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BUT!!!.... most overdrives just don’t retain enough high end to allow you to have a lovely sharp, bright clean sound when you roll your volume knob back. For example, my old Plextortion, my klones, my Thorpy Gunshot and most of my tubscreamers do not clean up well from the volume knob at at all.
On the other hand, the OCD, the .45 Caliber, the Morning Glory, the Charlie Brown, the BB Preamp all clean up wonderfully.
And yes, I have gigged with an always-on overdrive and used just the guitar volume to get clean sounds - and by clean I mean *clean*, not slightly dirty - and all my overdriven sounds. Literally one pedal, on for the whole gig.
It's totally true that some do it better and more controllably than others, but it's also still true that all overdrive pedals do clean up if you reduce the input signal enough.
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I use the EHX Soulfood always on and control the drive by backing off the guitar volume or bending down and backing down the pedals gain. Works pretty well for me