WHEN TRANSPARENT OVERDRIVE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH We took our most legendary overdrive to a new level and redefined what it means to be transparent. Clearer pick attack, improved low end, and more versatile gain stacking. This is the ultimate first-stage overdrive pedal. IT STARTED AT SOUND CHECK I watched Julian Lage dial in his tone at a soundcheck in Chicago: vintage Fender amp, Collings semi-hollow guitar, adjusting pickup heights and moving positions on stage for the perfect balance. He’s used a Morning Glory for years — a big reason it ended up on jazz pedalboards worldwide. After the soundcheck, we discussed what he looked for in an overdrive, and one thing led to another. Ideas for improving the Morning Glory started forming. THE PROBLEM WITH TRANSPARENT Any type of clipping, even in transparent overdrives, compresses pick attack, narrows dynamics, and shapes frequency response. So we did something no one else has done: rebuilt the Morning Glory (Bluesbreaker-style topology) around a studio-grade parallel clean blend. Not just a modification — a complete redesign. The parallel clean allows you to retain all the character and harmonics of the overdrive while dialing the natural low end back in — nothing compromised, all tone preserved. THIS ISN'T A CLEAN KNOB SLAPPED ON The Clean control uses a dual-gang potentiometer, scaling clean gain proportionally with the drive signal for seamless blending across all gain settings. Most clean blends are afterthoughts, but her