Guyatone PS-025 Touch Overdrive - rare MIJ boost and drive pedal (1980s) - 300 epochs

The Guyatone PS-025 Touch Overdrive is an analog overdrive pedal designed for guitar and bass, featuring touch-sensitive dynamics that respond to picking intensity and attack. The pedal includes four controls: Out Level, Overdrive, Dynamics, and Release, allowing you to shape the sound from subtle warmth to aggressive crunch while controlling how the pedal reacts to your playing. Its compact footprint and intuitive layout make it easy to integrate into any pedalboard, while the analog circuitry retains the expressive, responsive character unique to touch-sensitive designs. For the capture, I set all knobs to 7, delivering a punchy, garage-rock tone that’s lively and immediate, yet still flexible enough to sit effortlessly in a signal chain. The feel is very much early-2000s NY indie rock, reminiscent of the tight, controlled guitar tones of bands like the Strokes or The Rapture. Every nuance of picking is preserved, while the pedal adds subtle grit and sustain that reacts naturally to my hands. Direct capture through my tube preamp equipped with the NOS Brimar 12AU7 / ECC82 WA emphasizes the pedal’s midrange punch and smooth high-end. The final tonal character is tight, dynamic, and vintage-leaning, balancing compressed clarity with lively analog warmth that makes it a joy to play.