What is it? DOD FX25B Envelope Filter in “final” US DOD enclosure. Made is USA in the late 90’s. Grabbed this one off from eBay as the price was correct. I was totally expecting a V-serial unit for the price and once this thing arrived and i opened the box – no type plate sticker….
Category: FX-Series
DOD FX80B Compressor Sustainer
What is it? DOD FX80-B Compressor Sustainer from XF-series. Made in USA in 1988. This pedal had been on my want list for quite some time. The biggest reason for simply not buying it was that these units sell for ridiculous prices here where i live. The one man (wikipedia link in finnish), who is…
DOD FX12 Tuna
What is it? DOD FX12 Tuna. Guitar and bass tuner pedal. Made in USA around 1996-98. The enclosure is in line with the last US made series and the original box doesn’t have “made is USA” printed on it. There is no chinese made “V” version in existence. I’m thinking that the box was designed…
DOD FX69 Grunge
What is it? DOD FX69 Grunge, made in USA around 1995. Board revision is “B”, but the box is per 1993 version. The DOD engineers were probaly after the sound of Kurt Cobain’s Boss DS-1/DS-2 and the Mudhoney fuzzes that were taken over the top. Or then it was just a plan to make a…
DOD FX60 Stereo Chorus
What is it? DOD FX60 Stereo Chorus. Made in US around 1990-91. For some reason i find this unit simply beautiful. Seafoam/baby blue colour and simplicity of two knobs. Even the straight DOD logo suits this look very well. For aesthetics, this is one of the finer examples why i happen to like these FX…
DOD FX33 BuzzBox
What is it? DOD FX33 BuzzBox, made in USA around 1995. Now here’s something you won’t see everyday. When something is worth overdoing, let the DOD engineers show you the real way of the beast. Design is just sick. The America’s Pedal article on the history of the design is a very good read. There…
DOD FX66 Flashback Fuzz
What is it? DOD FX66 (V) Flashback Fuzz. Made in china around 2000. DOD has only produced two fuzz pedals in all of its existence. That’s not much. Plus both fuzzes in DOD back catalog are not fuzzes in traditional manner. Neither of the designs are transistor based, nor rely on own unique design. Both…
DOD FX57 Hard Rock Distortion
What is it? DOD FX57 Hard Rock Distortion. USA made box, dating 1987. Bad year. 1987 i mean. According to DOD information heaven, America’s Pedal website, the basic idea for this design was already tried out on certain DigiTech double pedal, as well as on one Boss design. And what is this idea? To take…
DOD FX52 Classic Fuzz
What is it? DOD FX52 Classic Fuzz, Made in USA in early to mid 90s. Yup. It seems almost like yesterday when boxes of this series were in every young guitarists hands. It’s been 20 years already, but i wouldn’t exactly call it “vintage” for another two decades though. This model was discontinued in 1998,…