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3 unusual facts about Overdrive


Brooks Public Library

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OverDrive, Inc.

OverDrive was founded in 1986, and initially converted analog media to digital formats such as interactive diskettes and CD-ROMs.

San Diego County Library

The library subscribes to a number of subscription online resources (e.g. Morningstar, ReferenceUSA, OverDrive downloadable audiobooks) that customers may access from home.


Antonia Scarpa

Moving to Los Angeles, Scarpa played with several of the bands that created the original “Silver Lake” scene including “Don Knotts Overdrive", and Interscope recording artists “Lifter” with Mike Coulter and Jeffrey Sebelia.

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Because I Can

The album's main track was "Overdrive" and was featured on the teen hit movie, Mean Girls which gained the song fame.

E-Play

The album, produced by Block Out member Nikola Vranjković, featured a hysteric remix of the song "One again", done by Saša Lovkov and Uroš Milovanović, and as guests on the album appeared Bajaga i Instruktori member Saša Lokner (keyboards), Eyesburn frontman Nemanja Kojić "Coyote" (trombone, vocals), Block Out member Dragoljub Marković (keyboards) and Overdrive member Damir Milutinov (vocals).

Green–white–checker finish

In 2007, Fox began referring to the green-white-checkered finish as "Overdrive", an allusion to the term overtime used in many timed sports.

Ibanez Tube Screamer

The "legendary" Tube Screamer has been used by guitarists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan to create their signature sound, and is one of the most popular and most copied overdrive pedals.

Pontiac 6000

1984–1986 Muncie 4-speed manual w/overdrive (only available on 2.5 L 4-cyl & 4.3 L diesel)

Psychotropica

Damien Sage made Aeryn Süin watch hours and hours of experimental 70's films, including Suspiria and Tommy (to name a few) to get a feeling for the type of audio/visual overdrive he was aiming for.

Reliant Scimitar

Princess Anne was given a manual overdrive SE5 as a joint 20th birthday present and Christmas present in November 1970 by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Road Scholars

Julio Fernandez played a Washburn MG122ES electric guitar and a Ronaldo custom electric guitar through a Fender Prososonic Amp using the following effects: Rocktron Voodoo Valve Preamp/Multi effects rack, Vox Wahwah pedal, Boss Overdrive, Digital Delay & EQ Pedals, TC Electronics Chorus Pedal and ADA MIDI Control Pedal using a Whirlwind Custom Switching Box.

Samuell

Samuell Benta (born 1986), British actor who portrays Will Aston, the Black Ranger in Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive

The Fighting Calculators

In 2008, the competition was called Overdrive, and it required robots to drive counterclockwise laps around the field while manipulating large balls over and under two overpasses on each side of the field.

The Turbo A.C.'s

In 1996, the band released their first full-length album, Damnation Overdrive, on New York based hardcore label, Blackout Records.

Tube sound

Some individual characteristics of the tube sound, such as the waveshaping on overdrive, are straightforward to produce in a transistor circuit or digital filter.


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