All user reviews for the Fulltone OCD V1.4

Everything has already been said below.
Overdrive reference from + used market.
3 classic buttons and a voicing switch.
Big box metal construction USA.

UTILIZATION

Very simple, you press one turns, there is nothing complicated.
Sound can easily be found, no interdependence of the settings which can sometimes be
if some pedals.

SOUND QUALITY

Excellent pedal to put in the top of OD.D'abord which is great with OCD is silence
operation. One has the impression that it is broken when one starts so background noise is low.
Voicing side there is more than a low TS (tube screamer). The low end is very present,
So it gives a thick and heavy sound, it is close to ZZ TOP. It is also very dynamic, responds incredibly well to the fingers.

The only downside in my eyes, it tends to distort the color a little guitar original home a Strat.

OVERALL OPINION

Excellent overdrive, a must have for those who want a heavy and dense than + TS thing.

Otherwise personal with OCD I also Riff Shooter jmb experience, most versatile, made in France and in the same price range. This is the same voicing but it has more grain and in the end I preferred.

https://fr.audiofanzine.com/distorsion-guitare/jmb-experience/riff-shooter/

There is also of course the excellent BB PREAMP

https://fr.audiofanzine.com/distorsion-guitare/xotic-effects/BB-Preamp/

See other numerous reviews. Mosfet / germanium. Excellent construction, handy size.
The best version according to Fulltone. Is that so? I do not know the others.

UTILIZATION

Simple to use. HP and LP rather brit rather old school Fender

SOUND QUALITY

Sounds qualité.On a crunch, and the drive back to a typical distortion fuzz rather clean. Everything is very vintage blues and rock oriented. The build quality is ridiculous that we have a blast compared to the technology used. It is more in his lamp ancienne.Je the spectrum is too low present sometimes difficult to sculpt accurate sound

OVERALL OPINION

The +

Safe bet
Good vintage sounds (for those who love)
Construction
Versatility

The -

Staff: I would have preferred a more muscular and less distortion fuzz
The tone deserves a little improvement

Everything has been said

UTILIZATION

Easy to find a sound, just turn the knob and let him do his ear.

Please note, optimum tone settings and HP / LP mode may be different depending on the guitar.

SOUND QUALITY

So here I will temper the previous opinions.

This is a good overdrive, but has a major flaw, it leaves less of a tube screamer to mix equal volume. In short you that you just, you have the sound, but as a group this is different.

I also have two pedal lamp Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor, equipped with various lights, fulltone is clearly a notch below.

OVERALL OPINION

10 months that I have and I sold it.

it's been 35 years since I played the guitar overdrive I had tons, and stay on the OD 808 and my tubes factor.

If it again does not buy the. Yet I had tried in stores, but disappointed in the final over of the pedals lamp, and on all types of amps (Marshall Fender and Vox)
Too expensive for what it is.

Overdrive distortion of another world that combines flexibility with both worlds. Classic at the controls: Volume, Tone, Gain and a switch LP / HP changing the grain and especially potatoes of this great pedal resourceful. A 9v power supply / 18v, for my part, I have only tried the 9v but it tells in the small world of Fulltone it work better 18v. Robust metal casing, it smells good build quality all ...

UTILIZATION

Distos generally just a few minutes to find the sound, and there, it is similar, except that you may find more sounds. Juggling the switch HP / LP, the drive and tone, it seems to have several pedals. Excellent value for money I would say!

SOUND QUALITY

SOUND: how to say? good. Not very good. no, excellent. or rather insane ... Anyway, remain objective, it is the sound I wanted. Warm overdrive, creamy, round, natural or bright, snapping the neck pickup of the strat, transparent to perfection, waterlogged harmonics sublime notes ... or edgy distortion with the peculiarity of being very clean, well defined and with good dynamics (HP mode) or darker in LP. This is not a distortion HI gain, far from it, but with another overdrive upstream, we get more gain for solos "easy." Just before (in the chaining) I have a Vox Ice 9, and a MXR GT OD.

OVERALL OPINION

I deliberately avoided the subject of versions (V1 2 3 or 4) for a simple reason is that I did not understand these stories versions, especially because I do not know what my version I do not care. the key is to have the sound you search, despite the opinions of each other. I just bought this pedal, and frankly, I took a big blow. My other distos are now in a closet because I find that it does not have the level of OCD. Unless it's the OCD that has a level superior to others ...

Fully analog, this distortion is really better than the other .... the sound is fuller and with it, the guitar takes more heat and more space in the mix ....

UTILIZATION

Most of the time I put Dist Level and 1/4 and Tone in the middle with my Les Paul .... it does wonders ....
THE Disto bottom, the sound becomes fatter and keep the precision must increase the tone.

