Went to a local reseller, tried a few pedals, Tonebone Classic, Fulltone FD2, Fulltone OCD, So here's a review
TBone Classic:
Did the saturated distortion very very very well. Very Eric Johnsonish sound. Maintained a very articulate tone, but had huge meat to the chords. One thing that was very nice was dynamics. This pedal didn't seem to squish the sound, but maintained a sense of control, so for those who want a big wall of sound but dont want to lose the ability to feel and wrestle with your notes, this pedal will definitly do that. Con: This pedal didnt sit between clean and overdrive very well, didnt seem to clean up with guitar volume either. So for an SRVesque vibe, I wouldnt go with this pedal.
Fulltone OCD:
Now while this pedal did grab alot of 60's esque tones well, I didn't hear tones outside of that genre in it. However if its a vintage amp sound your after, this pedal does that type of tone very well.
Fulltone FD2:
Now this pedal, this pedal, this pedal frigging rocked. It has a very warm, and versatile tone, responded great to playing dynamics, as well as guitar volume changes. The vintage setting yielded tones that I would venture to say that the Tubescreamer is trying for. Add on the boost pedal, it seems to venture almost into a marshall esque mid range type tone. The FD2 seems to get into saturated blues type tones *think Gary Moore* Of all the pedals I played today, I would definitly say that this was my favourite. I didn't venture to far into the other settings, only enough to know that the Flat Mid's setting yields a great squishy, bridge\middle or neck\middle tones. This pedal is almost preamp esque kind of like the DS-1. The only thing I can think of that would be a great function, would be having the three modes (compcut, fm, vintage) in footswitch pedal so you can change em on the fly.
Anyhoo, thats my two cents guy's . . . anybody else have experience with these pedals?
Ty
TBone Classic:
Did the saturated distortion very very very well. Very Eric Johnsonish sound. Maintained a very articulate tone, but had huge meat to the chords. One thing that was very nice was dynamics. This pedal didn't seem to squish the sound, but maintained a sense of control, so for those who want a big wall of sound but dont want to lose the ability to feel and wrestle with your notes, this pedal will definitly do that. Con: This pedal didnt sit between clean and overdrive very well, didnt seem to clean up with guitar volume either. So for an SRVesque vibe, I wouldnt go with this pedal.
Fulltone OCD:
Now while this pedal did grab alot of 60's esque tones well, I didn't hear tones outside of that genre in it. However if its a vintage amp sound your after, this pedal does that type of tone very well.
Fulltone FD2:
Now this pedal, this pedal, this pedal frigging rocked. It has a very warm, and versatile tone, responded great to playing dynamics, as well as guitar volume changes. The vintage setting yielded tones that I would venture to say that the Tubescreamer is trying for. Add on the boost pedal, it seems to venture almost into a marshall esque mid range type tone. The FD2 seems to get into saturated blues type tones *think Gary Moore* Of all the pedals I played today, I would definitly say that this was my favourite. I didn't venture to far into the other settings, only enough to know that the Flat Mid's setting yields a great squishy, bridge\middle or neck\middle tones. This pedal is almost preamp esque kind of like the DS-1. The only thing I can think of that would be a great function, would be having the three modes (compcut, fm, vintage) in footswitch pedal so you can change em on the fly.
Anyhoo, thats my two cents guy's . . . anybody else have experience with these pedals?
Ty
