if you ever find the amp that you had when you were 14, you should do a video recreating little 14 year old fluffs rig :) i think you still have that strat somewhere in storage right?
DOD Supra Distortion and a Morley Wah through a Crate GX20M (maybe feeding a Peavey Bandit as a second speaker)! That's the setup of a mid-90s metalhead teenager!
in the mid to late 90' (about 1996-1997) i used to scavenge around the local pawn shops and i got myself a beat up 1992 Gibson LP studio, a 1986 solid state 50w 1x12 marshall 5210 combo and a late 80's ibanez TS9 ... i gigged that rig for like 6 years :)
@@tiziocaio4561 yeah i feel ya at 1st i had a yamaha pacifica and some noname amp that had an OD channel that sounded like bees trapped in a box hahaha so i had to grind and scavenge the local pawn shops for like 1 year to get that rig, well worth it though :)
I know I'm five years late, but thank you for this cool video. This has always been one of my favorite pedals, and I am a very lucky person, I have an early '86 Super Distortion, and I still have the battery compartment door. This week, as a collector and player, I bought an Ibanez TS5 Tube Screamer, because, why not? I watched your video, and it was very enjoyable. I am subscribing!!!
In all honesty, you should be playing these pedals through a solid state Peavey and a knock off lawsuit Les Paul for authentic 90's tones. I bet you could find a old Bandit on Reverb for pretty cheap.
I didn't have a knock off LP, but for a while I did play through a Rage 158. Gave it to my brother and he still has it, though it doesn't get much use. Kinda wish it had a speaker out so I could plug it into a 1x12 and see how that worked out.
Sounds good..That's the thing with these pedals, people remember them sounding like shit because they used them with super shitty amps, when they were kids..But with a good amp its very usable.
Haha, my first rig wasn't much to look at. A pawn shop guitar with no branding on it and a Memphis solid state combo. However, once my parents saw that i was serious about playing guitar, I eventually had the Crate GX-15 with a DOD Thrash Master. It was probably around the same time Fluff had his Supra Distortion. I remember how excited I was because I could play "One" without having to stop and hit the channel button, haha.
The funny thing is that since these pedals were cheaper than Boss pedals back in the day there was thus the pairing often of DOD pedals with affordable amps at the time. This most often turned out tones that you would rather not have to endure. When you watch a video with an old pedal and it sounds good there is the fact that the amp being used in the video is often a high quality one with good dynamic headroom and smooth compressing to the signal than harsh clipping. I have the old yellow overdrive by DOD and while I can get a decent sound out of it with my tube amps, there is still enough of the DOD sound that makes me remember how wonky these pedals sounded in the 80s at local mom and pop music stores.
@@crashstitches79 my bandmates wanted to kill me anytime I kicked in my Grunge (mark II) pedal, it was almost always unbearable feedback through my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100 half stack. No matter what I did with the pedal or amp's settings, it just wanted to be super screechy. I run it through a 70s 50 watt univox solid state amp and it sounds great now though.
OMG the nostalgia is strong with this one!!!! That was my first distortion pedal at 12!!! I was rocking some Silverchair pretty damn hard!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane Fluff! Keep up the great work!
I had to laugh so hard when you mentioned most people buying the DOD pedals since they were about 20 - 30 bucks cheaper than the boss pedals. That was definitely me and my friends for sure.
I ran my Supra Distortion into my Peavey studio pro 50 back in 87. Had a Yamaha SE-350 strat copy. My first rig at 17. Long gone but that tone good or bad is forever etched in my mind. Love these throwback vids.
Wow!... I looked at those mitcheel guitars at guitar center, struggled to find one that wasn't poorly made, either cracked or bad paint or something.....I guess I better look after my company a little more huh?..lol, I wish!
That was my first distortion too! I got along the blue chorus DoD had out at the time. Still have them both but they need replacement 9volt cables... and battery covers, of course. Ah, memories.
I just got of these after having one 35 years ago. It's way better than I remember. Those 80s DOD pedals don't get the credit they deserve. We just associate them with our crappy playing from when we were young. Lol Let the healing begin.
Dude! My Same 1st pedal when I was 13 in 1993. Brings back a lot of nostalgia! Thanks for re-reviewing this! I think I had the blue DOD chorus pedal too to get that Nirvana sound.