As for the little switch LP HP .... in fact I am using LP .... but especially for pieces much speed in chords, the HP gives precision ...
With the volume and distortion bottom, the sound is a little fuzzy and it's really usable.

SOUND QUALITY

That's why I bought it .... I tried several pedals and the store had even brought me the new MXR Superbadass .... I almost take it then in the window j ' saw the OCD (60 € more expensive) and there it was love at first sight ..... drummer and bassist were with me and for them too, not y'avait photo with other pedals.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 4 months and now it is my only affect 80% of the pieces .... I added him a boost sometimes some solo history .... not me down but I could also spend LP HP .
This pedal is really TOP and I really recommend it because the sound is very rich ...... ..... it is really worth the sound of the guitar.

American-pedal excellent construction, metal housing, simple but robust design class.
Category:. According Fulltone, Overdrive, with ambition to approach the grain Marshall JTM-45, or the grain "British" in its infancy, when he was still "bluesy" and "hi-gain" I must say that 'outside the Fender tube amps, I am "madly" I do not know too much "British" amps, but I liked the grain there, not so far from a bassman on certain settings.

UTILIZATION

Using front-amp, in my case, a Fender Deluxe Reverb RI 65 is the config. Traditional Level / Gain / tone + a mini switch two positions, which is actually a booster not transparent at all, but "colored / dye / filter" (for value db see specifications).
-In my approach, compléte OCD overdrive I get with my Ibanez TS-808 and OD-8908 Maxon.J 've been seduced by the grain of this pedal, and I'm picky because after 25 years of TS I have great difficulty aprrécier something else in terms of overdrive, I'm "old fashioned", no offense to geeks who are always hysterical each pedal "boutique" that comes on the market.
This complementarity is the access gains more "beefy" more "wrapped", but with a less smooth than the TS mentioned above grain.
the gain range is at least one-third larger than that of a normal TS, the grain is rougher without falling into caricature.
The tone knob is very accurate acremente, can change color without problem, the kind of luxurious mini switch is not a "boost", it is also a kind of filter that should be esayer each new guitar passing through the OCD, because depending on the type of microphones, the sound is improved / optimized, so it is a setting to "evaluate" each time.

SOUND QUALITY

-The pedal is as good as "light crunch" that most brutal "saturax".
Note, light crunch, it does not compress too much, plus the gain goes, the more "sheath" sound and a compression lengthens the sustain is obtained.
it colors more than TS, and is less transparent, making it the perfect complementarité.On can bring the exotic BB pre-amp, it's pretty close as pedal.

OVERALL OPINION

-This is a pedal that I have time "neglected" because I went back to my tube screamers fast enough ...
I use these in duplicate, so SRV, the first clear boost in the second DO I struggled to find an equivalent of this sound elsewhere.
But one morning, I had the idea of ​​replacing the second TS (the adjusted OD ...) by the OCD, and there .... ca was a revelation.
Since the OCD has found a prominent place in my chain and I think more to part.

hereinafter, two of my clips shot with this system double OD:


with each stratum:





and with LES Paul

Simple analog pedal overdrive:
- Drive and Tone Volume Knobs.
- Switch LP / HP (Peak Low / High Peak)
- Power 9, 12 or 18V DC.

True bypass.

Alim connection on the side.

Red LED illuminates well the pedalboard when the effect is activated! (Bling-bling!)

UTILIZATION

Configuration is very simple, or too much or not enough settings, intuitive ...
We find what you want without even having to read the manual.

The circuit Tone is "fixed", ie it is set to a frequency (treble) that may rise or fall.
The LP / HP switch also affects the frequency, the LP sounds more dark than the HP.

SOUND QUALITY

I use a Gibson SG P90 and Custom77 mounted with Fender Wide Range pickups.
As I pedal a Xotic EP Booster, which goes hand in hand with OCD in LP / 12V mode.
All that plugged into a JCM800 AND a stereo OR50 ...
I put relatively little gain on 2 amps and I boost with 2 pedals ...
Result: Big crunch with massive dynamics.

The OCD really is THE overdrive pedal in my opinion.
It is very transparent, it will not turn your amp into another and respect the dynamics of your playing but it provides a very small soft guitar is really stunning.
If you have not yet tried: try it!

A high volume, if you have a large room and adequate amp, it really makes sense to him 12 or 18 volts buttocks ... Personally I'll probably buy a 18V transformer ...

His favorite subject is really the crunch for the hi-gain metal, in my opinion there are better.

In my config it is necessary and has its place for 2 years now ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 years now.

