Browne Amplification The Alkene Nashville Overdrive Effect Pedal

From Kansas City’s finest in clean, lean, mean effects, the Browne Amps Alkene Nashville Overdrive is an atomic “screamer” drive for anything and everything. Breaking off from Browne’s celebrated Protein dual overdrive, the Alkene is the brand’s evolution on their Atom overdrive. The “green” side of the Protein, this distinctly hot Nashville overdrive breathes incredible tube-style saturation into any signal for an effect effortless and endless.

The Alkene is the product of one of Browne’s longest-running passion projects. Browne’s Protein dual overdrive utilizes a double-barreled drive design one of those barrels loaded with a green, “screamer” style Nashville overdrive. The Alkene is Browne’s spin on the classic effect archetype with plenty of tube-style screams baked in under the hood.

Full of personality, the Alkene’s principal tone is fashioned to thicken a signal, add a little heat, a little burn, while retaining chord clarity and note definition during more saturated passages. The Alkene kicks off from that square one with an unobtrusive set of controls to get to new musical frontiers quickly.

On the front, a two-way clipping section switch swaps the Alkene’s clipping section between its stock symmetrical clipping and an alternative asymmetrical clipping. The asymmetrical clipping section’s sound allows for a wider feel with less compression, delivering a more amp-like response. Internally, the Alkene features controls for expanding its horizons even further. Switches for higher clipping and bass cutting adds an element of finer tuning to the Alkene that keeps things simple and inspirational from the word “go” without bogging down the process. Standard nine-volt center negative power requirements mean the Alkene is effortlessly worked into any existing rig.

Screaming for Nashville, the Alkene is a classic overdrive begging to join your rig.

• Analog Nashville “screamer” drive effect from Browne Amps Protein overdrive
• Level, Drive, and Tone control scheme
• Two-way asymmetrical and symmetrical clipping switch
• Internal clipping and bass cut switches
• Standard nine-volt DC center negative power requirements