OVERDRIVE- MELO TONE LABS Silent Bee OD ___NEW ___ a BB clearly better than!!!

$100.00 USD

Melo Tone Labs

Silent Bee Overdrive

It is a straight forward no fuss BluesBreaker clone.  

Unpretentious and to the point,

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.

      ___

     CONCLUSION ___

This one is very transparent. The sound is

crystal clear with exceptional definition.

Unusually punchy compared to others. 

Easily as good as those wanting 

double the money. 

FUZZ- PIGTRONICS Octava Micro ...8 years on and still Rockin' !

 P I G T R O N I C S 

OCTAVA 

$120.00 USD

The Octava is a take on the original Tycobrahe Octavia an Octave 

Fuzz that does a thing choking the signal forcing it to reverse 

back up towards the input. The side effect is that squeals up an 

octave while making a huge squelching noise and then drops 

out like it has a hard gate. Pigtronics do a good take on it.

The layout is Volume, Blend, Filter and Gain.

     CONCLUSION ___

The thing about the Pigtronix is it sounds very good. It is 

easy to pull out a great sound without having to fight it. 

It is a pedal most guys will use very sparingly so having it in a mini pedal tucked in a corner of your board makes a lot of sense. Yes Behringer make an excellent $80 clone of the Tycobrahe. They even nail the enclosure. The pedal is large and not quite as user friendly. But as for tone there isn't a bad choice.

OVERDRIVE- THUNDERTOMATE Over-Drive+ REV G___NEW ___ just a little strange?

$175.00 USD

ThunderTomate 

OVER-DRIVE+ rev G

Made in Spain for 25 years. This appears to be v.3. The first 

had 2 knobs, the second 3 & both were painted green. They 

point at being half booster pedals and dare I guess???  

Over boosted Tube Screamers, 😇.

The layout is Level, Tone & Gain. A toggle lets you select 

one of 3 voices. 

           CONCLUSION ___ 

The voices go from cleanish low gain/boost to 

medium gain to a harsh high gain. The sounds 

are not very transitional. I can't see who 

its aimed at.

JUST FOR FUN ___ Hank Coffey at a Flea Market

 FLEA MARKET FINDS

THE GEDDY LEE INTERVIEW ___ from May 19 2026

  THE GEDDY LEE INTERVIEW 2026   

    

OVERDRIVE- FRUIT FX CloudDriver ___NEW ___ same old but sounds fresh?

FruitFX 

  CloudDriver 

$150.00 USD

A handmade pedal from Long Beach California. It is a Low 

to Medium Gain OpAmp OD. Similar to the Boss SD-1 OD.

The layout is Volume, Gain and Tone. Another control, Clear 

lets you blend in cleans.

     CONCLUSION __

It is what the industry classifies as a transparent OD. 

The basic topography for all these pedals starts with 

a Tube Screamer. Once you choose a different OpAmp 

and clipping diodes you head into a Boss SD-1 & then 

further up the gain levels into more distortion. FruitFX 

takes the opposite route by using a HiFi OpAmp that 

is dead clean to start with so you have more of a Boost

pedal with EQ.

The 'Cloud' sounds surprisingly good. It could even be

an always on to add some serious life to your clean sound.  

Reasonably priced for a MIA pedal. 

 

FUZZ/OD- BESERKER ELECTRONICS Moldy Peach (Royal Fuzz Drive) ___NEW ___v.3

$180.00 USD

BESERKER ELECTRONICS

Moldy Peach   __ ROYAL FUZZ DRIVE

The pedal has been around for 5 years. This is basically a v.3. 

The 'Royal' at best is simply grasping mediocre & tacky marketing. 

The pedal is a hardclipper OD, much like a Rat OD blended with 

a Fuzz. The layout is really Volume, Gain, and Tone with a Blend 

control for OD with Fuzz.

           CONCLUSION ___

The overall sound has a nice organic and chunky sound 

with a lot of character. The kind of pedal one expects in 

an Indy-Alt band. In spite of the childish marketing

I quite like the pedal.  

 

FUZZ- YESTERDAY EFFECTS Jimi/Jimmy ...Fuzz Face +Tone Bender Mk2 clones

yesterday effects 

$180.00 USD

 jimi / jimmy  

A simple but fun premise. Put Jimi Hendrix's Fuzz Face 

in the same enclosure with Jimmy Page's Tone Bender 

MkII. The layout is easy. Both Fuzz sounds have been 

hardwired in the box as 2 presets. You just toggle 

which one you want. Twist your Volume & Gain knob and ...

 

    CONCLUSION ⃞

Well ...the only video is not what you or anyone 

who ever heard any Fuzz pedal expect.

There is a fine line between genius and stupid.

Your choice, 😇

 

FUZZ- US DREAM New Fuzz ___NEW___ Fuzz Factory clone??? ___$25 w/free shipping

USdream

NEW FUZZ |

$25.00 USD
on AliExpress w/free shipping

For a start it is an OpAmp Big Muff. US Dream is an online 

store that sells kits. It appears they simply get the kits 

assembled. Printing on the circuit board simply says Fuzz 

Factory. They make a lot of Fuzz pedals and most have 

4 knobs so which one is a mystery. Since they all have a 

BIAS control simply hard wiring the BIAS without a knob 

is no big deal.

   CONCLUSION ___

The reviews from buyers are all positive. 

A few have opened the pedals and are 

positive about the build.

To no surprise there are not any videos.

That said the biggest kit maker in China 

is Landtone and the pedal in the video 

looks exactly like it & has identical OpAmps.

The video with the Landtone has a short  

demo at the end. (13:00)

The pedal sounds damn good !!!