Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive Pedal

Name: Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive Pedal
Brand: Seymour Duncan
Rating: 4.5 (16 reviews)

Guitar Overdrive Pedal with Bass, Mid, Treble, Level, and Drive Controls

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Get That Perfect Sound with the 805 Overdrive!

Add a hot-rodded and enhanced overdrive to your pedalboard with the Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive. Inspired by the legendary green overdrive circuit, the 805 Overdrive delivers the sought-after smooth overdrive tones of the original and much more. A 3-band EQ lets you dial in the perfect tone with a tighter low end, added sparkle, and more detail in note articulation. The gain range has been increased making it great for everything from clean boost to smooth, bluesy overdrive all the way to screaming solo tones. The 805 Overdrive is ideal for pushing an already overdriven amp into sonic bliss - a favorite trick among Sweetwater's guitar tone aficionados. Create and sculpt the overdrive tones that you want and need with the Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive pedal!

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Tech Specs

Pedal Type: Overdrive
Analog/Digital: Analog
Controls: Knobs: Level, Drive, Bass, Mid, Treble
Number of Footswitch Buttons: 1
EQ: 3-band EQ
Inputs: 1 x 1/4"
Outputs: 1 x 1/4"
Power Source: 9-18V DC power supply (sold separately)
Batteries: 1 x 9V
Height: 1.45"
Width: 2.61"
Depth: 4.90"
Weight: .8 lbs.
Manufacturer Part Number: 11900-004

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There is no wrong configuration with this pedal, the controls are very musical and the ranges are wide but not excessive, I previously had a TS9 and although it was good OD, sometimes I wanted to have more treble sound and I couldn't, with this pedal you kill two birds with one shot, sometimes it works as a transparent Booster at others as a powerful and mid-focused Overdrive for solos, plus you get more gain than the TS9

Omg this pedal has a lifetime spot on my pedal board, it really is the main creator of my sound. I love high gain and this 805 just threw it over the roof. What a sound, what a feeling.

Over the years, I've owned and gigged with a number of Tube Screamer-type pedals - original TS-9, Soundtank TS-5, 808-modded TS-9, JHS Bonsai, and so on. The Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive is the most versatile Screamer pedal I've used. The 3-band EQ is perfect for dialing in just the right tone, and it has more than enough gain for anything I need. It feels great to play through - very touch sensitive. My criteria for an overdrive is that it has to sound and feel so good that I don't want to stop playing. The 805 definitely does that.

I needed a good, flexible OD for my smaller, second board. I was using a a Maxon OD-9 and it sounded good but I needed a little more clarity and boost. The 805 did the trick, side by side I can get them to sound very close, the main difference being in the feel, the OD-9 is more compressed and I do like the way it feels for leads. The 805 had more clarity and could get more "grind" and the same time pushing a cranked Marshall JCM800.

"Pro Tip" for running this into a cranked Marshall: If you boost the mids to about 2:00/2:30, cut the bass and treble to about 10:30, set level to max and set drive to 9:00 - 11:00 you can nail old-school Celtic Frost tone (Morbid Tales/To Mega Therion) and it gets really close to classic 80s era Slayer tones as well. You can dial in your own sound with it too thanks to the EQ, it's a great OD for boosting a cranked/dirty amp.

Sure, this box will fill the role of the traditional TS, but it does so much more. The 3-band EQ on this thing is very sweet and flexible. I like to keep it clean and stack it ahead of other dirt pedals to give them a nice push during solos, or just on its own to warm up my clean tones. Thank You, Seymour! This is a keeper.