Fulltone Full-Drive 2

It's great if you're into vintage tone. It will go from super-light to super-heavy. I don't recommend using the compressor (by pushing down the volume knob) because it makes your tone sound kind of pinched. I only use the compressor if I have to because I'm playing in a small room where I can't over-drive my amp at all. It provides plenty of boost. It doesn't sound as good as cranking up the volume on the amp (I use a '74 Fender Deluxe Reverb) but it's as good as it gets as far as pedal distortion goes. I highly recommend it!!!
For reference, I've played it with a Gibson LP Customer, American Standard Tele, and a Gibson ES-335... Sounds great with all of them.

Built like a tank.

Never had to deal with customer service. Like I said, it's build like a tank.

It takes a little while to dial in.

I don't like this pedal & have returned it.
The only mode the Boost works in is, Comp Cut.
The Comp Cut mode sounds good by itself. When the
Boost is on the tone is very Muddy.

It is built very well.

Mike is very easy to deal with.

I was looking to get rid of a couple pedals & thought this pedal would do the trick. I was 100% wrong. The Comp, FM, Vintage by themselves sound OK alone, but with the Boost on it's a MudFest. Kind of sounds like a Boss Blues Driver on 10.
I wouldn't say these pedals are all hype, but I've yet to try a Fulltone pedal I liked enough to keep for more than a couple months.
I play Hard Rock & Punk Rock most of the time thru my Bandmaster or Bassman. WIth my other pedals I can nail the tones I want no problem.
The Comp Cut feature does sound good on this pedal. But, not good enough for the price tag.

It's a snap. Plenty of options in the circuitry. I like "Vintage" mode with just a titch of grind, and the second stage anywhere from 12:00 to full out. The FullDrive 2 wipes the floor with any single-sound pedal I've ever tried, from the TS-808 on down the line. Definitely a keeper!

After playing for over 40 years, everything I play sounds the same---like me. I built the guitar (alder strat, maple neck, trad hardware, and Lawrence L-280s) and I built the amp (AX84 through a Marshall 4X12 Greenback cab). With a product like this, it's all a matter of degrees of distortion, and this pedal has so much capacity for dialing in just the right amount of it. It leaves the original tone intact, and simply adds as much punch and grind as you want. FM mode is cool, but Vintage is where I leave it. Does exactly what I need it to do and then some---I leave the green channel on all the time, and hit the red channel for leads. Or...when things get even more wiggy, I leave the red channel on all the time, and hit the Fulltone '70 went I want to go nuts. You can't beat Fulltone these days. Don't even try.

After several months, I hooked it up to a Danelectro D-2 and powered it with 18 volts. Momma! More of the same...it simply doesn't get any better. Still very little operating noise, much more dynamic response, and the same delicious chewy tones, only more of it. Try THAT with your Keeley or your Zach...but make a wish when you plug it in, because it will certainly blow your candles out.

Are you kidding? I could drag this thing to the gig BEHIND the van and it would work fine. I don't use a backup. Never have. Wouldn't be worth the transport. A surge protector is the only concession to bad karma that I use. Other than that, in the immortal words of Dubya, I say "Bring it on."

I have no idea. I am in line for the new GT-350, simply because of the great products I've already gotten from Fulltone. I haven't seen fit to bother Mike for anything. I doubt I ever would. I'd rather he spent his time building these puppies, not on the phone or his email inbox enduring my rambles and raves. Because of the design, anybody with a cerebral cortex and a soldering iron could fix it. So I don't plan on taking any of Mr. Fuller's time for any reason, now or in the future.

I'm a blues guy, but we all take trips into the rock realm once in a while. My band is insanely purist. If I showed up with a 24-fret anything, or a Floyd Rose, they'd beat me to death with it. Stomp boxes, per se, are also verboten. Fulltone products are totally blues-approved, however, even for the old-timers who don't like to see anything on the floor of the stage except feet. Yeah, Fulltone stuff costs more money than others, but they're worth it. I did use a one-off handmade TS-808 clone for a while, but Fulltone is simply a cut above. Well-made, by hand, without the stench of corporate hands upon it.

If Micheal Fuller didn't exist, we would have to invent him. And, far in the future, when Mike leaves us, he's going to go to the same heaven where Saint Leo has gone. Room service. Front row seats for all the Hendrix concerts. And a Porsche that never needs a tuneup.

I wrote this review simply because I am tired of reviewers trashing this pedal, or writing ho-hum so-so reviews. If your sound needs improvement, don't look to your tools, kids---look to your hands. Play for another ten years, and then another ten, til you bleed if you have to, and then we'll talk. When you can take a half-dead warped Kay, play it through a rusted-out Airline, and make the angels cry, well, then you'll know what I'm talking about. Until then, you won't.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it? Easy

I like natural break up. This pedal handles that sort of thing very nicely. It works fantastic with both rhythm and bridge pick ups. It really does sound way better then the other Fulldrive II's I've owned. It kind of freaked me out. I'm useing it currently with a 1x12 Ghia clone and a telecaster for the last month. I liked it so much I bought another.

He makes very well built pedals. I've owned quite a few.

He's a great guy to deal with.

My favorite overdrive.

This is a good quality pedal. When you get into this caliber of gear, all the sounds coming out of it are "good", you've just got to find what you need. For me, no pedal I've heard, even the best of them, has even come close to the "best" amp gain I've heard. Nonetheless, usually, I only use gain for my leads, and play all my rhythm clean. I feel like this pedal would be a great power trio pedal. Something to leave on all the time, if you need gain all the time. It fills a lot of room, great bass response in the FM mode, good "full" clean boost. Aptly named pedal. Ease of use? This is just what came out when I played it. You've got to fool around with it for a little bit just like any other piece of gear. Manual? I don't think a manual can tell you more than your ears can.

