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Heavy_Soul and the Fulldrive 2 - A Heart-wrenching Tale of Love Between Man and (sort of) Machine.

This one day when I was a wee lad, I saw a video of Death Cab playing live, Chris Walla was using a wonderfully simple rig of a '52 Tele RI into a Fulldrive 2 + Keeley AD9 into an Orange Tiny Terror and it sounded fucking glorious! So sparkly, so dynamic, so... beautiful. Being young and naive at the time, and also possessing myself a Telecaster (of the same colour but unfortunately not model) I pulled the trigger on one, blowing basically a full months paycheck of my shitty Saturday job that I had at the time. During this period of my life I had a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe in Tweed. I got the Fulldrive 2 in the post and was about as excited as I had ever been for some piece of guitar gear, I plugged it in and it sounded horrible. I never sold it because it was an expensive purchase for me (at the time - oh how things have changed!) some months later I managed to sell my Hot Rod deluxe and I got a Vox AC30, this time I plugged in the Fulldrive 2 and MY GOD! Never had anything in my hands sounded so sweet, so sparkley and dynamic... so much like that tone I remember from watching Death Cab. Anyway, me and my Fulldrive got along amazingly, using the Overdrive side as my basic sound, picking soft for clean and smacking it like a bitch for breakup, then kicking the boost for adequate raunch levels, it worked like an absolute dream and I loved it.

Sometime later I came into a JTM45 with a 2x12 Greenback cabinet. It was the Hot Rod all over again, the Fulldrive sounded farty and loose going through the JTM45 and because I loved the JTM45 so much, I finally let my beloved Fulldrive 2 go in a trade on these very forums. I have since fallen heavily out of love with my JTM45 and it has been sold, it was too big, beautiful but big, kinda like Oprah. Anyway, since I was going back to my AC30, I yearned for another Fulldrive 2. Eventually I got one and I have never felt more elated, it is the tone that I call 'my own' and from this day forth I shall never let go of it. Ever... Maybe.

Heavy_Soul wrote:Heavy_Soul and the Fulldrive 2 - A Heart-wrenching Tale of Love Between Man and (sort of) Machine.

This one day when I was a wee lad, I saw a video of Death Cab playing live, Chris Walla was using a wonderfully simple rig of a '52 Tele RI into a Fulldrive 2 + Keeley AD9 into an Orange Tiny Terror and it sounded fucking glorious! So sparkly, so dynamic, so... beautiful. Being young and naive at the time, and also possessing myself a Telecaster (of the same colour but unfortunately not model) I pulled the trigger on one, blowing basically a full months paycheck of my shitty Saturday job that I had at the time. During this period of my life I had a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe in Tweed. I got the Fulldrive 2 in the post and was about as excited as I had ever been for some piece of guitar gear, I plugged it in and it sounded horrible. I never sold it because it was an expensive purchase for me (at the time - oh how things have changed!) some months later I managed to sell my Hot Rod deluxe and I got a Vox AC30, this time I plugged in the Fulldrive 2 and MY GOD! Never had anything in my hands sounded so sweet, so sparkley and dynamic... so much like that tone I remember from watching Death Cab. Anyway, me and my Fulldrive got along amazingly, using the Overdrive side as my basic sound, picking soft for clean and smacking it like a bitch for breakup, then kicking the boost for adequate raunch levels, it worked like an absolute dream and I loved it.

Sometime later I came into a JTM45 with a 2x12 Greenback cabinet. It was the Hot Rod all over again, the Fulldrive sounded farty and loose going through the JTM45 and because I loved the JTM45 so much, I finally let my beloved Fulldrive 2 go in a trade on these very forums. I have since fallen heavily out of love with my JTM45 and it has been sold, it was too big, beautiful but big, kinda like Oprah. Anyway, since I was going back to my AC30, I yearned for another Fulldrive 2. Eventually I got one and I have never felt more elated, it is the tone that I call 'my own' and from this day forth I shall never let go of it. Ever... Maybe.

Never played a fullrive but I tried my friend's bass fulldrive and it was a pretty amazing bass OD.

i've always considered trying it but because of the varying reaction to different amps i'm hesitating

It really loves a bright amp, a lot

so it would probably be THE SHIT with my amp

I tried the Tone Reaper on the 9V power supply again the other day and liked it better, having finally found the sweet spots in the balance between Fuzz and Tone that i like, and so i rearranged all my dirtz into a more logical low- to high-gain array that allows me to use the Hi Five to match the guitar input levels at the front of the chain:

Hi 5 -> D+ -> Tone Reaper -> Algal Bloom -> 3-knob Great Wall

when i first got the Tone Reaper i was using it with the gain cranked way the hell up (above 85%); i'm now starting to use it more in the 40-70% range, where it acts more like the Overdrive from Hell and gives me more of the Ronno sound i crave. i also seem to like the GW better this week with the Starve turned way down.