Help me pick an OD

[huggernaut]

So I'm highly leaning toward the Fuck, but haven't played The Elements.

The Fuck tends toward my current trend of "less tweaking, more better", but I'm a bit concerned my knob tweaking frenzy will come back and make me want The Elements.

Any comparisons between the two?

Holy Schnikes, you've got both right?

[Holy Schnikes]

I do. I think The Elements can cop the tones of the Fuck (minus the blown out Fuck'd mode) and then some. Super versatile dirt, goes from pure clean boost to super high gain metal territory and the 3 band EQ helps you tailor it to most any setup. Lots of tweaking involved though and so many different options it's hard to settle sometimes. I use it for the high gainz or as a clean boost after my fuzz/dirt section, generally.

Like you pointed out, the Fuck is great for simplicity's sake. Sounds incredible and it's basically plug-and-play, very little tweaking involved. The gain range is great too, goes extremely high gain for an OD, approaches the Elements high gain territory but not quite as tight at these settings.

For pure OD goodness, I'd get the Fuck. If it's a super versatile do everything dirt, The Elements.

[Adoom]

The Fuck has a huge amount of tweakability, and a large number of applications to choose from. I'm sure the Elements is awesome, but I haven't played it. I can say the Fuck is the best overdrive I've heard in a pedal, and I like how unique it is. NOt a TubeScreamer etc.

[Holy Schnikes]

yea, I'm not meaning to say that the Fuck isn't tweakable, just that it sounds superb at most every setting so you don't need to spend a shitload of time and effort "dialing" it in.

[Adoom]

yea, I'm not meaning to say that the Fuck isn't tweakable, just that it sounds superb at most every setting so you don't need to spend a shitload of time and effort "dialing" it in.

I completely agree. Seriously. I saved myself a lifetime by picking it up, in my opinion.

EDIT: I don't 'flip' pedals. I research, reasearch, reasearch and only keep what I like. I go by sound entirely. I've gotten some nice stuff. My favourite purchase has been the Smallsound/Bigsound Fuck.