Fulltone Bass-Drive

It's as easy to use as I can imagine, given the range of options. What's tricky is that all the controlls are completely interactive; you change one setting and it affects all the others. It can take some patience to figure out the whole thing and dial in your sound.

The best distortion pedal I've used. Actually, the only useable one I've used. It preserves the low end, like everyone else says, and also preserves the character of my bass. Very organic and natural sounding. It doesn't blanket the sound and muddy it up the way other pedals do. I'm using it with a G&L L2000 and a pretty high end, clean sounding amp: a Demeter pre, a Stewart power amp, and an Epifani cabinet. The pedal alters the sound without degrading it's basic quality. Other pedals take my expensive rig and make it sound like a cheap one. The true bypass is a great feature. It works.

I trust it completely. Extremely well made. Only had it a little while though, so this is just my impression.

The guy who designed and built it answered the phone the one time I had a question. Very helpful.

I like it because it lets me play with a clean sound most of the time, but kick in distortion when it's appropriate--and to add the distortion without killing the quality of my sound. My favorite feature is the boost switch .. it lets you have a second level of distortion as a preset (so you can set it up for mild distortion when you turn the pedal on, and then full-on grind when you hit the boost). The tone control seems to ad highs (kind of a simulated presence control). I don't use it. I would definitely buy another if it was stolen. Others I tried--Boss and Tube Works--stank in comparison.

Very simple controls, just volume, tone (which is more of a presence control, not bassy to trebley), and two gain knobs, one for the boost. It has two footswitches, one for bypass, the other turns the adjustable boost on/off. It has a push pull pot on the volume, which turns it into what is called noncompressed mode, it seems more like a clean boost, but it is pretty unbalanced level-wise with the other mode, helping to make it somewhat less than useful live. 9v power jack, true bypass, two LEDs, nice...

At first, upon recieving this in the mail, I was honestly disappointed. Sitting in my basement playing through my Fender BXR 300 amp, it did not sound exactly the way I had envisioned. I gave up on it after a while. Finally, after some weeks I took it to practice, and used it extensively. Good tone, very usable. My idealistic pursuit of Chris Squire tone was not satisfied, but as hard as it is to find a decent sounding bass overdrive, this one rocks. It far outpaces that pathetic piece of junk, the Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive that I owned for a few hours. I mainly use it somewhat lo gain for a thicker, overdriven sound. It sounds warm and full, without harshness and buzzing. It is NOT a fuzz pedal.

These are great products, I would definately depend on them

Mike Fuller runs his company in an admirable fashion, and he is very helpful and courteous. He answers the phone. I'm sure if I had a problem he would help. Although the way this stompbox is made, I dont anticipate any trouble.

I go for prog rock and other things, and this one fits nicely with my Rickenbacker. Because of the price, I'm not sure I would definately buy it again if it were lost, but so far it is the greatest bass OD I have played through, including my Sansamp Bass Driver (best preamp and DI I've ever played through!). Anyway good product, at first I was disappointed, but only because of my incredibly unrealistic idealism. (You just CANNOT put a full Marshall stack raging at 10 into a stompbox!)

It is very easy to get some great, usable distortion tones out of this pedal. To get the "perfect" tone is also possible, but requires a bit more time, as the controls are pretty interacive, so different settings on one knob can lead to the other parameters reacting differently. It is fairly intuitive to use though, which is good because the manual looks to be a copy of the "Full-drive 2" guitar box manual with the name changed.

I play 5 string exclusively. Both my passive Fender Roscoe Beck, and my ative Alembic sound good throuhg this box, but the distortion seems to work better with the Fender's "vintage" vibe. Niether bass loses low end, and the pedal is NOT noisy at all. THe compression can be a bit heavy handed, but it can be switched out. When you bypass the effect it is GONE. Totally silent. The distortion can range from barely there... Like a good tube amp, to pretty intense, but it is always smooth, and the low end is well preserved, even at the highest gain settings. Easy to go from Chris Squire and Geddy Lee, to Timmy C from Rage. Back the gain off a bit, and you sound like every good blues bassist who ever plucked a P bass.

This thing is built like a tank. I let my guitar player use it. That is a testament to its quality if ever there was one. The switches are very positive, the knobs are out of the way, and the chassis is so thick I would hide in it if there was a earthquake... and if I was really small. I always use it with no backup.

Haven't had to deal with hte company, as no issues have arisen. They have a great web page though!

For Rock, from hard riffing to bluesy jams, this thing is great. It can be very subtle, or pretty searing, and the dual gain stages are really nice for being able to go from one to the other without having to readjust the pedal in the middle of a set, or worse, in the middle of a song. I would definitely buy this again, as I tried many other distortion boxes, (Sans amp Bass Driver, Danelectro pedals, Real Tube, Drive-O-Matic, Big Muff, Tube screamer) and this was the only one that preserved the low end at high gain settings. There is nothing lacking. If you like to kick in a bit of dirt, you need this.