Vintage Overdrive : Great sounding overdrive

11 years ago

I use this to get a tad more gain out of my Bugera V5 as well as to get some additional treble out of the amp and it works great for that. The Bugera V5 has a reputation of sounding like someone dropped a wet blanket over it and this pedal mostly fixes that (not perfectly but close to it) with the tone knob.

The overdrive sounds amazing. I get old school rock/blues tones out of it when I run the V5 clean and the drive knob on the pedal on about half or more. If I crank the gain on the V5 as well as on the pedal it gets into old school metal territory which is exactly the span of gain tones I was looking for.

I have my doubts about the build quality since the price is so low, but it feels well built on the outside at least and it it working fine so far. No glitches at all.

Image Harley Benton Vintage Overdrive

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Harley Benton
  • Released in 2011
  • Average price : $32
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