Fulltone Deja Vibe

Like any stomp box ... Very simple to use .. just twiddle a couple of knobs and use your ears.

Like most Fulltone products it is easier on the eye than on the ear and is very, very overrated!

Built like a tank. I would imagine it is a very reliable box (though I sold mine long ago)

Laughable. Mike Fuller has never heard of the words 'customer support' .. the man is a rude ego-maniac I'm afraid to report. It's a shame because his boxes look nice on the outside .. but he really should emply someone who knows what they are doing as far as the sound goes.

Easy to use,however there are certain tricks to get the most out of these units that some may or may not be aware of.

I got an older one from 1997.It's white,speed knob is on the left and the toggle switches are parallel to the volume and intensity knobs.This one kicks ***.No volume drop whatsoever.It actually boost my signal in a fat warm way.It sounds very thick and watery on the chorus and pitch-warbly on the vibrato.I've tried other fulltone vibes before(DV2, mini-vibe,gold DV)but I'm glad I found this one because it really is awesome and sounds better than the other fulltone vibes I've tried.Oh yeah I've tried and owned a shit load too.I like this one,but I give a 9,because nothing is perfect.

Looks solid

Kills the dunlop vibes.I tried the captain coconut,mojo vibe,all the other fulltone vibes,micro vibe.........the cc2 was great,mojo vibe was great too and basically my DV sits with them in terms of "quality of tone".Vibe pedals sounds different from each other and that's ok,it's the quality of sound and how they interact with everything else in your effects chain,guitar and amp that make it sound great or like ****.

very straightforward. knobs turn left, knobs turn right. switch goes up and down. i do like the big speed know so you can adjust with your foot on the fly (de riguer on the higher end pedals of this type now anyway)

The sound is delicious, very lush. I agree with another review though that the max effect is not as strong as i would prefer. I have a pod xt, and the vibe on that is definitely nowhere near as tasty, but the intesity is more extreme. i dont think its a case of just wanting more - to my ear the classic recordings like machine gun have a stronger effect than this gives.
use with all types of gear - as usual its better with some than others

im a bit disappointed. it picks up some radio interference, and this can be quite bad sometimes. singificantly higher noise level than it should have, but this is mainly associated with radio interference. otherwise, all very solid, but the interference is too much of a problem

no opinion

great sound, bad noise, not quite enough intensity. i will get a sweet sound mojo vibe and then choose which i like best.

Very easy to use. If u can use a traditional chorus or phaser, you can use this.

I LOVE this pedal. I bought it to replace a Voodoo Lab Microvibe; which I liked a lot, but was having major problems with. I returned it twice then exchanged it for the Fulltone. From what I understand, the fulltone is based on the original Univibe design, the one made by Univox. What most people don't know, is that the Dunlop "Univibe" that is available today, is NOT based on the original and does NOT sound like the original. Anyone who is familiar with the original Univibe (made by Univox, NOT dunlop)will tell you that the Dunlop version is not the same thing. The Dunlop sounds like a toy to me? The Fulltone sounds great, organic, full, very very nice sounding pedal, in both the chorus AND vibrato modes. I tend to play most modulation effects clean, but this sounds nice with some dirt too. The only problem I had with this pedal is a certain amount of breakup when played clean and used with humbuckers. If you make a conscious effort to ease up when playing and not strum so hard, you can control this. There does not seem to be any breakup when used with single coils though. This is by far my favorite pedal. It is a bit pricey, but I am getting my moneys worth.

It seems to be built pretty strongly.

I give it a 9, because of the issue with the breakup, but other than that, I love this pedal and use it constantly.

I have to say, from my experience owning several of Mike Fuller's pedals, they are very easy to use. Like all basic effects pedals, the controls are right in front of you. Modeled after the old Uni-vibes, there are the three main controls: Volume, intensity, and speed of the effect which is a large knob for foot adjustment during performance. The extra controls are Chorus/Vibrato and Vintage/Modern. I had a Dunlop Univibe, which I loved the sound of, but hated having two separate pedals just so I could control the speed manually by foot during the performance. The other downside to the univibe was when the expression pedal was connected to the main pedal, the effects bypass was de-activated and when you turned the expression pedal all the way back, it didn't completely cut off the effect.

My set up is: 79'Fender Strat - VoxWah - Jekyll&Hyde Distortion -Small Clone Chorus - Dan-echo - Deja vibe - MXR Flanger - 68'Fender Super Reverb (4x10). I haven't had much opportunity to gig with my set up recently with the replacement of my uni-vibe with the Deja-vibe, but from playing around at home, I haven't had any trouble with noise issues as Mike Fuller uses true bypass switching in his effects. In the series I have set up is sounds good.

