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For the last week and one half I have been reviewing overdrive pedals that I have owned. I will be wrapping up this series of reviews with the pedals that just did not find their way onto my permanent pedal board that I have not reviewed with a quick reason why I did not keep them. Some of these pedals are really bad, and some are not bad at all, just never stayed around. Tomorrow I will run down the remainder of the pedals that I have kept.

Follow up:

Arion Stereo Distortion - This pedal was built cheaply and is very noisy to say the least. I purchased this at a pawn shop for next to nothing and destroyed it trying to modify it so it would sound better. It is on the list of not to do again.

Line 6 Uber Metal Pedal - This distortion was way to much, even for me. Way to difficult to control even with all if the possible settings. I bought it used and sold it after about 2 months. Sounded too much like a line 6 pod effect.

Roger Meyer Octavia - This is more of a fuzz than anything else. I really could have kept it but never found a way to get it on a pedal board. neat octave splash effect but it did not work with what I was doing at the time. Definitely worth checking out if you like fuzz tones.

Danolecto cool cat metal II - neat sounding distortion, very similar to a Keeley Modded DS-1. Basically bought it to compare to the Keeley DS-1 and then gave it away.

Delta Lab Rock Distortion - Fairly average true bypass distortion. Purchased to place on my acoustic board to give a little clipping when I do guitar solos with the acoustic. Did not feed back to much, but did not sound well through the acoustic amp. I gave this pedal away last Christmas to a kid who was looking to learn heavier guitar.

Fulltone Catalyst - I technically still own this pedal and really like it. I am getting rid of this pedal because I am not using it at all. I did a review of this pedal shortly after I purchased it. That review is available in the blog archives.

Boss OD-3 and OD-3 modified. Liked these pedals but what they were trying to be was a TS-808 which I had covered with the Visual Sound pedals that I have kept.

Boss Dual Overdrive - This is really a neat pedal. I set this pedal up with a Foot switch to go between a clean boost and a real distorted overdrive sound. These pedals are fairly rare and if the price was right I would pick up another one.

Boss OD-20 Drive zone - COSM sounding multi effect distortion pedal. Does not really do any one distortion real well, this would be good if you were doing a ton of covers that was only distorted tones and without a need for other effects. It has the usual problems that most multi effects pedals have.

In all of my years of playing I have played a great number of pedals. Up until recently the boutique and modified pedals have been ones that I have not been able to play because they were not in stores locally. Tommorow I will review the remainder of the pedals that I have owned