Again i really think all of those pedals are excellent transparent overdrives.
Light overdrive pedal.
Blending with the tone of the guitar and amplifier this pedal has rich harmonics and complex but smooth clipping.
And it gets really loud.
The best transparent overdrive pedals share a lot of the same characteristics.
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.
They give you a clean pristine boost that maintains the purity of your guitar s signal all the way to the amp they allow you to keep your sound right on the edge of breakup all the way to launching your already high gain signal into the stratosphere.
Built using the legendary green overdrive chip the 805 overdrive.
It s not enough distortion for me for my main solo tone but it would be great for a blues solo tone.
Well this one will blow your amp in lead mode.
I find the mid range hump helps with clarity.
It runs a single 12au7 tube giving natural preamp style light distortion.
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.
It sounds good with my late 90 s mim strat pickups.
Joyo vintage tube overdrive is often compared to sound just as good and sometimes with a little more head room than a ts 808.
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 lightspeed organic overdrive is a very natural sounding overdrive.
Think of it like the sauce on a plate of food.
Along with fuzz and delay overdrive is the essential guitar effect.
This is a great pedal for light to medium overdrive sounds.
The overdrive pedals we have reviewed above have all the qualities a guitarist need when it comes down to tone enhancement.
Tube screamer like but with more range.
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.
The basic components are already there but by adding one other subtle element the overall effect can be so much more pleasing.
In some pedals the level knob doesn t have a lot of boost.
Remember that if not properly set up your overdrive pedal might end up producing a hissing or contrary sound.