Nice board Les! What does the Catalyst sound like? I never understood what it and the GT500 exactly do. I've tried every other Fulltone dirt but those two.
I'm a big fan of the Fulltone stuff too. Right now I've got a FatBoost 2 on there (which surprisingly is the most disliked version of the 3 versions). It with another OD in front of it like my XTS Imperial and it just sings.
Thanks prsrocker!
The Catalyst is probably the most unusual sounding Fulltone pedal, and the least understood. It's not an OD, it's more of a fuzz, that can also be set to a low gain setting to serve as sort of an EQ and boost pedal. You know how when you roll down the volume control on your guitar with a good fuzz, you get a very crisp and unusual kind of clean tone? Well, the "spark" setting does that in a good way. The "flame" setting goes from distortion to fuzz.
I use it mostly on "spark" with the gain around 2 o'clock for when I want an edgy, almost glassy-crunchy-square-wavey kind of breakup with the guitar volume low, but it's also a pretty nice fuzz that works well with other pedals. I also like running it distorted-but-ratty to get garagey tones, and as a fuzz.
I like Fulltone stuff a lot, too, and have had most of Mike's pedals, but I haven't had the GT500. I don't understand the criticism of the FB2, I had one and thought it was great. I only sold it because for a while when I first got into Two-Rocks, I went through this "I'm only gonna play the guitar through the cable to the amp" thing, and sold off my pedals.
That lasted for about two weeks. LOL
I'm still big on the Fulltone wahs (not on my board at the moment), and love the tremolo and Plimsoul, plus the 69 is my favorite fuzz ever and sounds great with the HXDA. But I like to switch things up from time to time, too.