Fulltone Full-Drive 2 Mosfet

Dead simple to use. Boost switch has a boost knob. Just click things and turn things and you can work it out.

Pauls comments below about the Deja Vibe are just soooo true lmao. The Fulldrive 2 Mosfet with the mini Deja Vibe is an awesome combination. I have compared this fulldrive with the J-Drive and others. It's really, really good as is the mini Deja Vibe. It has a pristine sound quality, an overdrive which is so expressive and articulate.

Work of art pedals, made to last your lifetime on this planet.

They have not answered any of my emails. I think they would honour any fault you may have but they are elitist. Take that as you will. Basically they make superior product; there is no need to contact them. Mike comes off as an ***hole to those who have no clue.

The best Overdrive on the planet. Seriously, I am just inspired by this pedal. Think of it this way. Mike Fuller totally doesn't suffer ****wits and so they say he is rude. I say he is a man after my own heart. Let's just cut the bs and get real. Buy this pedal it's the bomb.

Easy to use if you know what you're doing. it's not as simple as a tubescreamer but get it right and divine tone wil be yours...
Again as with my review of the mini deja vibe, the supplied instructions are very easy to use and clear.

I use this with a les paul, fulltone mini deja vibe, ehx memory man, and vox v847 wah into an original '84 marshall jcm800. This pedla is great, especialy with non master volume amps like mine as you can use the od chanel to add just a bit of kick to a clean sound and then kick in the boost for a great big, fat, warm blues/classic rock lead tone, effectively giving you three chanels from a classic one chanel valve amp. It won't do mega saturated metal, but thats not what it's supposed to do. If you play blues rock or classic rock, you need this pedal. It's up there in a class of its own.

I would certainly depend on it. Mike Fuler uses only the best components or makes them himself, and they are built solid.

Never had to deal with Fultone, although I've read on other reviews that Mike Fuller is a bit difficult to deal with, so thats probably best!

I play classic blues and blues rock and for me, this pedal is perfection. I've played and owned other overdrives and this knocks 'em al dead, even the zendrive. Top class. If it was stolen or lost I would first cry, then fork out for a new one, as my only negative with these is that they're certainly NOT cheap. Thats the only reason I give it a 7 and not the 10 it deserves with a bit of a price cut.

EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEE BELOW, WOW..........................................

O.K., this is like my 4th Fulldrive. I bought it used, 'project' thing. Opened it up, nothing obvious. Got in touch with Fulltone, and after the initial 'idiot' weeding-out process they sent me a repair authorization form. Two weeks later, it is on its way home. $30 for parts/labor/love. These guys are good, don't know why some people have had bad experiences but if you are semi-competent and can prove it with their little 'moron' survey, they will work with you quickly and efficiently. That's all I've got to say about that...........

Fulltone, pedals of/for the pros. And anyone who appreciates tone.

I would not say this is "easy" to use, especially for some of the review comments I read. Fulltone is probably the most misunderstood guru in the arena. I find most do not understand what he is putting on the table nor how to use it. This is an overdrive in every sense of the word, not a fuzz box. I think it works best into a decent tube head at least that is where it shines to full genius. My only complaint is that the boost is only useable with the OD circuit on not as a stand alone clean boost. Which is really OK as I have two such circuits available on my V3 head. "Easy to use" is a good one, I have seen two knob units misused. Given this is like my 2nd or 3rd review for this unit, let's seen if they toss this one, I am sorry I am not up to the literary standards of the 6" speaker crowd. Maybe some fo the experienced players might appreciate an older players view on tone.

This is a highly versitile unit, accolades to the genius of Fuller, he probable has a right to be snubby to gear heads and their comments. Especially on his DejaVibe which I just get a kick out of reading. Some guys would not know a better than vintage photo cells when they stepped on them. The Trower Vibe God uses the DejaVibe so does Satch and Vai, nuff said.

