FX100

Strat with a Dimarzio Dist. in the bridge and right into any good clean amp will give you solid results. Putting this in front of a more modern amp, like a 6505 or Rectifier will not leave you satisfied. The switch stopped working, so the pedal won't turn off anymore. Which is NOT a big deal; running through a very clean amp with this on and all knobs (besides the drive) full up makes for a WONDERFUL "on the edge of explosion" tone that is very Punk/Garage/MC5. The tone of the pedal is very british overdrive, like a marshall turned up pretty damn loud. Nothing remotely modern in terms of heavy distortion. This is a classic pedal that is nothing like a tube screamer, but more like a marshall blues breaker on 8. The drive full up will be noisy, hissy, yes. But that's the case with everything. I could care less if any of my pedals were true bypassed, I'm going for an old school dirt tone. With a fuzz face or big muff before, you've got a pretty gnarly distortion tone. If you're into anything out of the ordinary, you can certainly take alot from driving this pedal with a fuzz. Very Gilmour and Hendrix type of distortions happening. I told you, it's got a british tone to it! Rolling back the guitar's volume knob does wonders. At louder volumes dynamics are drastically picked up.

Well, this kind of is my back up. I switch main rigs between this and other pedals with a clean amp and my Peavey 6505+/Marshall 1960a. This pedal is only used with the clean amp rig. I have used it for ten years, it'll be fine.

It's hard to get a bad sound from this pedal. I've owned it for nearly 10 years and it has never let me down. In fact, I'd say that this is easily one of the best straight forward overdrives I've owned.  The manual is helpful and explains each bit of the pedal in great detail and provides some helpful presets.

Forget it, I emailed them something like 3 years ago and never got a reply.

I play hard rock, heavy metal, punk and garage. No jazz, blues or funk. I'm a rock and roller. Been playing for nearly 12 years. I love this pedal. At some point I had 2, but that one simply did NOT sound as good. This pedal is certainly one to keep by my side forever. The paint job is lovely. I can't compare this to any other pedals, but certainly can put it along side a cranked Blues Breaker. I know-I have one. The only difference is volume-duh! Doesn't need a mid control, it pumps out enough without becoming honky. Makes for a very crunchy, creamy tone minus the sterility of most dirt boxes. Would love for this to be reissued!

The sounds coming out of this things are amazing. If i had to find a word for this pedal, I would say : cotton wool. Every sound coming out of this box is creamy, musical. I know mostly play blues and my fav sound is SRV (not so much overdrive, bright sound, very responsive to the attack). I use '89 lace sensor strat, and a peavey classic 50/410 all tubes at the other end. In between, some pedals (Jen wahs, overdrives/dist, ibanez DE7 always switched to 'echo', an incredible Maestro stage phaser, an aria stereo chorus ACH1 (at home only, because this pedal give its best in stereo) and a T-Rex tremster. For overdrives, I used to play with a boss SD1, wich sounds good to me, plus a modified bad monkey to reinforce some sounds and have a greater sustain. And a boutique TS808 clone, which is great also and sounds different. But at the moment I put my feet on the FX100, I knew it would be my main overdrive. It sounds so good !! From blues to metal, everything is inside (for gothic/punk, it has probably not enough gain). Can get the same sounds as the SD1, plus so much. Put the drive to 0 and you will have no overdrive at all (It is probably the only pedal providing this). Turn it to the max, and it's OK for metal. Bass / trebbles knob are not sounding like any other pedal. Their changes are very subtles, but efficient. Once you have the right amount of overdrive / distorsion, the guitar volume knob can be used to go from almost clean -> overdrived. I give it a 10 because I'm in love with it !! So sweet, so creamy, just like a tube amp but at lower volume, and probably one of the lower noise I ever heard with high distortion. The only bad point if any : not a true bypass - the manual says "active switching for noiseless operation".

Don't know. Build like a boss, just a little larger.

An incredible pedal. 4 knobs (level, bass, highs, drive) each one providing a real musical sound, no extremes. The manual is cool (nice african picture on top) but not very usefull. Just turn the knobs and listen ! I give it a 10 because it is impossible to get a bad sound out of it, wherever are the knobs.

What else to say ? Even the box painting is nice, nothing to deal with a standard boss. Regarding the price point, and the sounds coming out, I just can't understand why they discontinued it. This FX100 is now my main overdrive effect, better than the amp overdrive because the same sound and harmonics come at lower sound level (My neighbors will like it even more than I do !!). It is probably the ultimate pedal regarding my setup and style of music (SRV, Pink Floyd, Some AC/DC, and Clapton of course). A must !! If you are into blues/rock/hard rock and find one, give it a chance.

I only 'owned' this thing for about a year back in about 2001-2002 (I had borrowed it from a friend and 'forgotten' to return it until he gave a little hurry up one day, hehehe) ... back then I was basically playing through a stock Squier Affinity Strat and clean 20 watt practice amp. Now, I was pretty much just an intermediate player back then, but I could tell this thing was good. Really nice fat sounds, possible to get some really tasty fuzziness (not buzz, but fuzz) when cranking the gain. Always nice to have the extra tone knob for customising your sound, too.

Only problem was that the pedal had taken a beating, so occasionally there was some hiss; but tapping the edge of the footswitch near the jack always fixed this up in a second. Generally DOD things aren't super reliable, but apart from the aforementioned problem (due mainly to misuse and carelessness), there were no problems whatsoever; even the crappy battery cover held up perfectly. However, as I was using a severly second-hand (possibly third- or fourth-hand) model, I won't rate it.

Very simple ... 4 knobs ... hard to get a genuinely crap sound from this thing ...

At the time I had been playing for about 2 years, maybe less ... mostly a mix of punk/alternative rock back then ... this thing could do subtle tube overdrive to cranked 'overdrive-distortion' ... I remember once playing a gig with this thing between an Epiphone SG and a Marshall JMP stack; it just roared! I've been eyeing a DOD FX-51 'Juice Box' in my guitar tech's display case ... I would love to try that out in combination with the FX-100 ... but I haven't seen one since I was forced to return it to it's rightful owner ... *sigh* ... anyways, it's a really good pedal - if you do see one, try it out. I honestly can't understand why DOD discontinued good pedals like this one and the 'Juice Box' ...