Nostalgia kicked hard 😁, My first pedal was a DOD too but was the "Super american metal" My dad bought it for me in a trip to USA I was just a kid and choose It only because said metal. It was more like glam metal sound but for me was the coolest thing ever
Same here! Mine didn't have the OD at the top of the sweep. I have no idea where my original went, but I also found a replacement recently and held on to it for nostalgia. The original sounded great with my drummer's dad's Bandmaster at the time.
Cara, tá na hora de vc fazer um TC ( transplante capilar) vai ficar cool man. Poder deixar cabelão grande novamente. Brazil é top de tc na galera. Tmj irmão metal👏👏
I think my first was a DOD Thrash Master around 30 years ago. Don't remember what it sounded like, but fairly confident it sounded terrible. I do remember it was pink af.
I have the 55B, which I also got from Musicians Friend, in mid 1994, along with the FX40B Equalizer. I picked up the FX69 Grunge later that year. I got the FX17 Wah in late 1997. I still have all of them with the boxes. Of the 4, only the wah pedal I would consider sub par. The 55B was pretty good for the type of music we were doing, which featured a lot of Black Sabbath, Godsmack and Alice in Chains.
That's cool you found your first pedal. My first pedal was also a D.O.D. but I don't remember the model. It was alot like that one in build. The same switch and battery cover. 3 nobs. But was slightly purple in color
I'm impressed. I wasn't expecting much, then again, I don't think a builder who has been doing this since '72ish would have made it very far if he couldn't design a decent Distortion circuit. Very cool, and even more exciting you found the box and the battery cover. This is the first time I've seen the cover on that pedal.
The Supra Distortion was my first distortion pedal, too. I bought it in 1987 and played it through an early 70's Sears Airline amp and it pretty much sounded exactly like that.
I have a DOD Classic Tube (FX53), with electrical tape holding the battery in place. I have used it for years for distressing voiceover tracks (as I am a sound designer, and I collect peddles for sound effects work). I quite like it !
Ha! Same here….. except that I use it on lead bass synth (Sequential Pro One)….. sounds like a Rat, but a bit more round/full & less raspy…. great tool for film 🎥 composing 🤘🏽
That was my very first pedal as well.. played it through a 15 watt Ibanez amp with an Yamaha rgx421d.. same as age as you... Rock on brotha 🤘.. still have the Yamaha.. everything else is gone though.
Holy crow. That was my first dirt pedal too, and still have it! Got it back in the 00's. Just got lucky and found the battery cover randomly laying in my backyard.
Well, this video just took me back to 1993! That was my first distortion pedal, too. After playing with crappy amps since 1988, the thing sounded amazing to me as a 14 year old boy. Excellent video!
Good demo, good sounding pedal, good for grunge, post grunge, etc. Regarding the battery cover, if you're using a battery, the cover will get loose. That's why you see so many without the cover. I just found mine in the shed from when I bought it in the late 80-early 90's, and the cover was being held on with some duct tape. I also found my DOD Chorus pedal, and it's battery cover is loose as well. The cover's pressure points to open/close cover turned out to be a design flaw. I suggest using an ac converter and just store the battery cover away.
This was my first distortion. Played it into a 10w little squire amp. Had to be 88. That's the sound, I haven't heard in decades. Wow. Super wooly sounding.
I totally had one of these! I had a terrible amp back then, too. Nobody was really going "direct" back then. So, I went through a lot of drive pedals. My Supra Distortion had the drive knob that went to like 10, then it had a section called "turbo" i think. Tough to remember 20 some years ago. I am surprised that, even with a decent amp here, it still sounds about as bad as I remember...lol.
I remember when I was about 15/16 having the dod grunge pedal given to me. It already had the battery cover missing and duct tape covering the hole.. I later purchased the did juice box overdrive and the dod chorus pedal o believe was called “deep freeze”.. it’s dials said things like “chill”, “ice” , “freeze”..something like that
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! That was also my first distortion pedal, I think I got it Christmas of 1992, and I remember trying hard to decide between this and the DOD American Overdrive, which was also about $50! Sounds pretty good though, might scratch that sentimental itch and pick one up!
Dude Fluff!! You and I seem to have a lot in common, but this DOD pedal was one of my first, also! Actually, I did have the FX-50 too! Fond memories as a kid having them both and glad to know you rocked this as well! Have a good one and cheers to you!
It´s fun to see this. In Sweden, in the late 80´s when I started to play, everyone used the BOSS Turbo Overdrive or in my case, the Turbo Distortion. I don´t recall seeing this pedal in the shops back then.
