AZOR Overdrive Guitar Pedal - Vintage Leon Drive Effect with HP/LP Modes and True Bypass

I didn't know what to expect from the AZOR LEON DRIVE, but it turns out to be an interesting variation on the TS808 Tube Screamer !The "HP / LP" switch gives this pedal almost a "Jeckyl & Hyde" split personality. I should mention that this switch configuration has apparently given some the impression that this pedal is an "OCD" clone...it is NOT !In the "LP" position, the circuit is dead a on clone of the TS808 circuit (at least component wise). I say this because while I have never tried a "real" TS, my curiosity got the best of me, and I traced out the circuit !The little "extra" with this pedal is the "HP" switch position. The difference between the HP and LP positions is pretty drastic (in a good way). The HP position has more "Presence" and higher headroom than the LP position. It makes me think of a particular British amp sound (HIWATT, based on what I've read, and having seen The Who live in '69), It stays pretty clean, but will give you some nice breakup when you crank your guitar volume. The "HP" setting is courtesy of LED clipping diodes vs the typical clipping diodes used in the TSXX pedals.The "LP" position is also very usable...tone wise it reminds me of a Fuzz Face with less gain (but nothing" cleans up" with your guitar volume knob like a Fuzz Face).Hope this helps 🙂

I like it but I still don't know what the switches and knob really do. So it's just an experiment. Would have been nice to get a little info sheet.What

Good od pedal, especialy for the price, it's got 2 settings, one giving you nice break up and smooth od. Flip the switch and it gets chunky, and can get downright dirty. Great with a booster (like a ts9) in front of it for leads. For the price, put one on your board, or in the back of your amp as a backup!

It's like 2 drives n oneA clean overdrive and a high gain dirty drive.Great Range of desires reached in One Small , very inexpensive pedal...Very rugged and can easily be used live .

First, this white Leon Drive pedal is NOT anything like my OCD pedal. The LP setting sounds highly compressed, like a somewhat muffled overdrive at low drive settings, and a non-dynamic fuzz or distortion pedal at high drive settings. Low volume, no headroom. As such it might be OK for some rhythm playing. Turning up the tone knob does add back some high end (upper mids I guess) but no real sparkle. The HP setting has lots more headroom and volume, but not much drive. It seems to remove some harmonics and increases string/note separation vaguely like a Bluesbreaker pedal. But by comparison the Leon sounds rather unnatural and sterile to me.I think that a far better low-cost alternative, especially for the Leon LP position, is the TC Mojo Mojo pedal. Slightly more expensive and larger, but very versatile and musical sounding. And for what I think the Leon is trying to do in the HP position, the little Mooer Blues Crab pedal provides far better clarity and string/note separation, and sounds much more musical overall.All that said, I'm not going to return this Leon pedal! It's so damn cheap that I can treat it as expendable if I need a generic fuzzy distorted sound somewhere where I wouldn't want to risk my good pedals. That would be using the LP setting only - I can't imagine ever wanting to use it the HP setting.

I really liked this, the overdrive sounds decent and the distortion is nice and smooth without being fizzy at the top end, really good useable little pedal

The first pedal I bought from Amazon came in and straight away it didn’t work, tested all my cables amp and guitar and it was definitely the pedal so I returned it and got a replacement and I tried again. Same problem, pedal turns on and mutes all noise that comes through it. Pedal is garbage do not buy.

I didn't like the sound, but for a budget effect it is not too, too bad. Worth what I paid for.