Shnobel Tone Daily Driver Boost | The ultimate do-it-all boutique overdrive pedal?! Review & Demo

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Today, we’re taking a look at a boutique USA-built dual overdrive/boost: this is the Shnobel Tone Daily Driver Boost from Roman Belonozhko at the legendary Shnobel YouTube channel!

Daily Driver Boost at Shnobel Tone:

Shnobel’s Daily Driver pedal has become something of a cult in the guitar world. Its original circuit, its tasty range of tones – which move from a sparkly clean boost to transparent overdrive and thick, rich higher gain sounds – and its outstanding build quality have all made it a desirable drive on pedalboards worldwide.

Now, though, Roman and his team have made the Daily Driver even better, by tweaking the circuit slightly, and, more significantly, by adding the Shnobel Tone Boost pedal into the equation!

What we have here, then, is a dual overdrive/boost pedal in the vein of the Analogman King Of Tone, the Wampler Pantheon Deluxe, or similar. The pedal’s Daily Driver side has been altered slightly to give it more headroom (meaning it reacts better to humbucker-equipped guitars at lower gain settings, among other things), but otherwise you get the controls we knew and loved from before: Volume, Gain, Low, High, and a three-way Hi-Cut switch.

The Boost side is identical to the standalone pedal, and its single knob gives you up to 27 dB of clean boost. You can use the Boost and Drive sides of the pedal independently or together, and there’s also an Order switch to let you choose in which order you run them.

As of early 2025, the Daily Driver Boost will set you back $319, which is not cheap in itself. However, when you take into consideration the USA build quality and the features and options you have with this pedal, it starts to make sense. And, if you take into account the fact that the Daily Driver on its own would cost $279, and the Boost standalone pedal is $149, well, we’re getting there now!

Romain designed the Daily Driver to be his go-to overdrive no matter what his rig was, and so in this video, I’ve decided to put the Daily side to the test with a whole week’s worth of riffs and guitars!

I’ve picked seven different guitars (with seven different pickup types) to play in this video, and I’ll cover a different genre with each. This really helps show off the versatility of the pedal, I think – let me know which guitar you think sounds best in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Intro and what we’re doing today
00:59 Pedal controls and features
02:26 Today’s rig and plan

03:46 Blues sounds with Ibanez AS73FM
06:08 Metal/high gain sounds with Epiphone Les Paul
08:20 Classic rock sounds with Fender Telecaster
10:06 Indie/alt-rock sounds with G&L Guitars Doheny Tribute
12:26 Hard rock tones with Ibanez Iceman IC420
14:45 Punk rock tones with Epiphone SG Classic Worn P90
17:18 Ambient/chilled out tones with Fender Stratocaster (and Source Audio Collider)

20:01 My thoughts
20:23 Things I like: sounds and versatility
21:37 Build quality, looks, size
22:07 Price
22:25 What other similar pedals are out there?
23:04 My conclusions on the Daily Driver Boost and why you should buy it

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My setup was as follows: I ran the Daily Driver straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Source Audio Collider for some added delay and reverb. That went from the amp’s 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 Boss RC-10R to play the loops.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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