This is an overdrive pedal made to drive the tube amp into clipping or provide some tonal enhancement of your already good tone. I find it works in all toggles at all gain issues with any of my clean to molten tube channels.
Overdrive (left switch):
-three knows on this circuit, volume, tone and overdrive
-high quality pots, smooth tight feel.
-a lot of volume boost is available here, keep it rolled back unless you are after the effect of really, really over whelming your input.
-tone is not a drastic boost or cut, mid seems to be unity, the effect is transparent and musical depending on what you are after.
-overdrive goes from clean to moderate gain drive.
-all settings very musical and useful.
-three toggle switch on the left: Vintage, FM, Comp Cut
Vintage gives you a deeper more gainy classical OD tone
FM is "flat mids" and is made for the neck on a strat enhances a good tone to just outstanding.
Comp Cut is best used for cleaner boosts
All settings very transparent in enhancement working with the tone of the guitar and amp rather than creating a tone via the box
The Boost functions in front of the OD section to overdrive the overdrive. You can get any combination of any style of boost or gain from this pedal. I use it on FM, tone 11:00, distortion 9:00 for a mild boost with bottom end like I was using my OCD. The MOSFET toggle adds more low end and push to the tone, probably better if you ask me. I think this does what the OCD did but better as I was not using the OCD for high gain. A great pedal, underrated against a lot of crap, if you ask me. If you have a high end rig you will hear the difference in Fulltone. Some of us appreciate your work Mike, do keep it coming. You can be moody on the phone, I think you have a right to be. Maybe it was after he read some of the DejaVibe reviews, man those pissed me off.

Top shelf components, what Fuller can't find he has made, better than the vintage crap of the "clone wars". The Full Drive MOSFET is the players OD pedal, highly versitile, musical tone ehancement without coloring your axe or amp, push or boost to any degree is available. If you just want a distortion type OD this is not your deal. An experienced player is going to like the Full Drive and anything Fuller creates. In 30 some years of playing great tones I have never had much of anything fail on me> I redo my rig every few years anyway.

Fuller can be moddy if you actually get him on the phone, he has little tollerance for your basic gear head, I am sure he is quite nice to Trower. The Deja-Vibe 2 rules, Mike, some of us get it!!! They will fix anything that might fail most companies will.

After tossing my old line up, I selected the Full Drive for a slot on my new board as it just provided everything I needed in a drive and a replacemenrt for my OCD version 3. I loved the OCD so that might give you an idea of how I was able to let it go.

I like to play a wide range of tones (except country and rap, just doesn't ring my bell) My rig gives me glass, Trower Vibe, Satch, Vai to Megadeth at the touch of switch. I run Carvin guitars all custom made with my specs (where else can you get that for the price). A Carvin V3 head into their vintage 4x12 cab, just amazing, clean to molten tubes (retubed with Tung Sol EL34B's check out the tubestore .com). I play Eric Johnson GHS 10-50's semiflat winds detuned a whole step, bloody killer. (The only semi-flats I can find since the old GHS Nickel Rockers used by SRV and Eric. Who needs all those overtly bright strings??)

I run a Tone Bone slanted board with a BBE supercharger under it for power. Morley Vai II wah, into a new Whammy, into a new Metal Core, into the Full Drive. I run the Full Drive at 12v on the Superchargers mid out plugs, this seems to be my fav, a little more headroom than the 9v but not as much as going 18v which is too much for my tastes. That is my amp in line.

I currently run a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe (process underway to replace it with a new DejaVibe 2) into a Carvin FX2 rack mount unit for 440ms echo and reverb (32 bit quality processor) running linked channels into loop one. I have a series of footswitches for three differing channels, loop one, loop2 I have rigged for another clean boost, the amps front panel knob boost switch, and the FX2's channels mutes.

This simple rig keeps my tone no matter what sequence of boxes I have on. These are currently my favs. Love the Vai II wah more than the potted wahs, although the Fulltone Wah would be the only one I would add, not replace the Vai wah it's just too good. So9me might laugh at the Metal Core but I just loved my Keeley mod MT-2 distortion just to be able to go Megadeth and save my tubes. I also get some amazing tones in the Satch arena using it and the whammy through a 440ms echo, amazing effects.

It's a pretty simple pedal.

