Tone City Double Durple | The best value for money dual overdrive pedal in 2025? Review & Demo

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This is the Tone City Double Durple: an affordable dual overdrive pedal designed in collaboration with none other than Danish Pete of Andertons fame!

Grab yourself a Double Durple here:


A genuine analog double-sided overdrive for around $100/€109/£89, the Double Durple is – on paper, at least – a hugely tempting option for guitarists on a budget.

You don’t ‘just’ get two Durples in this package, though. Sure, you get one, and it’s as excellent as the original mini pedal, its Volume, Tone, Gain and Mid controls giving you a wide range of sparkly, transparent and thick mid-pushed drive tones with ease. (The Durple, by the way, is based on the Tone City Mandragora, which itself took its inspiration from the cult Lovepedal Kalamazoo overdrive.)

The other side of the pedal, running into the Durple side, is the Double. This is a modded version of Tone City’s Blues Man pedal, which is based on the iconic Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal circuit. Here, you can expect warm clean boosts, transparent overdrives and some gnarly, grainy drive tones too.

You can run both sides of the Double Durple stacked together, or independently, and this gives you a massive range of tones to play with. The one slight shame is that fact that you can’t change the order of the two sides and run the Durple into the Double, as this would’ve boosted the pedal’s versatility even more.

Either way, it’s a lot of Danish Pete-approved pedal for the money… but how good is the Double Durple really? There’s a lot of great, affordable overdrives out there, so where does this one fit in? That’s what we’re about to find out!

In this video, I use my 2025 Ibanez AZ Standard HSS guitar to put the Double Durple through its paces in as many musical styles as possible, from country, folk, blues and pop to rock, punk, indie and even some metal, to hear how it versatile it truly is.

Let me know your thoughts on the Double Durple in the comments!

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

00:00 Introduction to the Double Durple
01:29 Pedal controls, features and info
03:16 Today’s rig and plan

03:56 Clean reference tone and turning on the Double Durple
04:32 Pushed Clean tone samples (folk, country, pop, indie, blues, funk, etc.)
07:06 Indie and alt rock tones
09:59 Classic rock tones (AC/DC, Hendrix, Airbourne, etc.)
11:53 Hard rock tones
14:31 Punk rock tones
15:11 Modern progressive and heavy rock tones
15:40 Metal and chugging tones

17:39 My thoughts
18:15 Things I like: tones and versatility
20:06 Price, value for money, build quality
20:37 Things I don’t like
21:29 What other similar pedals are out there?
22:33 My conclusions on the Double Durple and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the Double Durple into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. The amp 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.

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

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