Hudson Electronics Unveils the Overdrive 999, Blackbird, and Buzzard

The Overdrive 999 is a versatile drive pedal packed with attitude and full of character. It can cover classic overdrive and distortion as well as, at extreme settings, fuzz and boost. A heavily modified version of that infamous green overdrive, tuned for more bass, wider gain range, greater headroom and amp-like clipping.

The powerful two band Baxandall equaliser section is taken from an old Studer recording console and provides up to 15dB of cut and boost of the high and low bands. Combining the EQ and DRIVE control allows you to create a myriad of different sonic textures. The extended frequency response and wide ranging equaliser allow it to work just as well on bass as on guitar.

The Blackbird is a 100% analogue, nasty, wild, octave fuzz. Its lineage lies with the 70s Japanese fuzz pedals from Shin-ei and Ibanez. The Blackbird has been tuned to push the mids, but with plenty of low end to mesh with bass as well as guitar. Loud and aggressive, it’s perfect for glitchy leads, scuzzy blues riffs, through to psychedelic space jams and fuzzy freak-outs.

The Buzzard takes you on a fuzzy flight from wasp-like buzzes to thick and greasy fuzzes. Two NOS germanium transistors lie at the heart of this bird which can create classic Fuzzrite, '60s bite, pseudo-octave effects, fuzzy filtered wah-like tones and dense, chewy distortion.

Hudson Electronics, located in Hutton, East Yorkshire, UK, offer hand-crafted retro-flavoured fuzz pedals. We build onto vintage style strip-boards, using hand selected, new old-stock germanium and silicon transistors, along with high quality components. Every aspect of each build is completed by hand with high attention to detail, from the application of graphics through to final assembly and testing: authentic fuzz tones, precision construction and thorough after market care.

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