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.

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Ibanez Tube Screamer

Biyang FZ-10 Fu z z Star

ENO BMF

Behringer Vintage Distortion

Joyo JF17 Extreme Metal

ENO Metalistik

Mooer Blade

EHX Electric Mistress

Mooer Eleclady

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

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

MI Audio Crunch Box

MXR Dyna Comp

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

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

Xotic RC Booster

Mooer Pure Boost

Joyo JF38 Roll Boost

Tech21 Blonde

Joyo JF14 American Sound

Caline CP-55

Tech21 British

Caline CP-58

Joyo JF16 British

Tech21 Liverpool

Joyo JF13 AC Tone

Tone City Black Tea

Caline CP-56

Tech21 California

Joyo JF15 California

Caline CP-57

Dunlop Uni-Vibe

Moen Shaky Jimi

Joyo JF34 US Dream

Mooer Solo

Tone City Wildfire

Demeter Tremulator

Joyo JF-09 Tremolo

Mooer Trelicopter

Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo

Carl Martin P lexitone

Joyo JF-32 Hot Plexi Drive

Caline Englishman

Tone City Golden Plexi (Maybe not clone - just Plexi sim)

Marshall Guv'nor

Danelectro Daddy-O Overdrive

Klon Centaur

DOD Overdrive Preamp 250

Fulltone Fulldrive 2

Wampler Plexidrive

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

Mooer Rumble Drive

It's unfair to say that the brands mentioned above only do clones. Biyang in particular put a lot of thought into their pedals and have several unique designs which can't really be called clones at all. Also, if you use a wider definition of the word "clone" then you can accuse virtually any pedal manufacturer of copying existing designs. Even the newest and most innovative designs are going to have a lot in common with the designs which have come before it.

Rebrands

Rebrands: A rebrand is where the Mooer factory sticks the 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. They may not be exactly the same. It’s common for some rebrands to reduce the quality, and therefore cost, inside the pedal. If you compare some of the reviews of the rebranded pedals, some of them certainly seem to have more reliability concerns.

There are dozens of Mooer rebrands on the market, so we’ve not listed anything 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.

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