I don't use gear to get the sounds of other artists. Does this pedal help me sound like myself? Yeah. I play this with a US strat through an old '66 super reverb. It's not an incredible sound. It's definitely different, which is cool. It can do the tube screamer thing in vintage mode, but that's not why I bought this. FM mode or the clean boost are my favorites. I bought it because it's insanely well built, point to point hand-wired and steel chassis.

Haven't used it that much but most pedals are built solid, this is no exception. It's made for getting stepped on. Cool insides, all pt to pt. I love that.

Like I said, this'd be a great pedal for a sole guitarist in a band, who needs to fill lots of room. I've got two keyboardists in my band, so I need to cut back on the room I fill. If I do a power trio thing, which I might, this'd be what I used. Been playing for 17 years, I want to like this pedal more than I do. Currently, I use a Voodoo Lab sparkle drive that's had all the metal oxide resistors replaced with carbon film resistors, and the transistor replaced with a different brand. It crunches a little bit more but loses a lot of the bottom end that the fulldrive keeps. Trade-off.

This pedal takes some time and adjusting to find the tone in your head. Take the time, at stage volume, to set it and tweak it.

This is where I believe that anyone who says can't get a good tone out of it is having a problem. If you are using a modern alkaline or heavy duty batter putting out a ton of milliamps, this pedal sucks. Hands down. Go buy cheap batteries at a dollar store( you know the 2 for a $1 kind) or carbon zinc and watch this pedal come alive. It does not get to bright, great output. And the tone!!!! I can get SRV, Clapton, Santana, John Mayer, you name it, its there. The key is the batteries. I am using it with a 65 deluxe reverb reissue.

I gig with out a backup.

Mr. Fuller is great, always takes time to answer any questions you have.

I play in a contemporary praise and worship band. I am required to be versatile in the sounds I can get and this pedal covers 80% of my dirty needs. If it were stolen I would hunt them down and make them pay!! I spent a long time and lots of money getting to this point, and now I could not live without it. It's my goto pedal. P.S. Don't forget the cheap batteries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will most likely have to do some extensive knob tweaking in order to pull out the sound you're looking for. This may discourage some hyperactive musicians or those that always scored low on critical thinking questions.

I'm running an American Standard Stratocaster into a Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue. TS-9's and other Tubescreamer clones always colored my strat sound with a mid-range hump. In FM mode, the Fulldrive delivers fantastic transparency. Comp-cut supplies the user with clean boost that does not lose bass snap/response. On the grit channel of my amp with drive set low and comp-cut + boost engaged, my Strat growled. Working the tone knob on the Fulldrive blends in or smooths out those singing harmonics: sheer sizzling tube bliss.

PS: This pedal will NOT make a bad setup sound good. Get a good TUBE amp, and a quality guitar. Provided, you have those, the Fulldrive 2 will make a good setup sound cosmic.

Built like a tank.

Never had to an issue with the pedal that merited a call.

It's not made for Metal, but if you're into blues/rock, this is your ticket to ride. A bit pricy for an OD box but then again, so are Ferraris.

Not partlcularly difficult to use, as long as you can live with a VERY trebly tone!

I ran my Godin LG with Duncan P90's into the Fulldrive, then from Fulldrive into my Alessandro Working Dog Rottweiler 2X12. I
was very impressed at first by the transparency of this unit. However, as I spent more time with it, I became increasingly annoyed by the tonal price one must pay for this transparency-- the fact that the tone control (described very accurately as a presence control in manual) is voiced in such a way that even turned down completely, the pedal adds in an awful lot of top end-- way more than I care for. I will admit that my ears are particularly sensitive to high frequencies. I tried adjusting amp, guitar, pedal, but could not achieve a setting that yielded a satisfying clean sound (w/pedal disengaged) and lead sound (pedal engaged), but I just got a headache and returned it. I read somewhere that Mike Fuller designs his pedals to sound best through darker-sounding amps, and that would seem to be the case, judging from my experience. I did not like the "vintage" setting at all-- it had the overly congested mids and "processed" tone typical of Tube Screamers that I'll admit I greatly dislike (no reflection on the designer).
Lots of people like this pedal. It's just voiced in way that MY ears don't find musical. In short, I would've preferred a tone control that allowed for more "control".

It's built like all Fulltone pedals-- very well.

No contact with Manufacturer.

I play blues, blues-rock, jam-band rock. Been playing since mid-70's. I'm going to try the fat-boost-- see if that is eq'd more to my liking. Bought the pedal online from Humbucker Music. I highly recommend them-- they are very customer-service oriented-- just great folks to deal with.

-Super easy to use.
-Incredible sound no matter what guitar/amp combo used.

There is nothing that sounds better than this pedal. I have owned every high end pedal on the market, and nothing comes close to the tone of the TR100. It is dripping with mojo!

Indestructible. Never have to worry about this unit.

Great service is what you should expect from Fulltone. Never had any problems.

Best overdrive pedal... hands down. Blues, Country, Rock, it does it all. Whether you use a Strat, Tele, Les Paul, etc. this thing overdrives your sound without taking away from the tone. Worth every penny!

It doesn't get any easier.

I heard rumors about this pedal and searched for three years before finding one. It was everything I dreamed and more! I tried every boutique pedal on the market hoping to find "THAT" sound. This is it.

Super durable. Have gigged and never had any problems. Solid construction and metal housing provide excellent protection.

Have called Mike Fuller on a number of occassions trying to get info in my search. Mike has always been courteous and quick in his responses. I know there are bad rumors floating around online, but I have had nothing but the best experience.

If you happen to find one of these, buy it on the spot. Better yet, get in touch with me, and I'll buy it. I would cry if I ever lost this pedal. It is everything I wanted in an overdrive pedal!