Now stop moaning! :o)
Info from Fulltone about the original:
For many, many years you’ve basically had 2 choices for your
Overdrive/Distortion pedals: You could either get “Soft-clipped” Bluesy,
slightly compressed, (Toob Screemer, FD2, etc.) type Overdrive
pedals… or you could get “Hard-Clipped” (OCD, Distortion+, Boss DS-1,
etc.) type Distortion pedals.
Overdrive/Distortion pedals: You could either get “Soft-clipped” Bluesy,
slightly compressed, (Toob Screemer, FD2, etc.) type Overdrive
pedals… or you could get “Hard-Clipped” (OCD, Distortion+, Boss DS-1,
etc.) type Distortion pedals.
What if there was a pedal that offered both? There is now… the Patent Pending Fulltone PlimSoul.
PlimSoul has those Softer Bluesey, Compressed capabilities but also
has a Second Stage that you can roll in with the turn of a little dial
to add that firmer, crunchier, British output tube style Distortion!
What’s more is you not only hear and feel it… you can SEE the pedal
reacting to your every mood via a firey LED that glows brighter and
dimmer depending on how distorted it is and how hard you’re hitting it.
has a Second Stage that you can roll in with the turn of a little dial
to add that firmer, crunchier, British output tube style Distortion!
What’s more is you not only hear and feel it… you can SEE the pedal
reacting to your every mood via a firey LED that glows brighter and
dimmer depending on how distorted it is and how hard you’re hitting it.
Touch sensitive? Doesn’t get any better.
Clean up with the guitar’s volume control? More than any, yes, even more than the OCD.
Speaking of OCD, people ask “What’s the comparison?” Easy answer: OCD
has an honest flat EQ, won’t change your amp’s tone. PlimSoul has a
gorgeous enhanced Midrange and Lower midrange… excellent to transform a
combo into a Marshall-like lead machine, not so necessary if you
already have a Marshall-like amp. I use PlimSoul on any combo, I use my
OCD on both combos and larger Marshall-style amps/cabinets.
has an honest flat EQ, won’t change your amp’s tone. PlimSoul has a
gorgeous enhanced Midrange and Lower midrange… excellent to transform a
combo into a Marshall-like lead machine, not so necessary if you
already have a Marshall-like amp. I use PlimSoul on any combo, I use my
OCD on both combos and larger Marshall-style amps/cabinets.
Good with Humbuckers as well as Single coils? Yep.
Does it play nice with other pedals? Yes, it has an Ideal 500K Input Impedance, ideal super low 10K output impedance.
Can I blend the 2 types of Distortion? Yes, and you can have ONLY Soft clipped or ONLY Hard Clipped 🙂
In a Nutshell? Extremely good Sustain/Feedback qualities, just the
right amount of Mids, bottom, Great touch sensitivity, dynamics, and all
those in-between shades available when you know how to use your
guitar’s volume control. I guess I should be flattered, I’m already
starting to see pedal builders taking notice and “getting inspired” by
the PlimSoul’s unique design, which combines independently adjustable
soft & hard clipping and successfully emulates the “sag” and other
behaviors associated with a tube amp’s output section and tube
rectifier. With the OCD, I gooped the pcb for 5 years or so to slow them
down, but you’re now seeing a handful of “OCD inspired” pedals being
sold under various names. Now I’m seeing Photoshop renderings popping up
from other makers claiming to be developing “emulates output tube
distortion” pedals ala Plimsoul. I didn’t bother gooping the PlimSoul,
but we are well into the Patent process. 🙂
right amount of Mids, bottom, Great touch sensitivity, dynamics, and all
those in-between shades available when you know how to use your
guitar’s volume control. I guess I should be flattered, I’m already
starting to see pedal builders taking notice and “getting inspired” by
the PlimSoul’s unique design, which combines independently adjustable
soft & hard clipping and successfully emulates the “sag” and other
behaviors associated with a tube amp’s output section and tube
rectifier. With the OCD, I gooped the pcb for 5 years or so to slow them
down, but you’re now seeing a handful of “OCD inspired” pedals being
sold under various names. Now I’m seeing Photoshop renderings popping up
from other makers claiming to be developing “emulates output tube
distortion” pedals ala Plimsoul. I didn’t bother gooping the PlimSoul,
but we are well into the Patent process. 🙂
Not sure exactly how they’re hoping to get one seeing as this is basically a Rat and Tubescreamer hybrid (with the two high pass filters at the inverting input of the first opamp – exactly like a Rat) and the pot to control the hard clipping was done by Jack Orman years ago (AMZ saturation control), not to mention dual pot gain control used by Maxon and Klon. But if they do it will be interesting to see details of the first court case where Fuller tries to defend the technologies he’s taken from other very well documented sources.
