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Best overdrive pedals 2025: Saturate your guitar tone
By Connor Godfrey last updated
Push your sound to break-up with the best OD pedals from Boss, TC Electronic, JHS, Ibanez and more

Best Klon clones 2025: unobtainium overdrive tone for the masses
By Connor Godfrey last updated
Get killer Klon-tones from these excellent and affordable adaptations, including clones by Wampler, Warm Audio, Way Huge, and more

Here’s what ‘Back to the Future’ got wrong about Marty McFly’s Chuck Berry–inspired guitar show
By Elizabeth Swann published
The film made a crucial error in its iconic dance scene, where Fox's McFly performs "Johnny B. Goode" on a now-famous Gibson ES-345

Klon sues Behringer's parent company for "blatant counterfeit" of its iconic overdrive pedal
By Christopher Scapelliti published
The lawsuit accuses Music Tribe of “willful trademark counterfeiting" and seeks damages and injunctive relief

How a $35 guitar pick made fans out of John Mayer and Billy Strings
By Phil Weller published
Made of aerospace-grade material, the plectrum is winning over big names as it upends the market

Our reviewer says the DigiTech HammerOn Pitch Shifter pedal makes him sound like a more creative lead player
By Jimmy Leslie published
Its seven modes give you instantaneous pitch shifting for hammer-ons, trills, instant harmonies, drop and capo tunings, and much more

Tom Morello tests the new MXR Jail Guitar Doors overdrive designed with the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer
By Phil Weller published
The single-dial stompbox encapsulates the punk guitar icon's unapologetic guitar and visionary spirit

JHS has discontinued its Notadümblë pedal because it was mistakenly based on the wrong Dumble
By Phil Weller published
The now-discontinued pedal accidentally borrowed the schematic from Mayer's Dumble BBC1, giving buyers a more exotic purchase than they bargained for
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