Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive (SHOD) is a super touch sensitive medium gain overdrive pedal.
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This pedal is now offered as a lower priced pcb-model. Both share the same specs and tone.
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It is designed to overdrive distorted amplifiers and give dynamically controlled light overdrive on clean sounds.
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Distortion level can be controlled by pick attack and pickup strenght. Harder picking for overdrive and softer for cleaner tone.
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With the unique Focus control you can adjust the feel and dynamics of the pedal as well as overal EQ.
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Turning Focus CCW you need to play harder to get distortion and the tone is softer, great for jazz and blue.
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Focus turned CW gives a slight treble boost and earlier distortion.
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This type of overdrive has previously only been found in the BJF Honey Bee but is now presented in Mad Professor version. The Mad Professor SHOD has a tighter sound and is more versatile as it was designed to work with all kinds of guitars and amplifiers.
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This versatile pedals stacks well with all kind of other pedals and suits for huge variety of different music styles.
Controls:
- VOLUME: sets the output volume
- DRIVE: controls the amount of overdrive.
- FOCUS: Controls how easily the circuit distorts as well as adjusting overall EQ. Turning CCW gives less distortion and a mellow effect, turning CW gives a slight treble boost and earlier distortion. Good starting point is 11 o’clock.
Electrical specifications:
- Supply voltage range: 7,5 to 18VDC
- Current consumption at 9VDC: 5 mA
- Input inpedance: 260K
- Output impedance: 25K Ohm’s
- Complete bypass (true bypass)