It sounds good when it decides to work.

I had to send it in twice because the boost light would stay on anytime a cords was plugged in. The on off switch on the boost had no effect on the light or the sounds.

After the second time I sent it in, on my dime, the tech emailed me to tell me they couldn't replicate the problem. I asked him what he thought we should do since it was almost brand new and I was having to repeatedly send it back on my dime. The next email I got was a scathing response from Mike Fuller saying he couldn't help it if I didn't know how to use the pedal. I guess you have to be as smart as Mike thinks he is to operate 2 button, 4 knobs and a switch. Anyway, I was amazed at his hostility and attitude. What an ego this guy has. He also said "The customer is not always right here pal." I would recommend to anyone to stay away from anyone who thinks that's the way to treat his customers. I spent a lot on a this pedal and I was only asking for them to stand behind their product.

Ironically I never had that problem again after they returned it. I know it's agrivating when the solution to a problem alludes you but there is no need to jump to hostility with the people who made you. It is partially my fault because I had read a lot about Mike Fuller's attitude and I bought one of his products anyway. You decide if it's worth. I know there are plenty of other people who make pedals as good or better the Fulltone.

I am not sure how someone could get a bad tone out of this OD box. I might take a while to adjust to your style and tastes. I have found the best setup for my strat type guitar and it sounds fine on my Humbuckler Les Paul type. By rails on the strat are pretty high ohm as compared to some single coils but the tones are amazing.

I just retubed by amp head (Carvin V3) with some great tubes from the on-line tube store. This box really comes alive with a good tube head. Obviously this is what it was made to do. If you are using a small one speaker amp, you do not need to be trying to use high end boutique pedals like Fulltone. This is the best OD pedal. I use it to push the clean channel just a little and by hitting the boost I get a good tonal OD and it is useful on all channels including my high gain for some tonal differences. I replaced my OCD pedal and with this unit I can get what I liked out of the OCD plus more.

Fulltone makes the best. Never had a breakdown. If fact of 30 some years of playing just about every device you could imagine. I have only had a power supply brick fail (twice out of the box) and a chip failure on a rack mount unit after years. I expect no problems from Fulltone as Fuller makes quality high end gear using top shelf components.

These guys will talk to you if you have a concern but they have little patience for some machine heads ideas that are often not so informed or knowledgable as they might think. Most gear heads are not so bright and some of the notions they have are often the result of their bad gear.

I recently redid my entire board and I now have the ultimate as far as I am concerned. I can get any sort of tone out my rig which suits the spectrum of what I like to play. I would not hesitate to use it live again or with the band (which I have actively retired from doing). I tried the Fulltone GT500 and I liked some of its features like the separate boost circuit which the Drive 2 does not have. However, I wanted to be able to replace my OCD unit with the Trower type push I was using the oCD to get, the GT500 was more a distortion unit while the Drive is very adjustable OD.

I have the drive set to a mild clean boost and when engauging the boost it drives the OD into a good tube overdrive tone which works on any channel. This box is made to be a transparent enhancement that can be used with anything to add to the tones.

My new rig with a retubed amp head is just sounding better than anything I have ever used. This is after many years of box selections.

My line is a Carvin V3 head (Jan Phillips 5751's in the clean preamps and Tung Sol 12AX7A's in the high gains, Tung Sol El34B's in the power slots (4), the best tubes by the way) a Carvin vintage 4x12 loaded cab. Just an amazing amp, that really needs nothing. The board just adds to the tonal spectrum and colors. (Carvin is some great gear for a lot less money than a whole bunch of crap, overpriced, "one-trick pony" amps. I also use their guitars, I would not have anything else.)

Amp-in: Morley Vai Wah II, Digitech Whammy, Boss Metal Core, Fulltone Drive II. Series Loop: Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, Carvin FX2 32 bit processor (rack mount, echo, reverb, chorus, flange). I use the latter FX 2 for my 440ms echo and a slight reverb on the linked series processor, both footswitchable). In addition to my board, I have 10 silent foot switches that control my amp channels, boosters and loops. I can get funk clean, the best of Trower type OD and simply amazing sonic high gain Satriani, Vai, or Megadeth tones.

