Topic: Fulltone Plimsoul
I am a big fan of Fulltone pedals and am considering a Plimsoul. Anyone on here have any experience with the Plimsoul?
Re: Fulltone Plimsoul
HoosierRock wrote:
I am a big fan of Fulltone pedals and am considering a Plimsoul. Anyone on here have any experience with the Plimsoul?
Been my main OD pedal for a little over a year now. Well over 100+ gigs doing variety rock, soul, R&B, old, new, etc...It's really good at that saturated spungy lead tone or you can roll back the
Re: Fulltone Plimsoul
adcard wrote:
HoosierRock wrote:I am a big fan of Fulltone pedals and am considering a Plimsoul. Anyone on here have any experience with the Plimsoul?
Been my main OD pedal for a little over a year now. Well over 100+ gigs doing variety rock, soul, R&B, old, new, etc...It's really good at that saturated spungy lead tone or you can roll back the
For some reason the rest of my response bellow didn't post
Basically yes its a great pedal but especially for saturated lead playing. Only thing is that its a very independent pedal. Its not there to "add a touch of OD to your clean signal" or "boost your amp's OD"....It CAN do those things but thats not its main deal and you can buy plenty that do that better. No, the Plimsoul its very much its own start to finish OD so it can take some dialing in to get the sound to sit right within your overall rig. Its great for saturated spongy lead. It has plenty of drive to take a completely clean amp to that great lead level. However, if using it on top of a very clean un-driven amp its not the greatest at tight thick Overdrive power chord rhythm stuff, but if your like me and you run your amp pretty hot so that the amp is at least just starting to break up on its own than the rhythm stuff is fine. But, that's not a knock to the pedal cuz like I said, I don't view this pedal as a tight distortion thing for heavy power chording. To me this pedal's job is to do that lead thing and it does do it well
Compared to other Fulltone pedals ive owned: (to the best of my memory. Some of these I haven't had in a long while)
OCD - The plimsoul gets much more gain but in a sustain'y singing spongy lead kinda way. OCD more like a Tube Screamer
Fulldrive 2 - obviously more gain, but the FD2 is still a good one to have around. It does that lower mid level OD lead thing really well without leaving your tone overly affected
Robin Trower- The Trower is a step further from the FD2 in the direction of the plimsoul, but the Plimsoul takes it step further with its tonal possibilities via control over the amounts of both your Soft Clipping and Hard Clipping
A pedal worth at least trying out for sure
Re: Fulltone Plimsoul
HoosierRock wrote:
I am a big fan of Fulltone pedals and am considering a Plimsoul. Anyone on here have any experience with the Plimsoul?
Also I forgot to mention. The pedal in my opinion is wired with a little too much of everything in the controls. If you floor the Sustain, Stage 2, and The Hi-Cut it starts to get nasty in bad way. This is not a problem because we don't need to have the knobs turned all the way up, BUT a cool side effect of being able to cranky the pedal way past its sweet spot is that I can turn down volume way down on my guitar (which of course also bleeds out some treble) and then adjust the overall output but turning up the output knob on the plimsoul or hitting my Clean Boost Pedal to bring the volume back up. Pulling back on the volume knob has a taming quality that really cleans up that nasty overly cranked pedal tone and the end result is cool sound that you wouldn't otherwise get. Its still plenty thick, plenty of drive, but more balanced defined bass, punchy mids, and highs that are plenty high but don't sound harsh and also almost has the slight Fuzz feel to it
Re: Fulltone Plimsoul
Adcard, thanks for the detailed response. I am currently running clean amps and using pedals for dirt due to volume issues. I use a Fulltone OCD V3 for my core overdrive tone, and I hit it with a Robin Trower Overdrive to take it to another level for leads. Sometimes the Trower pedal can thin things down a little too much when I am using a Strat. I like the mid boost for cutting through, but don't like the thin part. I was wondering if the Plimsoul might have a bit more thickness than the Trower pedal, but still have some mid boost for cutting through.
Re: Fulltone Plimsoul
HoosierRock wrote:
Adcard, thanks for the detailed response. I am currently running clean amps and using pedals for dirt due to volume issues. I use a Fulltone OCD V3 for my core overdrive tone, and I hit it with a Robin Trower Overdrive to take it to another level for leads. Sometimes the Trower pedal can thin things down a little too much when I am using a Strat. I like the mid boost for cutting through, but don't like the thin part. I was wondering if the Plimsoul might have a bit more thickness than the Trower pedal, but still have some mid boost for cutting through.
Yeah it def has more thickness than the Trower. It's not the most mid range'y pedal out there but it it's mid range'y enough. Also, since the pedal is capable of some really saturated gains it's a good choice in front of a clean lower volume amp. Obviously, ideally we would all love to always be able to work with our Amps turned way up and only need a tube screamer or a pork loin etc. to push the tone to that sweet ripping tone. But those pedals dont work so good in front of low volume clean amps to get a full lead gain because they're made to clearly and dynamically kick an existing tone up to the next notch of gain structure. Those pedals aren't really meant to be the entire wailing gain structure by themselves. I consider the OCD to be like a slightly hotter tube screamer type pedal and the Trower comes close to being a full spectrum OD but doesn't do it well enough especially at low clean volume. The plimsoul covers the entire OD/distortion spectrum and does a pretty good job even at low volumes
Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's the end all best pedal by any means. It's a good pedal for what it does but there's plenty other ones out there even better I'm sure. I have a lot to say about it not because im so enamored by this pedal, but because since I have used it A LOT I can provide a lot info about it and I like helping fellow guitarists out if ever there's a topic I know a lot about. It can be frustrating searching all over the web for little tid bits of info that this guy said or that guy or even Full demo/reviews that seem to show every feature of a product except that one aspect that you need to hear/see an example of to decide if it's right in your set up.
Hopes this helps. Let me know if you have other questions about
Peace
Btw, typed this on iPad so if there's any weird typos that's why