Fulltone Full-Drive 2 Mosfet

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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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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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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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