Originally Posted by: indiemanwat is the diffrence between a distortion and overdrive pedal?

I've always thought of overdrive more as a saturated tube amp sound (e.g. cranking your amp to 10) and distortion as an artificial tone. So, I agree with SLY in that overdrive is lighter than distortion, but I've always felt that overdrive is also different tonally (creamier, warmer, smoother).