Very easy to use if you know what an overdrive pedal is. Even if not I'm sure you could dink with it until you find something you like. I like the comp cut setting for high gain amps which is what I primarily use.

This is the most incredible overdrive pedal I've ever played. I run it into a Mesa Tremoverb with a Boss DD-20 and a BBE Sonic Stomp. My primary guitars are a 1970 SG Standard and a PRS Singlecut Trem. I switch between the vintage high gain and the blues channels on the Mesa and I'm very happy with the two. But when I run the Full Drive with the Blues Channel it completely changes the amp. It sounds like an old Marshall. Absolutely perfect for leads. Once I got this pedal I decided my guitar rig was complete. That's pretty big for a guy with a bad case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. I run the pedal with an 18V power supply, which I prefer. It opens it up and makes it more amp like and powerful. Though is still sounds pretty great with a 9V supply. Running it with the 18V supply is a little noisy but I generally use it for leads anyway and it isn't noticeable when you're playing.

I've only had it for a couple months but it's the most solidly built pedal I've ever seen and it runs on anything from 9V to 18V. Seems bulletproof to me.

I haven't had to deal with them but I've heard good things.

I'd like to give it a 10 but it is pretty expensive. But, I guess you get what you pay for. The pedal enhances your sound in so many ways it could be used for any type of music. It could be used for a volume boost, or give you a fantastic liquid lead tone. I've been playing for 18 years and I've heard a lot of overdrives. This is by far my favorite.

OK this is buggin me. The FDII doesn't really sound like a tube screamer. I have an original 808 circut in my UE300...I run the fulldrive INTO that unit, that runs into a custom Victoria Victorilux.

The FDII is sooo much smoother, sooo much richer. The 808 is like adding a big *** hump to the midrange, adds a bit of presence, muddies up the highs and kinda rounds of the lows. The Fulldrive actaully help ARTICULATE the highs, beefs up the lows a touch, adds mids, but not way a tubescreamer does; hence why it sounds so nice. They don't really sound the same at all to my ears...but I basically run them right into a 12AX7..

The Voodoo Labs Sparkledrive...thats an 808 on 'roids...(another great pedal!)

this is a fairly simple pedal, all you need to do is mess around with it for a few minutes and you'll have worked most of it out.

i think the sound quality is great. their are three settings, Compcut, FM, and Vintage. i run my fulldrive through a 72 reissue thinline telecaster, into a marshall bluesbreaker, and personally i think the best way to get a fat, and sweet distortion is to put the setting on compcut and put the boost on.

compcut gives you a boost in volume compared to the other settings and also doesnt distort the sound as much, so you can also use this to get a very crisp sound, or if you want a sharp sounding solo.

the FM is a chunkier distortion and is a bit more fullon than the vintage.

the vintage sound is great for bluesy type sounds and is a very smooth distortion.

i dont think i would need a backup for this at a gig, very solid casing and very well made.

didnt have anything to do with them

this is a very reliable and good quality pedal for the money you will pay for it, you can get alot of sounds out of it. it might not make you wet your pants when you here it, but once you get it you wont be gettin rid of it, because it can be used in so many different areas and you will never know when u want it.

I use the FD-2 on Channel 2 of a MESA Mark-IVA head. I wanted something to give me a more versatile tone without having to crank up the volume. Don't get me wrong, the MESA's channel 2 sounds FANTASTIC on its own...I just need to keep my hearing while playing at home.


I honestly don't think it's possible to get a bad tone out of it. Took it right out of the box, turned the 4 knobs to 9:00, 12:00, 12:00, and 9:00....sounded fantastic. I was blown away.

What can I say that hasn't already been said. I'm completely blown away. It's as if it has become an actual part of the MESA's preamp. It rocks. 370 ratings and a 9.0 say it all.

I HIGHLY recommend taking this pedal for a test drive. You won't be disappointed.

Just bought it, so I can't comment on reliability yet. But given Fulltone's track record, I should have no worries.

Haven't had to call them up yet.