Fulltone OCD alternatives

uncledick

Looking for something to pair with an AC15 and I'm very taken with the OCD sound.  Are there any others I should be considering in that tonal ball-park? Tubescreamers sound too muddy with Vox amps in my opinion.

simonk

Vick Audio Tree of Life would be my recommendation.

jpttaylor

DOD 250 - sounds glorious through my AC-30

johnhe

The Keeley BD2 is very close to the OCD. Both clean up very well and do low gain tones extremely well.

GavRichList

Crowther Hotcake is genuinely the only answer here. 

builttospill

GavRichList said:

Crowther Hotcake is genuinely the only answer here. 

And there's quite a few of these in the classifieds including mine!

danban

I had an OCD but there was a funny annoying mid freq I noticed but now I used a Rat which I far prefer!

crunchman

OCD works better with some amps than others.  It's been my go to pedal for my Lazy J for years, but with a Princeton it's not so good.  The mids are quite flat so I think it works better with an amp that has more mids rather than black/silverface Fender.

JonHosker

thanks for the OCD thoughts....my Carr Sportsman needs a drive pedal, and was thinking OCD, but now maybe someting else....

uncledick

crunchman said:

OCD works better with some amps than others.  It's been my go to pedal for my Lazy J for years, but with a Princeton it's not so good.  The mids are quite flat so I think it works better with an amp that has more mids rather than black/silverface Fender.

That's what pushed me towards the OCD to go with my AC15.  When you push the amp, it can be quite 'middy'.  That's probably the cab as much as the amp but when I tried a TS, it turned to mush.

57Deluxe

Still love the DANO Cool Cat Drive (V1) - it really does do the biz... Oh and it's sibiling the Transparent Drive also has some sweet sweet tones

TimmyO

If you really want an OCD then the obvious alternative is to go through a bunch of other pedals trying to get one that's really like an OCD, and then buy an OCD. 

That's always been the way it's gone for me when trying to get clever with these things  

blobb

Joyo Ultimate Drive is a cheap substitute by all accounts. I haven't run my Joyo alongside a real OCD so can't comment on that but, standalone, it does a pretty good job for pocket money.

BigRedOne

I'm with @TimmyO - the simplest answer is to get an OCD - they come up used quite a lot and they sound great and are surprisingly versatile.

ThePrettyDamned

I tried an ocd into my ac15 and it didn't sound very good. 

I use a boss ds-2 in crunch mode occasionally and it works well, but mostly in turbo mode as a fuzz. For the most part I get crunch from a boss df-2. I tried a rat (courtesy of @juansolo) and it was very good, low gain or high. Ultimately didn't hit the spot in the same way the boss distortions did. 

Ac15s are fussy buggers. I'd recommend trying loads out until you find one you like.