Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET Overdrive/Clean Boost Guitar Effects Pedal Blue

by Fulltone

Product Features

• Offers clean boost and overdriveOverdrive Mode and Boost mode channelsBeautiful, durable steel enclosure

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.6 x 3.3 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000S5V510
• Item model number: FD2-Mos
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,952 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #16 in Musical Instruments > Instrument Accessories > Guitar & Bass Accessories > Effects > Electric Guitar Effects > Single Effects > Distortion & Overdrive

Product Description

Housed in a beautiful powder-coated blue 16-gauge steel enclosure, the Fulltone Fulldrive 2 effects pedal is capable of clean boost or non-compressed overdrive via its first Overdrive Mode channel. Choose light to medium softer overdrives all while retaining your guitar's original tone. The pedal's Tone knob is a very effective Presence control that can smooth out or add upper harmonics. There's also a footswitchable second-channel Boost Mode with its own separate distortion control for medium to higher gains with a more singing violin-like sustain.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great pedal, horrible customer service, January 13, 2010

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T. Pinsky (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET Overdrive/Clean Boost Guitar Effects Pedal Blue

Great pedal. Great. However...
It was breaking down, so I got in touch with their repair dept. They said simply, Send it in and we'll fix it. Next message from them was an invoice for $60. About one-third the cost of a new unit to repair the two switches and LEDs. I paid, no questions. After making the full payment, I emailed them to comment/complain. Here is Mike Fuller's personal response:

You are a spoiled idiot.
Go away.

Michael Fuller

[...]

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Responsive and Amp-Like, September 30, 2008

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New England Yankee (Northern New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET Overdrive/Clean Boost Guitar Effects Pedal Blue

This pedal is built like the proverbial tank and can produce a very wide range of distortion sounds short of heavy metal. It also has a very effective boost switch for lead tones. Clean (of unintended audio artifacts, that is) and dead quiet, too.

Though nominally a 9-volt pedal, one trick mentioned on Fulltone's site that actually works very well with this pedal is to feed it 18 volts, making it even more responsive. I wired a custom power cable in about 10 minutes which takes two 9-volt batteries.

The pedal is no pot-metal wonder or aluminum lightweight. It's a heavy-gauge steel box with equally heavy-duty components, i.e., it's built for continuous pro use, and every part screams quality. Fulltone's true bypass switches are now in widespread use among other pedal makers as well. Regardless of where you stand on true bypass vs. buffers, if your pedal has true bypass switching - as does this one - you want it to be good, and Fulltone's is the best on the market.

Feed with batteries or Fulltone's own regulated external power supply. Regulation is a real plus for consistency and predictability of sound. Watch out for the polarization of the external power supply if you don't use Fulltone's. You will blow the pedal and void the warranty if you plug in with reversed polarity. See www.fulltone.com for audio samples as well as information on the power supply (which isn't on Amazon for some reason).

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll own this pedal for years to come, June 7, 2011

By 

Josh Koterba (PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET Overdrive/Clean Boost Guitar Effects Pedal Blue

Holy buckets of tone batman!

Let me start by saying, I'm always on the quest for great amazing tone. I think it ends here. This pedal is absolutely remarkable. Built like a tank, I'm pretty sure it will out live me. Its full of sonic options.

The overdrive has a level, tone and overdrive. Almost self explanatory except the tone is more of a presence knob and less of an EQ which is a total plus in my book. it also has a mini toggle for comp cut, fm, and vintage modes. The comp cut is more of a clean boost to push your amps front end, the fm is really transparent, and the vintage mode gets you that creamy midrange bite.

Yes, this may be another tube screamer clone, but it's a darn great one.

The added MOSFET circuitry toggle gives it a lovely growl your low-end fattening it up, if thats your cup of tea, while the standard leaves it more transparent. You should know this switch does effect the whole signal, not just that of the boost side.

On to my only negative check on this pedal, the boost ONLY works when the OD is on. It is not a boost to be run in series with the overdrive, just additional circuitry to add more gain to your OD signal.

Another great feature, this pedal can be run at different volts from 9v-18v.Running at standard 9v gets you easier breakup, whereas 18v will get you more headroom.

This pedal won't be leaving my board, probably ever. If you're even thinking about it, just do it!!! You'll never regret it.