Fulltone 70's Pedal

3 Knobs: volume; mids; fuzz. Also, has a bass adjust feature inside pedal. Very easy to use. This pedal is a custom pedal that features the BC183L's.

I love the sound of this pedal. I am very confident Jimi is playing one of these up in the skies. I get great sounds from over the top to just a little bit of fuzz (turn down the volume knob on your guitar). I play a Les Paul into a fulltone deja vibe > optional FDII > 70's pedal > Peavey Triple XXX (don't knock it till you hear it, I sold my Marshall one trick pony for it) > Digitech 2021 & BBE 362(effects loop). The thing that impresses me the most is the sounds I get by turning down the volume on my guitar. Wow! Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing, etc. Perfect sounds. I also got a geat Red House tone by adding some delay. My amp has great clean and hi-gain dirty sounds but lacks that elusive in-between sound. We'll I couldn't be happier with the in-between sound I get from the 70's pedal. I play original alternative rock / metal in my band. The tone I get sets us apart from some of the other same old, same old bands in the area. Modern music with a little of Jimi's voodoo.

Haven't had any problems. Built like a tank, and inside the wiring is imaculate.

I have talked to the man himself. Pretty cool to be able to do that. Full life time warrenty on craftsmanship. I have read other reviews stating Mr. Fuller is a prick, but he was cool to me. Mike, if you are reading this, remember you are nothing without you customers, so treat them right.

Great sounds. Great craftsmanship. Good support. A great investment. Some may not like all the tones but as for me, I am definitely impressed. This pedal makes my rig.

Mine is one of the new blue 70's pedals(hybrid BC108/BC183L silicon transistors) This is not your Father's silicon Fuzz Face with 2 knobs (Thank God) You get Volume - Mid - Fuzz controls with an internal trim pot. for fine tuning the transistor response. The instructions page that Mike includes is not necessary, but is helpful in describing what the mid and trim pot do.

I use a Fender Am. Standard Strat with Maple Neck and Custom Shop '54 pickups > '69 pedal > '70 pedal > POD > Power Amp > 1x12 closed back cab with a 25 watt Celestion Greenback.
OK, so I have Fulltone 69 and can't live without it( it's the best Ge fuzz face I've ever heard). I wanted the 70 for the silicon temperature stability and the different sound characteristics of a silicon fuzz. ( I often have outdoor gigs )
There is always considerable and legitimate debate over Germanium vs. Silicon transistor fuzzes. I must admit that until I plugged up this Cobalt Blue Beauty, I was a germanium snob...The 70's pedal has made me rethink this. Everyone has their own interpretation of what sound they're looking for and ways to describe, but here is what I hear:
Very dynamic and responsive to your touch with pleasant rich harmonics. Individual notes seem to bloom and sustain for a fat searing lead sound. Nothing harsh or piercing. Mike sets the trim pot (and marks it) for a killer sound. I like a little more square wave and spit from the transistors. This is easily accomplished by turning the trim pot. counter-clockwise to taste. Another very nice quality to this pedal is the interaction with the guitars volume knob. It has a smooth gradual reduction in gain without loosing the top end frequencies. By comparison, the 69 does this also, but gets much cleaner at about 7 or 8 than the 70. All in all, it just doesn't get any better than this. There is some serious Voodoo in this pedal. So you want a sound like Hendrix,Eric Johnson,Santana,The Guess Who,Tommy Bolin,David Gilmour,Doyall Bramhall...???? This is a great way to start.

Very solid...beautiful work on the inside..I have no doubt about the craftmanship. Will gig without a backup..

I don't anticipate needing help. If I did, I have no doubt Fulltone will stand behind their work. Mike has made upwards of 10,000 pedals by hand...pretty busy guy. He does the best he can to answer questions..etc..All I want are straight answers to straight questions, which he has always provided.

I have to remind myself that fuzz pedals are not for everyone's taste. I just happen to adore them. Good ones that is. There are plenty of dogs out there that pass themself off as a Fuzz Face clone etc...and I've ruined more of them by trying to get the right sound than I care to remember. The 70 and its older brother, the 69, are great compliments to each other. I've not tried the earlier Purple 70 pedal to compare the diffence in the newer Blue one I have, but I'm sure it's minimal at best. Overall the 70 is a trully musical pedal and does what I had hoped it would do for my setup. I can now end my search for a silcon Fuzz Face.. next? maybe a SoulBender would do nicely.

