Californiaman Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) I've used the Fulltone OCD overdrive for some time now. I saw that Mike and Brad (Jackson Audio) had made a batch of OCD Ge pedals and have been wanting to pick one up. So I did. Fulltone had a special if you buy an OCD pedal, you get a free shirt. You don't have to twist my arm, so I ordered one. The Ge stands for germanium, as in germanium diodes. I've been A/B'n the two and there is a slight difference. The OCD V1 is a bit brighter in the midrange, where as the OCD Ge is slightly darker in the lower mids. I can certainly hear the difference. Anyway, I got the pedal and I like it. That's what counts. A good, quality overdrive that suits my taste. Edited March 27 by Californiaman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 You should get into building your own pedals. You could make an ocd with the clipping diodes on a rotary switch and have all the options in one pedal It would have been so easy for Fulltone to put that on a switch. They probably didn’t want to modify their enclosure or PCB designs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 Yeah, I'll bet they could create a pedal with a rotary switch that engages the three main designs. From what Fuller says in his interviews, he originally had one germanium diode wired in and going to I believe V-Reference. as opposed to ground. Now he's using two Ge diodes and both go to V-Ref. instead of ground. I'm sure he's thought about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 I used a Sunset for quite a while. It was a good live overdrive. rct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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