Fulltone to sell final California-built pedals and move to Nashville
May 1, 2023 · 1 sources
Fulltone announced in May 2023 that it would sell off its final pedals built in the California outlet, and that it would relocate to Nashville with new products said to be on the way in the near future1.
The move follows the end of large-scale production at the California factory. Fuller announced that he would be closing the California factory that has been making Fulltone pedals for over 30 years and ending large-scale production1. The announcement came after a difficult period for the brand: in 2020, founder Michael Fuller faced backlash after he criticised looting during George Floyd protests due to the Black Lives Matter movement in a since deleted Facebook post1. Following the controversy, Fulltone products were pulled from Guitar Center stores and its website, and new Fulltone sales were also suspended on Reverb.com; Fulltone claimed it had already terminated its dealership with the brand months before1.
The announcement drew attention to the Fulltone OCD, the overdrive that has been a boutique staple for decades. In June 2023, Warm Audio launched the ODD Box V1, a hard-clipping overdrive pedal which emulates the legendary but now somewhat polarising (and soon to be discontinued in its current form) Fulltone OCD1. The ODD has a UK/US switch to flip its personality from a "British" to an "American" tube amp, dials for volume (which acts as a master output), drive (controls the amount of clipping) and tone, through-hole construction, a TLO82CP op-amp, 2N7000 transistors, and hand-selected capacitors and resistors1. Its current MSRP is $1191.
Fulltone's own description of the Nashville plans was not reported beyond the statement that new products were said to be on the way1.