Colorsound Overdriver 1978 - Rare Purple Case!

Make: SolaSound / ColorSound

Model: Overdriver 

Manufactured Date/Era: 1978 (Date Stamp Internally) 

Manufacture Country: United Kingdom

Sound/Effect: Overdrive/Fuzz

Power Supply: 9v Battery

Controls: Treble, Bass & Drive (not labeled)

Case Colour: Orange Logo with Retro Purple Case

Circuit Details: Three Transistors

Original Box Y/N: No

Non-Original Parts/Mods/Upgrades: Not Aware of Any

Used By: Pink Floyd, Jan Akkerman of Focus and Marc Bolan of T Rex.

Jim Boogie’s Comments:

I have had several Overdrivers but I had never seen ones in the later cases as I presume production slowed right down, and the stars aligned that I now have two! One with it’s original box. This Circuit is built to overdrive a tube amp in my opinion, and when you crank the volume the tone still stays warm… noting there is a big volume boost in this pedal, some people will mod them, but this has not been touched by the looks of the board. 

I feel you get two pedals with these Overdrivers, a volume boost / overdrive and a fuzz, as when you push the gain right up, you get a warm fuzzy sounds, that’s not far off the Tonebenders. There are awesome and rare pedals that’ll keep climbing in value. Check out the other listing for the one with the box but unfortunately not in a cool retro purple colour! 

This is fuzz for days… warm, creamy fuzz and a brilliant, more affordable reissued version that came out in the 90’s. Similar to other tonebenders, I like to pull back the fuzz control and push the volume control to overdrive a valve amp… that’s where the magic happens for me. If you turn it up loud enough some say you can communicate with other dimensions. 

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