The Fulltone Full-Drive 2 is an overdrive/distortion guitar effects pedal, with true bypass, and a dual channel. This overdrive pedal brings to perfection what the legendary TS 808 once started. Totally natural overdrive/distortion high in even ordered harmonics like a Class A tube amp! The first channel is the "Overdrive Mode" capable of Clean Boost or non-compressed light to medium overdrive all while retaining your guitar's original tone. The foot-switchable second channel "Boost Mode" comes with its own separate Distortion control for medium to higher gains with a more singing violin-like sustain! True Bypass w/ LED is standard equipment.
Housed in a beautiful powder coated Blue 16ga. steel enclosure, the dual-channel Full-Drive 2 gives you the best of both worlds. The first channel is the "Overdrive Mode" capable of clean boost or non-compressed overdrive or choose light to medium softer overdrives all while retaining your guitar's original tone. The Tone knob is a very effective presence control that can smooth out or add upper harmonics. The second channel is the "Boost Mode" with its own separate distortion control for medium to higher gains with a more singing violin-like sustain!
In 2007, the Full-Drive 2, the most popular boutique overdrive ever made, and staple on many pedalboards for years, became the Full-Drive 2-Mosfet, sounding better than ever before. One mini-toggle lets you choose between a "Vintage" FD2 sound with mid-heavy tones that cut through the mix and "FM (flat-mids)" for a more natural, transparent sound that works awesome with a Strat's neck pickup.
The other mini-toggle lets you choose between Mosfet and Normal clipping modes. Normal mode is even more asymmetrical, sweeter and more open, with no "blanket" over the sound. And, of course, the FD2-Mosfet features super-bright LEDs (borrowed from the OCD) and Fulltone's exclusive "no-thump/no-pop" True Bypass switches. We are the first to offer a switchable "Boost" Channel in an overdrive and manufacture our own Super-Duty 3PDT footswitch allowing True-Bypass plus LED.
The main features of the Fulltone Full-Drive 2 include:
This pedal is fantastic, one of the main points is that the overdrive is really define and does not muffled the sound when you are playing chords, same cannot be said of most pedals. Is very versatile and is great for stepping up levels when needed.. Is also really good and benevolent with cheap pick ups on guitars and will fix the tone greatly.Rugged construction, no brainer, Every friend that test it bought one already.