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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

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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. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Fulltone products.

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Sound: Just good distortion and OD in one solid pedal. The distortion is esentially modern but I mean that in a good way. A litte fuzzy but its a good fuzz. Not harsh at all. The overdrive is to die for. The best of vintage and modern OD sounds rolled into one. Responds extreemly well to the touch of your guitar, tone and volume controls. Very expressive pedal. Feature: This is really why I bought the thing. Not becuase I want to stand on stage, stoop down and tweak it all the time but because I can tweak it to my sound with great ease then set it and forget it. Every single nob and switch on this thing does what it supposed to. The center freq and Q choice on the tone control is perfection. Ease of Use: I mean this is a fairle complex pedal but yet hard to screw up because there are very few places that you can turn a knob that does something ugly. Quality: Nice box, nice build, nice paint. Top quality switches and pots. Value: Are you kidding. Boutique level quality for way less than $200? Very few pedals are in this class and American made at that Manufacturer Support: Have not delt with so I think it is only fair to give it a 10 so as not to bring down the overall rating. The Wow Factor: Hell Yes! Overall: Just buy it! Do yourself a favor and stop trying to get that tone with $40 - $70 pedals. Not gonna happen. But this thing will get you were you want to go for not too much dough

Style of Music: All over the map

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Sound: This pedal sounds great, just like so many people say. You can't go wrong with any of the Fulltone overdrives. The ocd is really good, the plimsoul is too, but this one does more, it is like 2 pedals in 1. Great harmonics and cleans up nice when you back down the vol on yer guitar. Feature: You can run them together, put od before dist. or dist. before od. All the knobs do something. Top quality components. Built like a tank. Ease of Use: Sounded good the first day, a week later I really can get so many great sounds by setting it different. Quality: They have earned a good reputation with their quality. This seems to be top quality to me. Value: This is both a great short term and long term investment. I thought about a Nova System multi effects from TC, but realized in a few years, I will be glad I spent a little extra on quality pedals that will last longer and hold their value better. Manufacturer Support: never needed support yet Overall: Love this pedal! 90% of people who don't like this pedal probably can't play very well or don't know how to properly use a quality overdrive/distortion pedal.

Style of Music: rock, blues, country,

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