Design-A-Drive

An overdrive you can redesign on the fly to deliver exactly what you, your guitar and your amp require. At last, an overdrive that loves all your guitars and amps equally! The DESIGN-A-DRIVE lets you play pedal designer, reshaping the circuits frequency response to suit your setup.

With its unique Width and Edge controls, the Design-a-drive makes dialling in a wide range of killer drive tones completely intuitive.

Its an overdrive you can set to be as transparent and true to your original tone as possible, or configure to do exactly the opposite, making single-coils sound thick and meaty or helping humbuckers really cut through.

MORE DETAIL

There are plenty of overdrive pedals that sound great... provided youre plugging into a particular style of amp or using the right guitar. Even though theres a Tone knob on the pedal, the frequency response is essentially baked in it either suits your needs or it doesnt. At the same time, pedals that offer more flexibility generally feature an abundance of controls and tend to be fiddly to dial in.

So we set ourselves a challenge: to design an overdrive that was as flexible as possible while remaining really simple to use. That meant designing some new Tone controls that would actually get at the parts of the frequency spectrum that matter.

The Design-a-drives EDGE and WIDTH controls are not based on a traditional amp tone stack or pedal EQ. Instead they combine multiple functions in one to offer genuinely intuitive and extremely effective tonal adjustment.

CONTROLS

The Design-a-drives unique tone-shaping controls are quick and intuitive to set, yet powerful enough to reshape the character of the overdrive to suit any scenario.

EDGE controls the top end of the frequency spectrum, simultaneously adjusting two separate filters a gentle treble roll-off and a more intense cut in the high presence region as well affecting the aggressiveness of the circuits hard-clipping diodes. These three functions combine to do exactly what the name suggests, letting you dial in precisely the desired amount of bite, grit and brightness.

Like Edge, the WIDTH control does exactly what the name suggests. This six-position rotary switch reshapes the pedals mid-range response, progressively introducing a lower mid-range peak and adding more bass as you go from Thin to Fat. This control lets you instantly sculpt your tone while also dictating where across the frequency spectrum your amp gets pushed.

Weve designed the GAIN and LEVEL controls to be equally useful and wide-ranging. With the gain turned down, theres still plenty of level on tap, allowing the pedal to act as a powerful tone shaper and clean boost, on its own or stacked with other drives and fuzzes