Overdrive

855 Drive
​$110

Do you wish the Tubescreamer had more gain, less mids, and more low end? If so, you will love the BYOC 855 Drive. The Ibanez & Maxon OD-855 is a close cousin of the Ibanez TS808. While the circuits are very similar, the OD855 is more than just a modified Tubescreamer. The BYOC 855 Drive kit is almost spot on to the original. We use the 4558D chip, 1N60 germanium clipping diodes, and tantalum caps in all the same places as the original. The only difference between the BYOC 855 Drive and the original OD855 is that we got rid of the FET bypass circuit and replaced it with true mechanical bypass, and we replaced the 1uf electrolytic caps in the signal path with higher quality film caps. The originals are selling for insane amounts of money now. Here's your chance to try out this other legendary Ibanez effect for a fraction of the cost.

Bass Overdrive
$125

A BYOC Original design. 5 knobs: bass, treble, volume, gain, and blend. Ideal for adding some tube-like warmth and growl to your tone, but has plenty of gain on tap for when you need to grind. The two band EQ is easy to use yet incredibly powerful. The blend knob can go from 100% wet to 100% dry and allows you to dial in the perfect amount of punch. This pedal has a ridiculous amount of volume on tap, even when you have the blend knob 100% dry, so it can be used as a clean or dirty boost. Are you a 6 string guitar slinger? Jealous? Don't sweat it. The kit comes with extra components to modify it to a "regular" guitar overdrive.

Blue overdrive
​$125 - $135 painted (comes with Fat Mod)

The BOSS BD-2 is one of the most loved current production pedals. It offers a massive range of gain from a nearly perfect clean boost an almost full-on distortion. It is a FET based overdrive that offers a nice alternative to all the tube screamer and klon based clones. It is touted as being able to reproduce the tone of not just a tube amp, but an old tube amp. The BYOC Blue Overdrive provides all the tone of the original BD-2, but with all metal film resistors and capacitors, and true bypass, it delivers it with less noise and zero tone suck when in bypass. This mod pack for the Blue Overdrive contains parts to perform one of the most common BD-2 mods, often referred to as the "fat mod". All the ceramic disc and aluminum electrolytic caps in the signal path are replaced with expensive silver mica and tantalum capacitors. This helps smooth out some of the harshness and fuzziness. Larger forward voltage 1N4002 diodes provide asymmetrical clipping. This creates more second order harmonics and also smooths out some of the fuzziness. The input capacitor value is increased to allow more of your guitars signal in. And one of the decoupling capacitors is placed on a toggle switch to allow you to switch between normal and "fat" mode.

British blues overdrive
$100

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If you're looking for a straight forward, 3 knob overdrive that sounds fantastic this is the pedal for you. The BYOC British Blues Overdrive kit is based on the Marshall Blues Breaker which is a more transparent sounding alternative to the typical Tubescreamer clones.

Classic OVerdrive
​$100 - $110 painted

This is our no non-sense Tube Screamer clone kit. No modifications. No fancy switches. Just pure TS-808 specs with the original JRC4558D chip and the highest quality components so you can build your own hand-wired, true bypass, Tube Screamer. This build is so simple, it's almost criminal. Get all the tone of the original TS-808 Tube Screamer at a fraction of what the reissues and boutique versions cost.

Color booster
$85

The BYOC Color Booster is based on the much loved Colorsound Overdriver (use 18v to turn it into a Power Booster). BC109 transistors, bass and treble control, and high quality 1% metal film resistors provide enough raw power to please just about any high-gain player. Roll back the volume on your guitar and hear it clean up and give your signal some increased sustain and just enough sparkle to cut through your mix. All jacks are located on the top. 9V battery, 9VDC or 18VDC negative tip power. True bypass.

Crown jewel

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The Crown Jewel from Build Your Own Clone is the ultimate drive and boost combo. It is not a clone of anything. It is an amalgamation of the best qualities from many different circuits to create something entirely new that is capable of producing a range of overdrive and distortion tones like no other analog pedal has before.

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el distorto segundo
$110

A clone of the MXR Distortion II. We took a few liberties, like removing the part of the circuit that handles the bypass and made it true mechanical bypass, giving it asymmetrical clipping as a stock feature (of course you can just leave out the extra clipping diodes if you want), adding a toggle switch to switch between standard clipping and LED clipping which gives it a crunchier tone, and doing away with the noisy internal power transformer and allowing for a 9V battery or standard guitar effects power supply (9 ~ 18VDC). But aside from that, it's true to the original. This is a little-known and somewhat rare effect. Although it's not fetching huge vintage prices yet, we decided to make a clone of it because it is such a unique and interesting distortion. There really isn't any other circuit like this. It actually has two completely different distortion/overdrive circuits. The "resonance" knob blends the second circuit into the mix.

Green pony
​$105 - $115 painted

The OD-820 was Maxon's answer to the popularity of the Klon Centaur. While it's not a clone of the Centaur, it still employs the same dual-ganged drive knob concept that gives the Centaur its ability to go from a completely clean transparent boost to an overdrive and an internal charge pump that takes your standard 9 volt power supply and increases the voltage for extra headroom. Where the two circuits really differ though is in the actual distortion circuit. The OD-820 uses Maxon's (and Ibanez's) famous Tubescreamer circuit. The BYOC Green Pony is based on the Maxon OD-820, but we've added all the obligatory Tubescreamer mods as stock options. On the outside, you'll notice we've added a NORM/THIN/FAT switch which allows you to modify the bass response and gain and a LED/NONE/Si switch that allows you to modify the clipping. On the inside, we made the Si (silicon) clipping asymmetrical and changed the value of one of the capacitors in a low pass filter so that it doesn't cut as much treble, thus reducing the dreaded mid-range hump.

