Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive
Console Overdrive
£309.00
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Highlights
- Amplifier-style transparent overdrive and boost pedal enhancing your existing amp tone
- Covers pristine clean preamp, edge-of-break-up and vintage-style overdrive with added depth
- Highly dynamic, touch-sensitive response that tracks picking strength and guitar volume
- Interactive Gain, Tone and dual concentric clean/drive Volume controls for precise shaping
- Proprietary analogue Console amplifier circuit with parallel clean blend design
- Designed and built by qualified electronics engineer Nick Rose in the United States
- Roadworthy all-metal enclosure with distinctive wooden wrap for durability and character
- Retro-inspired graphics with responsive illuminated VU meter for clear stage visibility
- LED status indicator confirms operation at a glance on dark stages
- True bypass switching preserves your core tone when the pedal is disengaged
- Fully analogue signal path with no digital processing or modelling
- Pedalboard-friendly jack layout with standard 9V DC centre-negative power input
- Covered by a manufacturer’s warranty for long-term reliability and ownership confidence
Description
The Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive is a transparent overdrive pedal created for guitarists who want more from their existing amplifier rather than a separate distortion voice layered on top. Rather than modern high gain distortion that delivers compressed saturation, the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive is a high-quality overdrive that amplifies the tone, feel and response of the amp and guitar already in use. The Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive behaves like a vintage amplifier being pushed into its natural sweet spot. In a rig, it can serve as a pristine clean preamp, a dynamic boost or the primary source of drive into an amplifier, always working with the natural character of the instrument. Rather than following the familiar mid-forward templates of pedals, the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive occupies its own space and sounds and feels closer to a vintage amp in a box than to a typical overdrive pedal.
The sound is best described as the guitar and amplifier, just more of it. At lower settings it provides a glassy, harmonically rich clean preamp that adds clarity and dimension without altering the core voice of the instrument. As the volume and gain are increased, the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive imparts depth and thickness, reinforcing body and harmonic complexity while remaining open and articulate. The gain structure is notably amplifier-like, moving from clean through edge-of-break-up into a warm, driven tone that feels like an older valve amplifier working hard. It never crosses into aggressive high-gain distortion territory. Instead, it produces the kind of natural compression, bloom and sustain associated with vintage amps turned up to the point where they begin to yield. It is particularly impressive with single-coil instruments, where it enhances chime and snap while adding weight, and equally satisfying with humbucker-equipped guitars, where it delivers thick, singing drive without losing definition.
In terms of feel, the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive responds like an extension of the amplifier rather than an external effect. Nick Rose, a formally qualified electronics engineer with deep roots in analogue and valve amplifier design, has built the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive around an amplifier-style topology derived from the Console Fuzz series. When pushed, it “gives in” in a way that mirrors a vintage amp and speaker under load, introducing natural sag and dynamic compression. Digging in produces more drive and harmonic richness; easing off cleans the sound smoothly. The experience is intuitive and inspiring, encouraging players to use picking dynamics and guitar volume controls as part of their sound. It genuinely feels closer to a vintage amp in a box than to a conventional overdrive pedal.
The control set is simple but highly interactive. The Gain control ranges from pristine clean preamp to thick, creamy overdrive, with a progression that feels organic rather than abrupt. The Tone control is wide-ranging and musically voiced, allowing the user to adjust frequencies precisely to suit a particular guitar or amplifier. It can add clarity and bite, soften the top end, or find the exact balance point where the instrument sits comfortably in a mix. The centrepiece is the dual concentric volume control. The inner knob governs the overdrive circuit level, while the outer ring controls a separate clean preamp. These two signals run in parallel and can be blended, enabling a truly transparent overdrive with retained articulation and punch. Both volumes interact with the Gain control, so balancing them shapes not only output level but also feel, thickness and response. With all three advanced, the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive responds like a vintage amplifier being driven hard, producing convincing sag and harmonic depth.
Internally, the Console Overdrive reflects Rose Electric Audio’s analogue-first philosophy. It is not a derivative clone but a purpose-built design that prioritises headroom, dynamic response and harmonic integrity. The focus is on reliable performance and musical behaviour rather than unnecessary complexity, ensuring consistency on stage and in the studio.
The Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive is housed in a durable all-metal enclosure suited to regular gigging. Footswitches are solid and reassuring underfoot. A distinctive wooden wrap-around detail references 1970s studio and amplifier styling, giving the unit a characterful presence on any pedalboard. As each pedal is individually built, subtle aesthetic variations are a natural part of the process and contribute to its individuality.
Graphics are clear and legible, with retro-style knobs that remain easy to read under stage lighting. The integrated VU meter illuminates when the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive is engaged and responds to playing dynamics, the needle moving further as signal level increases. This provides useful visual feedback on how hard the circuit is being driven, as well as a nod to classic studio equipment. A dedicated LED indicator ensures the on/off status is immediately visible.
The Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive is true bypass, preserving the natural tone and signal integrity of the instrument and amplifier when disengaged. High-quality input and output jacks are positioned for straightforward pedalboard layout, and the standard DC input allows easy integration with common power supplies.
Built in the United States by Nick Rose, Rose Electric Audio equipment represents boutique design grounded in solid engineering. A dependable warranty provides long-term confidence for players who rely on their gear.
In essence, the Rose Electric Audio Console Overdrive is not about extreme gain or obvious tonal colouring. It is about depth, thickness and a gain structure that feels like a vintage amplifier being pushed into its sweet spot. For players who want their guitar to sound and respond as if plugged into a finely tuned, hard-worked valve amp, it offers a distinctive and deeply satisfying solution.
Controls
- FOOTSWITCH: Engages true bypass with solid feel and clear status indication
- GAIN: Ranges from pristine clean preamp to vintage amp-style overdrive
- TONE: Wide-ranging low-pass filter shapes highs to suit guitar or bass
- OUTER VOLUME: Controls clean preamp level for parallel blend and added depth
- INNER VOLUME: Sets overdrive level, balancing gain, thickness and amplifier push
Components and Technical Specifications
- All-analogue amplifier-style overdrive circuit for authentic valve-like response
- Proprietary Console amplifier topology derived from Console Fuzz series
- Parallel clean and overdrive signal paths for transparent blend control
- Dual concentric potentiometer for independent clean and drive levels
- High-headroom design for dynamic range and reduced unwanted clipping
- True bypass switching preserves your natural guitar and amp tone
- Robust mechanical footswitch rated for regular stage use
- Precision resistors and capacitors selected for stable, consistent tone
- Low-noise signal path suitable for studio and live environments
- Durable all-metal enclosure with protective wooden wrap detail
- High-quality input and output jacks for secure cable connection
- Integrated illuminated VU meter driven by signal level
- Powered by standard 9V centre negative supply (not included)
- Battery operation not supported
- Current draw measured using a Truetone 1Spot mA Meter:
- Bypass (minimum): Approximately 8 mA
- Engaged (maximum): Approximately 19 mA
Current draw may vary slightly depending on control settings, circuit behaviour, and active features such as gain stages, modulation, filtering, or reverb tails. For best performance, use a high quality isolated power supply that matches the pedal’s current requirements. Always refer to the manufacturer’s recommendations, as incorrect powering may cause damage.
Enclosure Dimensions
- Depth: 99 mm / 3.9 in
- Width: 119 mm / 4.7 in
- Height: 38 mm to 52 mm / 1.5 in to 2.0 in
Weight
- 414 g
- 0.91 lbs
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