Browne Amplification Gritador Overdrive
Dave Brown's favorite overdrive, finally made exactly the way he wants it to sound. The best overdrive I have played in a long time. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
In this episode the Browne Amplification Gritador takes center stage — featuring the Giordano Guitars '60s S-Model, into the Benson Amps Vincent and Benson Tall Bird via the Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander, with the R2R Electric Vintage Wah and Effectrode Tube Vibe added later in the demo.
We won't pretend the Tube Screamer hasn't been cloned a thousand times. It has. The question with every new iteration is what the builder actually changed and whether those changes are improvements or just marketing. Browne Amplification's answer is specific and surgical — three targeted modifications to an otherwise faithful recreation of the TS circuit.
First: the midrange. The classic TS mid hump is preserved but refined — more nuanced, the nasal frequency that plagues lesser Screamer-style circuits dialed out. The bump is there, it's just better shaped. Second: the clipping. The stock TS uses symmetrical clipping diodes — Browne has made it slightly asymmetrical, which introduces a more complex, less compressed harmonic signature on the drive. Third: the low end. Fuller and more present than stock, while remaining tight and punchy — the low-end rolloff that makes Tube Screamers feel thin in some rigs has been corrected.
Three knobs: Volume, Drive, Tone. Soft switching with adjustable startup state. Glossy Bullfrog Belly Green finish. 9V, 40mA. The name, for those curious: Gritador means "screamer" in Portuguese.
This is the third Browne Amplification pedal on the channel after the Carbon and the Atom — the third distinct circuit from the same Kansas City builder, and possibly the most universally useful of the three.
🎛️ Browne Amplification Gritador: https://browneamps.com/the-gritador
🎸 Giordano Guitars: https://www.instagram.com/_giordanoguitars_/
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
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🎸 Giordano Guitars '60s S-Model
🎛️ Browne Amplification Gritador | TS-Style Overdrive | Asymmetrical Clipping | Bullfrog Belly Green
🎛️ Also: R2R Electric Vintage Wah | Effectrode Tube Vibe | Strymon Volante
🔊 Benson Amps Vincent | Benson Tall Bird | Boss Waza TAE
Recording: Universal Audio Apollo x4 | Lauten Audio LS-208 | Royer R121 & R10 | Sennheiser E906 | Ableton Live 11
