Fulltone OCD

Volume, drive, tone and hp/lp filter switch. Dead easy to dial in a lovely sound. TOne control particularly nice - seems to work on the upper frequencies only, leaving the middle n bass intact.

I just want to gush about this pedal. It nails the classic marshall overdrive sound. Full and rich. Lovely dynamics, it has an elastic feel to it. Never played any od pedal that sounds and feels like this on. Gorgeous for thick rock chords n leads.

This pedal fills the missing slot in my distortion / od options.

Jeff beck strat, AS strat with dg20 emg electrics, AS tele.

mxr stereo chorus, mxr flanger, boss ns2, boss tu2, boss ge7, analogman comprossor, fulltone dejavibe II, BOss pw10 wah, boss giga delay, EHX holy grail, fulltone fulldrive II mos fet edition, OCD, Pete Cornish ss2/P2 duplex all into a british made HIWATT custom 20 head (new one - awesome worth every penny) and a UK HIWATT 2x12 cab loaded with celestions.

I use the fulldrive only for clean boosts - it gives me 2 lovely chimey rich boost levels on tap, the ss2 for a more brittle crunch / lead sound, the P2 for that gilmour big muff sound, and the OCD for that thick saturated marshall overdrive sound.

The pedal sounds great with all 3 guitars - it loves single coils and
its particularly good for thick tele riffing. Feeds back in a very musical way. And all the strat/marshall type heavy sounds with tye srats. The EMG loaded strat sings anyway and it also loves this pedal. The closest Trower sound I've yet achieved - jeff beck strat, ocd, comprossor, and mini dejavibe.

I've tried just about every OD pedal out there... the OCD is the one for me. LOads of bass middle and treble. NOt just a middle boost. Completey different beast to a tubescreamer... which is great for a mid emphasised sound.

so far so good

no idea.

Excellent ebay purchase.

Im submitting this to maybe help someone out cause when I bought this pedal it went right back. I always have a pedal infront of whatever amp im playing when it comes to overdrive. I have the gain up at 50% on the amp and a little on a pedal for a 3D sound. The controls on this thing are very, very sensitive. every thing was up only about 25% no more.

I have a maxon od808 which is just bitchin but I use it for the metal stuff cause its so aggressive. It has a tone of midrange which works perfect for aggressive metal so I was looking for somethin of the opposite for mellower stuff-something with flat mids. Tryed this pedal cause of the reviews it got and it completely did not work. I mean when you use this thing in the CLEAN CHANNEL its sound is prestine-perfect. Total vox/marshall - completely british. As british as it gets. Mean growl and shit loads of attack - my first thought was Sublime! When I used it on the dirty channel it just came apart. Mushed-out, attack was gone. I am very conservative with the gain especially at high volumes. I turn the gain all the way down on the amp and pedal - didnt work.

?? had it for a week

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Im not going to bash this pedal because it sounds good for what its supposed to do I think. If I was getting OLD and grew up from the classic rock era It would prolly work....But i didnt. I see this pedal as acting as extra dirty channel to a fender type amp. It sounds so rolling stones/zepplin like. But if you already have a marshall....well?

Use the OCD live twice in club gig situations, sort of on the fly. I was able to make it work well enough to use it the second time out. This pedal is a little decieving when you set it up. It takes a little tweaking to find the right settings. Give it some time, and you will be rewarded.

I am a professional player, and have played for about 37 years. I have a box full of pedals just like most of us do. This pedal is unique, and I felt in certain situations very good. I play through two Mesa amps. I play a Mark 4 for bigger gigs, and an F-30 for clubs. I don't use any pedals for OD on the Mark 4, but like to gain stack on the F-30. The OCD through the front end with the drive channel on gives a sweet push to the amp. Once I turned the OCD volume down and pulled out some of the compression the pedal came alive. If you set this pedal to high in volume or gain the character of your tone flattens out. I was able to make it work with tweaking.

Fulltone makes good products. I have four Fulltone pedals, and have never had any problems.

Mike is a busy man, but has helped me in the past.

Keep in mind that most of us are used to a Tube Screamer sound or similar. I don't think Mike was going for another TS here which is good. Guys that say they bought it and returned it the same day did not give this pedal a fair shot. One of the best things this pedal does is give you ghost notes that are very cool. I let a friend try the OCD with his Mesa F-50 and he did not want to give me the pedal back. For you gear heads out there, you should give Homebrew electronics a look. The (Homebrew Electronics .com) Power Screamer is one of the finest pedals I have ever used and well worth looking at. At this time I am having fun switching between the Power Screamer and the OCD. If lost or stolen I would most likely buy another. Just an FYI I use Tom Anderson guitars, Mesa Boogie amps, Fulltone effects along with Homebrew effects, Dunlop wah. The wah and OD's are run through the front end, and the delays and chorus are through the loop. I really try to stay away from to many effects but cause of tone coloration. Well I hope this helped somebody out. Keep Playing!

