Fulltone Full-Drive 2 Mosfet user reviews ( 9/10) - 7 user reviews

• 11/20/10

  MGR/Guitar Guy 73's review "Fulltone Fulldrive 2 Mosfet"

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  Purchased new at music store for $152.00
  
  
  
  This review is for the Full-Drive 2 Mosfet.The quality of this pedal is clearly seen the first time you pick it up in your hand.The footswitches are incredibly durable and will hold up for a very long time.The knobs are amp quality and responsive.The wide versatility of this pedal is a key selling point for buyers.As no one uses the exact same rig setup, this versatility helps one dial in a great sound in just about any configuration.
  
  
  
  I have A/B\'d numerous overdrives against the Full Drive 2 Mosfet and this pedal always wins.If you are looking for a clean sounding overdrive that is smooth as butter and able to provide nice harmonics without the fuzzy high gain, this is your pedal.It makes single coils sing and humbuckers growl nicely.
  
  
  
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  Well built, high quality
  
  
  
  Finally since there are boutique drive pedals out there that are revered by many, if you have a chance to play them, then you can make the best decision as sound is highly subjective.The Full Drive 2 is just a great place to start and a great value for the money.You may find your tone search (for now) ends here.
  
  
  
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• 01/31/10

  MGR/MattG's review "Fulltone Fulldrive 2 Mosfet"

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  This one of Fulltone's versatile overdrive pedals. In addition to the overdrive, it also has a boost. It has volume, tone, overdrive, and boost control.
  
  
  
  I am a lead guitarist in a gigging country/rock band.
  
  
  
  I bought this a from a friend for $100. I was looking for an overdrive that was thicker and creamier than the BOSS SD-1.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The overdrive is very rich and creamy. It has a range from medium overdrive, to a very thick and saturated overdrive. The boost does a nice job not changing the tone. The controls are not overly responsive and very user friendly. This pedal is especially good when playing humbuckers through it.
  
  
  
  The gain starts a little to high. You cant get the sound of when the tubes are just beginning to break loose. It starts with a much more saturated sound and only gets more saturated.
  
  
  
  Construction is very solid. It is in a metal stompbox with tough plastic knobs.
  
  
  
  This pedal is a five if you play humbuckers but only a four if you are a single coil guy. It is the best pedal out there for a thick saturated overdrive without getting scratchy distortion. If it had a little less gain at the beginning of the range, it would be the best overdrive pedal period. Especially with the boost function.
  
  
  
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• 09/19/04

  MGR/Eric's review "Fulltone Fulldrive 2"

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  I was looking for a good drive pedal that would bring a full and natural overdrive to my amplifier. After trying differant pedals that sounded contrived, I heard about Fulltone's product. I reluctantly decided to put down the $170 dollars that Guitar Center was asking for this product. Yes, it is expensive.
  
  
  
  My favorite aspect of Fulltone\'s Fulldrive 2 pedal its full, natural sound. I was overwhelmed at how well it played through my Fender Deville amplifier with a Tele. You can easily obtain a vintage tone through the use of the Fulltone Fulldrive, but if you are chasing the metal craze, this is not your pedal. The tone levels are versitile, the volume is resonable, the BOOST is great for leads, etc, etc.
  
  
  
  I honestly dislike nothing about this unit. The little rubber feet on the bottom make it a little annoying to attach to a pedalboard, but thats just me trying to stretch myself to find something bad about it.
  
  
  
  This pedal is quite an indestructible object. As long as you don\'t run it over with your car it should be fine. ...I don\'t suggest throwing it against a wall at full force either...but who knows, it might come out undamaged.
  
  
  
  The price was very well worth the performance! For styles ranging from blues and jazz, to classic rock, to indie, this pedal covers everything BUT METAL. (Although you can try, you could get a very differant sound). I suggest you try it out. It is perfect for me. Hopefully you can say the same.
  
  
  
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• 10/02/11

  nefas's review ( translated ) Improve this translation " Excellent boost in"

  Characteristics

  See previous opinions.

  Utilization

  I do give this pedal with a friend, I tried that boost, so slight distortion on the amp already saturated.
  
  It's an OD pedal with a Clean Boost and more.
  
  I play metal as given below (Drop G), I tried this pedal without much hope, I knew it was designed on the basis of a Tube Screamer, I expected not to fall under its spell .

  Sound Quality

  As explained above, I play mostly metal, my guitar is a LTD Viper Baritone features a Seymour AHB-2, my amp is an ENGL Savage 120 that I positioned on the lead channel, I use just the FD2 boost, ie a very slight distortion from the pedal and the amp pretty saturated behind. Contrary to what one might think that working as it makes the sound more dry, more fluid, the palm mutes bigger.
  