I wanted to address in my review the comments made by other users, specifically to the reviews I read of how weak the effect is. First off, I would never buy a uni-vibe or clone of one for the chorus effect. I will say that like the uni-vibe, the chorus effect of the Deja vibe isn't what you would expect if you're looking for a chorus effect. These kind of vibrato pedals should only be used, in my opinion, strictly for the vibrato effect. I think the chorus was included by Fuller as part of the re-creation of the old effect. Secondly, and this ties in with the customer support comments I made, I too thought the sound of the effect was weak compared to my uni-vibe and was disappointed. However, I know that Fuller's pedals are quality so I emailed customer support asking if there is a way to tweak the pedal to get a more intense "warbble" effect. Wouldn't you know Mike Fuller himself emailed me back and mentioned that inside the pedal is a little trim pot that you can adjust to acheive the right sound you want!!! I opened it up and sure enough, I was able to get that Hendrix signature sound like Machine Gun!!! I was so happy.

Also, aside from the modern/vintage switch which adds a sublte tone change, the speed pot has such a braod range of speeds for the effect compared to the Uni-vibe that you can get a larger spectrum of sounds out of this thing. You just have to be careful as the pot is sensitive to the most subtle turns, you might want to dial in your sound first before playing.

Again, it all comes down to what sounds good to the individual, but at least with fulltone you have more options to explore to get the sound you're looking for.

Well, these things are housed in a nice little steel chassis. I accidentally dropped the thing on a concret floor and no damage at all!

I have several fulltone pedals and I've never had any problems with them. They are truely designed as a musicians pedal, not what some marketing guy in some other country thinks you want!

As I mentioned earlier, I did have a problem with the performance of the pedal itself and Mike Fuller, the President of the company who hand signs each peice he creates, contacted me within two days of my initial email with help. He already has lots of great stuff on his website, with tons of sound clips of each pedal for the customer who's not sure of investing in fulltone and plenty of info for each pedal.

I think I've already talked up Fulltone enough in my previous categories, but to add to what I said earlier they really are pedals built for the working musician. I remember thinking about picking up a Roger mayer Octavia Fuzz pedal, but thinking I love the sound of the Octavia, but it would be cool if you could have a pedal that had a switch to turn the Octavia effect off so you could use it as a fuzz pedal and sure enough Mike has one out that does just that. I would never get rid of my Deja vibe and would replace it if it got lost/stolen. I don't necessary think it's worth having the chorus function, but I simply just don't use that option knowing that it is available to me if I decide to.

Easy volume, intensity,speed. its not hard to get a good sound just mess with it. Makes your guitar sound full even if you turn the intensity and speed all the way down...

my chain is 62 vintage reissue fender strat-thomas organ crybaby-analog man modded dallas arbiter fuzz face-analog man modded Ibanez TS10/808-Deja vibe-Vintage EH Memory man-EH holy grail reverb-1979 marshall JCM 800 2003 half stack. Its super quiet. This effect is so close to the original uni-vibe you can;t tell the difference. easy to get the hendrix/srv sound

i've had it awhile only thing I think coudl use soem improvment is the knobs come loose off the pots alot and you have to tighten the set screws and rigth now I'm having a problem with the LED burning out . But other than that its great. read below

Mike is a great guy. i was refered to him by analog mike. and anyone who is cool with him is cool with me. the probs my pedal is having I knwo mike will take care of it in a fair matter.

I play blues rock/jazz/soul a bunch of stuff and it handles everything. Its just got that vintage vibe. what can i say i am a vintage tone nerd. I love the swooshy sounds and the crackly fuzz sounds.I ahve been playing for about 10 years and this is my favorite effect that isn;t in the dist/OD/fuzz catergory. It definalty makes you sound better just wiotht he full sound. if soemthing happened and i lost it i woudl hope to be able to get another but i hear they don;t make these anymore and there really expensive new. but its worth every penny. if you are a expierenced guitarist that loves tone this is it. if you a beginnaer that wants a warble liek cobain then stick to cheap pedals liek boss and dod.