I must admit, I'm loving this trip down memory lane at all the "awesome" pedals that were available back in the day. Though, I do still use my DOD Juice Box for a nice solo boost.
Sounds good. I suspect that Marshall JCM-800 definitely helps too! I bought the DoD Boneshaker new for only $34.95 shipped overnight by air on some special deal a year or so back. Sounds pretty cool with all the parametric controls.
Fluff, these are cool videos. I must admit a couple months back I got hit with the same nostalgia. My first pedal was a boss DS-2 from 2001, I don't remember what happened to it, by 2003 I had lost it. So I went on ebay and bought a used one. I can coax some cool sounds from it now. I just might track down my first guitar and do the same. Your supra distortion doesn't sound all that bad either, just a little noisy. Thanks for these videos!
I'm going to assume he was using a split coil pu at certain points thrru his demo that gave him that 60hz cycle hum, which every pedal will do. I recommend a noise gate.
I cherish mine for being my first pedal. I, personally, thought it was noisy and terrible, so it has sat in a drawer since I got mine in the early 90s. I still have it and it looks practically new. Still sounds like buzzy noise to me, though. Of course, this all could be attributed to the fact that I'm just not a good guitarist. Great vid! Good to see someone else's take on it!
This was my first pedal but I played it through a Peavey's clean channel. I seem to remember being able to get Rhoads Tribute kind of gain out of it pretty easy.
That pedal was my first distortion pedal in 1989 and when the BOSS Metal Zone came out, I bought it and gave away the DOD to another guitar player kid at school that needed it. I didn't like the Supra Distortion back then but it sounded decent in your video. I had a crappy Crate solid state combo back then, so... Thanks for the blast from the past!
Holy hell fluff my story is the very same. I got in nirvana and playing guitar at the same time and wanted to pedal that would give me a distortion sound. It did the trick until it fell apart. I still have it
My first was a Digitech Screamin Blues which I used for ACDC tones out of a Marshall Valvestate. Preferred the sound of it over the valvestate. Not a bad pedal really. It was basically a modded Blues Driver I think
My first pedal was the dod thrash master switch stopped working the first night so took back to store and they gave me the metal maniac. Its switch stopped working after a couple weeks. I remember liking them through my Peavey studio pro 110. Lol
i had this dod pedal as well as the DOD all american metal pedal back in 92/93 when i was 14. lol i did find my american metal pedal last year still works
My first pedal waa a DOD tuner with a missing battery cover. My first distortion pedal was a Line 6 Dr. Distorto. It was okay, and it had interesting features. My amp at the time was a Marshall MG10CD which sounded okay, but it wasn't loud. I wish I knew at the time to plug it into a different speaker.
a beast of a pedal, found one in a pawnshop in Barcelona about ten years ago and used it on a record without a guitar plugged in, just jockeying the dials for some ungodly feedback. if you like noise it is extremely potent. defo mod out the crappy DOD footswitch for a spring switch or something though.
Love it. Your like me. If i can find my first amp Marlboro Soundworks GX-30 (or something like that) i won't hesitate to snag it up. My first drive pedal was the DOD Classic Fuzz. Souded different on the Marlboro than on other amps but i loved it being 12 years old in '92.
I’m impressed you got an old DOD with a battery cover! I’ve got 2 old DODs and one cover between them. Have you checked out the website about the old pedals? I think it’s called America’s pedal or something like that?
I had an American Metal, too. 1987, and it sounded like garbage. A couple of years ago I bought one in perfect condish on eBay for nostalgia, and messed around with it... I realized that 13 year-old me had used it all wrong; 42 year-old me finally used in to the clean channel of an amp, and then realized that it was really not bad at all. It was one of the first "amp in a box" pedals, and prolly wasn't meant to be used in the gain channel of an amp like a DS-1 or an SD-1, etc. I was pretty darned impressed with it after that, lol...
@@johnjonestheman Yeah that's how we always did it. We played Skid Row and Cinderella tunes a lot so we need both clean and gain. Gotta have those cleans for Fade To Black and One as well. The American Metal pedal had a strange EQ to it, but I always liked it. It was the easiest way to get good grindy distortion for us po' kids that couldn't afford tube amps.
I used to stack this with a Tube Screamer, using the DOD as my base tone and boosting it with the tube screamer. Into the clean channel of a solid state Peavey of course.
Also my first Distortion pedal and Delay, Compressor and, for some reason, American Metal. The thing I liked the most about these pedals was the 'tap' pedal itself.
