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BOSS ANALOGUE OVERDRIVE

In the hard-rock era of the 70s, the sound of overdriven Marshall stacks filled stadiums around the globe (and terrified the parents and neighbours of bedroom guitarists everywhere). These were the good old days of LOUD – when tone equalled eardrum-splitting volume and rocking guitar players were, for better or worse, antisocial by nature.

Hot on the trail of a more practical solution, amp designers on both sides of the pond increasingly looked towards giving guitarists the option of

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