Thanks! What version of the OCD are you using? How is the bottom on your version on your setting? And if you could get a chance to record some clips I would be curious to see what kind of sounds other people are able to get from the OCD. I'm also curious as to how much better the earlier versions were able to hold the bottom, because like I said I have read that the v4 has some mods to make it have less bass.
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Fulltone OCD v4 SOUNDCLIPS
- Thread starter Mark Olson
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I can make a clip, but not right now because I have my pedalboard at the studio and I can´t get ther before thursday or so..
here´s a link to the versions of the ocd:
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I´d also really like to hear the older versions...
here´s a link to the versions of the ocd:
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I´d also really like to hear the older versions...
No problem on the clips, if you just get a chance sometime i just think it would be neat to compare. And yeah, those older versions may have been more bass friendly, which intriguies me... too
In case I hadn't made it abundantly clear with the dozens of samples I've done on this forum, especially those with just the SG Bass's Bridge Pickup but also those with a Jazz Bass too on occasion it is my goal to a achieve that "guitar-like" sound if you will call it through using the pickup selections, playing technique, and pedals I demo. Yeah, it's intentional. But for those not hip to breaking the bounds of the traditional role of the bass guitar I will sometimes do some meaty jazz bass clips, like those found earliear in this thread that might better offer what it is that you'll be looking for.
Ok now that I'm not all messed up on prescription drugs, lets try this again. I did a couple more clips, more "bass-like" clips, this time with the SG Bass again for tons of gain, but this time I'm using both pickups, the guitarlike as everyone has seemed to notice bridge pickup AND the neck mudbucker, which I think gives a pretty massive sound. Here's with the OCD cranked and the bass at full volume:
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Then I roll back on my Ernie Ball Passive Jr. a little bit which cleans up the OCD a lot for an overdriven tone:
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So I think I've bled everyone dry for opinions but if anyone has any comments on these two newest clips feel free to share! Thanks.
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Then I roll back on my Ernie Ball Passive Jr. a little bit which cleans up the OCD a lot for an overdriven tone:
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So I think I've bled everyone dry for opinions but if anyone has any comments on these two newest clips feel free to share! Thanks.
Very Bruce like, excelent for power trios... I dig your Bass as well been gasing for one since I saw Cream...
I actually like my SG Bass more than my Jazz Bass. With both pickups the SG sounds a lot fatter to me than the Jazz; rounds out the sound of my band more, and if I turn the neck pickup down I get that guitarish sound from the bridge pickup which is really cool for leads or chordal rhythm parts that need clarity.
It's an original band with a classic rock/grunge oriented sound. The Jazz Bass makes an obvious choice for that kind of band, but I still find I like the way the SG fills out the bottom of the mix a little better with it's thick sounding neck pickup. For now we do have 2 guitar players in my band, so most of the time I use the SG Bass with both pickups full blast, which is kind of the opposite sound of what I use in a lot of my soundclips. But the distorted tone fills out the mix better I think, as long as you keep the bottom in with it, and I often get the chance to use my techniques to fill things up when the guitars are doing sparse parts or of soloing or too busy singing to play or whatever.
True dat!
Mark, have you tried stacking one pedal into the other?
e.g. OCD > BoR (with only boost engaged), or the reverse.
Especially for lead tones, I find this to be most beneficial, rather than relying on one pedal to do it all. Let me know what you think.
I do use a pick in my band, more and more so as I get better with a pick, but the truth is that I'm not a very proficient pick player, so there are still some difficult songs where I revert to the old fingerstyle playing. But with most dirtboxes I prefer the response I get out of them with pick playing, and since I'm using a dirty sound 99% of the time in this band, I try to use a pick for everything I can pull off with it.
But on the other side of that I do do occasional other side gigs doing things like acoustic shows or reggae or whatnot, for which I'll mostly use a clean sound and will then mostly use fingerstyle playing. So I guess you could say the technique I'll use is governed by the results I want to achieve and what I feel will best fit the music that I'm playing.
I do stack certain pedals. For awhile there I was using my Analogman Bass Beano Boost into the Box of Rock with the Box of Rock set at my moderately overdriven "rhythm" setting and kicking on the Treble Booster in front of it gives a much more distorted and sustaining lead tone. That's a really good combo I think. But of other pedals, like the OCD or when I was using an Analogman Sun Face for leads, I prefer them alone because with the Box of Rock set at a moderate gain setting it does tend to cut the highs of other fuzzes/overdrives in front of it. More recently I was using the Box of Rock for more of a light overdrive sound, and when I stack the OCD for example with it it didn't seem to cut the treble as much at that setting, and I could definitely get away with stacking the OCD and Box of Rock at those settings, but I really like the OCD by itself and I feel where I set it, with the drive at max, it provides enough distortion for me on it's own for the lead tones I like. So I guess you could say I was keeping the Box of Rock and OCD on my board, the Box of Rock for the "rhythm" sound, the OCD for the "leads".
In case anyone didn't see these, I thought I'd update this thread with two OC2 -> OCD clips. First with the jazz:
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And even meaner with the SG:
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That clip with the SG is particularly badass.
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And even meaner with the SG:
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That clip with the SG is particularly badass.
The clips with the OC-2 and the OCD sound great!
I haven't been able to hear the other clips though. The links take me to ebaumsworld for some reason!
I haven't been able to hear the other clips though. The links take me to ebaumsworld for some reason!
All those links are dead and the files are lost. I could borrow my brother's OCD and do more clips, but I don't really want to... I'm strictly a fuzz pedal guy with overdrive and distortion coming from my amps now. Gives me what the OCD didn't, more character; the OCD doesn't have so much character of it's own, but with a growly bass it can definitely enhance that growl.
