Fulltone GT-500 Demonstration (humbucking, Class A tube amp)

Demonstration of Fulltone GT-500 using a Fernandes Dragonfly Elite (bridge: SD CustomV; Neck: Fer. Sustainer) and a Crate Palomino 30W 2x12 Class A amp. I'm sorry I lack a single coil guitar to compare the tones to. I hope this is really informative and demonstrates this pedal's capabilities to their fullest. The cameras microphone compresses and tragically kills most of the fullness.

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• fulltone
• gt500
• gt
• 500
• gt-500
• crate
• palomino
• class-a
• fenandes
• sustainer
• dragonfly
• elite
• pedal
• stompbox
• distortion
• boost

[Marathonmarch]

Don't like the fulltone sounds too loose and fuzzy to my ears

[cowardm]

@Marathonmarch Just out of curiosity, do you have a preferred distortion pedal?

[AestusSymphonia]

anyone know if this pedal would be for a metal player? I play prog and metalcore.

[cowardm]

@AestusSymphonia I would say not. It has lots of juicy goodness in tone but you can't "chug" on it and it has relatively low distortion compared to say a Mesa or Diezel or Bad Cat. Most Guitar Centers I've been in recently have one so you should go try it out.

[BluPup8]

Good demo. I have a Custom 8 in my Les Paul and I think it's great. I just bought one of these and will try it out when it arrives. With this demo I'm liking all the sounds you did. Also the cleanest clean boost sounds promising.

[cowardm]

I've liked this pedal with just about every of the 15+ amps I've tried it with. The demo is low quality but I think it showcases the pedal's capabilities pretty well. Let me know how you like it.

[Marathonmarch]

@cowardm Yeah I like a few of them, biyang metal end, hardwire sc-2 suhr riot are just a few

[cowardm]

Humbuckers are a matter of preference. If you want metal you want humbuckers. It really depends on your style, but Fernandes makes a few models with EMGs in them and those are probably better for what you want.

Custom 5s sound great on clean, but they are more of a distortion humbucker. Think about a Les Paul tone more for rock-types I tend to think they do anything from ACDC to Muse to Coheed to metal. Not quite as hot as the JB and not as tight on the bass as EMGs, but it is high gain.

[JakeBeatdown]

ah no! haha ill probably grow out of humbuckers myself soon enough, but im still making the most out of them in gigs and stuff :) I know this guitar has amazing clean tone, but i cant seem to find any examples of it with a destorted, more metal sound. Can it cope with a high gain and stuff? cause i tend to play a lot of metal / metal core

[cowardm]

It is incredibly well made and sounds great. The SD Custom 5 is must like the Gibson Burstbucker Pro, but a little hotter and smoother. The guitar itself has topnotch hardware and I was surprised by the craftsmanship. Unfortunately, I'm not a humbucker kinda guy any more and I'm selling this one for $700 shipped. If you're interested let me know. The new ones go for $1000, have a JB instead of the Custom 5, and have a little more bling. I prefer the Custom 5 myself.