Crazy Tube Circuits Venus Overdrive Guitar Pedal

At NAMM 2025, Greek pedal brand Crazy Tube Circuits introduced the Venus overdrive, a real tube overdrive inspired by all the pedal and rack versions of the Butler Tube Driver.  With its three-way EQ section and Bias control, this is a pedal that can produce a wide range of tones. Inspired by one of the greatest masterpieces of the pedal museum, Crazy Tube Circuits set out to recreate a classic tube tone sculpture with modern refinements. They concentrated all the different voicings of the classic tube-powered overdrive variations throughout the 80s and 90s, along with some mods and features of the rack mount variants, in a compact enclosure with less than half the size of the original pedal unit. Instead of an internal power transformer we chose to power the device from a standard 9V DC power supply to reduce background noise and hum and designed a voltage multiplier circuit to provide the needed voltage range of +/- 15V DC.  While the classic unit featured an ECC83 dual triode, many