Saturday, December 15, 2018

OVERDRIVE- FULLTONE Plimsoul from Tube Screamer to Metal it does it all ...but how well???

$135.00 USD
 FULLTONE PLIMSOUL 
If it's not broke don't fix it. this pedal has been with us since 2010.
in pedal world this is an antique. lol
Basically it has both a hard and soft clipping function and you can blend the two.
To do everything it can do you would need 3 pedals. One for low gain one for medium gain and one for high gain.
I find 2 things that keep me away from it. No pedal that I have found does 3 perfect sounds ...and I often want all three gain type sounds in a single tune.
So why is still popular???  Many players find that one sound they love on it and simply buy more OD's.
Then there are the hobbyists that will set it to a different sound every time they use it and just have fun with it.
The price is damn cheap so it can easily have a place in anyone's arsenal and only represent one of several choices.

CONCLUSION
I find the overall sound to be mediocre. For high gain you can get a Giovanni Axcess Mystic Drive, a Joyo Ultimate Drive (perfect OCD clone) medium gain crunch and any of a number of good cheap Tube Screamer type pedals for low gain. You get all three for the same total price of just the one Plimsoul.
You then have 3 pedals that are better at doing the one thing each excels in. 
Best of all you have three pedals!!! :-)

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