What's the most you would spend on an Overdrive pedal?

My personal limit is around $150 for a single, going up to $225 for a double. I think there are so many great sounding pedals attainable at that price point it is hard for me to justify going significantly over that. However, that's just my personal opinion considering my financial situation, so if you got it and want to go higher, I say go for it.

Current favorite is EarthQuaker Devices Westwood.

I think I once spent about 100 bucks on a TC novadrive because it had preset storage and external midi controlwhen I was all hot on that. These days I would just make something, so parts and solder costs. There's maybe 20 bucks of parts in anything and it's usually just a tubescreamer/sd1 or maybe a dod 250 ora hottubes/redllama... or a brown sound in a box if you like catalinbread and you have a deluxe reverb but want a plexi or whatever, they make a million riffs on that circuit...

I prefer not to use a big muff unless I'm trying to sound like siamese dream. And I'm not a heavy player exactly... usually there's nowhere one would use a muff that I don't prefer a tonebender or rat depending on what im doing. Or maybe a superfuzz. Usually I just turn my amp up and boost out front if needed.

Do you find that the pedals you make compare to the ones on the market? I've toyed with that idea. I've made a treble boost from a kit before and I was surprised to find that I liked it quite a bit.

Yeah, I like my OD pedals just as little as I like anything else. If I need an OD I'm fine with the sd1 style and prefer the mxr superbadass. Its really cheap used, I think I have 2 and never paid more than 30 bucks... and it has that cool bass gyrator control which requires an extra opamp to build... it's cheap enough its not worth cloning. Good enough, readily replaceable gig day if it dies...

I don't think I even own any ODs I made but I have my favorite fuzzies and boosts and I'm very happy with my work on the off occassions I have more in line than my echoplex.

I recently got an EHX OD Glove and I think it's great. I got it because it was under $100 CAD and sounded excellent in the videos. It seems pretty versatile given the internal 9V/18V switch. So, I guess $100 is my limit, because I don't think I want another overdrive. I was really considering the OCD though, just lucked out that the Glove sounded close enough for me.

At this point, probably $100CAD. I got my Boss SD-1 for $40, and I'm very happy with that. If there was a smaller company I wanted to support I could maybe stretch that to $150, but that's the hard limit.

The glove is more or less a fulltone OCD... which itself is lifted from a discontinued voodoo lab drive.

Each Muff have a different unique sound, you must experiment to find what pedal is the right for you because all muffs are versatile with the correct settings. The big old classic big muff pi is a little difficult to handle with settings, noise etc but when you find it is a keeper. The Green Russian is my fav for now for darker, bass sound it gives. You can play a lot of diffent genre for sure. And the Op Amp sound is a simulation of broken amp, :) nowadays is like a signature pedal for Smashing Pumpkin stuff, so is perfect if you want to simulate that sound.

Necro reply: trust me, I've tried a wide gamut of muffs and muff alikes and boo-teeks like skreddy and stomp underfoot (dude made me a 1 off like 15 years ago) going back to around 92. I'm a middle aged pawn shop era player. Pre Ebay I used to just pick up old ehx stuff for peanuts at society hill loan and Bob's rt13 music... the idea of a vintage pedal with premium pricing didn't come about until I was an adult... well, fuzz faces, ts808s and certain vox wahwahs commanded some coin when SRV worship kicked in hard. But mainly old pedals were treated like trash.

The opamp is not a simulation of anything, it just replaces the discrete transistor amp stages with IC stages to cut costs and changes and even removes some support circuitry to accomodate the 4 self biasing IC opamps. That might be the one with the tone control on off switch too, I forget now... it does sound the most different from the discrete muffs... but the signal topology isn't a departure, it's just modernized