Harley Benton Ultimate Drive 5-stars Reviews

OCD on a budget

Easy to get great tone on both guitar and bass - definitely grab one

Overall pretty good

I use it to boost the sound mostly, but it gives a good and deep crunchy tone and i like it

The best for the budget

In my opinion, its the best overdrive for the budget

really good overdrive pedal.

I bought this pedal to be used as a boost pedal from my amp. After using it for a while i can say that it has a great sound and i have been using it on many of my recordings as an overdrive pedals with my clean channel and as a boost on my overdrive channel with excellent results. i do recommend this pedal and i am pleasantly surpriced

Definitely recommend this

I’ll make this nice and short. Sounds great Feels good and for the price can’t go wrong

Excellent budget alternative

This is a budget version of the famous fulltone OCD, which if I am not mistaken is now no longer in production as of 2023.

The tone is heavy, the build quality is solid, and the price is fantastic. The art decal may put some off but the tones you can get for the price will surely compensate that.

cool pedal.low price ocd

Love the dirty sound

I really like how this pedal makes my guitar sound dirty and powerful, especially for punk music.

Surprising

Rather than buying an OCD I decided to get this and few more pedals for the same price as one OCD. This thing is dirt cheap so I thought it would probably be terrible quality and sounds awful, but why not.

So you can see that I wasn't expecting anything much from the Ultimate Drive.

It's appreciate to say that something punches above its weight, but this thing really does. It sounds good, it feels sturdy and well-made.

It sounds much like OCD, unsurprisingly, and it has to true bypass.

I can honestly not find anything to complain about.

Except maybe the name, Ultimate Drive....

My favourite pedal.

We all know that this is an OCD clone.

I have never tried the OCD pedal, but this particular one is my favourite pedal for DOOM METAL. I use this in combination with the HB vintage overdrive (to boost treble and to add a bit of gain) and I bring the distortion to exact level that i like.

I does not have a lot of distortion but it has quality sound and a lot of tone control.

Great price, great pedal

Sounds verrrrry similar to the POG for a fraction of a fraction of the price. Reliable consistent sound so far using with a bass guitar, minimal background noise, and high quality finish with a wrap around metal casing. Highly recommend getting this if youre on a budget.

Simply great

This overdrive pedal is really great, especially for the price.

I use it as my main lead sound, in conjunction with lower-gain drives. It really works nice with rolling your volume knob on your guitar.

It has loads of gain even on lower gain settings, at least for my use. It does everything from lower gain Blues, to hard Rock and everything between.

I also run it at 18v, without any issues or signs of being burn. So if you have spare 18v output on your power supply, stick it there and see for yourself. In my opinion it sounds little bit fuller and bigger than on the 9v.

Great budget pedal

Bought this pedal to tighten up my sound a little bit, and it does the job pretty well.

A great pedal for a very friendly price. Just as expected: nothing fancy, basic overdrive.

I use it mainly with the gain way down, almost zero, the tone around noon, and the level almost all the way up. Sounds great with the high-low switch in either position. If I raise the gain to about 8 o'clock it gets pretty noisy, but I expected it with single coil pickups. No problem with humbuckers, tho.

Sturdy construction, not likely to break any time soon. I use it with a battery, and it seems to last pretty long. One month, and still running on the first one I put in.

I highly recommend it, and not only because of the price.

Great sound for my guitar and bass

I ordered this pedal to add some extra sound to my guitar and bass. I'm a beginner at both the guitar and bass but wanted the same sounds as some of my favorite songs have.

The pedal arrived on time and it was well packaged , no damage and even though I'm new to my instruments , I know how my favorite songs sound and I was able to get that sound with the HB Ultimate Drive. Nothing negative that I can think of

Good cheap alternative of an expensive pedal

Great to have an opportunity to play a copy of a great and expensive pedal, for that little as this one costs. Didn't try the original, but I am pretty happy with this one. I use it for a mild amp like overdrive on a clean amp, and it drives the sound the way I like. Unfortunately this effect can be obtained on a very short range of the Gain knob of this pedal.

The high gain sounds don't really impress me on this pedal, as I don't really like high gain at all, so I use it mostly with the Drive maximum to 10 o'clock.

I like that it is a buffered pedal, and using it as the first pedal in the signal chain, is really up to my liking.

I have it for many months now, and it keeps up very nice.

Less is More

I needed a pedal that could add some sugar in various scenarios. Different Instruments, pickups, pedal chains. And this has been great. For years.

Personally I think the sweet spot is at the lighter end of the low gain.

I have had eye wateringly good tones from a low Harley Benton Vintage Overdrive stacked into a low Harley Benton Ultimate Drive into Harley Benton Tube Combo with Reverb and Delay. I've used it successfully as the main beef on a octave up + 5th Bass split into a guitar amp, set-up.

I do think it could be easier to dial in, I sometimes feel like a safecracker on a shower thermostat, but that is the sacrifice for all the good stuff you are getting for the amazing price.

If and when you get one, I urge you to resist your human programming to instantly see how many wasps you can fit in the jar, (The answer is loads) and try to dial it in at the low end for the beauty. After all, Less is More.

Great for the price

Have absolutely no complaints with this. The build is really solid and all the controls feel suitably robust and well fitted. The sound is great for crunch rhythm parts offering a warm overdriven sound which also works really well for bluesy parts and solos. This isn't going to work as well for metal or screaming rock solos but there are plenty of other options out there if that's what you want. I've been using it with a separate power source but the battery option is handy, however, I would be interested to get the same thing in a smaller footprint without the battery option to get the same functionality and leave a bit more space for other effects on the pedal board.

Pretty good

It's a very nice pedal it has a very nice sound it looks good and it has protective foam underneath so it damage/scratch the surface on where you will place it

Amazing value for your money

How can i say anything bad about this OD pedal? its fasntstic, and costs 30 quid?! It bafles me how good it sounds, I use it as a boost infront of the dirty channel to tighten things up, at home with a Idcore 20 from blackstar and at rehersal infront of the orange Crush 120 combo, if youre looking to get that extra sauration and tight tone for metal this thing has you covered, it really colours the tone the way i need it in front of both amps. And even in fron th of the clean channel, with the settings the same Gain at around 1,on the orange amp in particular, it gives you that beautiful blue's breakup on the signal for that really nice spanky sound.

all in all i absolutley love ths pedal

Good pedal for the price

Good pedal. Overdrive and distortion sounded clean but muffled