ok, at the moment i'm running this into a very slightly crunchy channel on my marshall combo. If you turn the 'punk' down to zero you basicly have a very cool looking, nice raspy distortion pedal, that is totally different from my marshall's overdrive and that is why I bought in the first place. Now onto the 'Punk' control!! I found the easiest way of finding out the joys of this was to turn the distortion right down so it is almost clean, then adding the 'punk' to the clean sound. With the setting low it seems to be adding a strange almost 'radio' like fuzz in the background, that seems to increase as the sound dies away almost like a compressor but is kind of independent from your actual chord or note, cranking the punk up adds more of this and around 12'oclock it's kinda 50/50 with your regular signal and is a really wierd effect. anyway past half way your into lead guitar use only realy unless you want to just add a really nasty sound into a song for a short burst. I think that is the perfect use for this pedal. people would be "what the hell was that" or "how did you create that wierd sound in the middle of that solo" I think i'm gonna get another distortion and use this just to add 'punk' when i want a dash of something crazy in the middle of a song. p.s. it sounds totally wacked out with a crybaby. It reminds me of some of the sounds on Smashing pumpkins 'siemease dream' album, and would be great for adding another layer of filthy sound to a messy grungy solo.
Reliability/Durability:
I've never had a problem with dod!
Ease of Use:
It took me a while to understand what was going on with this pedal as I bought it second-hand without a manual, but an hour playing around i managed to figure it out and for me that's half the fun anyway!
Customer Support:
dunno never needed to!!
Overall Rating:
I play a mixture of what most people would consider Punk, Rock, Alternative and Grunge. I also own a dod Icebox and a dod EQ. If it were lost or stolen i would track one down if i could find one, dunno about in the USA but here in England you don't see then too often. I love the fact that is sounds different from anything else. Everyone else I know uses Boss pedals, well if I wanted to sound the same as everyone else I would use them too, but I'd rather sound a bit more unique!! It seems at the moment the fashion is to have your guitar sounding like a warm classic vintage overdrive. If you fancy standing out try something wierd and wacky from dod!!
