SILKTONE
Overdrive+
TESTED BY DAVE HUNTER
Available in Concrete (here) and Dark (below right) finish options, Overdrive+ looks like it came from the 1970s.
CALIFORNIA-BASED MAKER Silktone is best known for its range of small-tosmaller tube amps, but the company does have the well-respected Fuzz pedal in its catalog. And thanks to the arrival of the equally eponymously named Overdrive+, that’s no longer the lone stompbox on offer. A quick look at any of Silktone’s three amp models or the Fuzz itself quickly tells you that company founder and head designer Charles Henry isn’t satisfied merely remaking circuits that have gone before, and the Overdrive+ is no different. Although the textured metal box (offered in Concrete or Dark finish options), chrome-skirted knobs, retro graphics and generic name hark back to some seminal overdrives of the ’70s and early ’80s, the circuit and features are different from any previous OD I know of, and the results put this pedal in a place all its own.