Can somebody clear me up?

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Tough question. As far as i see it, the classic explanation is that the general idea of overdrive effects is that they are used to drive a (tube) preamp into distortion - hence the name overdrive. A distortion effect, on the other hand, is expected to produce similar distortion tones by itself.

Teemu K
 
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