Vemuram Jan Ray Overdrive Pedal

£369.00

Also available on Andertons, Amazon, eBay & Reverb

Fresh on the menu for 2026 are the Vemuram 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 Vemuram Guitar Pedals today.


Description

Fresh on the menu for 2026 are the Vemuram 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 Vemuram Guitar Pedals today.

The Jan Ray is a natural sounding overdrive pedal that intentionally doesn’t change the relationship between your guitar and amp. It doesn’t compress or colour the sound as much as a TS style drive would but it pushes the front-end of a tube a tube amp hard enough to give you sweet sustain and breakup.

Transparent overdrive

The word has been bandied about many times before but the Jan Ray is one of the original (and best) transparent overdrives on the market. It doesn’t add that mid-range hump and you can think of it more as a spark to ignite a good amp and guitar combination.

Simple Setup

The layout is familiar and easy to use and you’ll probably want to tailor the preferred outcome from the pedal by using the saturation trim knob (To access the trimmer you need a small screwdriver and it’s located at the top of the pedal). You can take your overdrive sound from mild to fat and saturated (though not in heavily distorted terms).

Controls from top left are: Volume, Gain

Bottom left to right: Bass, Treble

Here’s what Vemuram say about the Jan Ray

The Fender Magic 6 sound! An easy to handle overdrive with great sustain without any unnatural compression. It keeps the characteristics of the tones that the guitars naturally produce. The Jan Ray reproduces that great sustaining punchy clear tones of the blackface Fender amps from the 60’s. The tone is crispy yet the low is warm and mellow.

Specifications

  • Controls: Volume, Gain, Bass, Treble, Saturation trimmer
  • Switches: ON/OFF
  • Terminal: Input, Output
  • Power: 006P (9 Volt Battery) or 9Volt regulated AC/DC adapter
  • Size: 70(W)x112(D)x50(H)mm
  • Weight: 428g

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg

Brand

Vemuram

Vemuram craft high-end boutique pedals known for their exceptional clarity, dynamic response, and rich analogue tone. Built in Japan with premium components and meticulous attention to detail, their overdrives and fuzzes deliver a refined feel that responds naturally to your playing style. Favoured by professional guitarists worldwide, Vemuram pedals offer a smooth, articulate sound suited to everything from subtle blues grit to full-bodied rock saturation.

Category

Guitar Pedals

Tags

Compressor

A compressor pedal evens out your dynamics, smoothing peaks and lifting quieter notes so everything feels tighter and more controlled. It adds sustain, clarity, and balance — making clean chords ring longer, country licks snap with precision, and funk rhythms pop with consistency. Subtle or pronounced, compression shapes the feel of your playing as much as the sound.

Use it at the front of your chain to tighten your core tone, add sustain to leads, or keep complex passages sitting neatly in the mix. From gentle polish to unmistakable squash, a compressor is one of those foundational tools that quietly makes everything sound more professional and dialled in.

New

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

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.

Volume

Volume pedals control the output level of a guitar signal using a foot-operated treadle. They allow smooth volume swells, dynamic control during playing, and easy muting between songs. Volume pedals can be placed at different points in the signal chain to either control overall loudness or adjust gain and drive behaviour when positioned before distortion or overdrive pedals.