Very simple, but you should know what the internal trimmer does before "fiddling" with it.

I love this fuzz!!! I bought it regardless of some awful reviews(which I rarely listen to anyway), and I'm glad I did! Fat sustained fuzz for days! Very Hendrixian, with the Knobs set as follows Volume w/e, mids 5, fuzz 10...My rig consists of Custom made strat-Teese RMC 3-Octafuzz-Fulldrive 2-'70-Deja 2- then to my Vintage Fender Super Reverb. I prefer the tone of this pedal without anything else on, except for the Octavia occasionally. I set the internal trimmer full clockwise, the stock Dallas Arbiter thing sounds to "flatulant" with my rig, maybe with a $3000 plexi it would sing??? LOL

This thing is built to last, and I especially love the hammerite finish in blue. I wish Mr. Fuller did his products all with hammerite.

I'm playing blues(go figure) and it's great. I don't not like a single thing about it and I feel great everytime I hear it. As a reminder this refers to the NEW model with the trimmer, not the old one set to the original D.A. Fartortion (LOL) If it got lost I'd replace it in an instant and I'll shortly be purchasing a '69 and Soul bender...can never have to many Fulltones!!!

extremely easy!! fuzz on 10, mids at 2 o'clock, volume to taste

smoothest distortion/fuzz/overdrive!! i have the '69, soul bender and fulldrive, and this blows them away!!

yes. its a fulltone. i have 7 fulltone pedals. never had a problem.

very helpful. mr. fuller usually emails back within a couple of hours he recommended the new '70 model that he had made a few tweaks too. glad he did!!

i play blues and rock. been playing for 27 years. i ahev a prs mccarty, 2 relic strats and tele, tokai les paul, robben ford, es-335, jerry jones, hamer 25th anniversary, 1977 dean v, original silvertone, matchless tornado, top hat club deluxe. fender pro jr., fulltone DV2, FD2, soulbender, '69, choral flange, ultimate octave, supatrem, analog mike modded fuzz face, P.E. rx overdriver, way huge green rhino, proco rat, teese rmc 3, original thomas organ wah wahs, Voodoo Lab proctavia, microvibe, bosstone and analog chorus and a crapppy diaz tremodillo noise maker.
I love the sound of this pedal, although it is high gain, with my relic start w/ lindy fralin p/u's it sings!! very smooth and sustainy, i don't sound like eric johnson with it, because i don't have his touch, but a great usable sound for more than just hendrix covers. i would gig the whole night with this if i had too and just obtain different distortion flavors by playing with my volume control.
unlike my '69 and analog mike modded fuzz face, when you roll back your volume control, it doesn't clean up immediately, there is still some lower gain, distorted, bluesy sounds left before it cleans up. coupled with the soul bender which is ruder sounding and the FD2 you can get a ton of sounds!!!

It's a fuzz pedal, but it can be a bit tricky at times. Read on.

I use this with a tele and a mesa DC5. This was one of the few effects I've ever owned that I plugged into and was immediately happy with. Its a very smooth sounding fuzz with a lot of cool transistor fizzle in the background. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but it sounds great.
Two things to be aware of with this pedal. One is that it tends to get lost in the mix a bit if your playing in an acoustically challenged environment, and a lot of the subtleties that make it so great can be completely lost(you want to tell your drummer to shut up so the audience can admire your tone!). Another is that it does NOT like to be after certain other pedals. I had a Visual Sound Rt. 66 which contains a built in buffer which made the 70 uselessly noisy. My boss CS2 also cannot be placed before it. I guess it's very sensitive to the signal its fed. I also had to place it before my wah pedal or it took the effect out of the wah when it was on. Sounds awesome, but very tempemental.

Mike Fuller is usually pretty helpful. I asked him about the problems I had with my pedal placement and he explained why, but when my Supa Trem went out it took a while to get a hol of him.

A little tricky, but an outstanding and complex sounding fuzz.