It has a on/off switch, speed knob, volume and intensity knobs, a vintage/modern switch, and a chorus/vibrato. Very easy to get a great sound quality out of it, but i wanted to make the chorus sound lusher so i went inside and messed around with a trim pot inside that changed the sound. But the tone itself is nice. If that doesnt make sense read below.

i have a prs to a wah, tubescreamer, fulltone then chorus/flanger (not the fulltone, I WISH it were), then to a mesa rectoverb.
This pedal has a great tone for what it is capable of. Very high quality, low noise level. I keep it on alot just for its subtle smoothness that it puts on my tone. The problem i had is that it isnt as strong as I was expecting. Dont get it if u want full out hendrix or floyd. Just not as extreme "phased chorus" as the original univibes those famous people used. I tried to change this by adjusting the pot inside the pedal. This seemed to change it at first but i realized that the pedal was pretty much at its strongest effect where it was originally set. If I turned the pot until its effect SEEMED to sound more pronounced, i realized that it only changed the envelope of the phase in its sweep. If u looked at the graph of the envelope, it was rounded and more sine wave like originally, and after turning the pot to the more extreme setting it was sharper for a moment but flat for the rest of the time. The peak doesnt seem to get any higher, inotherwords its effect doesnt get more intense. almost like changing the delay time of a flanger. Additionally, and this may sound strange, but after a few minutes of listening to this thing it almost becomes fixated in ur head and i found it hard to notice if it sounded better or worse. Put me in a trance of sorts. Great sounding phasedchorus effect, but it may not be what u were expecting.
Next is the vibrato. I rarely use this, and when i do it is only planned out ahead of time. If im improvising, i just never want it. One thing i do not like is that it only pitches up from the original frequnecy, not below! I beleive this may be because of that adjustment to the pot inside that i made for the chorus, but im not sure. read what other people say. i never bothered, and i also didnt bother to mess with pot to see if that is the problem because i dont care for the vibrato effect.
This pedal is sooo close to hendrix and floyd, but too weak, why doesnt mike fuller just make the damn thing more powerful? He could have a truly amazing copy of those univibes if he did that.
One more thing, if u use this with a fuzzface it kicks ass, sounds hendrixy. once agian not there in intensity, but u get that whoosh sound every cycle of the chorus.
I give a 8 because i cannot in my right mind take off alot of points for the beautiful tone it has, but it is a douchebag move for fulltone to make claims that this is the original univibe when it isnt true. I am lucky i traded a shitbeaten fender princeton chorus (solidstate) for it that would have gathered dust in the basement anyway. If this was not the case and i dished out 300 bucks for it expecting a vintage univibe, i would give it a substancially lower score.

NO NO NO NO NO NO it is not reliable, at least when u first get it. Read on
The speed pot came loose, so i opended up the box to tighten it. This is before i attempted to alter the effect with the internal pot, so it was the first time looking inside. What a tiny little pot. I would expect it to be the kind of potentiometer u would find inside those little squier guitar amps, for lack of a better example. just a piece of shit. So i thought ok i will tighten it pretty well, u know, because i gig and step on this thing and it has the big metal box that it sits in, so the pedal is obviously heavy duty, right? Well i stripped the little baby threads on the pot. I have never done that with a guitar pot or anything like that, this was crap. I didnt even tighten it that hard. So i have it on now it still is tight enough tho i have to tighten it every once in a awhile, very carefully so that it doesnt completely strip the thread.
Next up, power jack. One day i tried to plug the power cord into the pedal and it wouldnt connect. I realized that the jack had broken off into the pedal. so i opened it up and saw that the back wall of the jack, where the two pronges are (im not sure if this means this is a plug or a jack, but in any event it is the power cord that accepts the pronges and the pronges are inside the pedal) had unglued itself from the other sides. It looks like there was only a touch of glue holding it together. they could have used clamps that keep this secure or just used a one piece jack, but it probably cost less to do it this way. So now i have it taped on securely with duct tape.
Ok other than that it is dependable. But only after the thing has broken half its shit and u have it taped together. Then it is fine. So if u get this pedal, u cant truely rely on it until a couple of things have broken. These pedals really have to be broken in (clever, heh?)! Read other reviews i have and apparently fulltone uses alot of inferior stuff. Sorry for the corny joke.

I dont really want to talk to them because they sell expensive guitar pedals and use shit equipment. If something does break down, i will install my own pots that are 10 times better.

I play good music. The deja'vibe is good if u want the tone of the old univibes but without the intensity. And does anyone really want that? I mean i can think of times when it would be nice, but i want something that has the ability to sound more intense. Go to a store and try the dunlop univibes, i have only used one for a few minutes but they seemed to have a stronger effect.
If it were stolen i would be pissed because i still like it for what it does, but i would buy a univibe or maybe that roger mayer thing i dont know i have never tried it but it is probably good. I would not get another one of these.
I realize that i gave this pedal alot of negative views, but it really is good for its sound. It rounds out the sound nicely, and with a clean tone it has a light and airy feeling to it.

Quite simple. It's a fairly easy pedal to get along with on-the-get-go.

Setup is simple: Parker Nitefly--Z.Vex FuzzFactory--DejaVibe--Dunlop 535Q, Boss DS-1, Voodoo Labs Proctavia--Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron, Dunlop Tremolo. Add to that the stuff in the effects loop. The pedal is very silent. Of course, it's true-bypass, so noise is barely noticeable.