  Of all the OD / Disto I've tried and I tried a packet, it is the only that was the most transparent, balanced, keeping a good momentum.
  
  I tried the OCD, the same sound quality but a lot of bass that was drooling the sound can be in standard tuning but Low Tuning is not terrible, the FD2 is more transparent and more possible settings.
  
  Excellent boost pedal to the metal.

  Overall Opinion

  Many large metal band use a TS-9/TS 808 for a big sound, well, they are not tried FullDrive 2 Mosfet, you'll understand it can be very good for the Blues or Rock, also the friend who lent me this is what he plays but for metal, to boost an amp that is already saturated beautiful as what you must always keep his bias when testing the stuff;)
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• 06/12/11

  Virtual Decadence's review ( translated ) Improve this translation "The overdrive to rediscover the guitars"

  Characteristics

  We must take time to see the different settings that are not all independent of each other. Understand that the so-called "Boost channel" merely replaces the setting "overdrive" by setting "boost" so that the latter is a gain setting much larger than the overdrive.
  
  If you want the sound of the solos of Angus Young is on this channel we have to go (for gain, this pedal is no longer in its field).
  
  
  
  Other than that between the three modes "Comp Cut / Fat Mids and Vintage" and switch "Mosfet / Standard", it was a very nice range of clean boost to big crunch.

  Utilization

  Easy editing, knobs very reactive to find the right sound for relevance: the guitar, the different microphones at different styles. The man page has no interest. Better to watch videos of demos found on Youtube to understand the effects settings and try to find their use on different guitars.

  Sound Quality

  Tried it with two guitars that have nothing to do:
  
  
  
  - Duesenberg Starplayer TV +: Vintage Mode (FM) for microphones handle (sort of P90), not too much drive, the sound is great for rhythmic rock / pop very punchy. Boost channel, with a knob nearly full (say, at 5), I have a classic lead sound on the mic Bridge (humbucker) that is both bold and very detailed (characteristic of the Duesenberg). I like the standard mode (a classic overdrive) but the sound is full in "Mosfet". A treat. The problem is that between the first "round" and the second "bridge", I like to adjust the TONE. Not easy to find the setting that goes for both for the stage.
  
  
  
  - Danelectro 59 Reissue: while there I almost rediscovered the guitar. Now I use it in situations where I would choose one if I had a Telecaster. It has a grain to it and position "two pickups in series" is one that produces the best sound. In "Overdrive" / Standard, playing the TONE knob I got a bite interesting, even with the neck pickup alone who usually sounds a bit too nice for nervous licks.
  
  This guitar (which is my spare) I do not use usual in micro bridge acute for crunch sounds in saturated and in position "middle" for clean sounds. And this was an issue of difference in level (fatal versus single micro micro series) Here I have beautiful Crunch / Lead position with two microphones. And what a sound. I think when the designer advises on its website to try the mode Flat Mids with the neck pickup of a Start, he knows whereof he speaks.
  
  Otherwise its "light" mode CompCut (which wants a clean boost) also provides a valuable potato. But then we must choose: use the clean boost pedal in overdrive or buy two.
  
  With this Fulldrive 2, it is clear so that the grain of the Danelectro a little cheap (the guitar not the grain) attracts many people (not just the fact that Jimmy Page played it).
  
  
  
  So for classic rock styles, old 70's hard, brit-pop, early punk or stoner, this pedal is a marvel. In fact, everything but the bulk metal. Put a very light (a Vox AC15C1 for me), but also made the test with an amp that sounds cardboard: Pod XT amp transistor as the Vox Pathfinder or worse a Marshall MG (set in his clear, the crunch is still horrible on these amps) and suddenly you feel that your amp sounds better.
  
  
  
  
  
  EDIT: After two months, this pedal is almost always alllumée when I play other than its really clear. The first channel I use as a boost (yes it is called overdrive) as one would use a tube screamer: Overdrive is set to almost zero, and Mosfet switch Mids Fat Tone and according to his research and I used the microphones on my guitars. To live, I go in the Top Boost channel of my AC15C1 with a gain around noon (11 am I have a slight crunch but withthe well Voxéen e scratching my P90 it gives a clean one dirty little of beauty for rhythmic pop, to 13h I have enough potatoes to play full).
  
  The second channel I use to have a good overdrive classic except that the MOSFET makes all the difference (and it's called Boost, must follow) and I use mostly humbucker lead with very Gibsonian of my guitar. It works wonders with an octave (EHX Micro Pog for me). And if not, I have a friend who lent me an old Big Muff 70's, and with just the first boost channel, it tears his granny.
  
