Description
Unlocking exceptionally responsive dirt tones, the MXR M249 Super Badass Dynamic Overdrive reacts beautifully to every nuance of your picking attack. This highly articulate pedal preserves your guitar’s natural voice while delivering everything from a clean volume boost to a harmonically rich, saturated growl.
By utilizing the dedicated boost/cut switch, players can effortlessly tailor their midrange presence to cut right through a dense mix or sit back smoothly. The intuitive layout guarantees that dialling in the perfect overdrive feel is immediate, ensuring your core tone remains uncoloured, punchy, and incredibly dynamic under your fingertips during any live set.
DESCRIPTION:
The MXR Sugar Drive Pedal provides a diverse range of clear and transparent overdrive tones, from sauced up boosting to blown-tube distortion. It’s based on a rare overdrive pedal that has acquired a mythical reputation among fanatical tone-seekers thanks to its unique circuit design.
The key elements of that circuit design are the Drive control and something called a voltage doubler. First, the Drive control on this pedal doesn’t just increase the intensity of the overdrive pedal. It starts with your clean signal and then blends it with the overdrive effect as you turn it up, replicating the smooth transition of an amplifier going from clean to dirty. The voltage doubler increases overall headroom, which opens everything up nicely.
Of course, we had to put the MXR touch on this circuit. If you’re all about true bypass, then you’re in luck—this pedal uses it by default. The original used buffered bypass, though, and we know there’s a lot of players out there who don’t want to fix something that isn’t broken. They’re in luck, too—just flick the Buffer switch on the side of the pedal to enable buffered bypassing.
With a simple three-knob setup and an MXR mini housing, this is the go-to overdrive to have on your pedalboard. It’s versatile and it saves space, and unlike the original pedals it’s based on, it won’t cost you thousands of dollars.