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Dude Alert! Overdrive

Dude Alert! Overdrive

Regular price $242.00
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🚨WOAH baby!  It's a Dude Alert!🚨
JUST LAUNCHED FOR BLACK FRIDAY!
PREORDERS shipping out Dec 13th
(heads up, the knob style is going to change from the product pic)

This overdrive will make you feel like you have full-body tribal tattoos.  It's got familiar overdrive controls like TONE to shave off high frequencies, LEVEL for volume, and GAIN to control the clipping responsiveness. 

A little unique to this pedal from other overdrives is that the GAIN has a wider sweep on the low range of the knob.  This lets you really dial in your sweet spot no matter how hot your pickups are.  Using single coils but still want more dirt?  The full range of the clipping is still available toward the top range of the knob.

The level of the output signal has been boosted, so you get a little more volume than you're used to with a typical overdrive pedal (specifically, +10dB if you are a Dude like that).  You can even run this pedal at 9 Vdc like normal... or a whopping 18 Vdc for more headroom!

Really want control of your overdrive's sound?  You can swap the clipping diodes!

  • WHOA! mode is LED clipping for a round, sweet style of grit.
  • WOAH! mode is asymmetrical silicon diode clipping for harder distortion and more harmonics. 

    (Pro tip if you forget: Use your ears. The LED clipping is louder, and the harder Si clipping is quieter.)
    There's even a secret mode, but I'll let you discover that for yourself.  Hint: it's LOUD.

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More info for the nerds:
The original that this pedal was based off of was built by Brian Klemm and passed around to his friends with rave reviews.  He was having trouble finding certain parts, so just swapped them out with what he had available until the pedal sounded sweet!  With special artwork provided by his homie and trombone player in Suburban Legends, this pedal will have you on high Dude Alert!

Tech info:

  • JRC4558 Opamp -based overdrive
  • LED Clipping mode
  • Silicon Diode asymetrical clipping mode
  • Top jacks
  • run at 9-18 Volts

Shipping & Returns

We are glad to accept home-tested returns up to 2 weeks after your delivery date for a full refund. Gigged or otherwise user-damaged products won't be accepted.

For more info on returns or exchanges, reach out to jesse@rudetech.com

Dimensions

Housing size incl. knobs:

L 4.80" x W 3.67" x H 2.20"

L 122mm x W 93.3mm x H 56mm

Power Requirements

9VDC power from a 2.1mm barrel connector (center negative)

Current draw <10mA

No internal battery power option

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Customer Reviews

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Joshua Partington
Great Pedal (and great looking too!)

Love the tones. Especially the LED Clipping and Boost mode. Great paired with a boost behind it as well. Definitely going to stay on my pedal board for awhile!

Thank you so much for saying so! This nothing really likes to stack. Boost mode into a tube amp is a completely different sound from, say, a boost into the DA!'s LED mode. The latter is almost Iike a the boost acting as a channel selector!

Enjoy! Tell all your friends!

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Ryder Sanders
Dude Alert OD

This has become my favorite OD I have. I collect OD pedals and by far this pedal is my favorite. It's now on my board.

So glad you're loving it! I believe you got one of the first ones too, Serial #0017 if I'm not mistaken.
Have fun with it, and thank you for being the first to leave a review on the Dude Alert!