Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

An overdrive pedal needs to be a lot of things to make it as a permanent part of my pedal board. The Fulltone OCD is a versatile pedal and it has found it's way into a spot on my board on a more permanent basis. I originally purchased this pedal to be a boost/drive for the 2009 KOTB contest.

The Fulltone OCD does a clean drive very well without buzzing or extra unwanted frequencies. The OCD also does somewhat more heavy tones with the overtones of an over driven amp. Almost all overdrive pedals clean up when the volume on the guitar is rolled down, but the OCD reacts in a slightly different than I would normally expect from a distortion. Overtones are still present as the tone cleans up which leads for some real interesting tones.

I did a little clip of the OCD which goes from clean unaltered sound, with the OCD at about 20% and then the OCD at about 70% drive.

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Source http://burlapandblues.com/uploads/ocd-sample.mp3

I will keep the OCD on my acoustic pedal board to give a little kick when playing my electroacoustic or even for lead tones with the acoustic. I am now starting to see the OCD being sold at guitar centers and other online stores so it is easier to try one than it had been when it was only found at boutique dealers (at least around here). This is definitely a pedal worth trying out!