Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion vs Keeley Oxblood Overdrive

The Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion and the Keeley Oxblood Overdrive are both pedals sharing bright. The Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion leans crunchy and high gain. The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive leans transparent and dynamic.

Similarity
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35% somewhat different

Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • bright
Citation fame
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Price

$199via Reverb

Description

The MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion is a high-gain distortion pedal from MXR by Jim Dunlop, delivering wide-range distortion with a three-band active EQ and a broad gain spectrum covering everything from medium overdrive to extreme distortion. The Super Badass is designed to cover the widest possible range of drive styles in a single enclosure, suited to both classic rock and modern high-gain applications. Internal DIP switches allow clipping diode selection between different clipping characters including hard silicon clipping and softer asymmetric options, enabling circuit-level voicing customization.

The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive is inspired by the Klon Centaur but built to deliver more gain than the original circuit, spanning a range from transparent boost to rich, harmonic overdrive. It uses a classic three-knob layout (Level, Tone, Drive) enhanced with a Phat switch for added bass presence and a Clipping switch toggling between uniquely voiced diode options, running on standard 9V DC power with true bypass switching.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Classic Rock
  • Alternative Rock
  • Metal
  • Electronic
Tonal lean
  • crunchy
  • high gain
  • saturated
  • transparent
  • dynamic

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