Distortion, Overdrive & Boost Pedals
Shape your guitar tone with power, grit, and dynamic control using Distortion, Overdrive & Boost Pedals, essential effects for adding gain, saturation, and tonal character to your sound. These pedals are core tools for practice, recording, rehearsals, and live performance, allowing players to move from subtle warmth to aggressive drive with ease.
This category includes distortion pedals for high-gain tones, overdrive pedals for smooth breakup and dynamic response, and boost pedals for volume lift and signal enhancement. Whether you’re pushing a tube amp into natural overdrive, tightening your signal for solos, or crafting modern high-gain sounds, these pedals offer flexible gain staging options.
Distortion, overdrive, and boost pedals are widely used across rock, blues, metal, pop, punk, worship, indie, jazz fusion, and alternative music styles. Overdrive pedals are favored for their touch-sensitive response, distortion pedals deliver thick sustain and aggressive crunch, while boost pedals provide clean gain, solo emphasis, or signal shaping without altering core tone.
Modern gain pedals may feature multiple gain modes, tone-shaping EQ controls, clipping options, true bypass or buffered switching, and compact pedalboard-friendly designs. Many pedals are optimized for use with tube amps, solid-state amps, modeling rigs, and pedalboard setups.
Complete your rig with pedalboards, isolated power supplies, patch cables, and switching systems, ensuring clean signal flow and consistent performance.
From classic blues drive to modern high-gain distortion, distortion, overdrive, and boost pedals form the foundation of expressive guitar tone shaping.
