The Fulltone Custom Shop CS-Ranger. The greatest Rangemaster treble booster clone ever?

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Anyone who's had the pleasure of turning a tube-amp all the way up knows all too well just how good their sound can get. Hit a chord and you're not just hearing notes any more, but a rich tapestry of complex overtones. If you have a good ear, you could even sing along to them... Pull the volume of your guitar down, and all of the character and natural tone of your instrument is given full presence and clarity. A little more compact, much lighter, and maybe a little less unruly than a valve amp but able to do all of the above, is the Fulltone OCD overdrive. This legend of a pedal is now available with a limited edition Candy Apple Red paint-job.

The Wide Open, OCD Sound
With other, merely-mortal overdrive pedals, you're often forced to sacrifice a mass of dynamics and run the risk of suffocating your tone with a flat-sounding blanket. The remarkably open sounding Fulltone OCD, however, is gifted with an awesome dynamic response and colours everything in with rich and sparkling overtones, just like any great amplifier. Ultimately, this incredibly durable stompbox retains the actual sound of your guitar with an insane level of sensitivity - just try the LP (low peak) setting and you'll immediately understand what we mean.

Fulltone Pedals
Fulltone have been crafting effects since 1991 when the company was first founded by guitarist and composer, Michael Fuller. From the start, the goal of this uncompromising tone factory was to offer vintage-style stompboxes able to shape deliciously fat and warm, yet silent sound alongside ultra-affordable build-quality. Every awesome and often revered example of a Fulltone pedal is finished with a true bypass circuit to guarantee flawless performance and has been handmade with care and affection to provide attainable yet long-lasting playing pleasure.

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Custom Shop OCD (Red)

The OCD pedal is the only pedal that uses 2 x Mosfets configured as hard-clipping to 'Voltage reference" instead of the usual way: to ground." The earliest OCDs used 2 x Mosfets plus 1 x Germanium diode, but very quickly these diodes became harder and harder to find, and they became expensive.

Recently I stumbled across a reasonably large stash of the right kind of Germanium diodes so I ponied-up and bought all of them. So I decided to do a run of the ultimate OCD: a Custom Shop offering with a few circuit tweaks using 2 x Mosfets plus 2 x Germanium diodes, and one hell of a beautiful paint job... Metallic Teal with a chrome undercoat! This beauty morphs between blues and greens depending on the light and angle. And what would the ultimate OCD be without a Blue LED? The sound? Great definition, more tube-like feel, a bit wider dynamic range, more sustain, and a more focused single-note tone. And as with all Fulltone pedals... 100% Built in the USA.

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Der Fulltone Fat Boost FB-3 verbindet die Vorteile der beiden Vorgängerversionen. Der Class A FET (Feldeffekt-Transistor) gesteuerte Schaltkreis des Fat Boost erlaubt eine Verstärkung des Signals um bis zu 35db ohne den ganz persönlichen Charakter des Instruments zu verändern. Weiterhin besteht die Möglichkeit, den Sound anzudicken oder aber transparenter werden zu lassen. Der Fat Boost verfügt über einen True-Bypass Schalter und eine spezielle LED mit 180 Grad Linse, die es ermöglicht den eingeschalteten Zustand des Gerätes von fast jedem Winkel zu erkennen. Der Fat Boost harmoniert sehr gut mit Vintage Amps, um sie früher in die Sättigung zu bringen. Auch Master-Volume Amps können härter angesteuert werden als es nur mit der Gitarre alleine möglich wäre. Ob Bass oder Akustikgitarren mit Tonabnehmer - der Fat Boost ist der perfekte Partner. Der FB-3 fügt sich somit nahtlos in jede Signalkette ein.

The Fulltone Fat-Boost 3 is a Discrete, Class-A, FET (Field-Effect-Transistor) pedal offering up to 35dB of non-distorted Gain without changing your signature sound ...unless you so desire You can fatten/distort your tone, brighten or mellow up the sound, add or subtract Bass, and add even-order harmonics! The FB-3 has True-Bypass switching (using the finest switch made, the Fulltone 3PDT) and incorporates a super-bright LED without the loud popping sound thanks to our proprietary anti-pop circuitry.

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Fat-Boost FB-3

The CS-ABY-ST is now the "v2," is now Black , still the best ABY switcher in the world, and just got a LOT smaller!

The CS-ABY-ST V2 has silent soft switches. No pops, no ticks, and no electrocutions, thanks to a Nickel core custom-wound 1:1 transformer that doesn't boost the treble frequencies like the "industry standard" transformer does, so fuzzes played through the True-Path sound round and distortions don't sound strident. I can hear it, so can you.

Using the most advanced 4 opto switching system ever, yet also offering the purest signal. I developed our photocells over the last year with a rather patient optocoupler manufacturer (Thanks Fred), and my cells only have around only 50 ohms series resistance compared to the Vactecs (which all other optocoupler switchers use) offering a whopping 300-400 ohms of series resistance to your guitar's signal. I can hear 300 ohms... you can hear 300-400 ohms.

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