Very Musical Overdrive

The OCD has replaced my TS808. More transparent than the Tube Screamer

Great pedal. Check out demos of all four versions!

This pedal is wonderful. So many usable tones are available, and it's very easy to dial in.

This is the fourth version, and functions a little differently than the other three older versions. If you're interested, check out demos of the others. I personally chose the third version. It seems to have a little more gain than the fourth. Excellent for cleaning up a clean tone or sending your solos over the edge. I'm not a huge fan of the other other fulltone pedals, but I'm 100% happy with this one. And the price is great for this kind of quality.

This is the overdrive your looking for!!!

True Bypass. None of that high pitched "transistor radio" drive. Make a "tweed" sound like a "plexi". Make a "plexi" sound like "heaven". Turn the drive way down and it's a great boost. DOES NOT change the true sound of your rig. It's like adding a channel to ever channel your amp has. This is what you want!!!!! HP & LP is nice too, make that two channels for ever channel your amp has.....

A must have Pedal

This pedal sounds really good especially if you match it with a tube amp. The overdrive is very transparent. It produces a very nice sound and response well if you adjust the settings. worth buying!

The Best OD ever!

I have V1, and V3. I use the V1 for lighter OD with the LP mode. Fantasic light boost tone. V3 is set for more gain/mids and in HP mode. This version is close to V4(current), and I can't live with out this one. I can take this OCD and my Eric Johnson strat and be very happy.

Good things about the OCD...

VERY amp like in "feel". Works great with an amp thats breaking up some.

HP/LP mode give some very cool sounds with the HP the tighter, with more gain. LP is looser IMHO.

Not really much $ for the tone!!!!

The tone is basicly "MORE" of my amps great natural tone. No real big mid hump.

NOT a TS clone in any way.

Responds to the Volume of the guitar like a great tube amp.

Can be run up to 18v for even more tones.

Rock solid night after night on stage!!!!!!!

Works great with Humbuckers and Single Coils. Took a few tweaks with my p90 Les Paul Jr.

OCD

This pedal actually replaced my Kelley TS-808. Yes, it's that good! I highly recommend this pedal.

OCD rules

I play Rock and Metal, some neo-C leads. I've tried so many different types of overdrives and was never satisfied. I stuck it out with the ts-808 for a long time.
The OCD is not your average 808 clone.
It has its own sound, and boy is that sound sweet.
it sounds more like your amp giving you the gain than a pedal.
You get the cool o.d. harmonics with the gain knob barley on. nice clean overtones.

I've played with all 4 versions.
for me I rank them in this order:
v1-v4-v3-v2
I like the v1 the best because the mids are scooped a little compared to the others.

Lately I've been using it with a Fulltone Soul Bender fuzz. Heaven!

I will always be searching for something better but i don't think I will ever sell it.

(*Listen to Paul Gilbert(uses one)
and listen to Takayoshi Omhura - in a rough state.
best tone of '08

Fulltone OCD is great!

The Fulltone OCD is a really sweet overdrive that reallly compliments any tube amp I've used. It delivers that cutting punch you want in relation to your picking attack and after trying several different overdrives over the years this one is the one that will stay in my pedal board.

Versatile, transparent, sounds awesome

Super transparent and respond just like a tube amp to your picking dynamics. It's like adding another channel to your amp. I use it to add a little dirt to my clean and to boost the drive channel on my blackstar and this thing sounds incredible. It doesn't color your sound at all, just enhances it.

fulltone ocd

Great blues -rock overdrive!,built solid,true bypass,hand made in California,the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because nothing is perfect.I have used it at 2gigs so far no problem,I play blues and blues rock,it's perfect for that seven tone,great pedal,great service,I have been a sweetwater customer for awhile now,and the service is great everyone is very knowledgeable!,I don't go anywhere else

Amazingly Versatile

I think it's normal to be slightly disappointed after purchasing something with this much hype surrounding it, but like so many others, this pedal has won me over.

I was looking for a drive pedal that would contrast my TS9. The OCD definitely does that, and so much more. It's not nearly as mid-heavy, nor does it color the sound as much as the TS. The subtleties of my strat stay in tact, without substantially cutting or boosting the spectrum. It also reacts pretty much the same way as a tube amp to softer dynamics and rolling back the volume knob. I love the classic sound of my Ibanez, but it seems that the OCD can do pretty much everything else. You can get incredibly specific with this pedal, from clean boost to huge overdrive, and most every sound in between sounds great.

There's also a lot to be said for how well this pedal can drive a tube amp at low volume. This is useful not only for practicing, but for any gig where your amp can't be too loud, but you don't want it to sound wimpy (in my case, mostly church services). If your miking the cab at low volumes and being mixed into a system, this functions as a boost just fine.

I can't speak for how well this pedal works with solid state amps, but through my Fender it really sounds fantastic. If you're a metal player, this is probably not the pedal for you, but I'd highly recommend for just about every other genre. This is really a useful, well-made piece of equipment at a moderate price.

Outstanding overdrive pedal

Many people are critical of the "Fulltone hype machine." However this pedal truly lives up to all of the praise it's received.

I've played this pedal through my Vox AC-15CC and it is a complete monster. If you roll the drive back all the way and crank the volume pot, it serves as a great clean boost. With the volume about 12 o'clock and the drive at 3, flip the toggle to HP and you can get amazing british crunch. I'm still learning what this pedal can do and am consistently amazed at the amount of different overdriven sounds that I can get out of it.

If you are looking for a distortion pedal that will serve you well for Death, Grind, thrash, etc then I would recommend looking elsewhere. But if you are looking for more of that NWOBHM sound (which I was when I bought this) don't hesitate and buy this.

Great Overdrive...But...

I'm going to play devil's advocate here just for the sake of anyone who wants a slightly alternate perspective on the OCD. Let me first say that it's a great pedal for all the reasons other people have listed, but some of the things this pedal has been praised for have actually been drawbacks in my experience. My advice is to beware the "not coloring your tone" aspect of the OCD. If you find yourself favoring American voiced, compressed, or midrange-present overdrives, this may actually not be the answer to your overdrive prayers. This is a huge and saturated overdrive, as many have mentioned, like a marshall half stack, but depending on the guitar, amp, or EQ settings you use, the tone of the OCD can be very hard to use. For instance, the openness of the single coils on my Strat is something that I absolutely love when I'm playing clean. The tone is thick with bass and has a great bell tone chime in the treble. The problem is that the OCD preserves the openness while saturating it with overdrive, and the result is bass undercurrent that is wobbly and out of control and a treble that is far too biting and harsh. So unless I'm very careful about my amp and guitar settings before turning on the OCD, I end up with a tone that's pretty unusable. I think another thing worth mentioning is that this doesn't compress like a lot of other drive pedals until you turn up the drive knob pretty high, so the "fatness" that is often a side effect of compression isn't as present. My point in saying this isn't to bash the OCD because it truly is a well-built, reasonably priced, musical, and versatile overdrive. I also would imagine that the problems I'm pointing out are more prevalent with single coil guitars than those with humbuckers. Still, I think it's worth it to ask yourself whether or not you truly want your guitar's tone replicated in an overdrive. You might actually want your drive pedals to "color" the tone in certain ways.

Beautiful

This pedal is outstanding. It does NOT give you a heavy metal pound, but for heavy rhythms and REALLY beefy power chords this pedal kicks ***. as far as soloing goes and single string voicing it is not as effective. If you are looking for a ripping solo you should stick true to the amps distortion for sure. The thing that I simply admire in the OCD is that they took out the EQ equation and leave you with your "True" tone only its now punching you in the face. Killer pedal. Every rock band needs one.