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Old June 30th, 2009, 11:46 AM   #12 (permalink)
AngryEL34s
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Originally Posted by SMurphy28 View Post
I like the sound of my Fulldrive 2 but I find I never use the Boost channel. Would I be better off with a Tubescreamer to take up less room?

I know a Fulldrive and Tubescreamer have different clipping but I mostly use the overdrive in combination with the second channel on my amp to get more sustain/feedback.

Just looking for some opinions.
I use my FD2 as my main drive with a Traynor YGL3 (similar to a Twin) and I love it! On the other hand, I use a TS to push my cranked BJ and that's awesome too. Unless you're using the FD in Comp-Cut mode, I don't think it would work as something to push an amp unless you set it with low gain and high volume. But I don't think that was the intent of this pedal in the first place.

I set my FD so that the OD channel is a somewhere between low and mid gain, and then I use the boost to go into heavier OD.

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Originally Posted by kidfortuna View Post
That's exactly why I ditched mine in foavour of an Xotic BB preamp + Keeley Fuzzhead for leads. I was just never using the boost because of the fact there's no volume increase with it - major oversight imo.
I don't know what settings you were using, but I find there's more than enough volume boost on the boost side for it to stand out. And when you use Comp-cut mode, it gets loud enough to really really hurt your hearing.
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