I tried many other overdrive / distortion pedal:
Xotic AC plus: very good but colder than the OCD.
Akai G2 drive more versatile but if you want crunch ---> OCD
Suhr Riot: too hi-gain for me
Big Muff: less transparent, turns your amp into a marshall (which can be cool by the way)
Maxon tube screamer: really, good dynamic too, but I prefer the grain of OCD is more discreet.

I would try out the Xotic BB preamp that has the same features!

I love the transparency and dynamics: it respects the amp on which it is connected and does not compress the sound too!
Negative: None for me!

€ 180 is not abused for the stuff of this quality!

I would do this choice without hesitation ... The

There has to look at the number of pros who use this pedal ... there everywhere OCD now!

This is an analog overdrive pedal MXR size type for a guitar in jack, a jack out and roll youth. The whole is strong and clean inside.

UTILIZATION

A switch allows you to get closer to a fenderien grain (loss of volume level, touch) or marshmallien (larger). In addition we can supply 9, 12, or 18 volts! Three classic tone knobs gain and volume are there, and they work well, you can go from simple dirt to clean to overdrive testosterone. Station, however, these same buttons that are specific move easily if you have a large pedal board, and in concert, the sound goodbye ...

SOUND QUALITY

We find this effect in the biggest (for me this summer on tour I saw the side of Manu Eveno TRYO, guitarist Arno are in quite different styles, and whose sound is nickel) However, it is not suitable for all music or all the games (for my part, I use harsh mediators, which produce a lot of mediums, and finally a little push Proco rat is more suited to me). Next food that he puts his change much! It is much cleaner with 18v!

But it is a very well designed I admit indeed! Perfect for trios, but for many courses, it is the concern of the place of the guitar that is challenged.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had more than two years, I went through a bunch distos / overdrive, and it remains one of the best I've had in the foot. It is expensive but it is worth it, then I have not tested earlier versions that would be better (I do not trust the best in gear see my explanation above). Choice I would do if I had to put together a project trio blues rock.

Volume, Gain / Drive, Tone / Tone
and an inverter / switch HP / High Peak / LP / Low Peak

The Fulltone OCD is one of my favorite pedals into overdrive pedals, it is natural ... like a tube amp ... you can quite believe have a 3 body tube pushed behind!

Fulltone OCD (Obsessive, Compulsive Overdrive)

The sound is simply EXCELLENT this is the reason why I say this pedal is MANDATORY and whatever your guitar! She obviously transcend a great guitar, but it respects the single or dual microphones ... besides I could compare it to the Fluxdrive Mesa boogie I found too focused on media, so I prefer the much OCD!

UTILIZATION

It responds well to play the guitar, it gives a very natural! it seems to have a lamp in this pedal!

Chassis super strong, well-placed buttons ..

Connection
an inlet an outlet and a 9V battery or by connection to identical Boss therefore convenient for the pedals

SOUND QUALITY

The SOUND of the OCD pedal is really organic if not orgasmic!

The more you play the more you discover the more you like ... it would be nice to have even a version with possibility to store different settings ... to acquire or have different settings ...

It is dynamic, provides harmonic ... etc etc, in short if you have not tried it yet then go ahead and listen to discover! take your time!

OVERALL OPINION

Indispensable I tell you!

Pedal Fulltone OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Drive) is the ideal tool for a typical sound of tube amp. Superb as to sublimate a tube amp.

UTILIZATION

Turn the knobs and find your sound.
Responds very closely to the volume changes on the guitar.

SOUND QUALITY

Just flatten a simple agreement to discover a remarkable harmonic richness, push the drive and some of these harmonics start giving feedback in a multidimensional effect usually not found with lamps.
This harmonic richness can state clearly the character of each guitar.
With a strat it is surprising to find the Gilmour sound with a LP is one of the world's beano album Clapton, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore ...

It is best to listen to the demos on YT as eg and
(Listen with headphones or good speakers, not on a laptop hp ridiculous)

OVERALL OPINION

I have many overdrives, I tested and I am even more amateur products "shop". Some pedals do an hour on my pedalboard, OCD is for several years and it stays there.
This is the proof ...

Overdride / distortion sound coloration producing two via a switch but everything has already been said.

UTILIZATION

No need for manual, everything is simple.

SOUND QUALITY

Whatsoever in any vintage sound, since I do not play and no longer records in the registry, I find perfect.

OVERALL OPINION

I have about two years and divide them into me at any price. Purchased used on Ebay in the U.S. when the $ was at its lowest. I had previously tried the OCD in Belgium and this is what I need.

I am a collector and dealer of pedals, so I know a lot of models.

Volume, gain, tone and swich High / Low

100% analog field effect transistor, etc ... the top in terms of frames, buttons, etc. ...

Jack connector

Powered by 9 volt battery or power supply by 9 V or 18 V DC (recommended but rare to find)

UTILIZATION

There really is no manual, it is very simple to use.

