NPD - Fulltone OCD

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I've been a tubescreamer guy pretty much my who life. When something works.....why mess with it....right?

This time around re-equipping my pedalboard I decided to try something different and ordered a Fulltone OCD. It just came in yesterday and I plugged into it for a couple hours last night.

OH

MY

GOD! :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:
 
IMO:

Version 1: Just Right
Version 2: A little too gainy (but would be my second choice)
Version 3: Way too gainy
Version 4: Anemic Sounding
 
OCD is a great pedal. Are you using it as a boost, overdrive or distortion ?
I use it for all three depending on what amp.
 
stephen sawall":3pqeketo said:
Are you using it as a boost, overdrive or distortion ?
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Seems to work best as a boost to tighten the bottom and filthy up my drive channel. Toying with the idea of trying it as an overdrive for semi dirty tones on my clean channel (although I usually just use a combination of the amps built in drive and rolling my guitar volume down for that). I'm coupling it with this to make it a single stomp operation:

https://www.loop-master.com/looperchann ... -p-96.html
 
I've never experienced that pedal tightening up any amp. I've owned it 4 times, and unloaded all 4 times for the same reason - instant mud.
 
I never could get an OCD to sound good on guitar, but it’s one of my favorite things on bass.
 
Congrats!

Thought about grabbing one countless times but just never have. Still might grab one someday.
 
napalmdeath":1gqep6o0 said:
I've never experienced that pedal tightening up any amp. I've owned it 4 times, and unloaded all 4 times for the same reason - instant mud.
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Oh really? Not at all what I am experiencing. My strings are ringing with much more clarity, and my palm mutes are far more focused on my Cr-60. It’s like the amp came alive. I’m going to try it in front of a buddy’s Rectoverb tomorrow night to see if I get similar results.

Edit: I did notice that you gotta bring the gain down on the amp a little to avoid the instant mud thing. Perhaps you had the amp too gainy? :confused:
 
I always seem to trade those away, only to get another one down the road. I'm going to keep the one I got this time, I swear!

Run it at 18v and check it out. More headroom.
 
The OCD is a great pedal, but I never found it could be a replacement for the job I use a Tube Screamer for. Very different pedals. Honestly, I find they're almost polar opposites in the overdrive realm. For boosting and tightening a high gain amp, I wouldn't go as far as calling it "muddy", personally, but it just doesn't do what a Tube Screamer does. It does have its own thing going on, though, so there's that.
 
I have owned three various model OCD's and tried sooooo hard to like them, but I couldn't bond with them. But I am glad you like yours!
 
swamptrashstompboxes":1fgd2iw8 said:
I have owned three various model OCD's and tried sooooo hard to like them, but I couldn't bond with them. But I am glad you like yours!
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I think I'm especially digging it now because I've never used anything but a tube screamer. Really opened my eyes up to what an OD can do for your tone.

Also, I can easily see how you would not like the OCD if you are primarily a metal player with a high gain amp (I'm not). I keep my amp at low to medium gain and when I kick the OCD in it really opens the amp up, and gives my strings a LOT of definition. Admittedly, when I push my amp's gain it does turn pretty muddy.

Have a feeling I'm going down a long (and expensive) path to trying out different OD pedals now. :lol: :LOL: :doh:
 
If you like the OCD you will probably like a RAT.

I don't think the OCD would tighten the bass with most amps. But it does have a great pick attack. I prefer using it with a amp set up for point of breakup or medium crunch.
If the amp is set up highgain I prefer using a Fulldrive.
 
As most of you know, I'm not an OD or dirt stomp kinda guy... Typically avoid at all costs.
But of the 2 dirts/ODs I do own, the OCD is one of them - and it's stuck around a long time. The other, for those wondering, is the Xotic BB-Pre.

Congratz on a great pedal :rock: :thumbsup:


I've got a lot of CAE/MXR "dirts" but that's usually because they combine their line-drivers/boosts with some form of dirt/od. I like their boosts for utility purposes...only. I suppose I could muck around with what their ODs and dirts sound like, but I'm just not into stomps giving me my tone.
 
Pentatonic":18s28x0i said:
swamptrashstompboxes":18s28x0i said:
I have owned three various model OCD's and tried sooooo hard to like them, but I couldn't bond with them. But I am glad you like yours!
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I think I'm especially digging it now because I've never used anything but a tube screamer. Really opened my eyes up to what an OD can do for your tone.

Also, I can easily see how you would not like the OCD if you are primarily a metal player with a high gain amp (I'm not). I keep my amp at low to medium gain and when I kick the OCD in it really opens the amp up, and gives my strings a LOT of definition. Admittedly, when I push my amp's gain it does turn pretty muddy.

Have a feeling I'm going down a long (and expensive) path to trying out different OD pedals now. :lol: :LOL: :doh:
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From what your saying the buxom boost would do this quite well, more of a boost too.
 
My OCD boosted my old Recto and Soldano into metal mayhem. Better than any thin, scratchy, cold feeling TS pedal did.
 
I always felt that the OCD is better than a TS for adding dirt into a clean channel. I thought it was a terrible boost. I am a big fan of the fulltone fulldrive 2 mosfet and that gets me pretty much whatever I need.
 
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