Jackson Audio Belle Starr

Jackson Audio Belle Starr is the result of a collaboration with Drew Shirley from the band Switchfoot. If you’re familiar with Drew’s rig, he has always run super small, low-wattage amps, and run them wide-open to get his signature overdriven sound. The Belle Starr was designed to recreate these tones. It is a dynamic, expressive and natural sounding overdrive that will fit perfectly into any rig!

Not a high-gain overdrive, it is a low/mid gain overdrive circuit that has the smooth and natural breakup that is characteristic in smaller, non-negative feedback amps. To make the overdrive as natural-sounding and amp-like as possible, we incorporated a clipping circuit which features MOSFET transistors instead of traditional silicon diodes. When used in a clipping circuit, the MOSFET transistors produce a very smooth and amp-like overdrive.

The overdrive range on the pedal is so evenly spread out across the range of the GAIN control that it goes from absolutely clean to medium gain with no unusual jumps in the dynamic response. The pedal works with every amp on the market today.

Jackson Audio Belle Starr demo video