This was my first pedal as well... But I paid full retail, which was about $70, sometime in the mid-90's... I got took... I didn't know any better... I had not discovered Musician's Friend yet. I don't have my original any more, but I do have a DOD FX50 Distortion... I haven't used it in years though. I'll be getting it out soon. I haven't had a distortion pedal on my board in a while. Mostly mild drives and fuzzes.
I had one of the earlier Supras also. Eventually, it developed a short in it....or something fried and would straight out shriek when you stopped playing....even with the guitar and pedal volumes off. It then made for some good early 90's noise/grind.
My first pedal too. I think it was, in 1986, about $35 for the Super Distortion. It made my 10W Roland keyboard amp sound like a Marshall stack (if only to my young ears) with all knobs dimed.
Hey mate, you can hear this thing has Germanium diode clipping going on - it sounds pretty woolly and fluffy. I haven't seen the schematic, but I'll bet it's basically as DOD250 type circuit and probably wants to be used more like a dirty boost into an amp that's slready breaking up. Try a bit more preamp gain on your Marshall and use it like a Tubescreamer.
i had a dod super distortion,about 1993 when i was around 15 years old , it was scathing , i remeber it was trebley and hurt my ears! theyre in a good quality case at least
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if you ever find the amp that you had when you were 14, you should do a video recreating little 14 year old fluffs rig :) i think you still have that strat somewhere in storage right?
DOD Supra Distortion and a Morley Wah through a Crate GX20M (maybe feeding a Peavey Bandit as a second speaker)! That's the setup of a mid-90s metalhead teenager!
in the mid to late 90' (about 1996-1997) i used to scavenge around the local pawn shops and i got myself a beat up 1992 Gibson LP studio, a 1986 solid state 50w 1x12 marshall 5210 combo and a late 80's ibanez TS9 ... i gigged that rig for like 6 years :)
soulassasin10 that was a solid gear, I had to keep up with a Yamaha Rgx 112 and a 15 Watt Squier
@@tiziocaio4561 yeah i feel ya at 1st i had a yamaha pacifica and some noname amp that had an OD channel that sounded like bees trapped in a box hahaha so i had to grind and scavenge the local pawn shops for like 1 year to get that rig, well worth it though :)
Wish I can find the amps I had back in 95-96 I had both the DOD 15 watt GRIND IT and GRUNGE amps they were badass!!
I know I'm five years late, but thank you for this cool video. This has always been one of my favorite pedals, and I am a very lucky person, I have an early '86 Super Distortion, and I still have the battery compartment door. This week, as a collector and player, I bought an Ibanez TS5 Tube Screamer, because, why not? I watched your video, and it was very enjoyable. I am subscribing!!!
Hoping you'll continue to do a throwback 80s and 90s pedal day at least once a week.
I actually like how this sounds. Not my favourite distortion sound but surprisingly warm and wooly
In all honesty, you should be playing these pedals through a solid state Peavey and a knock off lawsuit Les Paul for authentic 90's tones. I bet you could find a old Bandit on Reverb for pretty cheap.
I still own that Bandit 112 and Cort Les Paul. My Digitech distortion died a long time ago. Lol
I didn't have a knock off LP, but for a while I did play through a Rage 158. Gave it to my brother and he still has it, though it doesn't get much use. Kinda wish it had a speaker out so I could plug it into a 1x12 and see how that worked out.
Sounds good..That's the thing with these pedals, people remember them sounding like shit because they used them with super shitty amps, when they were kids..But with a good amp its very usable.
Mine was that yellow Turbo distortion..Lol
Haha, my first rig wasn't much to look at. A pawn shop guitar with no branding on it and a Memphis solid state combo. However, once my parents saw that i was serious about playing guitar, I eventually had the Crate GX-15 with a DOD Thrash Master. It was probably around the same time Fluff had his Supra Distortion. I remember how excited I was because I could play "One" without having to stop and hit the channel button, haha.
Haha nice..Was learning One at that time too ;)
the flex wave distortion was ok on those for the time...@@nolasludge
Exactly
The funny thing is that since these pedals were cheaper than Boss pedals back in the day there was thus the pairing often of DOD pedals with affordable amps at the time. This most often turned out tones that you would rather not have to endure. When you watch a video with an old pedal and it sounds good there is the fact that the amp being used in the video is often a high quality one with good dynamic headroom and smooth compressing to the signal than harsh clipping. I have the old yellow overdrive by DOD and while I can get a decent sound out of it with my tube amps, there is still enough of the DOD sound that makes me remember how wonky these pedals sounded in the 80s at local mom and pop music stores.
yep I still do not get why most solid state amps have clean channels that hard clip or a channel with more head room for pedals.
