Citadel Electronics Particle Drive High Gain Overdrive Pedal

£169.00

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Fresh on the menu for 2026 are the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals, freshly added and carefully selected. These New units are available to order online with fast, secure delivery from trusted UK retailers. Read on for full details, specifications, demos, videos, reviews, and the best places to buy the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals today.


Description

Fresh on the menu for 2026 are the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals, freshly added and carefully selected. These New units are available to order online with fast, secure delivery from trusted UK retailers. Read on for full details, specifications, demos, videos, reviews, and the best places to buy the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals today.

The Citadel Electronics Particle Drive brings the metal to any clean amp! With a three-way character selector toggle covering everything from classic to modern, as well as enough gain on tap to bring anyone to tears, the Particle Drive is built for tight chugs, doom drones and thunderous leads. Featuring a powerful built-in Dynazero noise gate, the Particle Drive remains tight even with its most gainiest settings.

Key Features

  • Initial State – Set the pedal’s power-up state using the hardwired ‘initial state’ switch, perfect for when using with pedalboard switching systems, and you want to ensure that your pedal always powers up on.

Citadel Electronics

Launched in 2025, Citadel Electronics offers premium effects for guitar and bass, designed and engineered by two of the most regarded and influential designers in the industry, Santiago Alvarez and Tommi Otsavaara. Between them, working and designing for some of the most prestigious and leading brands, including Darkglass, Behringer, Blackstar, Two Notes, Neural DSP and most notably, Marshall, where they worked together. Driven by innovation, Citadels’ design philosophy is to never simply repeat what’s already been done. Instead, making and producing never-before-done ideas or driving classic designs to completely new places, incorporating fresh features and technology. Each pedal is crafted to the highest specs using the highest-grade materials, ensuring a product that’s built to stand the test of time, whether at home, on the road or in the studio.

Specifications

  • Pedal Type: Analogue
  • Power: 9V
  • Power Draw: 100mA
  • Controls: Level, Gate, Tone, Drive, 3-way Character switch (Classic, Balanced, Modern)
  • Bypass: True
  • Footswitch: Soft Switch

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg

Brand

Citadel Electronics

Citadel Electronics focuses on handcrafted pedals built with attention to detail and a strong tonal identity. Designed for players who value character and musical response, their circuits aim to enhance your core sound rather than mask it, offering rich textures and expressive dynamics in solid, thoughtfully built enclosures.

Choose Citadel Electronics when you want boutique flavour with individuality. Whether it’s nuanced drive, textured modulation, or carefully voiced tone shaping, their pedals bring personality and refinement to a pedalboard without overcomplicating the experience.

Category

Guitar Pedals

Tags

New

This is brand new, fresh in, and a UK warranty is included. New Gear always comes from trusted UK music retailers.

noise gate

A noise gate pedal keeps your rig tight and controlled by cutting unwanted hiss and hum when you’re not playing. High-gain setups, stacked pedals, and long signal chains can introduce background noise — a noise gate steps in to silence it cleanly, letting your riffs start and stop with precision.

Use it to sharpen heavy rhythm parts, tame buzzing single-coils, or clean up complex pedalboards without sacrificing sustain. Dial it subtle for transparent control or tighter for that sharp, percussive stop-start effect — either way, it keeps your sound focused and professional.

Overdrive

Like a golden layer of melted cheese — warm, gooey, and just put it all over. It adds just the right amount of richness and grit, turning a clean signal into something smooth and savoury. Designed to mimic the natural breakup of a tube amp pushed to its sweet spot, overdrive delivers the flavour of classic rock and blues in every bite. From creamy mid-gain warmth to crisp edge-of-breakup sparkle, it’s the comfort food of guitar tone — simple, satisfying, and endlessly versatile. Whether it’s a mild crunch or a full-bodied roar, overdrive is where good taste begins.