Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive Pedal

Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive Pedal

A classic overdrive that gives a subtle boost, fat crunch, or a searing tone to your solos. 3-band active EQ shapes your tone just the way you want.

Description

Whether you’re looking to give your sound a bit of a boost or trying to find harmonically rich heavy gain with warm tube character, the 805 overdrive provides the versatility needed for any type of music – blues, country, rock, metal, and everything in between.

 The 3-band active EQ, delivers unprecedented control. You can have a smooth, lyrical bluesy tone one minute, then crushing modern metal crunch the next. The 805 is designed to be the perfect overdrive for pushing the front end of an already distorted amp, giving you plenty of output and tone-shaping capability, but can also give your clean tone a controlled boost. Scoop your mids or tighten your hard rock/metal tone in front of a high gain amplifier. Give that solo a searing boost that cuts perfectly through the mix and give your low end rhythm parts controlled crunch. The 805 is capable of any of these and more. Being a true-bypass pedal, it will feel at home on whatever pedalboard you choose.

Features

SUBTLE BOOST
With the Drive control fully counter clockwise, the 805 Overdrive acts as a signal booster with 8dB of gain. Adds more life and sparkle to your tone along with the flexibility of further contouring your sound with the active 3-band EQ. In this setup you may just want to leave it on all the time.

SCOOPED MID
Setting the Mid control around 10 o’clock gives a bit of a scoop to the normally mid range predominant punch, accentuating the beef and clarity for both picking and chunking. The Drive control around the 11 o’clock position gives you control with both your volume level and playing intensity. Ranging from sparkly clean to fat crunch when you dig in.

VALVE HOWLER (THANK YOU, MR. THESAURUS)
Push your amp’s front end into overdrive, with some additional grit. The personality of the tone will depend upon your specific amp and settings, so let your curiosity be your guide!

MODERN METAL
Setting the Drive control low with the Level and Bass controls at 1 o’clock and the Treble control at 3 o’clock will add punch and definition when used in front of a high-gain amp or modeler. “I use the following setting, for a tight modern metal sound in front of a high gain amp.” -Keith Merrow

Specs

Distortion Circuitry: Glass diode, back-to-back stack.
Bypass: True bypass
Gain Control Range: 8dB to 36dB.

EQ Center Frequencies:
• Bass – 90 Hz +/- 11dB
• Mid – 750 Hz +/- 11dB
• Treble – 2.1 kHz +/- 12dB

Signal To Noise Ratio:
• Minimum gain, 20 to 20kHz – 112dBV
• Minimum gain, 400 to 20kHz – 114dBV
• Maximum gain, 20 to 20kHz – 97.5dBV
• Maximum gain, 400 to 20kHz – 98 dBV

THD @10mVrms input @ 1 kHz with 12 dB of gain: 0.15%
Max Output before Saturation: 0.6Vrms
Input Impedance: 470k Ohms
Output Impedance: 1k Ohms
Power: 9V battery or external 9 to 18V Regulated DC Adapter (center negative)

Current consumption: 4.5mA
Dimensions: 2.61" X 4.90" X 1.45"
Weight: 0.6 lb without battery