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So today’s question “What’s the best distortion / overdrive pedal available today?” got me thinking a little bit. There were at least two mentions of the Boss OS-2 Overdrive / Distortion pedal, so I thought I’d take a closer look.

The pedal seems quite cool, giving you the option of using distortion or overdrive.. but giving you the ability to ‘blend’ the two using the color knob. The pedal (as with many Boss pedals) is quite affordable at $69.00.

Here is the official description:

The Boss OS-2 OverDrive/Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal delivers killer separate overdrive and distortion effects that you can combine for cool blended effects! This integration gives you more options than using serially connected units. Best of all the OS-2 is designed to provide raunchy, hard distortion while maintaining the nuances of single-coil pickups. Level, Tone, Drive, and Color controls offer plenty of tweakability.

Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal Features:

• Smooth overdrive and hard distortion
• Combine and blend for unique sounds
• Works great with single-coil pickups
• Level, Tone, Drive, and Color controls

I was pleased to find another gearmandude video demo’ing the pedal. I’ve played that Tiny Terror Orange head in the past, and that little guy can get it done.

You can pick up the Boss OS-2 Overdrive / Distortion pedal for $69.00 at Musician’s Friend.

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I think I’m getting ‘delayed’ out, so I want to look at some distortion and/or overdrive pedals this week. I wanted to find something interesting and something did catch my eye this morning. It is the Pigtronix PolySaturator Distortion pedal. I think Pigtronix puts out some great stuff. I recently talked about the Pigtronix PHI Echolution delay/modulation pedal.

The PolySaturator pedal seems quite diverse in the tones you can achieve with it. It has a nice clean boost sound, you can get a nice overdrive sound, has a nice gain sound as well as getting heavy mid scoop dirt.

Here is the official description of the pedal:

The PolySaturator distortion pedal from Pigtronix takes the original design even further, adding a Class A J-FET booster stage to the front end and re-voicing the gain structure to provide an even wider range of sounds. The PolySaturator produces everything from subtle grit to blue velvet sustain inspired by our favorite tube amp lead channel.

The PolySaturator excels at gritty, edge-of-overdrive tones, but crank up the gain and you will be assaulted by face-melting ultra-high gain sounds that will please shredders and shoegazers alike with impressive string to string clarity and F.A.T. tube sound. Our JRC4558D powered EQ circuits provide 12 db / octave active filtering over three distinct audio bands. This powerful EQ structure combined with our solid-state of the art approach to tube emulation, allows the musician to dial up wildly diverse and satisfying textures of analog distortion. Unprecedented touch sensitivity and overall range of distortion tones is achieved through multiple gain stages, and active EQ, perfectly balanced to give the musician enhanced control and expression using picking dynamics alone.

The PolySaturator guitar pedal presents a flexible and affordable alternative that will outperform any other boutique or mass production distortion effect available.

I found another good video by ProGuitarShopDemos showing the various settings and tones this pedal can achieve. Curious what you guys have to say about it.

You can pick up the Pigtronix PolySaturator distortion pedal at Musician’s Friend for $169.00.

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I’ve been keeping a third eye on the Stupid Deal of the Day over at Musician’s Friend and saw that they have a cool sale on the Coffin Case BDFX-1 Blood Drive Distortion Pedal. Normally, this pedal’s MSRP is $179.00, Musician’s Friend normally sells it for $119.00, but they’re currently having it on sale for $39.99! That’s $139.01 off.. or 77%. Pretty sweet deal.

The Coffin Case is a analog distortion with a warm boost circuit. Has true bypass switching, all analog circuitry, glow-in-the-dark indicators on the knobs, made in the USA and has coffin shaped case. Controls are ‘inject’, ‘bleed’ and ‘filth’. I’m assuming that is ‘level’, ‘drive’ and ‘tone’? Who knows.

Currently, this is a clearance item, so it is limited to stock on hand at Musician’s Friend. There are currently 23 reviews there, and is ranked at 4 out of 5 stars. At this price, it’s definitely worth picking up!

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