[Fulltone]

First off there are a few things I want to cover before I dive right into a review or anything associated with it.

1. I am NOT a professional gigging musician. I am just a guitarist who plays because I want to. I am NOT being paid by Boss or any other pedal manufacture to do this. I am simply doing this so that others who are curious or want to know the potential of this pedal can get an unbias opinion (good and or bad).

2. This comparison is done with the actual counterparts or as close to the same type of pedal that I could find. Thanks to my buddy for lending me his pedal board to compare from and his time to help.

3. I will include what types of sounds you can get out of the pedal. If I say I like or dislike it I will tell you why it doesn't work for me. Keep in mind what works or doesn't for me might be the opposite for you.

4. Do to time and the fact I am still tweaking and learning setups this will be done a little each time. I will review at least 3 functions per post. After each of my post I encourage feed back and or what part you would like me to explain or go in more depth with.

5. When I refer to a review I read it was not on this site. (I hunted for reviews before consideration of this pedal). The only reason I hunted down reviews was because I felt I wanted to know more and I wanted to get a feel as to if this was a pedal for me.

Oh and one last thing I want to thank Stratrat for giving me a heads up on the initial setup. You were spot on with setting the knobs straight up it makes all initial setups much easier.

Thank You.

Here is a list of my gear the pedal is hooked to (so you get an idea):
Guitar – Johnson Strat – Replica 2005 Model – No longer in production
Amp – Behringer GM108 (You would be surprised with how it sounds!!) Everything sounds bad on it but the clean setting is crystal clear and really sounds like an amp twice the cost. (It is all I could afford at the time and for this purpose it really shines and was a shock to me).
Cables are Gig Lines from amp to pedal and from guitar to pedal I have a Peavey Cable.
I am using a Dunlop Tortex .73mm pick.

**The pedal is equipped with the optional external momentary switch.

The first score is my score with things like ease of use and actual functionallity and the second is how I feel it stacks up against its real counterpart.

Review Part 1.

I think I am going to start with my favorite, which has to be the distortion.

Ibanez (TS808) Tubescreamer (goes by Screamer on the board) - This kind of took me by surprise I guess you could say. I could not believe just how close it is to the real deal. It is not 100% dead on but it is so close I think it could fool a trained ear. If you set every know straight up and then turn the tone knob to the 3 o’clock setting and turn the noise suppressor all the way up with the tone modify to mild you get a perfect Los Lonely Boys Heaven sound. It also supports a wonderfull SRV tone as well and does it surprisingly well.

Ibanez TS808 (Screamer) – 9.75 out of 10 (Nearly perfect).
Ibanez TS808 (Screamer) – 9.5 out of 10

BD2 (Blues Driver 2) – I have to say this one was ok, I think tweaking it definitely makes a difference. I also was kind of disappointed with this one for a while it didn’t really have that creamy go for the gusto like I thought it should. It took a lot of fine tweaks and adjustments before I could actually get used to it. The blues driver was not something I had a lot of experience with and after awhile it grew on me. This could really crank out a fair amount of blues sounds, it just requires some tweaking and some adjustments of the other piggyback effects (such as the Noise Suppressor, compressor and tone modify). After tweaking it developed into it real life counterpart but still fell a little short compared to its counterpart. Time will tell though maybe it will grow with me even more. I think they could have worked a little harder on this one.

BD2 (Blues Driver) – 7.0 out of 10 (Needs some work on my end).
BD2 (Blues Driver) – 7.25 out 10.


DS1 (Distortion) – This one like the Screamer was really good out of the box with the settings all at 12 o’clock. Just a few tweaks and it really does well especially with that rock type music where an all out assault distortion is not needed. I was able to pick it up and get a Kid Rock sound (referring to his mild stuff). It also held its own very well when compared to its counterpart. This one I feel is more apt to be used much more by myself it fits with the rock music I listen to and feel as though they did good with this one. There isn’t a whole lot I can say here because it’s a basic distortion and it works and works well for those who could use it.

DS1 (Distortion) - 10 out of 10.
DS1 (Distortion) – 9.5 out of 10.

More Review Comming Soon!!