I shudder to think how bad my old DOD Grunge into Rock Town amp sound must have been. Yikes.
Ha, I remember that thing! Those switches were always a little finicky, but for a less expensive pedal, back in the day, DOD was king.
Sound more usable than the Grunge.
that's exactly what I was thinking lol. Sounds nice as a mild clean boost, kinda has a very light fuzz to it that I dig
The Grunge is a piece of shit. This is actually decent.
I have both the Supra-distortion and the Grunge. I preferred the Grunge over the Supra
The Grunge sounds unreal with multiple big speakers through a good tube amp. You just cannot play it on a small amp.
@@crashstitches79 my bandmates wanted to kill me anytime I kicked in my Grunge (mark II) pedal, it was almost always unbearable feedback through my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100 half stack. No matter what I did with the pedal or amp's settings, it just wanted to be super screechy.
I run it through a 70s 50 watt univox solid state amp and it sounds great now though.
OMG the nostalgia is strong with this one!!!! That was my first distortion pedal at 12!!! I was rocking some Silverchair pretty damn hard!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane Fluff! Keep up the great work!
that tone is actually pretty good
Man everyone loved these DOD pedals back in the day.
I had to laugh so hard when you mentioned most people buying the DOD pedals since they were about 20 - 30 bucks cheaper than the boss pedals. That was definitely me and my friends for sure.
I ran my Supra Distortion into my Peavey studio pro 50 back in 87. Had a Yamaha SE-350 strat copy. My first rig at 17. Long gone but that tone good or bad is forever etched in my mind. Love these throwback vids.
That was my first pedal as well!.... Run into a crate 15 Watt solid state amp!.
.....I loved it cause it's all I knew at the time!. Lol
Dude I had the exact same rig as you, I had a cheap mitchell guitar with that pedal and a crate 15 watt, thats cool lol
Wow!... I looked at those mitcheel guitars at guitar center, struggled to find one that wasn't poorly made, either cracked or bad paint or something.....I guess I better look after my company a little more huh?..lol, I wish!
omg that was also my first rig !! 10 years ago, 9 yrs old bc rich warlock bronze series lol
Wow, me too same exact rig except my warlock was platinum series. That crate was quite obnoxious as I remember.
The good ol crate gx-15
What I love about your reviews is you give awesome history lesson about it too
Dude!!! My first pedal was that one!!!! So many memories coming back! Awesome
That was my first distortion too! I got along the blue chorus DoD had out at the time. Still have them both but they need replacement 9volt cables... and battery covers, of course.
Ah, memories.
I just got of these after having one 35 years ago. It's way better than I remember. Those 80s DOD pedals don't get the credit they deserve. We just associate them with our crappy playing from when we were young. Lol Let the healing begin.
I agree 100%. I’m 54 and now want all my DOD pedals back that I had….I will obtain these treasures…oh yes, I will.
@@brianhintze6440 I've started a collection of them. Super fun pedals.
Dude! My Same 1st pedal when I was 13 in 1993.
Brings back a lot of nostalgia!
Thanks for re-reviewing this!
I think I had the blue DOD chorus pedal too to get that Nirvana sound.
My first DOD was the metal maniac with the bright yellow housing!!!! I had this one also.
Nostalgia kicked hard 😁, My first pedal was a DOD too but was the "Super american metal" My dad bought it for me in a trip to USA I was just a kid and choose It only because said metal. It was more like glam metal sound but for me was the coolest thing ever
Same here! Mine didn't have the OD at the top of the sweep. I have no idea where my original went, but I also found a replacement recently and held on to it for nostalgia. The original sounded great with my drummer's dad's Bandmaster at the time.
I just got one in the mail. I love the sound. It's grungry and I love it already.
Cara, tá na hora de vc fazer um TC ( transplante capilar) vai ficar cool man. Poder deixar cabelão grande novamente. Brazil é top de tc na galera. Tmj irmão metal👏👏
Pretty gnarly...i like a distortion pedal that sounded a bit like overdrive!
I think my first was a DOD Thrash Master around 30 years ago. Don't remember what it sounded like, but fairly confident it sounded terrible. I do remember it was pink af.
It's the same as the American Metal. I still have my American.It's horrendous. It's definitely more of a fuzz.
