The Butler Overdrive

The Butler Overdrive is a versatile pedal designed to provide guitarists with a wide range of overdriven tones, emulating the warm saturation and dynamic response of a pushed tube amplifier. At its core, the Butler Overdrive utilizes operational amplifiers (Op-Amps) to achieve its soft clipping overdrive, offering a smooth transition from clean to overdriven tones. It works very well with humbucker guitars.

Key Features:

• Op-Amp Based Soft Clipping: The heart of the Butler Overdrive is its Op-Amp circuitry, which delivers smooth and natural clipping characteristics, akin to the saturation of a tube amplifier. This ensures a responsive and musical overdrive, allowing players to dial in anything from subtle breakup to full-on distortion.
• Transparent Clean to Wild Overdrive: With its versatile gain control, the Butler Overdrive can take your guitar signal from pristine, transparent clean tones to aggressive, wild overdrive with ease. This wide range of gain allows for flexibility in shaping your desired sound, whether you’re aiming for subtle enhancement or full-blown saturation.
• Soft Saturation: One of the defining characteristics of the Butler Overdrive is its ability to provide soft saturation, emulating the gradual clipping and compression of a pushed tube amp. This results in a natural and dynamic response to your playing dynamics, allowing for expressive and nuanced tones.
• Clear and Articulate Sound: Despite its overdriven character, the Butler Overdrive maintains clarity and articulation in your guitar sound. This ensures that each note retains its definition and presence, even when heavily saturated, making it suitable for a wide range of musical styles and applications.
• Lovely Breaking Sound: The Butler Overdrive is designed to replicate the beloved “breaking” sound of a tube amplifier pushed to its limits. This adds a touch of vintage charm and character to your tone, evoking the rich harmonic content and musical compression associated with classic tube amps.

Overall, the Butler Overdrive offers guitarists a versatile and expressive tool for crafting a wide range of overdriven tones, from subtle warmth to full-on distortion. With its Op-Amp based soft clipping, transparent clean to wild overdrive capabilities, soft saturation, clear and articulate sound, and lovely breaking sound, it’s certain to become a staple on any guitarist’s pedal board.