If you have a Fender Strat or Tele, and want to sound like Hendrix, this is without a doubt the pedal for you. It is easy to get the Hendrix tone via you amps clean channel. Easy to dial in your sound, simple controls.

Use a strat, ot Telecaster. I suppose any guitar with single coil pickups will work good. Don't use a high power humbucking pickup guitar with it, it seems to overload the pedal causing a very undesirable sound. Noisy? you bet, feedback, oh for sure, but isn't that all a part of the hendrix sound? It is supposed to be a better fuzzface and it does that well. I use it with a Marshall DSL 2000, using the clean channel, no need to add any amp overdrive, it just decreases the sweet fuzz. This pedal works best alone!

Mike is prompt with e-mail responses allthough he seems to avoid a direct answer to questions and doesn't seem to take critisism well. I'm sure he would repair or replace anything defective promptly.

I play mostly 60s, 70s, and 90s rock. I wanted to replace my Big Muff (garbage) with a fuzzface type pedal for the older rock ala Hendrix. This pedal is clearly the one for that. I have been playing GTR for 22 years. I own a Fender Strat and Tele. A Peavey EVH Wolfgang, and a Gibson ES335. A Marshall DSL 2000, a Trace Elliot Velocette (great little amp) a univibe reissue, Vox (modified) wah, a boss metal zone (zowie), a ibanez tube screamer, purple haze octive divider, distortion +, MXR phase, voodo tremelo, EH Big (shit) Muff and soon a Carl Martin combinator (not released yet. I would replace the 70s pedal if it were lost since it is my Hendrix tone! None of my other pedals can get that great fuzz. I compaired this pedal to the Roger Mayer classic fuzz(yuk) and the 69 Pedal, this had a great deal more fuzz then the 69 (as it claims to). I also compaired it to the z-vex fuzz factory (more like space factory, weird!) I think if it had a noise gate circuit in it I would like it better. Bottom line,it does what I wanted it to do, and does it well!

Easy to use (only three knobs). The pedal has a very simple layout. All of the knobs do exactly what they say they do.

I am using this pedal with a strat and other Fulltone pedals through various amps (I can't make up my mind). I really like the fuzz of the '70. I have tried several other fuzz pedals and I have not been able to find one that I liked. I tried the '69 for quite a while. I have also tried an Austone Fuzz Nuts (I almost bought that one just for the name!) and some Fuzz face reissues.

I really stuggled with finding a fuzz that I liked for a long time. I began to debate whether or not I even liked fuzz pedals in general. But the more that I tried different pedals out I began to develop an ear for what I was looking for in a fuzz. We all know what fuzz tone sounds like. We all have heard Hendrix or a good Zappa album and the tones are amazing. But playing a fuzz pedal differs so drastically from an overdrive pedal that it initially scares most people away from fuzz in general. But once I understood the beast and knew what I was looking for, the '70 fit my needs perfectly. Compared to the '69, the '70 has far more fuzz and to my ears sounds more refined and not quite as flabby. There are two things that I really enjoy about both of these pedals. I really like the way that they clean up when you back off on your volume knob (very cool!). I also think that they sound great through tube fender amps. The fuzz is really fat and extremly rich in harmonics. Who needs a Les Paul? A good fuzz pedal will turn any single coil guitar into a fat sustain monster.

In many of the venues that I play, volume is a great concern and I am not able to turn up very loud. This can cause sustain problems with a strat player such as myself. I am using the '70 in front of my Fulldrive for wonderful singing lead tones that are otherwise unobtainable will the fulldrive alone. The '70 completed my overdrive/fuzz set up and I couldn't be any happier.
My only complaint is the shielding. Both pedals are very prove at picking up radio stations and this could be a major problem at louder volumes. For this reason alone I can only give it a 9.

Very dependable. I do have a concern with the new switches that Fuller is putting into his pedals. This pedal came with one that is different than the one that is in all of my other pedals. I opened up the pedal and looked inside and it was not a Fulltone switch. I don't know if this switch will last or not but I am really concerned that this might be the first step in diminishing quality in Fullers stuff. I certainly hope not.

I would definetly purchase this pedal again. As I said earlier, I couldn't be any more happier with my set up. I am just waiting for Fuller to come out with an analog delay or a echoplex copy......hmmm.....that would be nice.