Very easy - but takes some time noodling with it to really appreciate it.

strat ( EJ model for past year ) >>>> Korg pedal tuner >>>> Carl Martin compressor ( subtle amount of compression - always on ) >>>> OCD >>>>>> old Ibanez anolog delay ( AD 99 ) >>>>>>>>>> tweed bassman re-issue. Like every other strat freak I mostly use the clean sound ( especially out of phase ) - the combination of this with the swirl of the bassman 4 10s gets it for me. I searched for ever for the right overdrive to use with the bridge PU on some stuff. I play only the strat ( that's why I always pay attention to Fulltone products ) in a fairly active pop-funk-R+B-rockabilly cover band. I am mostly interested in live sound tone at medium-high volume - recording tone is not my thing ( there should be separate reviews here for recording vs live sound ) I really enjoy the bridge PU with the right overdrive for rock songs. The OCD has a wonderful rich sound at noodling around volume - all the harmonics are there - just as advertised. But like most OD pedals when the amp volume is up ( in a bar/club ) it loses definition and punch. In all fairness the same is true for most OD pedals - I have tried about 10 of them over the years - Keeley mod TS10 and TS 9, Maxon 820,Budda Phatman etc.

I really enjoyed the OCD when I gigged with it with a 2 amp set - up ( I use the bypass out on my floor tuner to a second amp to add in a clean sound ) - this REALLY makes a nice OD sound at bar-room volume but you have to drag a second amp around ( no thanks - I am too old and gig 2-3 times per month )

Probably if I was into recording or just low volume stuff the OCD would be perfect. This pedal brings on a smile at low volume.

solid

never needed it.

have played 35 years - past 10 yrs in a cover pop-rock band mostly.
I don't use the OCD at gigs because I don't want to drag around a second amp. I use my sparkle drive pedal - great drive tone and it has the pretty cool thing where you can dial back in a clean sound to overlay on top of the drive - you get all the punch back. I won't sell my OCD though - I still like it - it's just no match for my sparkle drive at high volume with a one amp set up.

This pedal coundlt be easier to use. There are plenty of options for those who like to tweek, but I cant find a bad sound in this pedal actually.The manual explains the functions on the switch, and the knobs clearly.

Playin this through an Marshall 18watt clone amp head I built myself,,,with the help of 18watt.com. This amp kicks ass on its own, but at lower practice volume the OCD really helps open the amp up, and really makes it grind, if thats what you want it to do. Ive owned so many high end overdrives/distortion pedals I wont even go into naming them. I will however say for the record that this is the best ive played so far. The amazing thing is the pedal actually feels like part of the amp because it is so responsive to picking nuances, and dynamics. Its actually quite amazing in this respect. Ive never played a pedal this dynamic. You could leave this thing on all the time, and just control the tones you need with the volume know on your guitar. This is the way the real men used to do it in the old days you know????? LOL. This pedal has a bite to it in HP mode that just seems perfect to me. I hate high end harshness, and this pedal does have the high end, but its not harsh. Its just right. I must say, that I dont play in a band any longer,so I cant audition the pedal in a band setting. I know from experience that things change when you start mixing in the frequencies from the other instruments, but I feel confident that this pedal would deliver in spades.

Fulltone stuff is pretty bulletproof. I have a Choralflange, a 70's, and Clyde wha....never had a problem. Nuff said

Mike is a great guy I think. Ive written to him several times, and he has always responded in a reasonable time.

Overall its a 10. The best.....

ok, let me begin by saying i have had this pedal since september, and bought it off eBay for about $145. i have already written a review about it, which you can read lower.

this review is a review of the 500k volume pot mod, performed by don butler www.tone-man.com

i had this mod done because i got antsy because i wasn't playing anywhere. i plugged it in and realized that some people's accusation of "no-mids" was quite valid. even thought i loved the pedal, no matter how i tweaked it, i could not get any mids, making higher gain settings unusable. so, i shipped it to don butler with $20. three weeks later (he had vacation right smack dab in the middle of my wait), i got it back. ok, now on to the review:


very easy to use. much easier than before actually. with the mod, i found i don't have to tweak as much to get great sounds.

oh my gawd. i loved this pedal before. i can't turn it off now. it sounds so good. it sounds like it did before, only with a few more mids. the mod makes higher gain settings not onl useable, but really really good. with the gain maxed, it's the best distortion i've ever played. tone knob is very usable.

i found that i still ran it with the gain around 9 o'clock and the tone around 10:30-11:00, but the volume is now cranked to almost noon. sounds great.

awesome. it's fulltone.

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awesome. if you have a lower serial number i highly recommend this mod. even if you love your pedal, still do it! it sounds the same, but better!

now, as a note, this mod has now been made permenent on new the production of these OCD's. Mod was made permenent after serial number 4563.

With 3 knobs and 1 switch I would say this pedal is pretty simple to use! I don't like sitting around for half a day trying to get a good tone out of a pedal.

I like to do research of pedals before I buy them and see what everyone else thinks. I'm glad I didn't listen to the people trashing this pedal! I absolutely love this thing. If you love the sound of your guitars clean tone & want to add a slight bluesy or 'Marshall' sound to it, then this is your pedal. I run this pedal through a Marshall JTM 30. The distortion on the amp isn't bad, but this pedal is a better version of it. I've gone through many distortion pedals and I absolutely love this one. The only thing I don't like is how much gain it can get. I guess I will invest in a Fulltone Distortion Pro to get a more heavy drive. This pedal will do great for Nirvana. Extreme solo gain is pretty much out of the question unless you use it as a boost pedal.

I really don't see using a backup. This thing is made solid. Reliability shouldn't be an issue with the Fulltone line.

Mike is a pretty good guy. He knows his tone thats for sure! Just remember these pedals are hand built/signed/packaged, sometimes email's just have a wait a little bit.

You will probably find yourself changing the settings quite often, so there is a need to pick up two of these along the way. I would definately recommend this pedal to anyone no matter your setup. I would recommend this pedal to almost all music styles except metal. If this pedal were stolen, I would shed 1 tear and work my ass off to buy another one. I do not like the fact that Fulltone products are so high priced though. I guess it's like a status thing though, Fulltone(BMW) vs MXR(Honda).

there is a level, drive plus tone..
also, a mid-bass switch which is pretty useful depending on the type of music you play.

if i could control the mid-bass switch with my foot..i would put a 9 in this category..

i wish someone would figure out a way to leave your pedals plugged without sucking the juice out of the battery. i dislike Adaptors,..
you have to unscrew 4 screws to change the battery, which has a tight fit..but since i unplug the pedal after i play, the battery lasts a long time..

i waited a month before this review..i had borrowed one from a friend and i thought it was great but i didn't have the time to really get into it.
Now, i can honestly say that my search is over..this is the HOLY GRAIL of overdrives for me. i have had lots of drives (mxr+, boss, Marshall, Tubescreamers, DOD's, ect..).
I have had, in the past, no problem getting a good tone out of a Humbucking equipped guitar. But for a strat, i never found that one that made me happy except for when i cranked my amps..

well..this one does it.. I would like to congratulate Mike Fuller on this one.. Yes, the FUlldrive 2 is great..but to me, this OCD is the best ever..
the tones i get from this one are very similar to Ritchie blackmore.. and lots and lots of Marshall users out there.. the cool thing is that i can get that Stones tone with it too.. very close to a Vox amp/older ampeg..surprising..
everytime i play with it, i have a hard time putting the guitar down..that this hadn't happened in a long time before buying this unit. it's worth every dime...


p.s. i play a Marshall plexi reissue with the bright cap removed (makes it less loud).
, a early 80's SQ strat with lace sensors and a es335 guitar.

built like a tank, heavy metal.. unbreakable?

never dealt with him..i heard he's moody..

Ok..let's put the cards on the table..

if you go on fullton'es site, you will hear the Soundclips made with this pedal, you will notice that he's using VINTAGE TUBE AMPS .. ok
OLD marlshall, OLD Fendah!! get it??!!??

i am not saying you can't get a great tone if you have a solid state amp with this pedal..i'm saying that if you can't, dont' blame the pedal . this pedal has harmonics/overdrives like tubes up the ying yang..it's the closest thing i have ever heard to overdriven tubes ..
a good guitar helps a lot..and EXPERIENCE in dialing your tone too!!

too bright?? damn..use the tone control. mine is around 11:00!

rought overdrive? how's your clean sound.. ??

Noisy? too much drive..

Voila..uncle Gerry has talked.

3 knobs for the basic level+tone+drive controls.
1 switch for character (2 position).
The manual is helpful (specially for the tone knob suggestions and the use of the switch), but anyone wouldn't spend more than 1 minut to understand the pedal

Much like the comments submitted by Fenderbender at 04/12/2006 20:55... I have a Fulltone Full-Drive 2 wich I thought was THE overdrive... 'till I've got the OCD!
To understand my oppinion... I play old Fender Strats (single coils) through Marshall amps (reissue 50w and 100w Plexis) and Marshall cabs (25 and 75w 4x12's).
On the floor, I only have a Korg DT-10 tuner and a Fulltone Fat-Boost, for thar extra volume for solos. The OCD is between them (I retired the Full Drive 2).
The OCD is very transparent and keeps the amp EQ with the bass, mid and treble (wich you can roll off with the tone knob, but keeping bass and mids to get a more "rounded" sound - that's the best feature I've found on this pedal, common tone knobs change the hole EQ).
The mini switch is also nice and I use on LP (Low Peak) position for keeping the bass (remember, I play exclusively with single coils).
To me (and my rig) the Full Drive 2 should have the same amont of bass on Vintage and Modern switch positions, like the OCD provides (better say "mantains" when listening the guitar direct to the amp).
The only other pedal I really like are old MXR Distortion+ (mid 70's)but they don't respond like tube amps (like the OCD and Full-Drive 2) and aren't quiet.
Although I keep the OCD on all the time (I only use 9v batteries to assure everything quiet - I play loud, very loud! yes! I play Rock'n Roll!), I enjoy the True Bypass, so I can be sure I'm not messing with the guitar-on-amp sound when using pedals.

I'm using Fulltone for a while and had no problems, so I suppose the OCD is reliable as me Full Drive 2 and Fat Boost.
The OCD is my main sound... so I would by another if stolen.

Never needed... and that's good!

Very good and also very expensive here in Brazil (around USD $280.00!!!) but worth every cent!
Quiet and transparent.
I feel comfortable onstage not thinking about equipment and the OCD helps me play more and more.

IT doesn't get any easier than this. 1 Volume, 1 gain, 1 tone and a switch to change character of the pedal.

It's simple to use.

This pedal is ridiculous. I first came to Fulldrive via an FDII. Which I thought was my desert island pedal. I heard a lot of hype about the OCD....and though I love my FDII....I was insanely skeptical that another pedal could beat it.

Holy crap. This pedal kills. It's soooooooo musical what you can do with it. a HUGE pallette of sounds are available to you.

I play this with a variety of guitars through a variety of amps. Single coils and humbuckers....doesn't matter. Sounds delicious. Which to me is a rare find. There are a lot of pedals that only play nice with certain rigs. For example my FDII is made for single coils and kinda sucks with humbuckers. Recent amps I have used it on were a Sovtek 60, a Classic 50, and a Hot Rod Deville 4x10.

IF you crank the volume and turn down the gain....it's a very full clean boost. Back off the volume and start to crank the gain you can make it to chugga chugga land.

I do not run a lot of effects because I like things to be simple. I have a Bad horsey II Wah-->FDII-->OCD and then run a CE-5 and a holy Grail into an effect loop. That's it.....it's all I need....still tryign to find a delay I like! hehehe

With a Strat I was able to cop a lot of tones.....even sound like I was playing a LEs Paul....yeah it's THAT fat of a sound if you dial it in.

This pedal just kills. It's one of those rare thigns that simply must have. Dead quite also. No noise. I love true bypass.

I love all my Fulltone stuff and it's never let me down. I would gig without a back up. I am a big fella and if anyone could kill a pedal it would be me.

never had to deal wtih these guys but they seem like stand up people. I have yet to meet a person that owns FUlltone stuff that isn't satisfied but I have never met one that had on issue. And I know a lot of people that use their stuff.

I play all over the place. I do about everything you can do on guitar so I need a versatile rig. This fits right in with what I need.

Been playing for 15 years. And have gone through about everyhting you can go through. IF I don't like it I don't buy it and if I get tired of it I sell it fast. This stuff is a keeper. I will be buried with my Fulltone stuff.

If it were stolen I would track down the bastard that stole it and beat him to death. IF I were dumb enough to lose one I beat the crap out of myself.

I love this pedal.

I hate that I don't own 3 of them. Then I could just set each one up and have the 3 main sounds I need.

Fav feature is the little swithc that changes the voicing of the pedal. I can't make up my mind which setting I like best. I can make a good arguement for both. Radically different and totally usable. It's like tryign to pick which one of my kids I like the most....you can't do that!!

It is by far and away the most wicked distortion pedal on the planet. I sold 5 distortion units I had for this sound and that sound becaues this little box does everything those boxes did and it does it 1000 times better.

If I could wish it had something else....I wish it were built like a FDII which to me is like 6 pedals in one. IF the OCD were like a 2 or 3 in one.....it would be perfect and you'd never need another distortion unit of any kind.

It totally inspires me to play better and be creative. I get the sound I want right now and don't have to fiddle fart around getting usable awesome tone. No twiddling knobs....I just get to play.

You CANNOT make this pedal sound bad. I would pay 5 times the price for it and feel justified.