Keeley D&M Drive Overdrive Pedal

DAN STEINHARDT AND MICK TAYLOR love them some pedals.

- Dave Hunter

This pair’s rabid enthusiasm for the multifarious stompbox has lured impressive audiences to their YouTube series “That Pedal Show,” and now Dan (also proprietor of The GigRig) and Mick—a former editor of Guitarist magazine (U.K.)—have put their tone where their talk is by co-designing a dual-channel overdrive with American boutique-pedal manufacturer Robert Keeley. The D&M Drive ($229 street) has a Boost side (Mick) and a Drive side (Dan), each with Gain, Tone, and Level controls, but the real kicker is a toggle in between that lets you select which side comes first when both are engaged to feed one into the other (Dan and Mick are big into gain-staging). And—bonus feature al