Halcyon Blue Overdrive - Getting Started Guide

00:00 - Introduction
00:21 - Connecting your pedal
00:57 - Controls: Level, Drive, Tone
01:55 - Adaptive Circuitry
04:10 - Voice modes
05:02 - DRY control
06:02 - Outro

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It's here! Allow us to introduce the Halcyon Blue Overdrive, the latest in our Halcyon range of pedals, designed around our Adaptive Circuitry and inspired by the '90s Marshall Bluesbreaker.

The Halcyon Blue Overdrive uses our Adaptive Circuitry to bring a new level of playability to the Bluesbreaker, famed for its smooth, amp-like drive tones and used by the likes of John Mayer. The Halcyon Blue enhances this character by allowing the pedal's broad, mid-forward voicing to change in response to your playing dynamics, delivering a variable frequency response as you move seamlessly between clean, edge-of-breakup and driven tones.

The included DRY level control allows you to dial in exactly how the pedal's clipping responds as you dig in. Use high DRY settings to increase clarity and articulation when running into a driven amp, or remove the DRY signal altogether for a harder-edged, more compressed overdrive that works great into a clean tone.

The VOICE switch allows you to select between the Bluesbreaker-accurate BB mode and our own MOD mode, which serves up a gain boost, extra warmth and a different overdrive character. This MOD mode continues the tradition of pedal builders offering their own take on this classic drive tone!

The Halcyon Blue Overdrive is available NOW! Direct and from local Origin Effects dealers.

[kaytrell]

200mA??? You must be joking? For a Blues Breaker??? Whatever proprietary circuitry you people are running, it can't be worth the money or the sound I get out of 5 to 20mA pedals of similar design:

BD-2W Blues Driver (Waza Craft) 18 mA,
BD-3 Blues Driver 13 mA,

(original) Blues Breaker 4 mA,
Blues Breaker Vintage Reissue 5 mA,
BB-2 Bluesbreaker II 8 mA,

Pantheon Overdrive, 19 mA,

and one of the best (clones) around:

CSP039 Duke Of Tone Overdrive, 6 mA

...and by listening to your pedal, there is just no justification to that enormous power draw - not even if danish Pete is playing it 😅