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Rob Laing

Is the Nobels ODR-1 the real holy grail overdrive pedal?

Nobels ODR-1 pedal

Watch enough YouTube guitar videos and eventually, you'll discover a lot of the gold comes from session guitarists – the players who have clocked enough hours in studios and on stages to know what they're talking about when it comes to tones. And as we discovered in Tom Bukovac's recent overdrive pedal blind test, the Nobels ODR-1 keeps coming up. 

It's often touted as a Nashvilles session players' favourite overdrive pedal, and with fans like Bukovac, Guthrie Trapp and Tim Pierce, that bears out. But why? And were all ODR-1s made equally. 

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