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BOSS Your Tone: Overdrive and Distortion

Overdrive and Distortion: What’s the Difference? What’s the difference between overdrive and distortion? Learn the difference and how to get great tone with either stompbox. As guitar players, what are we all after? What do we struggle to describe, work to attain, but always know when we hear it? And what is all that gear [...]

Get Great Tone With BOSS OverDrive

BOSS Overdrive – The Yellow Ones There are two good ways to get tone from an overdrive. One is to use the overdrive in conjunction with your amp; that is, use the overdrive pedal to augment your amp’s inherent tone. Here’s how this works: