Fulltone OCD Version 4

This little pedal has 3 knobs one switch and you can power it with 9 or 18 V DC! So I think it's very easy of use!

It sounds amazing! I Play with a Marshall JCm 900 and I use the OCD as a Booster for bluesy sounds o n the clean channel and on the overdrive channel as a booster to make it to an heavy metal sound. Even if I use it on my clean channel as a distortion Pedal like my Tonebone Plexitube it sounds great and has enough gain to make some heavy Metal!

For sure I'll use it on my gigs!

I think if you need a booster an overdrive pedal or a distortion pedal which sounds like a marshall then you need an OCD!

3 knobs, no frills, what can be easier than that.

Anyone that states this is a bad pedal just doesn't get it. One of my band mates gave me his to use after my boost pedal went south and I must say, I was FLOORED! This may be the greatest boost/lead pedal ever made. I use a Fender strat thru a Crate TV6210 (all tube amp, no longer manufactured because Marshall filed a law suit claiming it was a perfect replecia of a Marshall, which in fact, IT IS! Its a great amp.) and the very next day, I went a bought my own. After playing with the settings, I was even MORE floored. Now I am not a big pedal player, I usually let the amp do the work but for cut thru leads and sweet ringing rock stuff, don't bother with any other pedal. Get one and forget the others.

Don't know, its new.

Time will tell, but right now, its PERFECT!

I will say the early ones sounded really good. I bought a newer one off a company on ebay, which is a different story. But, to say the least, I dont know why they say this is an improved version, but it is the biggest waste of 143.10 I ever spent. It is sad that I am now stuck with a piece of useless garbage. I will never ever reccomend fulltone products to anyone.

This is garbage.

I am sure it is reliable. It will not get used, and I will not cheat someone else out of their hard earned money. I know now, firsthand, how it feels to be shafted with a 150dollar pedal.

None from the company that I bought it from on ebay. I would never buy from them again, due to their no return policy. The only thing they could say, was that they were sorry I didnt like the pedal.

Watch out, for the makers of this useless pedal, and the worthless ebays out taking our money.

This review is for the Fulltone OCD Version 1.4 (version 4) This pedal is as simple as it gets. I tried it out at the store and within minutes I had the elusive tones I have been searching for for years.

I play a Gretsch Duo Jet 6128T with filtertron pickups. My set up is:
Gretsch>>Boss TU2 tuner>>MXR DynaComp (used as clean boost)>>Fulltone OCD>>Ibanez TS9>>EB Expression pedal>>Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeller>> 1967 Blackface Princeton Reverb Amp. The amp is set clean as the Princeton amps do not have a master and volume knob. Only a volume. It is difficult to overdrive this amp without making your ears bleed. I do not play at super-high volumes, but at the volumes I do play the OCD is super quiet on or off. The guitar and amp's natural tones are not affected by the OCD in any way. They are kept very pure. I have the OCD set to a great crunch tone (Volume @ 12:00, Tone @ 3:00 and Gain @ 9:00) and use the MXR Dynacomp as a boost. This combination gives me a phenominal smooth lead tone perfect for soloing. The sustain is unbelievable. I love the touch sensitivity of this pedal. The dynamic capabilities of the OCD are amazing. It's difficult for me to describe the tones I can get from the OCD, because of it's versatility. Everyone has different gear and the OCD will react differently to all of them. I am simply saying this pedal works for my particular gear and playing style. Because of the OCD (the closest thing to boutique I've had), my Boss Blues driver and Boss Overdrive/Distortion (although they served me well) have been shelved. My TS9 (Tone sucker) is not far behind them. This pedal also sounds superb with a good strat. Back off on your guitar's master volume for light breakup and turn it all the way up for soaring leads.

The OCD is solidly built. Period. Very heavy gauge steel housing far superior to some mass-produced pedals. I love the 4 knurled screws that make it easy to access the battery. I have to be honest and say that the first OCD I bought lasted about 30 minutes and the footswitch failed. I had never heard of this happening and am very reluctant to even mention it as Fulltone has a long track record of very reliable gear. It must have been a fluke. Mr. Fuller will probably wonder what I did to break it, but in all honesty, I did nothing to the pedal to warrant the failure. I baby my gear and do not abuse it in any way. Nevertheless, the store where I purchased it were also very surprised at the failure and gladly replaced it. For this reason, I keep the TS9 on my pedalboard just in case. Because of my amp, I cannot afford to lose my overdrive/distortion tones while playing. I am only giving this a 7 rating to be completely honest, and this should NOT deter anyone from purchasing this pedal! If this one were to break, I would replace it with another OCD in a heartbeat.

I have not had to contact Fulltone.

I have been playing and recording music for over 20 years. I know the tones that get people excited, and I know the ones that are marginal. I have tried many distortion pedals and most of them pale in comparison to the OCD. My style is along the lines of John Mayer, Coldplay, U2, Neil Schon of Journey, and Elliot Easton of The Cars to mention a few. This pedal covers them all with a little delay and/or reverb sprinkled in. I love the fact that right out of the box it erased years of marginal tone that I had settled with. If I could change one thing on the pedal, it would be where the power connection is located. I would place it more toward the back of the pedal. No big deal though. I am not suggesting that the OCD is the "holy grail" of distortion pedals, but for the money, you will be hard-pressed to find one that is built or sounds as good as the Fulltone OCD. I would hope that no one would ever buy any effects pedal based on a review. Get out there and try as many as you can. Then decide which one makes you melt. The OCD did that for me.

Fairly typical controls for an overdrive but it doesn't say it's an overdrive on it which is really just lame. Also a switch labeled hp/lp might as well not be labeled at all. The position of the DC jack is ridiculous being on the lower left side.

Works OK in the bedroom but just sounds like a typical transistor fizzy and unnatural when used live. It might be good if you believe the hype and don't know any better.

As an overdrive adding some drive doesn't really sit well with an already overdriven amp which really is a fundamental flaw. As a booster it changes the tone in the wrong way, too much bass relative to the treble.

Should be fine right up until it dies an hour after the warranty runs out.

The company? well Mike has a reputation for being a first class p***k so customer support all depends on the dealer you get it from.

I have been playing electric guitar for 23 years. I own various things. Not much doubt as to why these are being dumped on ebay all the time and why there has to be a constant new version to try to sustain sales.

Three knobs and a footswitch. Works on 18 volts as well which is how I run mine.

Strat > WOF RMC6 wah>>AM Sunface >>AM Beano Boost>> mojo vibe >>OCD >>Nova delay >> Victoria 20112 (tweed deluxe 5e3).

The sound is fantastic! Very rich in harmonics, and I love that warm grit of the germanium in this pedal. You will notice that all my boosters have germanium in them. You can get such a great pick attack which is missing in so many od pedals.

My only complaint is the noise. I feel the hiss is over twice as loud as my analog man boosters, and this is why it isnt a 10.

Fulltone has a good reputation for a solid product, and you can plug most any power adapter into it without blowing it up.

I have heard horror stories, but who knows?

I play classic rock with a blues flavor. I also play jam band and surf. I have been playing since 1980, though some of the time was exclusively on acoustic.

Id buy it again, and recommend it. I do wish I could understand why it is noisy. Maybe I should write Fulltone and find out.

I have tried many OD pedals over the years and have a HUGE distain for tube screamer type pedals. I am so glad this isnt one.

3 knobs, one switch and a footswitch. Probably the drive knob is the most intriguing, but I'm not using it.

I would NOT recommend this pedal for modern metal.

I'm using this pedal as a boost to my overdrive channel on my amp, so this could be considered using it as a clean boost.
I'm using a modified Reverend guitar with Duncan HBs and I use coil tapping a lot. I'm running this into a Budda SD18 amp. I'm also using Fulltone cables which are excellent!


First off, the one thing that stands out about this pedal is its tone when it is NOT turned on. I have been testing at least 5 different pedals over the last 6 months and a few of them are boutique (Keely). None of those pedals appear to have true bypass even though the websites say otherwise (including Vox Clyde McCoy).

As a minimum, a pedal should not affect someone's tone when turned off and hopefully enhance it when it's on. I honestly would keep this pedal just for this feature since it has helped my tone without even being on. It is noticeably better than all my other pedals.

I have rated this pedal as a 9 since it isn't perfect. Yes it does boost well, but it might would have been better with seperate bass/treble controls.

This does seem to work better with single coil situations and enhances that tone if you take the time to tweak it. I would bet there are better pedals for boosting humbuckers that maybe have a little more TS tone.

But I do agree with many of the comments about the V4 as well as the older OCD models...this is an excellent device and used properly, will give a musician high quality gain boost.

As stated above, I do not use the drive knob and do not recommend this for people ODing a gain channel in their amps. This knob adds things to the tone that does not belong in the gain channel.

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Could it really get ANY easier...3 knobs and a toggle switch...c'mon...

EXCELLENT TONE...I tried ALL kinds of other distortions and overdrives for several weeks before I cranked this baby up and got "THE TONE" I've been looking for for a long time. Cleans up very nicely or gets down and dirty and the sustain and tone can't be beat even by a lot of the pedals I tried that cost almost 3 times as much (Mr. Fuller please do not read this and decide to jack your prices up tomorrow...lol). I bought the Fulltone Fulldrive 2 with Mosfet a few weeks ago and this complements it perfectly. I wanted a really good overdrive and lead pedal that would take the distortion up a notch and give me a really creamy sustaining quality. This did it. They work perfectly together.

No problems that I can detect. I don't think you'd need a backup.

You could drop this from a plane and it would still probably work. Good solid metal with good baked on finish. Feels solid as they come.

Never had to deal with Fulltone. Have heard that if you have to send your pedal in for repairs it might take a little while but this is just hearsay. Who really knows?

I play alternative rock, blues, pop, country, and jazz occassionally.
I have a LOT of experience with distortion pedals and there are more than anyone would guess. This one stands above a large percentage of them including the Ibanez TS09, DX, and 808s which are favored by many professional musicians. Before I settled on this pedal I tried just about every different type of Boss, Ibanez, MXR, Kvex, Jeckyll & Hyde, Digitech, Proco Rats, and other boutique type pedals. I'm a tone hound like most of you reading this review.

I like that the pedal is compact and allows me to move it around on my pedal board whereever I need it.

I play Fenders, Gibsons, and Ibanez's through a Marshall AVT275 and Rivera M100 Slavemaster (sounds like a Mesa Boogie and Fender combined; very good quality amp) amplifers.
I've been playing for over 30 + years.

If the pedal were stolen I'd buy another one again and pay a gypsy to hex the thief...;)

I know tone preferences are subjective, but I feel that this truly is one GREAT pedal. I think you will love the tone too.

THREE KNOBS DOESNT GET MUCH EASIER THAN THAT.

I RATE THE SOUND 11. THIS THING SOUNDS AWESOME, IT HAS CURRENTLY ENDED MY SEARCH FOR [THE SOUND]. I READ A REVIEW WHERE SOMEONE SAID IT WAS MADE FOR SINGLE COIL PLAYERS, AND I'AM ONE BUT I HAVE TO DISAGREE IT SOUNDS EXCELLENT WITH A STRAT OR A PAUL, THE KNOBS ON THIS THING ARE MORE SENSITIVE THAN MESA KNOBS [IF U EVER OWNED A MESA U KNOW WHAT I MEAN]I HAD A ANALOGMAN TUBE SCREAMER WHICH I SWORE I WOULD NEVER GET RID OF [JUST SOLD IT ON EBAY]TILL I GOT THIS PEDAL. I'VE NEVER WRITTEN A REVIEW FOR ANYTHING BUT I WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH THIS PEDAL I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING.IT IS VERY TRANSPARENT YET DOESNT JUST ADD GAIN TO YOUR SOUND IT ADDS TONE. I MOSTLY PLAY STRATS THRU A MARSHALL 18 WATT[ALTHOUGH I NOTICED I'AM PLAYING MY PAULS ALOT MORE NOW]WITH NOTHING BUT THE OCD AND MY 535Q WAH, ALTHOUGHT THAT MAY GET REPLACED PRETTY SOON BY FULLTONE'S CLYDE WAH. ANOTHER MENTION IS THE HIGH AND LOW PEAK SWITCH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE, ITS LIKE 2 PEDALS IN ONE.I USUALLY PLAY MY STRAT ON LOW PEAK WITH THE GAIN AT 2-3.THE VOLUME AND TONE COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR SOUNDS, IN A GOOD WAY OF COURSE. I CAN GET CREAMY BLUES TO ALMOST METAL WITH THIS THING [IT EVEN MAKES MY CLEAN TONE BETTER] YOU CAN ALSO RUN THIS PEDAL ON 18 VOLTS INSTEAD OF THE USUAL 9 AND ITS SUPPOSED TO SOUND EVEN BETTER, ALTHOUGH I HAVE NOT DONE THAT YET.I COULD ONLY IMAGINE THIS THING SOUNDING BETTER.

ONLT HAD IT 4 WEEKS, BUT WHAT I HEARD ITS BUILT TUFF.

NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH

OVERALL IS A 11 IAM VERY IMPRESSED WITH THIS PEDAL IT GOES FROM CLEAN TO MEAN AND EVERWHERE IN BETWEEN. THIS IS THE NEWEST VERSION 4