I second this concern.
I bought the Overlord because it had just the controls I wanted for jamming (wet/dry+ 3band eq) and you can always tweak something out of that; but even when processing material that doesn’t have or need a lot of low-end, the end result is hardly ever WOW. I still use it and I’m not looking for a replacement.
A major caveat to this statement is that “samples” is a very broad category, and whether an overdrive works or not depends a lot on your source material and what you’re aiming for at that particular moment.