OVERDRIVE- MYTHOS PEDALS Erlking Overdrive V.2 ___NEW___ Nobels ODR-1 clone

$200.00 USD

MYTHOS PEDALS  

ERLKING O V E R D R I V E 

It is very true to the original except quieter and with an 

external Bass roll off to tighten the sound. 

The layout is Volume, Tone, Gain and a high pass filter.

     CONCLUSION ___

Mythos do a thing that make all their pedals have 

a very organic sound with a bit more breadth than 

the originals they borrow from. They shut down 

their factory but went back to small batches

handwired yet if anything lowered the prices 

down to something MXR would have.

OVEWEDRIVE- JAM PEDALS Tubedreamer MK2 ___NEW ___ dead classic or with bite!!

JAM PEDALS

Tubedreamer  MK.2

$260.00 USD

This is their second take on a Tube Screamer. The first was made 

20 years ago. It still uses a real TS 808 chip, a JRC4558 C. The 

new one is far more usable with giving you excellent tones in 

the low gain when using it as real transparent pedal or for a 

SRV type boost pedal.

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain with a toggle to change 

gain stages.

    CONCLUSION ___

Like the the first Jam you get a dead on ts sound 

but with a lower noise floor. With the higher gain 

it simply adds a few more good overtones & just 

a bit of bite giving it great definition. You get your grandads ts, quite literally but that but extra that 

was added on the board when it was recorded

on those old records.

FUZZ- AIRLINE Dirty Birdy ___NEW ___ why ask ???

Airline Dirty Birdy

It checks all the boxes of a gimmick & novelty item except 

not being overprice. There isn't any specs even hinted at.

It could be based on anything. 

$100.00 USD each

CONCLUSION___

The price suggests an OpAmp Fuzz. 

It appears that so far as we know 

all its beauty is just skin deep.  

WTF ... it is a case of buyer beware. 

FUZZ- BEARFOOT FX Artic White v.2 ___ NEW____ cool or cold?

 BearFoot 

Artic White .  4 knob V.2  

$190.00 USD

Designer Bjorn Juhl has made his own pedals but primarily licenses 

them to other builders but often not with exclusive rights so at any 

given time there can be as many as 3 brands making the same pedal. They use the same topography but usually different brands of parts. Bearfoot have been around the longest and make a better than 

adequate pedal at a reasonable price.  The unit is a silicon Fuzz very loosely in the Muff family but leaning into FuzzyDrive territory.

The layout is Volume, Treble, Gain and BIAS. 

     CONCLUSION . . . .

Version 2 has a BIAS control so you can get

more raspy and chunky sounds from it. Even 

faux germanium sounds. There are dozens 

of v.1 videos but only the one v.2. I hear 

nothing to bitch about but nothing exciting 

either. 

OVERDRIVE- MAD PROFESSOR Sweet Honey (handmade) OD ___NEW___ still cool ???

 · MAD PROFESSOR · 

SWEET HONEY OVERDRIVE 

$390.00 USD

Bjorn Juhl has designed pedals forever . He started with pedals 

like the 17 year old Sweet Honey that he made himself but found 

eventually he would have to expand into a factory or he could license 

them to other builders. He chose to license. To Bearfoot FX, 

Animals, One control & Mad Professor He did not always do  

exclusive deals & some got the right to use his name to endorse  

a pedal but not the name of the pedal. They had to use different  

names, like Honey Bee or perhaps Sweet Baby, 😇 LOL.

 

 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

The Mad P. has made both handmades and factory models and often 

at the same time. New owners of Mad P. have started rereleasing the handmade after revitalizing the factory for a couple of years.

The pedal makes a low to medium gain somewhat transparent 

and with a great feel and good dynamics.

The layout is Volume, Tone/Focus and Gain.

     CONCLUSION ___

There are hundreds of players over the years that have kept 

theirs and have used it for decades. Their cheap factory one 

is $235.00 USD. Not majorly cheaper but it sounds as good.

The good news is Joyo have made the Joyo Sweet Baby for 

years and it is a dead on clone of it for... $40.00 USD, 😇

OVERDRIVE- SPLINE LABRATORIES Archangel ___NEW___ heavenly ? :-)

 SPLINE LABORATORIES 

ARCHANGEL   

$220.00 USD

As it appears obviously by the name and graphics we have a Metal 

OD. The Layout is Volume, Gain and Tone and for more breadth 

we have a Low for that extra mass. A toggle lets you switch in

an upper mid poke or a scoop. It wisely includes a Gate.

          CONCLUSION ___

It appears to be a cliched type of pedal for the genre. 

To a degree it is so we at least have no unpleasant 

surprises. The small 'big' difference is the pedal has

excellent separation, some balz and no annoying noise. 

Even a guy in a wedding band would find it damn useful 

for the now inevitable requests for the Metal hits over 

what are often now decades old. 

To cut to the chase, it is a damn good pedal, 😇.