Little Mayhem

I got this pedal beat up and used for 40 bucks and it is my go-to for cutting leads. The drive is dynamic and alive, but sounds way better than a Tube Screamer.

Great. Not a TS not a "klone" but it's own great transparent beef

This is a good product. Some say it's a bit bassy, but that has not been my experience, even with an LP. Spectrum knob keeps your mids in place avoiding nasal stuff but adding depth and crunch to taste. So compact and you can run 18v power into it instead of 9v which, for me, saves me from buying another power brick and also seems to add some clarity.

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Great overdrive that might not be everyone's cup of tea.

After believing this to be another Tube Screamer clone (it's not), and seeing videos on YouTube about this being a "Secret weapon Overdrive used by Pro's in Nashville" I decided to give this version of the Nobels ODR-1 a try. I have two guitars mind you, one a Les Paul copy from Vintage, and another a 1997 Gibson SG Special. Both equipped with humbuckers. I could no for the life of me at first get a sound out of this pedal without having a very boomey low end. The spectrum knob helped a bit but that low end boom was still there and trying to cut the low end with this pedal was kind of a pain. I ended up getting rid of my first Nobels because of this issue.

Fast forward a few months later, I did some more research on the pedal and realized it was originally made to emulate an old Marshall Super Bass and that you can run it in 18v which opens up the pedal quite a bit. It immediately became clear what this pedal was going for so I went ahead and purchased another ORD-1 Mini. And I also understood why so many fans of it used Telecasters and/or single coil pickup guitars. It's best utilized for a single coil with a lot of highs. Finding all this out, I first put the pedal on 18v power to open it up a bit (Big help), then I paired it with an EQ pedal to get that low end boom sound out. Ended up working wonders, now both of my guitars have a very creamy and musical overdrive when the ODR-1 is engaged. It became my go to "first stage" overdrive.

It's a high quality pedal, small form factor, built like a tank and has a cool look. You gotta do research into what this pedal is and does well. Out of the box plugged into a 9v power adapter, it's going to sound bass heavy and boomy with a pair of humbuckers. It was kind of designed for single coils in mind with the pedal modeling essentially a bass heavy amplifier.

Great compact overdrive for the price

I usually use more clean tones and chorus and when it came to buying an overdrive pedal I wanted something cheap and compact that was still reliable. I found that the ODR mini offers exactly that with it's small build and great sound, as it offered a lot of the mellow overdrive that I was looking for.