Who uses the Fulltone OCD?
What about notable famous guitarists who use Fulltone OCD pedals? Country star Keith Urban is a great example, having two OCDs on his pedalboard. Don Felder, best known from The Eagles, also uses one. Another fan is The Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago.
What pedal is the Fulltone OCD based on?
Ibanez Tube Screamer
Although this has never been confirmed by Mike Fuller himself, the OCD takes its driving inspiration from a now little-known pedal partly descended from the Ibanez Tube Screamer.
What does a guitar drive pedal do?
Overdrive pedals and processors either represent a cranked tube amp (think AC/DC), or serve to drive an amp into a natural and vigorous grittiness. Simply put, overdrive strives to emulate the interaction of a guitar plugged into a tube amp. This means that overdrive pedals don’t color the source sound very much.
What is OCD pedal good for?
The rich sound of this pedal can achieve the chime of a nice class-A amp or you can run it very hard to achieve thick, almost distorted sounds, with all of the ringing overtones (a.k.a. harmonics). This pedal works great in front of master volume amps as well, driving them harder than most overdrive pedals.
Is the Fulltone OCD hard clipping?
Throughout history, we have pedals like the EarthQuaker Plumes, the Seymour Duncan 805, the Fulltone Full-Drive, the BOSS SD-1 Super Overdrive, and even pedals like the East River by Electro Harmonix. These are all soft clipping Tube Screamer style overdrives.
Is OCD overdrive or distortion?
Every so often its creator, Mike Fuller, introduces a newer version, and despite all the tweaking, many guitarists still consider the OCD one of the finest overdrive/distortion stompboxes. And for good reason; it’s one of the few drive pedals that nails the sound and response of an overdriven tube amp convincingly.
Is Fulltone Cancelled?
Guitar Center has confirmed that it will no longer sell any Fulltone products, as the fallout from the boutique pedal company founder’s controversial comments on protests against police brutality and racism continues. The US retail giant, one of the biggest players in the industry, confirmed the decision in a tweet.
Is OCD distortion or overdrive?
The Fulltone Obsessive Compulsive Drive (OCD) is an extremely open sounding Overdrive/Distortion circuit that differs from other overdrives in that it has a good bit more Dynamic-Range…
Is the Joyo Vintage Overdrive good?
The Joyo is built good. Good for the money. But for $15 more the tone of the Boss is noticeably better. More presence in tone and more sweep in the use of the knobs.