Animals Pedal Major Overdrive
That Legendary Overdrive Rock Tone!!!
An Animals Pedal and Skreddy Pedals Collaboration!!!
Walls of amplifiers onstage have been seen behind some of the world’s most famous rock acts. The UK made amps that became the beginning of the legend is one of the classic tone goals for many guitarists. Enter the Animals Pedal Major Overdrive, designed by Marc Ahlfs of Skreddy Pedals to bring everyone the legendary rock tones. The latest version of the Major OD has improved access to the footswitch by placing it to the front right spot on the pedal, while also making it easier to change the battery when needed. The art has been upgraded, and the circuit has been fine-tuned and expanded to work well with a wider range of guitars and amplifiers. Major Overdrive adopts true bypass footswitch and is powered by a 9V battery or a standard center minus DC9V adapter.
Call it what you will – the “British” sound, the “UK” style, or variants such as the “Plexi” – these unique amps made in the late 60’s and early 70’s became the legendary amps that everyone wanted to acquire. The Major Overdrive will take you to the plexi-palace of tone in an easy-to-use package that sounds great with even solid-state practice amps. When you think of that “plexi” style tone, it is easy to imagine much more distortion than there actually is. One of the secrets to this tone is using less gain than you might think.
Set the Major OD GAIN knob in the middle, and you can immediately hear the magic – this tone is distorted but also very easy to play legato lead lines with. The early plexi tones are more forward and large sounding when combined with a band, while the later 70’s sounds have more gain and compression much like when a certain guitarist in LA plugged his plexi amp into a variable power transformer to lower (brown out) the voltage to the amp, causing a different sort of distortion to occur. Crank up the GAIN knob on the Major OD and feel the change in dynamics and sustain!
Experience the characteristics and tones of a genuine vintage British valve amplifier with the Animals Pedal Major Overdrive. This collaboration between Animals Pedal and Skreddy Pedals shows new possibilities in the world of effects pedals!
“The tone from the classic rock albums. Animals Pedal Major Overdrive creates a brown sound of clean to rich harmonics as well as high gain neoclassical tones in one pedal. It’s highly responsive and you can control the gain with the volume and picking dynamics of the guitar” —Marc Ahlfs (Skreddy Pedals)
**When using batteries, please unplug the input jack to reduce battery consumption when storing the effector. Also, if you don’t use it for a long time, please remove the battery and store it**
Control of the Animals Pedal Major Overdrive
- VOL: Adjusts the volume.
- TONE: Adjusts the tone centered on the high frequency component.
- GAIN: Adjusts the strength of the distortion.
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