Pedals that stack with the Ceriatone Overtone Special

pushes an amp at the edge of breakupPushes an amp already sitting at the edge of breakup over the line. (edge of breakup → mid-forward)

Feed a edge of breakup signal into Ceriatone Overtone Special and it comes out closer to mid-forward

Goes in front of the amp

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (crunchy → mid-forward)

What Ceriatone Overtone Special brings here leans toward transparent — that's worth building a pairing around

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → low gain)

Push the Overtone Special's vocal, pedal-friendly clean platform with the RAT 2's bright, cutting distortion and it opens up into real dirt.

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → fuzzy)

Into the Overtone Special's vocal, pedal-friendly clean platform, the Swarm's experimental fuzz has real room to bloom.

Goes in front of the amp

Ceriatone Overtone Special's own transparent character is the real reason this is worth trying

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → fuzzy)

The Overtone Special's clean pedal-platform headroom lets the LSTR's scooped, doom-heavy fuzz saturate without the amp adding its own breakup.

Goes in front of the amp

What Ceriatone Overtone Special brings here leans toward transparent — that's worth building a pairing around

Goes in front of the amp

Ceriatone Overtone Special's own transparent character is the real reason this is worth trying

Goes in front of the amp

Shin's Music Shin's Music OD-X Custom Meta-Red's colored character and Ceriatone Overtone Special's transparent voice sit in the same lane rather than fighting each other

Goes in front of the amp

Ceriatone Overtone Special's own transparent character is the real reason this is worth trying

Goes in front of the amp

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (transparent → mid-forward)

Ceriatone Overtone Special leans this transparent tone toward mid-forward, which it doesn't make on its own

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (high headroom → mid-forward)

Into a high headroom tone, Ceriatone Overtone Special brings a pull toward mid-forward that's missing

Goes in front of the amp

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (transparent → mid-forward)

Into a transparent tone, Ceriatone Overtone Special brings a pull toward mid-forward that's missing

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Put MXR Phase 90 after Ceriatone Overtone Special in the signal chain, clear of Ceriatone Overtone Special's own gain stage

Goes in front of the amp

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain. (dynamic → compressed)

Universal Audio 1176 Compressor leans toward compressed, and that's a real, usable character to pair with

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Ceriatone Overtone Special leans into a clean amp's front end, precisely the platform Dunlop MXR M299 Carbon Copy Mini wants — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop

Put Electro-Harmonix XO Deluxe Memory Man in Ceriatone Overtone Special's effects loop, clear of Ceriatone Overtone Special's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop