Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer - "Too much of a Mid Hump!"
The Ibanez tubescreamer TS-9 is about as basic of an overdrive pedal you are going to find out there. One tone knob to adjust the EQ of the pedal, one knob for overall volume, and one knob for the a…
Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer Reissue - "Decent Tubescreamer but not worth the money."
The Ibanez TS808 Vintage Reissue is a very basic pedal optionwise. One tone knob to adjust the EQ of the pedal, one knob for overall volume, and one knob for the amount of gain, and that’s all you g…
Fulltone OCD V1.1 - "Great Overdrive!"
The Obsessive Compulsive Drive (OCD) is an overdrive pedal available from Mike Fuller at Fulltone, and it lives up to the Fulltone name. It takes your basic controls for an overdrive, Volume (overal…
DigiTech Screaming Blues - "Better than the Blues Driver."
The Screamin’ Blues overdrive/distortion is a dirt pedal from Digitech. It has the basic features of most overdrive pedals, Volume to adjust the overall volume, gain to adjust the amount of overdrive…
Boss SD-1 SUPER OverDrive - "Mediocre, but beats TS."
The Boss SD-1 is a very basic overdrive pedal. It has familiar settings, one tone knob to adjust the EQ of the pedal, one knob for overall volume, and one knob for the amount of gain. The pedal can …
Boss BD-2 Blues Driver - "Decent Bluesy Drive"
The Boss Blues Driver (BD-2) is a typical Boss overdrive pedal. It has familiar settings, one tone knob to adjust the EQ of the pedal, one knob for overall volume, and one knob for the amount of gai…
Xotic Effects AC Booster - moosers's review
The Xotic Effects AC Booster is a compact pedal for electric guitar that serves as an overdrive and overall signal booster. It has a simple set up with ¼” connections for your input and output and i…
Maxon RTD800 Real Tube Overdrive/Distortion - "Latest in the line of Real Tube pedals"
Maxon has been making tube powered pedals for a while. The old Real Tube series was replaced recently by the Real Tube II series. THe pedals in this line include the RTC600 Real Tube Compressor, the …
Vox Brit Boost - "good gain"
This is a unique gain/distortion pedal, in the fact that it is designed to mimic the sound of a distortion pedal with a low or dying battery. In fact, it is so broad with its sounds that it can be us…
Budda Phatman - "budda!"
This is a basic analog distortion pedal, with quarter-inch input and output jacks. This effect is not MIDI capable, and can't be edited with a Mac or PC. It's not rackable. It has a 9 volt power supp…
Aria TD-1 Platinum Drive - "Tube goodness"
For someone navigating the effects world and looking for a great sounding distortion overdrive pedals it can get quite confusing. There's so many distortion and overdrive and fuzz pedals to choose fr…
Marshall Bluesbreaker - "cool blues pedal"
Given that this company's most well-known product is a portable guitar amplifier, I was surprised to find that they also make pedals. This is one of the distortions they make, it could actually be th…
Ibanez TS9 - Baked Mod - Modded by Keeley - "One of the best tubescreamers"
The tubescreamer is easily the most iconic pedal out there, right next to the wah pedal. It's been used on pretty much every single recording you've ever heard in some way, and it's lent itself to g…
Boss BD-2 Blues Driver - Modded by Keeley - "The more versatile BD-2"
The Boss BD-2 is a great boost alone. It can be used with a clean amp to give it some nice grit, and it can also be used a fairly transparent sounding boost to help give you a little more tightness …
Boss BD-2 Blues Driver - "very good pedal"
The sound quality of the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver is fantastic if you are trying to slam the front of your overdriven amp. It will do that 80's tone in spades. So my use was normally just as a simple b…
