MXR Sugar Drive

£129.99

This is a New MXR Sugar Drive from MXR is in our Specialist Effects Pedals category on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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The MXR Sugar Drive is based on a rare and beloved circuit from the 90s and has been packed into a pedalboard-friendly mini chassis to provide you with a wide range of guitar tones from driving boost to lush overdrive.

The Sugar Drive has a simple interface with only 3 controls – Tone, Drive and Volume making it a breath of fresh air in a time where pedals seem to be built chock-full of knobs and buttons.

The drive knobs doesn't simply increase the pedals intensity but instead grabs your clean, unaffected dry signal and blends it with overdrive as you turn the knob.

You've also got the option of running the pedal in buffered-bypass or true bypass mode depending on how you like the rest of your signal to look.

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MXR

MXR’s first product was the Phase 90, released in 1972. Dunlop’s official MXR history traces the early line from that compact phaser to the Distortion+, Dyna Comp compressor and Blue Box octave fuzz—circuits that remain central reference points for the brand. JustPedals carries those classic families alongside the Carbon Copy analog delay, Micro Amp, Talk Box and bass effects. MXR’s range is deliberately broader than one effect category: compare the model number and version, especially where a classic circuit has later reissues, mini enclosures or expanded controls.

Category

Specialist Effects Pedals

Specialist effects alter the signal in ways that do not sit cleanly inside one established family. They may use granular processing, frequency shifting, resonators, freeze or sustain, bit reduction, ring modulation, feedback networks or combinations of several techniques. The relevant distinction is the underlying process, its tracking or latency, and how completely the dry signal can be blended or replaced.

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True Bypass

Connects input directly to output through mechanical or relay switching when the effect is off, removing the active circuit from the audio path. It avoids buffer colour but leaves cable capacitance and switching design to influence high-frequency loss and possible switching noise.