Light Overdrive Pedal

Tube screamer like but with more range.

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. Therefore it is all down to your ear training and playing skills. I find the mid range hump helps with clarity. It runs a single 12au7 tube giving natural preamp style light distortion.

In some pedals the level knob doesn t have a lot of boost. 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. 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 s fairly easy to power taking 9v but needing 300 ma.

And it gets really loud. Again i really think all of those pedals are excellent transparent overdrives. That said a tubescreamer circuit is really good as a light overdrive in a solid state amp. Think of it like the sauce on a plate of food.

Built using the legendary green overdrive chip the 805 overdrive. The basic components are already there but by adding one other subtle element the overall effect can be so much more pleasing. Along with fuzz and delay overdrive is the essential guitar effect. The best overdrive pedals are traditionally there to add flavour or colour to an existing sound usually achieved from a driven tube guitar amp.

It s not enough distortion for me for my main solo tone but it would be great for a blues solo tone. 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. The lightspeed organic overdrive is a very natural sounding overdrive.

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. 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. Joyo vintage tube overdrive is often compared to sound just as good and sometimes with a little more head room than a ts 808. The best transparent overdrive pedals share a lot of the same characteristics.

It sounds good with my late 90 s mim strat pickups.