Nobels ODR-Mini Overdrive

I only take one star off the "features" because I can see why the bigger brother version has the bass cut switch. It has a thump in the low end that is hard to shake off.

I put a tubescreamer in front (low gain, level and tone at about 1 o'clock) to cut said bass and push the mids to the front.

The result is a beautiful thick tone, full of harmonics and with a very amp-like response. It cleans up well in response to the volume knob. It palm mutes nicely (some of the more "fuzz" like distortion/overdrives won't do that).

"Natural" overdrive is the perfect name for it, it's like having tube amp overdrive in your pocket.

Positive:
I am using Tele with single coils beside my Blues Junior 3, and I use this pedal to get a better and non-scratchy high gain sound. The result is very good. Blues Junior 3 owners know that if you stack overdrive pedals, then the amp sound gets very scratchy because of the amp speaker (which is actually designed for clean sounds :')

BUT, if you put Nobels after a tube screamer (guitar -> TS -> Nobels -> BJ3) that gives you a huge good hard rock sound. Strong low ends of this pedal make your bridge single coil as if it is humbucker, at the same time pedal cuts very high ends which eliminates scratchy distortion sound.

So, in my case that pedal works very good with my amp speaker to get a good high gain sound.

And the Spectrum knob is very versatile and unique to shape your sound for different genres, to be honest it is better than other pedals' "Tone" knobs. You need to see some videos which shows freq. change while rolling this knob.

Negative:
Strength is the weakness at the same time. Strong low ends are not good for neck position. Bigger version of this pedal has bass-cut feature which makes it better than mini version.

And the cheap quality knobs, I did not like them.

This little green thing produces an overdrive that sounds complete all by itself. It's colour is definitely not tube-screamer-green, it sounds more subtle and balanced-out and smooth. I came across it on the Thomann site and it surprised me, after having checked out many overdrive pedals.
It ended up almost at the end of my pedal rig, where it has more impact on the overall sound. I put it just before the echo/delay -, reverb - and/or other spacious pedals, and I love to run a variety of sounds through it, for example:
- Keeley Compressor > Mooer Black Secret > Boss MT-2 Metal Zone > ODR-Mini
- EHX Mel-9 or EHX Synth-9 > Ibanez DCF-10 > ODR-Mini
- clean telecaster > Walrus Lillian phaser > ODR-Mini

I suggest you try it out yourself! And try it on various positions in your pedal chain. Surely made me happy.