Nashville scene.
Expand Quark Vintage Overdrive PCB Quark Maxon® OD-880 Overdrive
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An early overdrive circuit inspired by the MXR Distortion+, but incorporating a few changes that would later evolve into the Tube Screamer a few years later.
Expand Sapphire Amp Overdrive PCB Sapphire BOSS® BD-2 Blues Driver Overdrive
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One of the most popular pedals in the BOSS lineup, it uses their distinctive “discrete op-amp” topology to deliver an amp-like drive resembling vintage Fender tweed or blackface amps.
Expand sentinel-metal-distortion-pcb Sentinel Ibanez® SM-9 Super Metal Metal Distortion
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One of the earliest distortion pedals designed specifically for metal tones, this effect features cascaded gain stages for a very amp-like topology.
Expand Silvanus Amp Drive PCB Silvanus Xotic SL Drive Amp-like overdrive
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An overdrive inspired by the Marshall Super Lead Model 1959 and Super Bass amplifiers, famously used by Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.
Expand Skywave Germanium Drive PCB Skywave Hudson Broadcast Germanium fuzz/overdrive
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A hybrid silicon/germanium boost & drive pedal with a transformer-coupled output, with tones spanning the decades from vintage to modern.
Expand solstice-marshall-shredmaster-pcb Solstice Marshall® Shredmaster Overdrive / Amp-Like Distortion
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A great mid-gain amp-like distortion with a 3-band EQ. Most notably used by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.
Expand Solstice Amp Distortion Kit Solstice Kit Marshall® Shredmaster Overdrive / Amp-Like Distortion
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A great mid-gain amp-like distortion with a 3-band EQ. Most notably used by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.
Expand Stratosphere Classic Overdrive PCB Stratosphere TS-808 Narrow Box Overdrive
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A replica of the very first Tube Screamer from 1979 which used two dual op-amps instead of one.
Expand Stratus - Tube Screamer Overdrive PCB Stratus Ibanez® Tube Screamer Overdrive
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The quintessential mid-hump overdrive pedal made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the source circuit behind dozens of high-dollar boutique pedals.
Expand Stratus Classic Overdrive – Kit Stratus Kit Ibanez® Tube Screamer Overdrive
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The quintessential mid-hump overdrive pedal made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the source circuit behind dozens of high-dollar boutique pedals.
Expand tachyon-amp-overdrive-pcb Tachyon BOSS® SD-2 Overdrive / Distortion
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This heavy overdrive is a hidden gem in the pantheon of BOSS pedals, offering creamy lead tones and biting rhythm in an easy-to-use package that is surprisingly complex under the hood.
Expand Tesseract Preamp/Boost PCB Tesseract TC Electronic® Integrated Pre Boost / Preamp
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A pedal adaptation of the legendary booster and tone shaper famously used by Meshuggah.
Expand Theseus Dual Overdrive Kit Theseus Kit Analogman King of Tone Dual-channel overdrive
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One of the earliest boutique “waitlist” pedals, this dual-channel drive is made up of two modified Marshall Bluesbreaker circuits in series.
Expand Thulcandra Boost/Overdrive Thulcandra Xotic® Soul Driven Boost / Overdrive
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A mid-gain overdrive with three different tone controls to fine-tune the character. Developed in collaboration with Allen Hinds.
Expand Titan Dynamic Drive PCB Titan Fulltone® OCD® Overdrive / distortion
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A legendary hard-clipping overdrive pedal that makes almost any rig sound better.
Expand Titan Dynamic Drive Kit Titan Kit Fulltone® OCD® Overdrive / distortion
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$86.00

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A legendary hard-clipping overdrive pedal that makes almost any rig sound better.
Expand Triton Preamp Drive Mk. II PCB Triton Mk. II Dirty Little Secret Mk. II Overdrive / Amp Emulation
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An adaptation of the classic Marshall® amplifiers from the 1960s. It uses cascaded mu-amp stages in place of tubes for amp-like tone in a small box.
Expand Triton Preamp Drive Mk. III PCB Triton Mk. III Dirty Little Secret Mk. III Overdrive / Amp Emulation
Intermediate

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An adaptation of the classic Marshall® amplifiers from the 1960s. It uses cascaded mu-amp stages in place of tubes for amp-like tone in a small box.
Expand TS-50 Guitar Preamp PCB TS-50 Guitar Preamp Traynor TS-50 Preamp & overdrive
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$16.00

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A pedal recreation of the preamp section of the Traynor TS-50 guitar amp, a solid-state combo first released in 1979 with a unique frequency-dependent drive circuit.
Expand Runoffgroove UBE Screamer UBE Screamer Runoffgroove UBE Screamer CMOS overdrive
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An original design from Runoffgroove with the goal of reproducing the sound of the Tube Screamer with CMOS gain stages.
Expand Vector Ambient Delay - Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay clone Vector Kit Deep Blue Delay Delay
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$86.00

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With similar frequency bandwidth to a tape unit, this analog-voiced digital delay is a favorite even among analog purists.
Expand Velorum Dynamic Overdrive PCB Velorum Ibanez/Vemuram TSV808 Overdrive
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A limited-edition collaboration between Ibanez and Vemuram that combines elements of the Tube Screamer and Jan Ray to create a highly tweakable transparent overdrive.
Expand Warpfield Resonant Drive PCB Warpfield Pearl Warp Sound Resonant filter overdrive
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A rare effect from the 1970s combining a distortion circuit with an adjustable-frequency resonant low-pass filter. Most notably used by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.
Expand Xanthus Buffer/Boost PCB Xanthus Xotic Super Clean / Super Sweet Buffer & boost
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A dual-purpose pedalboard tool that combines a Pete Cornish buffer with a highly tweakable boost.
Expand Zircon Silicon Fuzz - Hot Silicon Tone Bender PCB Zircon Hot Silicon Fuzz Fuzz / Distortion
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An adaptation of the classic Tone Bender Mk. II circuit using silicon transistors and a Big Muff-style tone control.

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