Fulltone OCD and fulldrive 2

[waik]

Fulltone OCD and fulldrive 2

hi all:

I want to know what the sound difference between Fulltone OCD and fulldrive 2... and they have so many difference verison like V3,V4..etc.. fulldrive 2 also some diff. version .. what is the diff. ?

actually, i have a MXR GTOD, and i want to buy a more powerful, heavy feeling overdrive or distortion, ..sound like "radiohead" - my iron lung ... any comment ? . .

thanks alot

[markinlondon]

This site should answer your OCD question, I can't find anything similar for the FD2.

http://www.pedalarea.com/ocd.htm

[scooteraz]

I have one of each, and I think of the FD2 as more of a tube screamer type of overdrive with a boost function and some additional tone controls. Think SRV with some boost. The OCD is more of a model of a Marshall being overdriven. Think Claption with the Blues Breakers or Gary Moore. Neither to my ear is a heavy style of distortion. I think of my Keeley modified boss DS-1 as being heavier than either of these pedals. But....I am not particularly familiar with radiohead as a group, so I cannot make a comment in that direction.

I have not heard the FD2 MOSFET version yet, so cannot comment there. I don't remember which version of the pedal my FD2 is, but is is a pretty decent pedal if you want that sound.

[Axis29]

Silicon Fuzz.

I had to search through a bunch of Radiohead on Youtube (not sure why I don't have any on my iPod?) before I could find some with distortion... LOL

The first song I found had fuzz on the Bass and acoustic Guitar. Then Acoustic Guitar, then Acoustic Guitar...

Then I found Creep http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpblnsJEWM. He plays a Rickenbacker pretty cleanly... with some chorus on it, but then when they jump to the heavy parts it's a TELE into a silicon fuzz with a compressor... or maybe a fuzz into an overdriven amp and he's getting tube compression?

But that's what it sounds like to me...

[vjf1968]

Check out www.proguitarshop.com and see there video demos of both the OCD and the FullDrive 2 to get a better idea of what they are capable of.

[davidge1]

I love my OCD, but it's not what I'd call a heavy distortion. It gives a very natural sounding, transparent overdrive. It can go all the way up to VERY distorted, but it doesn't sound like it's what you're looking for.

I'd recommend you try out some different fuzz peals, like the Big Muff or Fuzzface. Now those will give you a HEAVY sound.

[Axis29]

Originally Posted by davidge1

I love my OCD, but it's not what I'd call a heavy distortion. It gives a very natural sounding, transparent overdrive. It can go all the way up to VERY distorted, but it doesn't sound like it's what you're looking for.

I'd recommend you try out some different fuzz peals, like the Big Muff or Fuzzface. Now those will give you a HEAVY sound.

I guess I coulda said something about my OCD too... I Can actually compare it to a Fulltone 70 fuzz pedal. They are actually similar... but different.

The OCD has a nice grindy overdriven distortion. When you crank the drive knob around it comes close to a fuzz sound. It's very dirty, but still way under control. But not fizzy. At any drive settings, the tone of the guitar comes through clearly. IT doesn't seem to color my guitar's tones at all... just dirty's them up, but not like pure tube overdrive... Someone a few weeks ago described it as a tubescreamer turned up to 40. This is pretty close, but there's no mid-hump... it really drives my amp hard, but not in a heavy metal sort of way... more a pure Rock N Roll sorta way. IT sounds similar to a silicon fuzz Junior. IF you turn down the guitar volume, it stays gritty. It doesn't clean up and get creamy... so it works pretty good for not overbearing volumes. It also plays well with my Tubescreamer for piling on.

The Fulltone 70 Pedal is a Silicon Fuzz. It get's waaaaaaaayyyy dirty and fuzzy. It gets more of that heavy Radiohead fizzy distortion, that's not screaming whiny metal distortion. It's like an OCD on 15, maybe 20. But it colors the tone a little. It brings out more of the highs and changes the tone of my guitar. Not in a bad way, it just does.... it does it in a fuzz pedal sorta way. The interesting thing is, it's VERY sensitive to my guitar's volume signal. If I roll back the knob to 7, it's pretty darn clean. It's still got just a hint of hair, but it's smooth and closer to my guitar's straight through tone (though still colored a little toward the highs... I think). BUT, it's not like a germanium fuzz creamy smooth, just cleaner taste of itself. The 70 pedal does not play well with the OCD. You get this kind a square clipping sound...it's like it's just too much signal. Maybe if I really backed down on my OCd, but that's not what I have my OCD for! LOL

So, the bottom line is, I can get a lot closer to Radiohead with my 70 pedal. It's a mid-cost Fuzz and it's a good pedal with true bypass, sturdy construction and a lot of gain on tap! I think you'll get closer to the Radiohead thing with it than an OCD, but the OCD might be a more flexible pedal.


Clear as mud? I thought so!

[Surfy]

If we're on the subject of Radiohead and Fulltone pedals, you should check out the GT-500. I actually watched a demo video where a guy was playing an older Radiohead tune from the Bends era on one of these and it sounded great.

[Surfy]

Oh, but of course if you want "My Iron Lung" tone you're gonna need an octave pedal. For the verse guitar tone, anyway. For the chorus tone, the GT-500 should do the trick.