Overdrive Guitar Tones

How to get a overdrive tone — and 127 famous songs that use it, each with researched amp settings and gear you can adapt to your rig.

Dialing overdrive: Overdrive pushes your amp harder. Low DRIVE + high LEVEL turns it into a clean boost that tightens a cranked amp (the classic Tube Screamer trick — it also humps the mids and rolls off low end, so palm mutes stay tight). Crank the drive and it becomes its own smooth crunch.
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Songs that use overdrive

Killswitch Engage

Pink Floyd

Slipknot

Dream Theater

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Motionless in White

Ozzy Osbourne

Paramore

Queens of the Stone Age

Sleep Token

Avenged Sevenfold

Bad Omens

Dokken

Eric Johnson

Gary Moore

Korn

Metallica

Oasis

Pearl Jam

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

The Strokes

AC/DC

Architects

Arctic Monkeys

Asian Kung-Fu Generation

BAND-MAID

Black Label Society

Brand New

Bring Me the Horizon

Bryan Adams

Bullet for My Valentine

Cafe Tacvba

Charlie Brown Jr.

Decapitated

Deftones

Duman

Dying Fetus

Elevation Worship

Enjambre

Eric Clapton

EXTREME

Fit for An Autopsy

Flawed Mangoes

Fleetwood Mac

Franz Ferdinand

Hatebreed

Heart Attack Man

Hillsong Worship

Hot Mulligan

Hozier

John Mayer

John McLaughlin

KALEO

kessoku band

Kessoku Band

Knocked Loose

Lamb of God

LINKIN PARK

Ling Tosite Sigure

Loathe

Lorna Shore

MAN WITH A MISSION

Måneskin

Marcus King

Mayhem

Mechina

Megadeth

mor ve ötesi

Mother Mother

Mötley Crüe

My Chemical Romance

n-buna

Olivia Rodrigo

Pantera

Parkway Drive

Pixies

Polyphia

Rage Against the Machine

Rata Blanca

Santana

Slayer

Sonic Youth

Spiritbox

Tame Impala

The Doors

The Knack

The Long Faces

The Troggs

Trivium

Turnstile

Type O Negative

Wet Leg

Yoshimasa Terui

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