Got a new Fulldrive

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Got a new Fulldrive

Post by JVG » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:08 pm

Has anyone picked up one of the new Fulltone Fulldrive (FD1) pedals?

I bought one on impulse recently - I couldn't resist $99 from the "blemished" section of the Fulltone site - and have been very happy with it. I don't have experience with any previous Fulldrive models, so I can't compare in that regard, but I've found a bunch of really nice sounds from it, ranging from almost clean to a well balanced heavy crunch.

At high-ish gain settings, I found the CC mode the one to go for, with the others becoming a bit mushy and ill defined. At low to moderate gain settings, both theVintage and CC mode were pleasing, with good definition and not too much compression. All my testing has been done on single coils, so I can't comment on its handling of humbuckers.

I'd be interested to hear how others have got on with it.

By the way, this is the second "blemished" pedal I've bought from Fulltone (the other being an Octafuzz ), and both times I've been hard pressed to find any blemishes. Maybe they just send a few normal ones out through that channel to boost sales? I dunno.

Cheers!
J

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