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Fulltone GT500 Distortion and Booster Pedal

Discrete F.E.T Hi-Gain Distortion and Overdrive Booster in one pedal.

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The Fulltone GT500 Dual Distortion/Booster Pedal gives you discrete F.E.T Hi-Gain Distortion and Overdrive Booster IN ONE PEDAL. On the Hi-Gain side you get Volume, Distortion knobs, Bass, Mid, and Highs minipots. The Booster Side has Volume, Overdrive knobs, Bass and Highs minipots. These hi-Q sealed minipots don't break either!

Most pedals achieve distortion with hard clipped distortion which can be cool, but stage after stage of FET (GT-500) is very real, very amplike, and has ridiculous amounts of sustain even at low volume. It does the great chunky low string rhythm stuff and cleans up incredibly well when you turn down the guitar's volume. The GT500 contains 9 x FET's, 2 Mosfets and 1 x Transistor with no opamps or clipping diodes used.

What's special about the EQ?
The Hi-Gain side has a discrete Inductor-Driven Midrange circuit... never been done in a pedal before. Yes there's a wah wah inductor inside the pedal that gives the Midrange control its ability to drastically increase or decrease the entire Low Mid, Mid, and Hi-Mid frequencies, to comical proportions. All this is done without any opamps because all of the active 3 Band EQ's Fulltone's designers had tried were horrible, killing all harmonics, all excitement, and sounding as sterile as the EQ in a Digital Recording Program. Nope, this has 100% discrete matched FET's.

This Mid control mixed with a strong Bass and Treble control help give the GT-500 the ability to dial in more variations than a simple tone control, which can only roll off the Highs.

What's the Series switch in the middle do?
The Series Select Switch allows you to choose which pedal comes first (allowing you to instantly change the order of the 2 circuits)

Booster to Distortion

or

Distortion to Booster

For example: A Clean Boost slamming into the front end of a Distortion sounds way different than a Distortion followed by the clean Boost...and when the EQ's of the respective sides come into play, it's a wide open canvas. Regardless of which side of the pedal is designated as first in line you can still use each side by itself, completely independent of the other side.
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Hi-Gain distortion and clean-boost/overdrive in one boutique-quality pedal. The Fulltone GT500 sure is full of tone, thanks to its cascading FET distortion circuit that emulates the complexity of true amp gain. Both "halves" of the pedal can be used individually or in series -- you can even rearrange their virtual order! Separate EQ for each effect!
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Fulltone GT500 Distortion and Booster Pedal Reviews

3 People rated this product :
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"Only buy this pedal if you wanna sound AWESOME!!!"
Feature:
This is the kitchen sink pedal. It has everything you could ask for in an overdrive / distortion pedal.

Quality:
This thing is a work of art. I believe it could take a bullet and keep working.

Value:
I have paid more for a lot less. I would expect to pay this much for a single function distortion pedal and with this you get the bonus of a very good overdrive. It is killer.

Desirability:
From the sexy knobs and killer paint job it is an eye catching effect. The unique shape will gather all of the other pedal snobs to your board in droves.

Sound:
The booster side of this pedal is similar to the Fulldrive II with more gain and better tone control. The distortion side is way over the top. High gain and so loud. It's awesome. It sounds so good it makes you want to play loud. I am running it at 18 volts and the difference in clarity in like night and day. It seems good for a nice subtle clip or an insane gain monster. Running them together makes this one of the most dynamic and useful pedals I have ever owned. This thing should be twice the money.

Ease of Use:
The mid-range control on the overdrive side takes a little getting use to other than that it is pretty straight forward.

Support:
I have never needed them before but even the website has a ton of information to help you out.

Overall:
It is a very desirable pedal with a high quality build and exceptional tone. Flexible and a very small foot print so it will fit on most pedalboards with ease. This pedal should be $300.

Submitted: 03/29/2009
Style of Music: rock cover band
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