Jackson Audio Golden Boy
The Golden Boy Transparent Overdrive (designed in collaboration with Joey Landreth) is the most versatile and transparent overdrive ever made.
Rich in harmonic detail and overflowing with headroom, the Golden Boy redefines the concept of transparent overdrive and brings it up to date with modern features never before seen in an overdrive pedal. $180
Earthquaker Devices Hoof Reaper
Double Fuzz with Octave Up
Hoof Reaper features the popular Hoof® and Tone Reaper™ fuzz pedals in one handy enclosure with the added bonus of an old school analog octave up. Modeled after the best Big Muff Pi’s tone, excellent and versatile pedal. $220
Fire - Carpe Diem
Exceptional plexi tone replication, capturing the gain and chime accurately
Versatile with two gain controls for a range of overdrive sounds
Can achieve great tone at low volumes, suitable for various settings
Pairs well with other gain-stacking pedals like Tube Screamer/Blues Driver
Considered a "lifer" pedal by many, indicating durability and long-term satisfaction
Unique "feel" that sets it apart from other overdrive pedals. Highly sought after tone. $160
The Crown Jewel from BYOC is the ultimate drive and boost combo. It is not a clone of anything. It is an amalgamation of the best qualities from many different circuits to create something entirely new that is capable of producing a range of overdrive and distortion tones like no other analog pedal has before.
With a parametric midrange, and 3-way Mid Q switch, the 3-band equalizer allows you to voice the drive channel in almost any way imaginable.
This pedal was bought new fully assembled from BYOC
The hard and soft clipping switches allow you to select 9 different textures of distortion. Hard Ge (Germanium) clipping is similar to the clipping in the Klon Centaur, Maxon OD-855, and MXR Dist +. Hard Si (Silicon) clipping is similar to DOD 250, ProCo RAT, Marshall Shredmaster, Fulltone OCD*, Boss MT-2, and Boss DS-1. Soft Si clipping is similar to the Ibanez Tubescreamer, Boss SD-1, Boss OD-1, Zendrive*, Marshall Blues Breaker, King of Tone, and Timmy. There’s also Soft LED clipping or no clipping at all. And you can also use soft and hard clipping simultaneously like the Boss HM-2, DOD FX53, and other more obscure dirt pedals. $190.
TC Electronic Integrated Preamplifier
A sought after preamp that was extensively used as a booster by the metal band Meshuggah through
most of their career. It has active treble and bass controls (+/- 15 db).
The people that use it say it is the best clean boost available. very collectable. $350