Flamma FC06 Distortion Pedal | The smallest, best-sounding OCD clone for under $50? Review & Demo

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This is the Flamma FC06 Distortion pedal – an extremely tiny and exceptionally affordable take on the iconic Fulltone OCD overdrive circuit!

Get the Flamma Distortion here:

The Fulltone OCD pedal is a modern-day classic. Since its original release in 2004, it’s found its way on to the boards of thousands of guitar players across the world, who love it for its dynamic response and its versatile range of tones, from transparent clean boost to all-out tube-like filthy overdrive.

There’s plenty of companies that have made their own versions of drive pedals based on the OCD, but the Flamma Distortion is the smallest (it’s smaller than a regular mini pedal!) and cheapest I’ve seen, costing around €30/$40. Despite its tiny size, though, the Distortion packs all the controls you’d expect to see on this type of pedal: Drive, Volume and Tone knobs, and an LP/HP switch (for Low Peak and High Peak modes). LP mode is great for transparent and lower gain tones, while HP mode increases the gain, the low end, the high mids, and the volume.

So, this is a versatile drive that’ll fit on to any pedalboard… but how does it sound? That’s what we find out in this video, as I try the Distortion pedal in as many different musical genres as I can, from pop and blues to indie, classic rock, punk, alternative rock, metal, and more. Using my Fender Telecaster for single coil tones, and my humbucker-equipped Epiphone Les Paul, I also try the pedal into a dirty amp, and at the end I do a couple of loops with the pedal to test the extremes with the settings.

Finally, I have a little bonus loop for you where I run the Flamma up against my Mooer Hustle Drive pedal – which is a well-known OCD clone – to see how similar they sound.

This is the Mooer Hustle Drive:

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:25 Introduction to the Flamma Distortion and the OCD
01:37 Pedal controls and features
02:09 Today’s rig and plan

02:54 Clean reference tones and turning on the Flamma Distortion

Pushed Clean sounds
03:20 Open indie pop chords
03:46 Blues progression
04:09 Funky rhythm barre chords
04:23 Atmospheric droning indie chords
04:44 Indie strumming with the pedal off/on

Indie Sounds
05:17 Upbeat indie rock barre chords
05:41 Indie rock octave chords riff
06:06 Fat rhythm chords
06:34 Edgy barre chords
07:02 Kings Of Leon inspired indie rock riff
07:17 Indie octave chords

Classic Rock Sounds
07:45 Groovy classic rock rhythm tone
08:02 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
08:19 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
08:41 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
08:57 Classic rock riff

Higher Gain Overdrive Sounds
09:22 Classic hard rock riff
09:40 Hard rock rhythm tone
10:05 Glam rock riff
10:19 Hair metal rhythm tone
10:39 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock tone
10:55 Alt rock riff
11:20 Pop punk riff
11:45 Pop punk melodic lead sound
12:00 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
12:28 Punk rock power chords
12:41 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
12:56 Chunky modern rock power chords (Drop D)
13:20 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy rock riff (Drop D)

Heavy Sounds (All in Drop D tuning)
13:52 Metal chugging riff
14:23 Hardcore punk riff
14:39 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
14:52 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff

Flamma Distortion into an Overdriven Amp
15:26 Metal and chugging sounds
16:18 Hard rock boost

16:36 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop
18:41 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop
20:39 Flamma Distortion vs Mooer Hustle Drive loop

22:08 My thoughts… this is an OCD alright!
22:47 What I like: the sounds
24:41 Size, build quality, price
25:02 What I don’t like
25:53 Why you should consider buying this pedal
26:43 Final conclusions and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Flamma straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the amp’s Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
TC Electronic Ditto Looper:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – Track Tribe.

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