The Blood Drive is not polite.
This is a single-transistor overdrive built to live right on the edge—where overdrive starts to break into fuzz, but still cleans up beautifully with your guitar’s volume knob.
It’s raw, dynamic, and alive under your fingers.
If you like your tone a little dangerous, you’re in the right place.
What It Does:
Thick, aggressive overdrive with a fuzz-adjacent edge
Exceptional cleanup—roll back your volume and it goes from mean to articulate
Reacts heavily to picking dynamics (this thing feels like an amp)
Works great with humbuckers and single coils alike
Controls:
Rage (Volume): Overall output level—plenty of push to hit your amp hard
Thirst (Tone): Shapes everything from warm and thick to biting and cutting
Design Notes:
Based on a classic single-transistor gain stage (Q1 design)
Carefully tuned bias for optimal feel and response (~4.5V sweet spot)
Asymmetrical clipping for added character and harmonic richness
Built to sit perfectly between overdrive and fuzz
Build Quality:
Hand built in small batches
Premium soft-click footswitch (no loud “clunk”)
UV-printed enclosure (no decals—this is pro-level finish)
Each unit is individually serialized and signed inside
Why This Pedal?
There are a lot of overdrives out there that sound “good.”
The Blood Drive is about feel.
It responds to how you play—dig in and it snarls, back off and it cleans up. It’s the kind of pedal that makes you play differently (in a good way).
Final Thought
If you want a perfectly smooth, transparent overdrive… this isn’t it.
If you want something with attitude that pushes your amp into controlled chaos—
The Blood Drive delivers.
The King’s Road is inspired by classic Bluesbreaker-style circuits, known for their transparent character, touch sensitivity, and excellent note definition. It delivers everything from edge-of-breakup grit to smooth, singing overdrive while preserving the natural voice of your guitar and amplifier.
This pedal excels as an always-on tone shaper, a low-gain drive, or a stacking platform for boosts and higher-gain pedals.
Tone Characteristics:
Transparent low-to-medium gain overdrive
Smooth silicon clipping
Balanced mids without the typical “mid hump”
Excellent note separation for chords
Cleans up beautifully with guitar volume control
Stacks extremely well with other drives and boosts
Ideal for blues, classic rock, worship, indie, and edge-of-breakup players.
Controls:
Gain – Light breakup to smooth overdrive
Tone – Wide sweep without harsh highs
Volume – Plenty of output to push your amp
Build Details:
Hand-built in small batches
Through-hole components
TL072 dual op-amp platform
Silicon clipping configuration
True bypass switching
9V DC center-negative power (standard pedal supply)
Rugged 1590B aluminum enclosure
Each pedal is individually assembled, soldered, and tested before shipping.
Pendletone Effects UXO Overdrive – Hand-Built Interactive Overdrive with Fuse Bias Control
The UXO is a hand-built analog overdrive designed around a simple idea: instead of only changing the amount of distortion, what if you could change the way the transistor itself behaves?
The result is the Fuse control.
Rather than acting like a traditional gain knob, the Fuse control adjusts the operating point of the transistor, allowing the pedal to move from responsive edge-of-breakup tones to full-throttle overdrive while retaining excellent touch sensitivity and dynamic response.
The UXO rewards players who use their guitar's volume control and picking dynamics. Roll your guitar volume back for articulate, lightly driven tones, then open it up for rich, harmonically complex overdrive—all without changing pedals.
Features
Hand-built in small batches by Pendletone Effects
Interactive Fuse bias control
Gain, Tone, and Fuse controls
Symmetrical silicon clipping for a smooth, balanced overdrive character
Through-hole construction
Custom PCB
Professionally UV-printed enclosure
True bypass switching
Standard 9V DC center-negative operation (power supply not included)
Every Pendletone Effects pedal is individually assembled, tested, and serialized before shipping.
Built in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
Limited 4-Year Warranty
Your pedal is backed by a limited 4-year warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship under normal use. Damage resulting from incorrect power supplies, modifications, or physical abuse is not covered.