NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Picked this up from Christchurch RS today. Ordered in by the very helpful Diane (hope I've got her name right).

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These are my sort of tones.

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How have you found it??
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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Still sitting on my desk... Was a long drive home and there's two kids to settle. Will give it a good work-out tomorrow.

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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diana,you were nearly right mate!

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Sounds really nice thru the DRRI
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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Sounds really nice, are these more expensive than the Fulltone V2?

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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I thought that was an ol' lady at first :bummed:

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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I thought you didn't like pedals Molly???

It does sound nice in the clip. And yeah, get a haircut dude!
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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Cdog wrote:Sounds really nice thru the DRRI
Sorry, what's the DRRI?
Reg18 wrote:Sounds really nice, are these more expensive than the Fulltone V2?
Think they're the same price. Not sure. RS has this one at $239 right now.
Conway wrote:I thought you didn't like pedals Molly???
As a rule I'd rather get the sound through the amp but it seems the spectrum of what can be achieved with one volume control and a single channel valve amp is either clean-to-overdriven or overdriven-to-nice lead sound. Always seems necessary to add a pedal in those situations but most I've tried seem harsh.

Don't need an overdrive with the Boogie or Splawn because they've got it all covered but what I'm looking for is a very dynamic, low wattage valve amp that's as simple and reliable as an anvil. The crunch channel on the Boogie gets most of the way there I suppose but it's a tank of a thing (f'k knows what they make them from). Might flick it on.

Anyway, the pedal seems to have what I want so it's a keeper. :thumbup:

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Delux Reverb Re-Issue :)
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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Ah... Ta

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Do these things do high-ish gain, or strictly in the Tubescreamer realm?

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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I suspect not. I think of Tubescreamers as high-gain...

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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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Molly wrote:I suspect not. I think of Tubescreamers as high-gain...
:lol: Whereas I consider them basically a clean boost.

Yeah didn't see anything in that vid that would interest the high gain crowd. Sounded good, but not high gain.
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Re: NPD: Fulltone Full-Drive 3

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But surely if you stick the boost before the gain and boost the crap out of it, it does "distortion"?

Imma have to check some vids.

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