While Boss OD-1 was already there when the Ibanez ts808 came out, it somehow flew under the radar. So don’t take for granted this tone has always been here : most classic rock album, the foundation of our music, did without. As far as I can remember, the first time I heard this tone was from a Stevie Ray Vaughan track and it changed everything. Of course, it was always possible to roll-off our guitar volume knob when engaged in a fuzz pedal to obtain something more coherent for rhythm-and then of course go full volume for fire-breathing solo. Even in our favourite records, that creamy tone we all know and like now, was totally absent. When we talk about choice of good guitar tones, it usually went from Fender twin clean to fuzz face in a Marshall amp, while these options were way too expensive for teenagers.
In the early ‘70s there were no such things as an overdrive pedal.
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