kuzco jr.
$75 - $80 painted

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This mini pedal is based on the Way Huge Red Llama (which is based on the Craig Anderton Tube Sound Fuzz). The tone of this CD4049 CMOS Hex Buffer based distortion lies somewhere between a fuzz and an overdrive... Kinda like when you overdrive just the preamp section of a tube amp. Maybe that's where the name "Tube Sound Fuzz" came from?

li'l black key
​$79 - $84 painted

This mini pedal is an op amp-based fuzz inspired by the Maestro MFZ-1. Its sharp pick attack makes it unique among most other fuzzes that are typically very compressed. This quality also makes it well suited for bass guitar. The Li'l Black Key is true bypass and features all through-hole components and panel mounted hardware.

li'l breaker
$90 - $95 painted

The BYOC British Blues Overdrive kit is based on the Marshall Blues Breaker which is quickly becoming a favorite alternative to the typical Tubescreamer clones. Features all through-hole components, panel mounted hardware, and true bypass.

li'l grey overdrive
$75 - $80 painted

A clone of the 1976 gray box DOD 250 preamp overdrive, but in a significantly smaller package. Features all through-hole components and full-sized, panel-mounted hardware.

li'l modified overdrive
$90 - $95 painted

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A miniature version of the TS-808 Tubescreamer with all the essential modifications: Increased input impedance to allow better clarity of signal. More gain when you turn up the drive knob. Asymmetrical clipping for more second order harmonics. More lows to let more of the fat bottom through. More highs to allow a bit more sparkle. Cleaner drive control when dialed back so you can use it as a cleaner boost than the regular circuit. Features all through-hole components, panel mounted hardware, and true bypass.

li'l pony
$85 - $97 painted

The BYOC Li'l Pony takes all the tone of one the most innovative and sought-after overdrive circuits of all time and shrinks it down to a pocket sized box of tastiness.

Li'l yellow overdrive
$75 - $80 painted

The BYOC Li'l Yellow OD is a clone of the very first Made-in-Japan versionBOSS OD-1, except much, much smaller. It has the single quad op amp circuit and features the MC3403 chip, not the double dual op amp circuit with transistor buffers that the later versions have.

Parametric Overdrive
$115

The BYOC Parametric Overdrive is an exact clone of the Pearl OD-05 with true bypass and Q mod - a 3-way switch that allows you to adjust the Q of the parametric EQ from narrow, medium(original specs), or wide. The parametric tone control is obviously the first thing people notice about the OD-05. It has a massive range from 100Hz to 4kHz, but that's just the icing on the cake. What really makes this overdrive special is it's retention of low frequencies and ability to be perfectly transparent. A transparent overdrive that can boost or cut any frequency, in practically the entire useful spectrum range of a guitar? Yes, please.

Silver Pony
$107 painted

The BYOC Silver Pony takes one the most innovative and sought after overdrive circuits of all time and adds a few switchable modifications to make it even more versatile without compromising the tone that made the original pedal such a legend. The Clipping switch allows you to select 3 different types of clipping. GE1 is the original Germanium diode clipping. This produces a very compressed and smooth overdrive. GE2 places a second pair of Germanium diodes in series for clipping with twice the forward voltage. This reduces the compression and produces a slightly crunchier overdrive. Si uses a pair of Silicon diodes for 3x the forward voltage of the original clipping. This produces a very open and crunchy overdrive. The EQ switch allows you to select 3 different bass responses. NORM is the stock setting, producing very a present low midrange. FULL is just that - a nice full frequency response. And FAT provides a slight boost to the bottom end. The Silver Pony employs a mechanical true bypass switching system for the clarity in bypass that only a true bypass circuit can provide. It does NOT have a buffered bypass like the original.

silver pony ii
$140 - $150 painted

The BYOC Silver Pony II takes one the most innovative and sought after overdrive circuits of all time and expands it into a dual channel overdrive with a few extras. The drive channel is a faithful klone of the original circuit. The clipping switch lets you choose between Germanium diode clipping for the smooth, compressed sound of the original, Silicon diode clipping for a crunchier, more open sound, and LED (light emitting diode) clipping for a gritty, completely uncompressed distortion. One of the things this circuit is famous for is its ultra-clean and super transparent boost capabilities. But to use it as such, you have to stop playing, bend over, and turn the gain knob all the way down. You only get one or the other. There’s no way to switch between both with just the press of a button…till now. We dissected the clean boost portion of the circuit and made it into a separate boost channel. So now you can have the best of both worlds. And the boost channel is entirely independent of the overdrive channel. This means you can use it to boost the output of the overdrive channel for solos or you can use it as just a clean boost all on its own.

Chancellor
$105

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Based on the Marshall Guv'nor, the BYOC Chancellor kit is another true-bypassed version of one of the designs from Marshall's fantastic early big box era series pedals. The Shredmaster was a full on distortion. The Blues Breaker was a quintessential overdrive. The Chancellor lies somewhere in between. The best word to describe this pedal is crunchy. It's like having a cranked JCM800 full stack in a box. The BYOC Chancellor is true to the original circuit, but with true bypass, higher quality components, and half the size.

Yellow overdrive
​$100

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The BOSS OD-1 is becoming a very popular overdrive. Prices for the original OD-1 with the Raytheon RC3403AD chip have gone through the roof! The BYOC Yellow Overdrive is an exact clone of the very first version BOSS OD-1. It has the quad op amp circuit, not the dual op amp circuit with transistor buffers that the later versions have. The kit comes with the incredibly rare Ratheon RC3403AD chip that was used in the very first production run of the OD-1.