Fender Full Moon

Bad moon rising

Fender aren’t messing about with their new series of compact pedals, and like its sister pedal the Santa Ana, the Full Moon is a versatile beast. It’s not as full in the bass as some other offerings, but the flipside is that it doesn’t get flabby until we switch to a seven-string. We couldn’t find a sweet spot with a low ‘A’, but for six-string guitars it has a Rat-like distortion. Having a three-band EQ and a High Treble knob to bring in extra overtones makes it easy to get consistent tones when switching guitars, and the boost circuit is the icing on the cake, turning it from a mean drive to a high-gain monster.