Okay, like some other posts mentioned earlier you can adjust the "mini pots" on the circuit board. The earlier poster said that adjusting them down to zero gave a much better sound. It didn't seem to change the sound of the distortion much (if any) at all. Another setting however drastically change(and improve in my opinion) the delay. I played with the mini pots for about an hour or two and discovered a setting that is very close to where they where originally set. This setting gave the delay a few more milliseconds (at least a few more than what it had.) Also one more really cool thing happened. I am into noise guitar and with this new setting when the delay is turned up all of the way the repeats are tuned down a few steps. Pretty close to down an octave, but not quite. This creates a whole new tonal possibility. If the delay knob is turned down it becomes a regular slapback delay with the repeat being like it should. This makes it really versatile to.
The distortion sound is about the same (which always sounds good if you have a good amp.) You shouldn't even bother reviewing this or any other pedal/guitar if your amp sounds like crap in the first place. Do you think that anything will sound "uncrappy" through it?
I am using this pedal with my dod flashback fuzz, and my dod FX50 overdrive pre-amp (same exact circuitry as the vintage fx250, but shaped like the later 80's pedals) and my Morley PWA wah (best wah in the world!) My amp is a Laney GC 50A. Grant it it is a solid state amp, but it is the best sounding solid state amp in the world period. It sounds much better than those crappy Marshall tube amps that only give you that one crappy tone and thats it! All of my distortions I use depending on what song I am playing. If you want to try to be versatile, I suggest getting several types of distortions. I can go from funk to heavy, to blues rock to clean (sometimes all in the same song) and that is why I like my setup.
My guitar right now is a cheap Lotus strat copy. It is cheap, but it at least is made out of a nice tone wood (alder.) It sounds better than any real Fender strat, but of course I wouldn't tell that people I sell them to.
As mentioned before I play kind of a funk/metal and I need pedals/an amp that either sound funky or sound hard. This pedal can give me both at the same time and that makes it irreplaceable. The distortion is a little "fuzzy" for some I guess, but I like fuzz I do have a regular fuzz pedal in my setup, and trust me it is much fuzzier than this.
There is a question up here that asks "can you get the sound of your favorite artists?" Well I am not trying to sound like my favorite artist so I don't care. If you go through your entire life as a musician sounding like everyone else, then that makes you a wussy.
Reliability/Durability:
I do not do gigs, but I jam with a friend of mine all the time. We record our own stuff sometimes and will maybe one day put together an actual album. I have used this w/o a backup, but if it did go out it would be the switch. The switches are only like $.35 on digitech's website, so that wouldn't be a problem. I could just use my amps distortion or my fx50 to replace it until I got it fixed (which sounds really good, just not this exact sound.)
Ease of Use:
Hi I know that I have just reviewed this product like a month ago (see next posting), but I just modified this pedal and I wanted to tell everyone about it. The "ease of use" rating is for how easy the modification is.
Customer Support:
It is cool that they have parts that you can order. They are good at answering emails. Just remember to go to digitech's site and not dod's. B/c they are both the same company, and DOD is no longer in existence I think.
Overall Rating:
If this thing were lost or stolen I would try to buy another one on eBay for $5-$15. Feel free to ask me how I got to this setting with the mini pots if you have trouble.
One more thing for people that are complaining that the delay knob doesn't do anything, I think that you're mini pots need adjusted. When you have them turned to different settings it completley shuts the delay off. My guess is that something bounced them around and changed the settings. I am going to be ordering some more old DOD effects soon from eBay. I am going to be opening every one of them up to see if they have these "mini pots" and try to tweek them. This was the coolest suprise ever.
