OCD-Ge Germanium Overdrive Effects Pedal

The Fulltone OCD pedal is the only pedal that uses two Mosfets configured as "hard clipping to Vref." The earliest OCDs used two Mosfets plus one Germanium diode, but very quickly these diodes became harder and harder to find, and they became expensive.

Recently the Fulltone Custom Shop stumbled across a reasonably large stash of the right kind of Germanium diodes so they ponied-up and bought all of them. They then decided to do a small run of the ultimate OCD: a Custom Shop offering with a few circuit tweaks, two Mosfets plus two 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 it wouldn't 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, it's 100% built in the USA.