OVERDRIVE
Get your guitar talking with this mainstay of classic rock pedalboards the world over
The general difference between an overdrive and a distortion is that overdrives use soft-clipping diodes, usually in the feedback loop of one of their op-amp stages, while distortions use hard-clipping, usually after the amp stages. Most of the time, this means overdrives sound smoother, while distortion pedals are more
