Becos Effects Unveils The Ziffer Overdrive

The Ziffer Overdrive is a sturdy minion, road-ready, and eager to perform in any instance, on stage or in the studio

Becos Effects Unveils The Ziffer Overdrive

The Ziffer Overdrive is a sturdy minion, road-ready, and eager to perform in any instance, on stage or in the studio

Constanta, Romania, European Union โ€“ We are honored and happy to announce the release of the โ€œZiffer Overdriveโ€ โ€“ The Jordan Ziff Signature MINI Overdrive Pedal.

Inspired by Jordan Ziffโ€™s minimalist approach to guitar tone by using the overdrive to push his 1959 Plexi amp, we mixed the vintage tubescreamer essentials with careful sophistication to give rise to a versatile and powerful tone shaping tool.

The Ziffer Overdrive was developed for Jordan Ziff – lead guitarist of Hot Crazy, RATT, and guitarist in Marty Friedman’s band -, and is mainly derived from our TS8-MS Overdrive / MIDI Switcher pedal which he embraced as its tubescreamer choice a couple of years ago. This time we removed the MIDI switching capabilities and added several controls which contribute to subtle tone-crafting and expanded versatility.

We envision this minion for usage with guitar and bass, or other instruments as well. For this reason, we added parallel clean processing complemented by a tilting equalizer – which is a simplified but performant preamp. The Dry line can be mixed with the overdriven Wet line for finely tuning the frequency spectrum of the overdriven sound. Aside from its 3-clipping options, we also added a Deep mode very appropriate to beefing up single-coil pickups in guitars or leave the bottom end in place when used with a bass.

The Ziffer Overdrive is a sturdy minion, road-ready, and eager to perform in any instance, on stage or in the studio. The pedal offers the following features:

  • True analog bypass
  • Gain, Tone, Level controls
  • Classic/Asymmetric/LEDs clipping options
  • Classic/Deep frequency response selection
  • Dry/Wet Mix
  • Dry EQ frequency trimming
  • Dry boost/cut variability
  • Hi-quality audio ICs, low tolerance parts, Panasonic Polyester capacitors
  • Black powder-coated MINI-size genuine Hammond aluminum enclosure
  • 9-18 VDC external power supply (not included), center negative, 12mm long barrel plug
  • 3-years warranty

The Jordan Ziff Signature Overdrive has a street price of $169.00 / โ‚ฌ149.00. Pre-orders may be placed directly on BECOSFX online store at becosfx.com (or from select retailers) starting August 2021. 

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