FX20-B Stereo Phaser

Setup first.  Low end Ibanez Guitar -> DOD FX20-B Out #1 -> Danelectro Daddy-O Pedal -> Mixer (mixed hard left) Out #2 -> Distortion -> Mixer (mixed hard right) Oh yeah.  Record "two" guitar parts in one take.  This device can be noisy when one or more of the dials get switched to a higher setting.  At those levels, this box will make noise even when your guitar is muted. What many people dislike about the effect it has on guitars is something that I have come to love.  At low settings, it can deliver a gentle sweep with a healthy bite just the same.  Bring the Depth or Regen up past six or so, and the pedal creates some very harsh but predictable effects.  Plugged in clean, with a low speed but just over half depth and regen,  it also delivers a pleasant and dreamlike effect.  While other pedals may be truer phasers, there is a lot of potential in this one's unapologetic sound.

Almost everything works the same as when I got it six years ago.  Only the footswitch has gone out - but that's a pretty big deal in its own right.  I won't lie and say that I gig, but I'd definitely leave this home during any live performance.  Spending three minutes to find that "sweet spot" isn't going to kill you in a home recording situation.  It would be something else entirely to turn it on in a real-time situation.

Three knobs.  Plug the guitar in and adjust.  Adjusting it to get a desired tone became second nature very quickly.

I'm a home musician with hard leanings toward industrial music and occasional forays into punk/goth material.  At this point, I have been playing guitar for just around nine years.  This pedal has proven useful in recording all of these genres.   It often produces effects that I couldn't imagine finding elsewhere yet wish to have.  With its stereo outputs, it has become an essential part of my home studio setup - even when it's never turned on.   The footswitch on this device is terrible, however.  There's something very wrong with newer models of this pedal using the same switch.  Stereo outputs and wild effects mean that I hope to have this pedal by my side until the bitter end. 

I found an old receipt for this pedal and remembered that I actually had one of these in the early 90's.  I was fairly new to guitar and wanted that "Lightning Crashes" stereo swirling around your head type thing.  This just didn't do it at all, as a matter of fact it seemed to be more like a Flanger than a Phaser.  It has that wierd flippy sound when the phase cycle starts over.  Also on slow settings it is just too grainy.  I took it back and traded it in towards a Boss Super Phaser, that pedal does everything and more.  The Boss pedal is so smooth sounding on slow settings and really trippy on the extreme settings of mod 2.  I really thought the DOD pedal would be better because it was stereo, but it was not even close.  At that time I was looking for stereo effects to use in my 4-track effects loop so that I could get a full sound on just 4 tracks.  I used a Digital delay on Drums and Vocals, Stereo Chorus or Flanger on Bass and Guitar.  I hoped the Phaser would give me another option but it just didn't give me anything.

DOD

Has the Standard controls for a Phaser.

DOD

This is definitly one of those pedals to try before you buy.  It may not work for you.

I use a Fender Strat and a Fender M-80 amp. At the moment my setup is: Fender Strat>>BOSS Ds-1 Distortion>>DOD FX68 Stereo Chorus>>DOD DFX91 Digital Delay/Sampler>>DOD FX20-B Stereo Phaser>>Crybaby Wah>>Fender M-80 amp. Well I wish I didn't have so many DOD's but they are the cheapest if you buy them used, and they're not thaaaat bad. I think this phaser is very good, it's essentially what we all look for when we're looking for a phaser: swinging slow underwater psychedellic fancy! And this baby has got it. It has flaws I think, maybe a little tiny bit of a volume boost and the fact that the speed knob doesn't get as far as I would like to, but that's forgiveable, dont you think? If you have this pedal you know it is extremely versatile, you can get subtle space travel sound and even something like a leslie emulator if it could go faster. It does a nice job. Why don't you try my favourite setting?: (- )  ( -)   (` )   speed depth  regen (if you don't understand the regen setup coz of my inability to express it on graphics and my basic stupidity, it's 11 o'clock)

It's reliable, pretty solid.

Well it's very easy to get the idea of it, no problem with that. 3 knobs: Speed, Depth, Regen (wahwheeness). 1 input and 2 outputs. I bought mine without the manual, but then I downloaded it from the DOD web page, it's pretty useless but it's a nice way to start.

NPI

I don't really know what kind of music I play, actually this is the first time I stop to think of it... let's see: Psychedellic-chillout-slow-latin-funk-blues... This pedal goes fine with this but I think I'll get a Boss PH-3 someday, this DOD is very very good but it's too harsh, too dry maybe, for my ear. I wish you could get more speed in the phasing, I mean It would  be nice if you could tweak the speed knob a bit more, that would be SO cool!!!