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SFT Overdrive

Overdrive
Speaker/Amp Emulator

Circuit Type: Analog

Original Price: $179

Excellent Used Price: $135

Year Released: 2016

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We’ve always been smitten by AMPEG®. Early on the company was a Jazz purist company, completely overlooking (possibly looking down on) more popular genres like Country and Western and Rock that FENDER® and MARSHALL® openly embraced. From a design standpoint they took more queues from the hifi world than they did from guitarists as evidenced by their tube complements, gain stages without cathode capacitors, and implementation of the Baxandall tone controls. And they we’re no slouches to innovation either, “Flip-top” combos is a great example. Not to mention there is at least one model of amplifier that had a torsion bar to adjust the tightness of the speaker baffle!

Designed to bring back the sound of prototype SVT amps used on the ’69 Stones tour — along with the option of full-on fuzz — all in one pedal
Tone stack is placed just before final amp stage, allowing you to overdrive it for max distortion
Stones/Stoner topside button transforms give the pedal an entirely new personality
All-metal chassis and high-quality true-bypass footswitch for long-lasting performance
Powered by 9V–18V power supply (not included)