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product_id: 7285698
title: "ModKitsDIY The Thunderdrive Overdrive Effects Pedal Kit"
brand: "mod kits diy"
price: "625 kr"
currency: DKK
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reviews_count: 8
category: "Mod Kits Diy"
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# 9V battery powered Analog overdrive tone DIY solder & assembly ModKitsDIY The Thunderdrive Overdrive Effects Pedal Kit

**Brand:** mod kits diy
**Price:** 625 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎛️ Ignite your tone, build your vibe — pedal power in your hands!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** ModKitsDIY The Thunderdrive Overdrive Effects Pedal Kit by mod kits diy
- **How much does it cost?** 625 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.dk](https://www.desertcart.dk/products/7285698-modkitsdiy-the-thunderdrive-overdrive-effects-pedal-kit)

## Best For

- mod kits diy enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted mod kits diy brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Mod-Friendly Circuitry:** Experiment with diode swaps and custom mods to craft a truly unique signature sound.
- • **Hands-On DIY Experience:** Build your own pedal with easy point-to-point wiring and clear instructions—perfect for creative pros who love to tinker.
- • **Compact & Portable Design:** Lightweight 8.8 oz pedal kit fits seamlessly into any pedalboard setup without weighing you down.
- • **Versatile Amp Compatibility:** Push your preamp into overdrive or add rich distortion layers at lower volumes for studio or stage.
- • **Customizable Overdrive Tones:** Dial in everything from smooth boost to vintage fuzz with intuitive volume and gain controls.

## Overview

The ModKitsDIY Thunderdrive Overdrive Effects Pedal Kit is a battery-powered, analog overdrive pedal you assemble yourself. Featuring adjustable volume and gain controls, it delivers a wide range of tones from clean boosts to thick vintage fuzz. Lightweight and compact, it’s designed for guitarists who want hands-on customization and versatile distortion options, compatible with most amps. Requires soldering and a 9V battery (not included).

## Description

The Thunderdrive is an overdrive pedal kit that will provide a signal boost at low gain settings and its own distortion at maximum gain settings. You can use it to push your preamp into overdrive or as a source of smooth distortion. Adjusting volume control and gain control results in a wide variety of tones in spite of its simple construction.This pedal is capable of overdriving the preamp section of your guitar amp or adding its own layer of distortion at lower volume. Using point to point wiring and easy to follow instructions you can have a working overdrive pedal in a matter of hours.All you need to provide is solder and a soldering iron. Uses 9 volt battery which is not included.

Review: Good pedal! Easy build! Good tones! - Awesome pedal! This was a fun and straightforward kit to put together! I ordered through Amplified Parts and shipping was fast. This pedal is kind of like a clean boost that can go into fuzz/overdrive if in the last small turn of the drive knob. There's a lot of tonal variety that can be had from this pedal and it delivers pretty thick sounding overdrive to a point that it kind of sounds like a vintage fuzz (not so much necessarily like a tube screamer in my opinion). Theres a lot of room for modding if you want to experiment with different diodes, etc. I custom painted my enclosure which was a lot of fun! I think that the back page of my instructions were not printed correctly, but Mod Kits puts all of their documents in PDFs on their website for easy access to download. There were no missing parts. I screwed the screw on one of the black plastc knobs a bit tight which slightly stripped it. I wedged in a peice of electrical tape to give it traction and re screwed it in. All in all, excellent pedal kit from a good company!
Review: Four Stars - Good, easy to make. But overall a nice pedal with little defects!

## Features

- DIY pedal kit - assembly and soldering required.
- You can use it to push your preamp into overdrive or as a source of smooth distortion
- Adjusting volume control and gain control results in a wide variety of tones in spite of its simple construction.
- This pedal is capable of overdriving the preamp section of your guitar amp or adding its own layer of distortion at lower volume
- Using point to point wiring and easy to follow instructions you can have a working overdrive pedal in a matter of hours.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B004XDB590 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #86,330 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #682 in Guitar Distortion & Overdrive Effects |
| Color Name | Black, Silver |
| Connector Type | 1/4" (6.35mm) jack |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (40) |
| Date First Available | April 20, 2011 |
| Hardware Interface | HDMI |
| Item Weight | 8.8 ounces |
| Item model number | 7539517166 |
| Package Dimensions | 5.7 x 4.9 x 1.3 inches |
| Power Source | Battery Powered |
| Signal Format | Analog |
| Voltage | 9 Volts |

## Product Details

- **Amperage:** 20 Milliamps
- **Brand:** MOD Kits DIY
- **Color:** Black, Silver
- **Style:** Distortion,Overdrive,Preamp
- **Voltage:** 9 Volts

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good pedal! Easy build! Good tones!
*by G***N on February 12, 2019*

Awesome pedal! This was a fun and straightforward kit to put together! I ordered through Amplified Parts and shipping was fast. This pedal is kind of like a clean boost that can go into fuzz/overdrive if in the last small turn of the drive knob. There's a lot of tonal variety that can be had from this pedal and it delivers pretty thick sounding overdrive to a point that it kind of sounds like a vintage fuzz (not so much necessarily like a tube screamer in my opinion). Theres a lot of room for modding if you want to experiment with different diodes, etc. I custom painted my enclosure which was a lot of fun! I think that the back page of my instructions were not printed correctly, but Mod Kits puts all of their documents in PDFs on their website for easy access to download. There were no missing parts. I screwed the screw on one of the black plastc knobs a bit tight which slightly stripped it. I wedged in a peice of electrical tape to give it traction and re screwed it in. All in all, excellent pedal kit from a good company!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by A***R on July 2, 2014*

Good, easy to make. But overall a nice pedal with little defects!

### ⭐⭐⭐ Missing a few must-haves
*by C***N on December 6, 2012*

The Thunderdrive is an entry-level build kit, so it's designed to be easy to build. With that in mind, it only uses point-to-point wiring instead of a printed circuit board, so mistakes are fairly easy to fix. The directions are good, although not perfect - there wasn't enough info on how to read resistor and capacitor values. I had this information handy so it wasn't an issue, but it would be nice to at least state which color codes or cap codes go with the values specified in the circuit. However, all in all, this was my second pedal build (after a Build-Your-Own-Clone kit) and it worked the first try without any debugging. My only major complaint about the kit is it's too bare-bones to really be useful to a gigging musician. An LED indicating when the effect is on/off and a 9V power adaptor are real necessities. (Most of us don't like having to buy a mega pack of 9V batteries to take with us every time we play a gig.) These are fairly easy additions and I'm not sure why they are omitted from the kit.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-21*