Light Overdrive Pedal

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.

Light overdrive pedal.

I find the mid range hump helps with clarity. 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. That said a tubescreamer circuit is really good as a light overdrive in a solid state amp. Joyo vintage tube overdrive is often compared to sound just as good and sometimes with a little more head room than a ts 808.

Along with fuzz and delay overdrive is the essential guitar effect. And it gets really loud. It runs a single 12au7 tube giving natural preamp style light distortion. The basic components are already there but by adding one other subtle element the overall effect can be so much more pleasing.

Therefore it is all down to your ear training and playing skills. It s fairly easy to power taking 9v but needing 300 ma. This is a great pedal for light to medium overdrive sounds. Tube screamer like but with more range.

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. The best overdrive pedals are traditionally there to add flavour or colour to an existing sound usually achieved from a driven tube guitar amp. The best transparent overdrive pedals share a lot of the same characteristics. It s not enough distortion for me for my main solo tone but it would be great for a blues solo tone.

In some pedals the level knob doesn t have a lot of boost. The lightspeed organic overdrive is a very natural sounding overdrive. Remember that if not properly set up your overdrive pedal might end up producing a hissing or contrary sound. The overdrive pedals we have reviewed above have all the qualities a guitarist need when it comes down to tone enhancement.

It sounds good with my late 90 s mim strat pickups. Well this one will blow your amp in lead mode. Again i really think all of those pedals are excellent transparent overdrives. Think of it like the sauce on a plate of food.

Built using the legendary green overdrive chip the 805 overdrive.