Update to my review below.

After careful A/Bing other pedals, I must go ahead and say that this thing is too muddy for me. It dulls most notes that I play and must be for a style that I simply am not after. I own and love a Fulldrive 2, but the whole 69, 70, Soul-Bender lineup are NOT my thing. They are all mud, if a relatively psychadelic cool mud at that. But I can't get them to work. I play everything from modern Southern Blues to Hendrix, and you'd think it would fit in. I got a Menatone Blue Collar to compliment my Fulldrive 2 instead and am happy. Don't have that fidgety need to change settings on the pedal to make it work or justify to myself that just because it was a top name it sounded good! The 70's pedal was not too pleasing to my ear--MUSH! My rating is to balance out my first one.

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The 70's pedal had me fooled that because it was Fulltone "it worked great, sounded like a 'vintage pedal' should, and that was it." But you know what? After some thought and experimentation, it doesn't work. For me at least. It sounds dull and all low-end notes sound like a bad case of flatulence. High notes sound like Boston on steroids. A very muddy stew that could only have potential at very loud volumes to blast a muffled farting barrage at your audience. Not for me. And PS, I tested another 70's pedal--same thing. I even tweaked the internal trimmer to try and fix it. I just don't get this one. The 69 as well as the Soul-Bender had similar qualities. The Fulldrive 2... another story.

Simply--volume, mids, and fuzz. Fuzz only kicks in really strong after 8--narrow range of intense fuzz. Mids knob is subtle but noticeable. More "bit" with the mids.

Seems to like the bridge pickup on my strat the best for a cutting lead but can sound good with the neck pickup too--just a bit more muffled. At first I thought it sounded amazing, then I thought I started to notice a dull, muffled quality, especially on lower strings. But, there is this certain raunchyness to it the whole time that is just so--DIRTY and NASTY--that I love it all the same. Screams on mid to higher notes. Might conceal any complex chords with fuzz though! I use an FD2 with it as well (see below for how I use them together). My gear is a strat w/Lindy Fralins, then (in order), VOX wah w/mod, FD2, Voodoo Labs Overdrive, 70's pedal, Line 6 DL4 delay/looping pedal, Fender Deluxe amp. Fits right in--completes my distortion/OD/fuzz lineup!

Steel and the best quality wiring I've ever seen.

He's alway there if you want to talk to him. Opinionated, but hey, he can afford to be. Just don't ask him about other people's pedals!

Compliments my FD2 nicely. Picks up with the raunch that it starts to give out. In-line with the FD2, with the FD2 tone set to high treble, it helps the 70's pedal not sound so dull in places. When I say dull I mean "flat fuzz" where the notes aren't distinguishable. But overall this thing is super.

as a germanium fuzz...most often turn fuzzfull clockwise. A little
tweaking of the 'mids' knob until you find the sweet spot for sustain
and you're there.

This is an exceptional pedal and has an incredible amount of depth.
I am running this thru dual Peavey Classic 30 tube amps and the
sound is expressive and rich. Have you ever been to Electric
Ladyland?..well I have. Michael Fuller says he borrowed ideas from
Eric Johnson's Fuzzface and I can tell. Add a 'Uni-vibe' type effect
and Trower/Beck/Hendrix sounds are a reality. WOW!

Have only had the '70 a month but have a lot of faith in Fulltone
products as I have 5(Fulldrive2/'69/Soulbender/Octafuzz also)
and once you try Fulltone you're hooked. Circuitry is solid, and
boxes are well made. I have a lot of pedals, but would probably use
this as my only distortion pedal w/o a backup, no worries.

Michael Fuller will almost always answer your questions and does
extend a 5 year warranty(minus shipping).

This is a pedal that lends itself to more than bluesy rock, and is
much more suited to those that want to expand their distortion.
I like it better than my Fulltone '69 and feel it has expanded my
sound ALOT. My favorite distortion by far and I always want this
pedal in my arsenal. If it got lost or stolen I would get another
right away. I love classic stompboxes but would not use a classic
modified fuzzfaze as a 'daily driver'. The '70 gives the same if
not better fuzz and with reliability.