Fulltone OCD Overdrive V2 4-stars Reviews

Hard clipping overdrive vs soft clipping overdrive

Before having this pedal, I had no idea what's the difference between hard clipping overdrive and soft clipping overdrive. And the OCD belongs to the hard clipping category. In my case I mostly use it with a tube amp, which in fact, what I needed is a tubescreamer which belongs to the soft clipping category.

The sound itself of this OCD pedal is classic and nothing wrong about that, it's just for me, personally I find this sound is more useable for a bluesy rythm context, less for other situations, not evey solos. So nowdays I use it as a boost pedal mostly, putting drive to minimum and raise volume beyond 12 o'clock.

Good for clean boost, not so good for overdrive on itself.

I got this pedal after watching loads and loads of videos and deciding I was going to go with this overdrive instead of a million other products.

I found this overdrive pedals gain structure to be quiet bass heavy and lacking high-end of the frequency spectrum.

When you use this pedal as a clean boost it the most transparent clean boost with little to no noise whatsoever but dialing in the gain is quiet painful as there is very small amount of presence in it's gain structure even in the high peak mod.

I used a compression pedal in front of OCD to find out if it will make any difference in prescence control but to get a decent amount of high frequency I had to turn the EQ knob all the way to max and turn amps treble to 3 o'clock and it was ok to my ears but nowhere near perfect.

Pros:

1) Very sturdy casing.

2) Comes with a battery inside.

3) (one of if not) the most transparent clean boost you can find!

4) Very little noise.

Cons:

1) Comic Sans font.

2) So much lows.

3) Very little highs.