Your Klon Search is Over | Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth Mjolnir Overdrive

Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth Mjolnir Overdrive

A Nashville friendship, a Klon-style circuit, NOS germanium diodes, and a sparkle orange finish that makes every other overdrive on your board jealous. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.

In this episode, the Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth Mjolnir Overdrive takes center stage — running into my Kauer Guitars Electroliner loaded with Lollar Sixty-Four Stratocaster pickups, into my 1957 Fender Tweed Princeton 5F2-A with a 12" speaker.

The Mjolnir is Mythos Pedals builder Zach Broyles' deeply considered take on the modern classic Klon Centaur circuit — tweaking the clipping for consistency and a slight boost in clarity, while preserving everything that made the original a landmark piece of overdrive design. Like the Klon, it runs internally at 18V despite accepting standard 9V DC, and uses buffered bypass so your signal receives a boost in clarity even when the pedal is switched off. At low gain settings it functions as a supremely transparent, enormously loud clean boost — at higher gain settings it delivers a rich, dynamic overdrive voice that accents your rig without ever taking anything away from it.

The Joey Landreth edition is something more personal than a standard Mjolnir. The story begins in 2014, when Zach met Joey Landreth — killer guitarist, fantastic vocalist, master of tone — at The Basement in Nashville, Tennessee. They immediately started talking tone and became fast friends. The very first Mjolnir Zach built for Joey featured vintage NOS germanium diodes, and Joey loved it enough that it became his reference point for what a K-Style overdrive should feel like. The Joey Landreth edition is a replica of that pedal — inspired by and faithful to the original unit Joey has been running ever since. Handmatched NOS germanium clipping diodes give it a beautiful compression when the gain is pushed, and a clarity and personality that is measurably more mellow, softer clipping, and smoother than the standard Mjolnir variants. Limited to just 60 pedals worldwide, hand assembled by Zach and Morgan Broyles in Nashville, Tennessee, in a translucent sparkle orange finish with cream Bakelite-style knobs and an orange LED.

Into a 5-watt, single 6V6, Class A tweed Princeton circuit and the pre-CBS Alnico clarity of Lollar Sixty-Four single coils, the Joey Landreth Mjolnir finds a natural home. Its transparency and touch sensitivity reward a light touch and punish nothing — and its buffered bypass means it's quietly improving your signal even when it's off.

This is a pedal built around a friendship and a shared obsession with tone. It sounds exactly like that.

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🎸 Kauer Guitars Electroliner | Lollar Sixty-Four Stratocaster Set

🎛️ Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth Mjolnir Overdrive | NOS Germanium Diodes | Limited Edition

🔊 1957 Fender Tweed Princeton 5F2-A | 12" Speaker