Only complaint the power socket is too close to the output jack.

SOUND QUALITY

So this is a pretty heavy distortion. It can be used both for the bass to guitar.

With my Fender Hello Kitty (we do not laugh I can get the same sound as Jack White in White Blood Cells.

Do not rely on this pedal to have a crunch. Sometimes I even find it too much gain, even at the minimum.

However, the sound quality is there, if you lower the sound of your guitar or bass, no breath. Sometimes I even use my pre-amp before a DI without amp when I want a warm sound for rapid setting.

With my Gretsch bass that has a low output level, it is amazing, it gives a vintage sound just right.

A good equalizer behind, you can do just ready all the sounds you want, type in Marshall Fender.

Not go anywhere, but in the style big sound, extra.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two or three years. I tried many things before without being convinced, mainly because I wanted to use both the bass for guitar. Few manufacturers make pedals that sound good for bass, and there is indeed the case.

Be careful, if you pick a crunch, this is not for you. This is the only limit default. And so I end up not buying any supplement, if I find one that sounds good for bass too.

Otherwise, well, it's expensive. But worth it. I definitely do it again this choice, even to save again.

This is an overdrive / distortion. Classic controls, while analog transistors.

In / Out mono jack, power supply, no fantasy.

UTILIZATION

Typical controls: gain, volume, tone, plus a small switch to boost treble or bass.

Controls are effective, no complaints, the switch seems very useful, I find the "HP" position is unworkable.

SOUND QUALITY

This is a Marshall-type distortion JCM800/900. To be able to compare on a real JCM900, it's very close, it's the sound I was looking, I'm happy. The gain is the same order of magnitude as that of the JCM, not very high, but for a large distortion is enough.

Not too suitable for modern sounds / metal. It's very vintage. the sound is very defined, it is very "lamps". It's really the sound of the JCM900 channel distortion.

OVERALL OPINION

I have it in my pedalboard for 1 year and I'm very happy. It gives me a very warm distortion, precise and relatively "clean" ("controllable" would be a better word). I find it unfortunate that she did not gain a little more (personal on mine it is always thoroughly), which would yield much more powerful distortion. I think looking at the diagram to see if we can change that.

I do not regret having purchased it, I forgot the exact price, but I got it a bit cheaper than the list price. Again I think we pay much for a "legend" and a product made by hand in the U.S.. We must know what you want ...

In the end it is still not ideal for me the distortion I'm looking for several years, although it comes close. If I have the courage to make myself the distortion that I can not find on the market (for now), I will consider seriously the pattern of it ...

Analog overdrive pedal, two standard phone jacks, power supply 18v to 9v choice. 3 knob: volume, tone, drive and a small switch HP / LP.

UTILIZATION

Pedal easy to use, there are direct what you want. No need for manual. PLUG N PLAY ... ROCK!

SOUND QUALITY

This pedal offers a broad range of sounds, I think. Between the volume, tone, and drive one manages to have a lot of sound and color. I play only with single coil (jazzmaster, Danelectro) was a damn dynamic! Even when the tone is at its lowest, it still retains a good dynamic. I use this pedal only to position HP as the other (LP) provides less gain and then potato ... I find this switch not very useful, personal ...

I play rock, blues, garage 60's and I use it mainly light crunch (hard to do my bandmaster cruncher!).
At home I have an epi valve junior and, everything goes. It has come to get good overdrive very musical. Creamy or incisors wish! With the crunch of the amp + od, attention bikes! it sends the wood! Perfect for the very heavy blues rock, ac / dc, rock boogie (zztop, status quo, ...) Precision, the knob does much more from the 3/4, after it is a little less nice .. .

I also use it to add a little boost to my big muff so that it becomes even more savage but more controllable.

Detail: really try to feed it something other than 9v it worth it (I use 12v but I used when I had a 18v transformer 18v) You get more volume, drive and dynamic. it really gives a difference!

OVERALL OPINION

I've had it about 3 years and I use it every day. She has never tired. I hesitated to take a tube screamer but after reading a lot of stuff on the net, I decided to eat something other than what everyone takes, although it is increasingly popular. Critics compared it to a tube screamer. (Never tried so I can not say ...)
I never tried other versions of this pedal so I can say if it is better or worse than others ....
Fulltone pedal shop offers high quality and that sees it. It is solid, the knobs give trusts and very influential. Only thing that I find unnecessary is the switch HP / LP ... By against a good addition to being able to use it with different voltage.
I have not tried the other foot forward. And I do not try to have a good time here.
This pedal is not cheap but the price / quality ratio is excellent. You'll get your money ...
If she let me go I would take it a ...
In short: very good pedal ...