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Fulltone Soul-Bender

Fulltone Soul-Bender

  1. Name: Pot Bellied Stallion

  2. Band: myself

  3. Model Year: 1999

  4. Price Paid: $205

  5. Performance

  6. This pedal seems have a sweet spot with each of the controls. The volume needs to be 3/4 the on the tone needs to either at 11 or 1 o:clock. Depending on single coil or humbucker, the gain needs to be 3/4 of the way on or all the way. I play an ESP Edwards Jimmy Page Les Paul that has been totally upgraded with burst bucker 1& 2 with wiring harness and tone pots pulled from a 2007 r9 les paul and the 3way and jack are switchcraft. The other mods are tone pros bridge with anchors and 1968 grover patent pending tuners. The internal trim pot needs to be turned all the way to the right. In my way of thinking if it is a fuzz then make it a fuzz. Like my les paul I made it a les paul. I had a sola sound tine bender it was great but it seemed to be all over the place, out of contro,l where this pedal seems to sound like the sola sound but better balanced tone. Yeah, I still wish I had the sola sound but it's history. I also like the fulldrive 2 but with a 10k gain resistor instead of 4.6 or 4.7 they put in it.

  7. Performance Rating: 9

  8. Sound Quality

  9. It actually better sounding that I thought would be mainly because of the trim adjustment. It sounds more like Hendrix than zeppelin to my ears.

  10. Sound Quality Rating: 9

  11. Construction

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  13. Construction Rating: 10

  1. Name: Keenan L.

  2. Band: Treehorn

  3. Model Year: -----

  4. Price Paid: $108 via Fulltone website

  5. Performance

  6. The pedal is like most distortion units, with knobs for tone, volume, and distortion level (called “dirt” on this pedal.) It’s also got an internal trim pot if you desire a more square tone. I ended up turning the pot all the way to the right (most square.) It’s really easy to use. The only thing I don’t like is having to unscrew the bottom plate to get to the trim pot. That’s really not a huge deal, though.

  7. Performance Rating: 9

  8. Sound Quality

  9. I’m a tweaker, and boy did I have a field day with this one! I’ve played it so far only through the clean channel of a Fender Roc Pro, which is pretty close to most clean Fender channels. I found myself getting great Cream-era Clapton sounds from this baby through my Les Paul. Add a strat with the neck pickup engaged and bass up the tone on the pedal, and you can get frighteningly close to Eric Johnson’s “violin tone.” (Which is scary, considering the amount of work that wonderful man puts into getting his tone. But remember: I said “close.”) You can get just about any kind of vintage distortion sound that you want out of it. But... this is not by any means an effect that a metal distortion purist would embrace. Clapton and Hendrix fans rejoice.

  10. Sound Quality Rating: 10

  11. Construction

  12. I haven’t had any problems with it, but I’ve only used it for about 2 months now. It’s got an all steel chassis, and I’ve found it to be ruggedly constructed. I’ve read about the switch on them breaking easily, but Mike Fuller must have fixed that problem because I don’t know if I could get it broken with a sledge hammer. Though I’ve been wrong before.

  13. Construction Rating: 10

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  1. Average Ratings
  2. Performance: 9
  3. Sound Quality: 9.5
  4. Construction: 10
  5. Ratings Key
  6. 10: Excellent
  7. 0: Useless
  8. Company
  9. Fulltone

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