I would like to add that I did not buy this effect in the hopes of coping a sound by certain artists. I was always a little deceived by the lack of overwhelming-ness of all the different phasers or flangers out there. Not to diss anyone though. The sounds I have in my head are similar to what I can achieve with this box. Think of the swelling-swooping on certain drum&bass pieces or techno or Moog synths. I use the dejavibe in that context. I am writing this so people who have no idea who Trower, Hendrix or SRV is can hear this effect for it's raw potential of possibility rather than confine it to a style or artist.

I guess I could. A backup would be a little expansive...only time will tell

Dunno

The DejaVibe suites me fine. A pedal will never limit you, how bad you think it may sound. Only yourself can feel limited by a lack of imagination. It's never the other way around. Music is just noise punctuated by silence.

Couldn't be more srtaight forward, Volume, Intensity, on/off, speed wheel to dial in tempo (suprisingly easy to control), Chorus/Vibrato switch and Modern/Vintage switch. No manual required really. Only reason haven't given it 10 is because it would be easier with a foot pedal that would adjust the tempo.

I play a Fender Stratocaster or Les Paul standard into a VOX V847 wah, Vox Valvetone (going to replace that with a good Fuzz), Deja Vibe (big gold version) and finaly a Peavey Classic 50. This is my third vibe type effect that I have purchased over the years. I have owned a Dunlop Rotovibe and their Poor Uni Vibe reissue but the Deja Vibe is the closest I have ever come to getting that legendary Univibe sound that you hear on your Jimi Hendrix, Trower and SRV records. I find that I have to have the Volume on just about max in order for it to be equal to my amp, and on the Chorus setting I have found that I usually have the intensity set between 3 and 6 o'clock (6 been maximum). For a vibe unit I would say that it extremly quiet but naturally with vibe units you always get a little.
I have owned it for about 4 hours now and I seem to be able to get those sweet hendrix tones and warbles very easily however I'm going to try altering that internal trim pot and see if I can get any more out of it. If you a considering purchasing one of these go and try it out if you can because EVERY setup is going to sound different, remember this also when you read the following reveiws, just because a few may say that it is nothing like Jimi's, SRV's and Trowers sound it may not be the case, IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR SETUP!!!!, even down to your guitar cables!. Tip; Wneh you get it, if you get it plug it in, turn it on and leave it for about half an hour to an hour, let it warm up before you start altering anytinhg like the internal trim. The Vibrato aint all that much but the gloopy, phasey, watery chorus makes up for it.

Can't comment, bulit like a tank though. Would use it on a gig, no need for backup, cant afford it anyway.

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I find that it is a good match to my tastes, suits me fine. The only thing that would make this pedal better would be if there was a speed control pedal you cound add to it like the original 60's univibe but I can cope with the big wheel for now. One last thing, don't buy this pedal if you thing its going to be a really good Chorus pedal, this is 100% Uni Vibe unit which is a mixture of chorus, vibrato and phase.

well ,i just plugged this one in and it sounded really good,took me about 30 seconds to get what i wanted.

i use a strat into a Teese wa,dv,fat boost,fulldrive2 into a 100w
marshall &4-12 bottom.
i got to tell ya,i bought the DV(gold one) then i saw that anolog mike had a
new small one,(Mojo Vibe) i bought it to save room on my pedalboard.
gave the gold DV to a friend to use.started listening to my new cd that i used the DV on and freaked out!! called my friend and demanded he give it back right away! for me the DV is smoother sounding (creamier)than the Mojo Vibe.
it doesn't do the machine gun thing as well as the Mojo Vibe but if anything
it has it's own signature sound and records really well.a little less hiss
than the mojo vibe.for me,the DV feels better in my live rig.
in my studio,anything goes!

it is built very well don't have a backup for my gigs,who needs to lug around
all that extra stuff anyway!(oops,sorry Mike) isn't this the reason to buy
well made stuff,so the sh$##t won't break?

I've been doin this stuff for so long ,30 odd years,( my bio says i'm 30 somthing) WOW! but it is STILL really cool to have someone like
Mike who takes the time to consult with anybody and TCBs
hay MIKE you should have run against Arnold S,! na
your ego's too big!(just kidding)

I have got hundreds of pedals,all this stuff is useful one way or another.i still use the boss distortion pedal
that you can get for 40 bucks. if i am playing thru my fenders,or my marshalls,
or the dreaded twin with JBLs in the backline on some gig,the DV is one of the pedals that i know will work for me in a live or recording situation.
expensive?-you get what you pay for!!!