  Recording, often late at night impossible to put a microphone in front of the Vox, I use the plugin from Waves GTR or even Logic Amp Designer settled on a clean his "imitation Vox" (and an EQ to fine-tune) and it looks pretty good. The Fulldrive is again a difference. I became allergic to models (but still practical in some situations), and is the boost adds a nice dynamic and credible.
  
  
  
  I could compare with the latest as of distortion in Fulltone, the Plimsouls: NOTHING TO DO. This seems to be a stage with a OCD level approximating a Marshall Plexi. This gives large distortions for those who love the stuff like Proco Rat, but it does not replace a tube screamer. Personally it's not really my thing, preferring either outright or classic overdrive fuzz (or similar like the Big Muff).

  Overall Opinion

  Most: versatility (although it remains to overdrive in a spirit Tube Screamer, not a big one and even less distortion fuzz. Not against it must deposit a distortion boost mode CompCut) and adaptability to my different guitars. Mode "Mosfet" beautiful to the point of saying "why the overdrive does not sound all like that?".
  
  
  
  Cons: Hard to choose the palette of possible sounds. Especially not having to touch it on stage or two between uses different guitars. We can not have all digital presets either. It would take at least two :-)
  
  Of course it's expensive but if you have already spent a fortune on TS, DO, Disto of all kinds and are looking towards Fulltone is that the price argument is not so disturbing it.
  
  
  
  Until this purchase, I used the drive of my Sansamp Character Series pedals. Well it sounds. I remain a fan of Tech 21 products. Especially since it seems that small room in Paris to accept less that brings its own amp, then to walk around with models of this quality is nice if you want to avoid having to use a numerical modeling horror Fender and Roland from home.
  
  
  
  But there I was looking for something that allows me to have the same pedal a slight crunch like TS in a rhythm and solo boost or other use of a simple Clean Boost. This pedal is perfect for this. It is because I do not want two pedals m'embarasser why I did not choose the OCD which would have forced him to have a boost pedal as well. But I confess that I understand that both the Fulldrive and OCD. Even if it is a luxury when you do not need so many different sounds it controllable to toe.
  
  
  
  EDIT: I said that but then I ordered a Big Muff clone in Civil War Stomp Under Foot. if I read all my reviews for AF, I think this kind of contradiction must be legion in my opinion, having gone through all the periods in selection of guitar gear. That said, if I was looking for a good classic rock sound to AC / DC, fulldrive is sufficient.
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• 12/21/08

  Jp6l6's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  3-way + 2 overdrive modes of boost, the latter as a boost for the overdrive, which does not indpendemment thereof.
  
  It's analog, true bypass, very upscale.
  
  I give only 9 because the boost will not work without the overdrive.

  Utilization

  The setup is very simple, whatever you do, you always get good sounds.
  
  The manual is very succinct.

  Sound Quality

  The distos are an incredible realism: I have a whole collection of OD, disto ... This is by far the best. The grains are comparable accessible ones are obtained with high-end amplifiers.
  
  I use it mainly with a Les Paul and a Tele, a Laney amp and Rivera is still the ball.
  
  BEAUTIFUL HOME IN BEAUTIFUL

  Overall Opinion

  I filled up the last few weeks and I would do this choice.
  
  I might add still be one or the other my collection, if they have a grain pariculier quality and is equivalent to the FULL-DRIVE 2.
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• 11/16/08

  Maytouk's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Overdrive pedal analog transistors with MOSFET = Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor.
  
  2 channels: normal (green LED) and boost (red LED).
  
  1 volume, 1 tone, an overdrive, a volume boost.
  
  1 switch compcut / FM (Flat Mids) / vintage.
  
  Second switch: MOSFET / normal.
  
  Solid construction, metal, handmade in California.
  
  True bypass
  
  AC power transformer with 9 to 18 volts or 9 volt battery (unscrew the 4 nuts from below). The power cell lasts longer than average.
  
  This pedal is part of the top-50 special effects rock from Guitar Player Magazine and for some it is the best overdrive

  Utilization

  English manual but everyone is not supposed to understand this language ...
  
  Finally we have about 3 a view of the pedal settings and more with the switches.
  
  In a little tampering we quickly what you want and the boost is useful: solo, sounds fatter, stronger etc.De more you can boost, clear treble

  Sound Quality

  This pedal is made primarily for rock but not metal. It respects the nuances of the game, its sounds are quality, round, warm, well-defined, it really top.Dans a good tube amp is happiness! It goes with the simple, the double.Perso I rather with the single coil bridge.En more one is not confined only to the vintage.On goes from soft to the fury.
  
  Try with a good amp and a good guitar, this is where you will see the possibilities and the richness of this Fulldrive.

  Overall Opinion

  Frankly a good pedal to the height of his réputation.La better than I had (and I've had other ...). Obviously the price is affected, I got it secondhand. New it costs € 188.00 to € 220.00
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