There are a lot of great pedals out there manufactured by some of the well known manufacturers. Some of them can be relatively expensive which means there's a big market for guitar pedal clones.
This can be done legally because very few circuits are actually patented, and only brand names / designs can be copyrighted.
Below we've put together a list of popular pedals and their corresponding inexpensive clones, some of which we sell. These are all real clones, not pedals which pretend to be original and cost twice as much as the pedal they're cloning. So the ones we list here are clones, and don't try to hide that fact (and in some cases even make it obvious with a nod to the original in the name).
This is a work in progress. It's certainly not complete and there's a fair bit of guess work in there. Please get in touch if you know of inexpensive clones which aren't on the list!
It should be noted that some pedals are heavily influenced by the original, as opposed to being a 100% clone. So for a few of the below pedals, the manufacturer has put their own twist or improvement on it.
Sources for the info is our own knowledge, contributions from readers of this article (thanks!), and straight up awkwardly asking the manufacturer who they're cloning.
Full disclosure - we are an e-commerce site and sell some of these pedals to customers in the UK / Europe. Clicking on the links should bring you to the product page. We started selling Electro Harmonix pedals and they often reissue their classic pedals; just check the category to see them.
We've not included the clones which are more expensive (a lot over £100).
Ibanez Tube Screamer
- Biyang OD8 X Drive
- Biyang OD10 Mad Driver
- Caline CP-49 Midlander
- Joyo JF01 Vintage OD
- Caline CP49
- ENO ES9
- Mooer Green Mile
- Behringer Tube Overdrive
- Digitech Bad Monkey
- Musiwewe Green
- Mosky Mini Screamer
EHX Big Muff
- Biyang FZ-10 Fuzz Star
- ENO BMF
- Behringer Vintage Distortion
EHX Metal Muff
- Joyo JF17 Extreme Metal
- ENO Metalistik
- Mooer Blade
- Biyang Metal End
EHX Electric Mistress
- Mooer Eleclady
EHX Triangle Muff
- Mooer Triangle Buff
EHX Rams Head
- Moen Fuzz Moo
Fulltone OCD
- ENO Trouble
- Caline CP-50 Leon Drive
- Joyo JF02 Ultimate Drive
- Caline CP50
- Mooer Hustle Drive
- Danelectro Cool Cat Drive
- Tone City Dry Martini Overdrive
- Mosky Obsessive
Fulltone Ultimate Octave
- Joyo JF12 Octave
- Caline CP-53
- Tone City Fuxx Fuzz
Pro Co RAT
- ENO Myomorpha
- Mooer Black Secret
- Biyang DS8 Mouse
- Behringer Distortion Modeler
- R-attack Little Bear
- Mosky Black Rat
MI Audio Crunch Box
- ENO Classic
- Joyo JF03 Crunch
- Musiwewe Red
- Mooer Cruncher
- Caline Sand Storm
- Mosky Crunch Distort
MXR Dyna Comp
- Biyang CO10
- Joyo JF10 (/ Ross Compressor)
- Caline Hot Mushroom - discontinued
- Caline CP52
MXR Phase 90
- Biyang PH10 Phaser
- Joyo JF-06 Vintage Phase
- Mooer Ninety Orange
- Tone City Summer Orange
Boss BF-2 Flanger
- ENO BF-2 Flanger
- Behringer Ultra Flanger UF100
- Digitech Turbo Flanger
- Daphon E20FL
Boss BD2 Blues Driver
- Digitech Screaming Blues
- Behringer Blues Overdrive
- Biyang BL-8 Blue (or maybe Way Huge Red Llama)
- Mooer Blues Mood
Boss CE2 Chorus
- ENO Chorus
- Biyang CH10 Chorus
- Joyo JF37 Chorus
- Mooer Ensemble Chorus
- Digitech Multi Chorus
- Behringer Ultra Chorus UC200
- Daphon E20CH
- Tone City Angel Wing
Boss DS1 Distortion
- ENO Trinity
- Mooer Ultra Drive
- Danelectro FAB 1 Distortion
- Digitech Hot Head
- Daphon E20DS
Boss OC3 Octave
- ENO Octaver OCT-1
- Behringer Super Octaver SO400
- Mooer Pure Octave
Boss DD2 Delay
- Joyo JF08 Delay
- Mooer Reecho
- Caline CP-17
- Behringer DD400
Boss DM3 Analogue Delay
- ENO AD6 Delay
- Biyang AD10 Delay
- Mooer AnaEcho
- Daphon E20DL
Boss EQ7
- Biyang EQ7
- Behringer EQ700
- Danelectro Fish 'n' Chips
- Daphon E20GE
Boss DM2 Delay
- ENO AE-1 Ambient Echo
Mad Professor Deep Blue
- Caline Blue Ocean
- Tone City Tape Machine
Mad Professor Sweet Honey
- Joyo JF36 Sweet Baby
- Tone City Sweet Cream
Xotic BB Preamp
- Caline Orange Burst
- Tone City Kaffir Lime
- Caline Big Orange
- Mosky BB Preamp
Xotic RC Booster
- Mooer Pure Boost
