Nobels ODR-Mini overdrive pedal | Single coil and humbucker tones | Review & Demo

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This is my review and demo of the Nobels ODR-Mini natural overdrive pedal!

The bright green ODR-Mini and its bigger brother – the ODR-1 – were under the general guitar pedal radar for a long time, but they’re now widely known as being the secret behind the tones of many top Nashville country guitar session players.

They’re revered for their sparkly low gain tones, and are talked about as being one of the hallowed transparent overdrive pedals, in the vein of the Paul Cochrane Timmy, the Greer Lightspeed, the Analogman King Of Tone, and so on.

That all said, there’s not that many demos of the pedal out there, especially with humbuckers, so I thought I’d play a bit of indie, classic rock and punk on the ODR-Mini too – using my Fender Telecaster and my Epiphone Les Paul traditional Pro – and see what happens! I also threw together two loops where I tweak the three controls on the pedal to really show you the full extent of the tones on offer.

Get the Nobels ODR-Mini here:

Here’s the links to the various chapters and parts of the video:

00:00 Hello!
00:15 Intro and what we’re doing today
00:57 Today’s rig

Single coil sounds (Fender Telecaster)
01:26 Turning on the pedal
01:50 Clean boost sounds – Drive all the way down
02:40 Winding up the Drive control – from zero to full
03:27 Country sounds
04:02 Testing the sweep of the Spectrum control on minimum Drive
04:41 Country picked arpeggios sounds
04:54 Indie rhythm tones – low Drive
05:39 Rolling off the guitar’s volume control
05:57 Classic rock tones
07:14 Indie rock barre chords
07:45 Droning strings palm-muted indie riff
08:21 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
08:36 Indie rock droning chord progression
09:35 Indie pop rhythm chords
10:20 Southern rock picked arpeggios
10:56 Alt-rock sounds
11:32 Pop punk and punk rock sounds
12:17 Hard rock sounds
12:48 Southern rock lead tone

Humbucker sounds (Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro)
13:03 Turning on the ODR-Mini… first tones
14:34 Country rock rhythm – Drive all the way down
15:12 Southern rock picked arpeggios
15:38 Checking out how the Drive and Spectrum controls interact with some Hendrix inspired chords
16:51 Classic rock sounds
17:55 Country sounds
18:27 Strummed indie rhythm sounds
19:10 Indie pop rhythm chords
19:58 Indie rock barre chords
20:25 Rolling off the guitar’s volume control
20:54 Indie rock melodic progression
21:19 Droning strings palm-muted indie riff
21:32 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
21:47 Indie rock droning chord progression
22:47 Bluesey melodic riff – dirty clean sound
23:13 Pop punk and punk rock sounds
23:41 Hard rock sounds
24:37 Alt-rock sounds

25:04 Single coil loop: here I loop an indie riff and tweak the ODR-Mini’s Drive, Level and Spectrum controls to show you all the sounds the pedal can achieve

27:48 Humbucker loop – and here it’s a classic rock loop which I tweak to show you all the different tones you can get

30:17 My thoughts and your opinions wanted!
30:42 My review of the Nobels ODR-Mini
33:37 Final conclusion and goodbye!


My setup was as follows: I ran the ODR-Mini straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
TC Electronic Ditto Looper:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Sunshine – The Mini Vandals.

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