How To Make Any Overdrive Sound Great

Ever wondered how to make your overdrive sound great through any amp? Today we talk in depth about dialing in overdrives and how to play their strengths and weaknesses to any rig.

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Origin Effects Revival Drive Compact (affiliate link)

Heather Brown Electronics Blessed Mother

Rodenberg Custom Amplification TB Drive *(Shakedown Special)

Browne Amplification Protein

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[ginogenero]

Hey Rhett, I've been playing guitar for over 50yrs and learned a lot along the way. Often I watch your content and learn something new, other times I'm simply reminded of things I once learned but forgot. But always, I know that your content is golden. You're an outstanding communicator of the art.

[thgir]

I'm in that metal camp of players that just love using a TS9 or similar as a boost on a high-gain amp. Usually the mids are cut slightly on the amp controls so the TS mid-hump is not as noticeable.

[koda]

Rhett, as always, spot on. My Blessed Mother stays on all the time. It's part of my "bucket brigade" approach to whatever preamp design I happen to be playing thru. Nice character and good flexibility. The general voicing of the eq section suits my blues/funk/rock fusion material really well.

[PeteBreen]

"Edge of Breakup" featuring Boomer Bends. Next band name/frontman. :)

[mikesharpsongs]

Hey Rhett, another solid treatment of a "vast and complex" topic! I play a hybrid Godin with humbucker and preamped piezos and mostly do solo shows. I have gotten deep into parallel mixing/processing, focusing the two signal paths on their strengths.
The piezos have an IMMEDIATE attack that disintegrates with anything but clean gain, so I rely heavily on compression to produce the desired sustain and accentuate the percussiveness of my fingerstyle attack. Beyond that, the effects are minimal; switchable clean delay, boost and reverb.
The humbucker path is my sonic playground, with EQ, filters, multiple modulations, delays, and only recently have I started adding overdrives; all of that feeds an Iridium set to the round/clean amp. Your video has me now considering a light to mid style OD, as other styles often do not blend in well with the ultraclean piezo path. The attack seems much tighter with the lighter gain ODs. Likewise, your suggestion of rolling off the lows seems like where I need to go. Any specific pedal recommendations to start with? Thanks again!

[stratonarrow]

Man there is nothing like a Les Paul through a Plexi, especially that low E chord. I got shivers!

[victorroffe]

Excellent video Rhett- very useful and enjoyable for us guitarists!

[marceloafonsorodrigues]

Great video, I am 100% aligned with this approach, I used to put a lot of gain of my pedals now I am moving in this direction and I will fine tuning using some tips and tricks here, hugs from Brazil and thanks a lot

[pursharthchawla]

great video Rhett! killed it yet again!

[natenobrakes]

Thanks for the tips Rhett. I was mucking around the other day and found that running the Bluesbreaker part of my Keeley DDR after my Big Muff Op-Amp into my Blues Jnr really helped shape and smooth the tone of the Big Muff.

[ImYourOverlord]

It's great advice, and a helpful reminder, to really explore and become more familiar with effects. I need this from time to time, so glad you put this video up! I'm surprising myself with how little gain my RC Booster (SH) and my Timmy need, one or both, in order to give a good deal of satisfying overdrive tone into my tube head with low to moderate gain dialed up. Much to explore as the never-ending quest for tones continues 🙂

[albertplaysguitar]

Good video as always. Amp-in-a-box vs. Overdrive/boosts is quite an important distinction.

[christopherwaters]

Rhett, very very well done! I have been hoping someone would decode what do do with what kind of OD’s in different situations and you really helped me. Thanks

[scottkidwellmusic]

I've been picking up a lot if fuzz and overdrive pedals. The Blessed Mother is pretty sweet.
Developing the discipline to sit down with each of the pedals and see what they do, and where they come to life.
I pretty much keep the Blue Sky and Iridium in the chain, and just swap out the fuzz pedals... keeps me entertained.
Appreciate the insights and knowledge.
Thanks, Rhett 🙏

[allengoeddey]

I really appreciate this kind of content. It helps me chase that sound in my head

[ralvknights]

Thats a pretty clean yer dinamic tone. Keep rocking Rhett.

[markn]

Cool Video! I've always found that when it comes to tightening the low-end, Tube Screamers work better with Fender/6L6-type amps with single coils and the SD-1 works better with Marshall/EL34-type amps with humbuckers. Symmetrical vs. asymmetrical clipping.

[sirlost]

Looove the blessed mother. It’s a phenomenal pedal and has been glued on my pedalboard ever since I got it. That and the ODR-1 are the only two ODs I use now

[fuddyduddy]

Always a GREAT Show.. thanks for your impressive knowledge

[johnenglish]

I remember you and Josh from JHS going through a pile of OD pedals and the one that struck me was the Reverend, most OD I have used were good on single coil or humbuckers.The Rev seemed to do either. Luv the channel 🎵.