Donner Pedals Tube Drive Nano Review/Demo: Bittersweet Overdrive
Channel: Hitek Rednek
Date: 2017-01-28

This is the Donner Tube Drive nano overdrive pedal.  I find this pedal nearly unusable, but I also find the few usable settings to be very good. Unfortunately, not every review can be great, and I can't recommend this pedal to you unless you're an amateur player looking for a very ballsy low-to-medium overdrive and you don't mind extremely fiddly controls.

Donner did give me this pedal to review, but as you can see, I am honest about it.  The mini pedals have amazing hardware, but there are issues with the power jacks on the nano pedals currently on the market.  The problem is not major, but it is bad enough to not be considered road-worthy in my opinion.  Donner claims to have fixed this problem in their new production, but I have not seen one of the fixed versions to verify this.

These pedals currently list at $37.00 over at Donner's website here: https://www.donnerdeal.com/collections/nano-guitar-pedal/products/donner-tube-drive-overdrive-guitar-effect-pedal-super-mini

The sound of the pedal is great in the few good settings, especially with compression (sound demo at the end), but it's too hard to dial in a tone quickly due to tiny knobs that are over-sensitive.  It's also not very versatile unless you consider lots of bad sounding settings to be versatility.

For a demo of the power jack issue and the other quirks of these pedals, see my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pTpqjgu6aE

Overall, it's a 5/10.  I love the general feel of the tone, but  It feels like a work in progress and needs improvement on the power jack and the sweep range of the knobs.  I only recommend this to someone who has tried one in person and still wants it.

Thanks to Donner for sending the pedal for review.

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