Citadel Electronics Particle Drive High Gain Overdrive Pedal

Retailing in the region of £169.00

The Citadel Guitar Pedals always come out on top. This is New is in stock and ready to post out to you, with fast, reliable delivery straight to your door. For more New Guitar Pedals options, read on for full specifications, demos, and secure online ordering. 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…

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The Citadel Guitar Pedals always come out on top. This is New is in stock and ready to post out to you, with fast, reliable delivery straight to your door. For more New Guitar Pedals options, read on for full specifications, demos, and secure online ordering.

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

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Guitar Pedals

Guitar pedals are compact effects units that shape and enhance a guitar’s sound, sitting between the instrument and the amplifier. They include gain pedals like overdrive and distortion, modulation effects such as chorus and tremolo, time-based effects like delay and reverb, and essential utilities including tuners, compressors and loopers. Understanding basic things such as pedal type, signal order, power requirements and intended use helps players choose pedals that suit their style, setup and playing environment.

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Drive

Drive is an effect category that adds gain to the guitar signal, creating anything from light breakup to heavy distortion. Drive pedals are used to add warmth, sustain, and character, shaping how a guitar responds to picking dynamics and helping it cut through a mix.

Gain

Gain controls the level of signal amplification within a circuit, determining how hard the signal is driven into the next stage. Increasing gain raises the input level and can introduce overdrive, distortion, or fuzz as the signal is pushed beyond clean headroom.

It plays a central role in shaping tone, affecting sustain, saturation, and overall feel. Low gain settings tend to preserve clarity and dynamics, while higher gain settings create thicker, more compressed sounds commonly used in rock, metal, and lead playing.

High

Overdrive

Overdrive pedals add warmth, grit, and natural compression to your tone, capturing the feel of a pushed tube amp. They respond dynamically to your playing, offering everything from a light bluesy crunch to full, saturated rock tones. Perfect for boosting solos or shaping your core sound, an overdrive pedal brings character and life to any setup. Whether you prefer vintage smoothness or modern bite, these pedals are essential for players who want expressive, touch-sensitive drive with plenty of personality.

Pedal

Pedals are the tools that let you shape, colour and transform your sound, from subtle tone enhancement to bold, creative effects. Whether you are adding grit, space, movement or control, a pedal becomes part of your playing rather than just an add-on. Exploring different pedals is about discovering what responds to your touch and helps your sound feel more like your own.

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