- Joyo JF38 Roll Boost
Tech21 Blonde
Tech21 British
Tech21 Liverpool
- Joyo JF13 AC Tone
- Tone City Black Tea
- Caline CP-56
Tech21 California
Dunlop Uni-Vibe
- Moen Shaky Jimi
Suhr Riot
- Joyo JF34 US Dream
- Mooer Solo
- Tone City Wildfire
- Caline CP-501
- Mosky Crazy Tone
Demeter Tremulator
- Joyo JF-09 Tremolo
- Mooer Trelicopter
- Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo
Carl Martin Plexitone
- Joyo JF-32 Hot Plexi Drive
- Caline Englishman
- Tone City Golden Plexi (Maybe not clone - just Plexi sim)
- Mosky Plexi Distortion
Marshall Guv'nor
- Danelectro Daddy-O Overdrive
Klon Centaur
- EHX Soul Food
- Caline CP-43 Pegasus
- Caline CP-99 Medusa
- Fredric Golden Eagle
- Wampler Tumnus
- Tone City Bad Horse
- Mosky Golden Horse
DOD Overdrive Preamp 250
- Caline White Heat - Discontinued
Fulltone Fulldrive 2
Wampler Plexidrive
- Caline Rockface - Discontinued
Diamond Compressor
- Caline Pressure Tank
- Mooer Yellow Comp
Boss Acoustic Simulator
- Mooer Acoustikar
Xotic AC Booster
- Mooer Flex Booster
Super Shifter PS-5
- Mooer Pitch Box
Lovepedal ZenDrive
- Caline CP-502 Mellow Drive
- Mooer Rumble Drive
Paul Cochrane Timmy
Rebrands
Rebrands: A rebrand is where a factory (likely Mooer or someone who has cloned Mooer) internals into a different enclose they made for another company. Not all rebrands are exactly the same, but they’re usually cloning the same pedal. There are dozens of Mooer rebrands on the market, so we’ve not listed everything we think is a rebrand of a Mooer pedal since that’d just saturate the list. Here are the pedals we suspect of being rebrands:
- ENO
- Donner
- Xvive
- Rowin
- Mighty Sound
- Tomsline
- Blaxx
- Fame
- Fender
- NCZ Audio
Joyo also seems to offer rebranding services, but not as much as Mooer. Ammoon and Harley Benton are rebranded Joyo pedals.
Tone City and Movall always seemed to share the same pedals too. But Movall seem to not be around anymore.
A company called DemonFX have been making quite a few clones recently. They've got the Revv G3, a few Darkglass pedals, Friedman BEOD, Origin Cali76 several KoT pedals and others. We've not included them on this list because to us they're closer to counterfeits than clones since they keep the branding almost identical.
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The Danelectro 3699 fUZZ (and the much earlier cheapo, French Toast) are clones of the fOXX Tone Machine.
Joyo R3 Taichi = A very good Lovepedal Zendrive
Freedom Flanger is a rebranded Daphon E20FL circuit which is a clone of the Boss Flanger without the model control.
HI Thank you for all the info. I do have something to ad as some clones are good ones and some are bad. Jason from Tone City did choose models to cover but he has completely added his own flavor and I will say he has on most cover or clones far surpassed many others, that would be why Tone City is still very popular and sales very strong, as far as Movall we are talking Movall Audio NOT Mavall Music that are a joke as in them are Azore mostly, but Movall Audio they were actually Tone City and the PCB’s did say Tone City as Jason was making them for Wendy of former Movall Audio owner until we decided not to compete and Tone City as a brand was created. Perhaps Jason had this transition in the back of his mind right from the start.
Thank you for reading.
Chuck Starlite Distribution.
HI Thank you for all the info. I do have something to ad as some clones are good ones and some are bad. Jason from Tone City did choose models to cover but he has completely added his own flavor and I will say he has on most cover or clones far surpassed many others, that would be why Tone City is still very popular and sales very strong, as far as Movall we are talking Movall Audio NOT Mavall Music that are a joke as in them are Azore mostly, but Movall Audio they were actually Tone City and the PCB’s did say Tone City as Jason was making them for Wendy of former Movall Audio owner until we decided not to compete and Tone City as a brand was created. Perhaps Jason had this transition in the back of his mind right from the start.
Thank you for reading.
Chuck Starlite Distribution.