Back in 95-96 I had both the 15 watt DOD GRIND IT and GRUNGE amps they were badass!!
i had that exact setup myself @@MrDISTORT6
I remember the gain knob was basically useless, and unless you wanted a 3rd rate obituary tone you might as well not bother hooking it up!
You cant do enough of these old DOD pedal reviews. I had so many of those things.
I have the 55B, which I also got from Musicians Friend, in mid 1994, along with the FX40B Equalizer. I picked up the FX69 Grunge later that year. I got the FX17 Wah in late 1997. I still have all of them with the boxes.
Of the 4, only the wah pedal I would consider sub par. The 55B was pretty good for the type of music we were doing, which featured a lot of Black Sabbath, Godsmack and Alice in Chains.
That's cool you found your first pedal. My first pedal was also a D.O.D. but I don't remember the model. It was alot like that one in build. The same switch and battery cover. 3 nobs. But was slightly purple in color
I'm impressed. I wasn't expecting much, then again, I don't think a builder who has been doing this since '72ish would have made it very far if he couldn't design a decent Distortion circuit. Very cool, and even more exciting you found the box and the battery cover. This is the first time I've seen the cover on that pedal.
Those old DOD pedals are sick. I have an FX50B now. Gear from the mid 80s to late 90s is my favorite stuff.
It distorts.
“Here’s my clean tone”
*Tone is overdriven*
My first was the Boss HM2. Have the original box as well. Serial says February of 1985. Got it for $40.
Mine to. got it in 84/85. I still have it
This was the first distortion pedal I ever purchased too! The second was a DOD chorus so I could play "Come as you are"! Good times.
Same here!
Cool demo! I wish I knew that pedal when I was a teenage playing my JCM800 2210
I love these nostalgia trips and 'old' gear reviews, keep doing them please, greetings from Belgium!
The Supra Distortion was my first distortion pedal, too. I bought it in 1987 and played it through an early 70's Sears Airline amp and it pretty much sounded exactly like that.
I have a DOD Classic Tube (FX53), with electrical tape holding the battery in place. I have used it for years for distressing voiceover tracks (as I am a sound designer, and I collect peddles for sound effects work). I quite like it !
Ha! Same here….. except that I use it on lead bass synth (Sequential Pro One)….. sounds like a Rat, but a bit more round/full & less raspy…. great tool for film 🎥 composing 🤘🏽
That was my very first pedal as well.. played it through a 15 watt Ibanez amp with an Yamaha rgx421d.. same as age as you... Rock on brotha 🤘.. still have the Yamaha.. everything else is gone though.
Holy crow. That was my first dirt pedal too, and still have it! Got it back in the 00's. Just got lucky and found the battery cover randomly laying in my backyard.
Well, this video just took me back to 1993! That was my first distortion pedal, too. After playing with crappy amps since 1988, the thing sounded amazing to me as a 14 year old boy. Excellent video!
Good demo, good sounding pedal, good for grunge, post grunge, etc. Regarding the battery cover, if you're using a battery, the cover will get loose. That's why you see so many without the cover. I just found mine in the shed from when I bought it in the late 80-early 90's, and the cover was being held on with some duct tape. I also found my DOD Chorus pedal, and it's battery cover is loose as well. The cover's pressure points to open/close cover turned out to be a design flaw. I suggest using an ac converter and just store the battery cover away.
This was my first distortion. Played it into a 10w little squire amp. Had to be 88. That's the sound, I haven't heard in decades. Wow. Super wooly sounding.
Sounds great, similar IMO to the Boss DS-1 DOD 250 or MXR Distortion +
This was my first pedal too, running it into my Park G10R with my Yamaha Pacifica. Still have all that gear too!
I totally had one of these! I had a terrible amp back then, too. Nobody was really going "direct" back then. So, I went through a lot of drive pedals. My Supra Distortion had the drive knob that went to like 10, then it had a section called "turbo" i think. Tough to remember 20 some years ago. I am surprised that, even with a decent amp here, it still sounds about as bad as I remember...lol.
I remember when I was about 15/16 having the dod grunge pedal given to me. It already had the battery cover missing and duct tape covering the hole..
I later purchased the did juice box overdrive and the dod chorus pedal o believe was called “deep freeze”.. it’s dials said things like “chill”, “ice” , “freeze”..something like that
I used to have the DOD Super American Metal would love to hear that thing again after all these years
Some of those Dean Markley amps are actually quite impressive, they made some nice tube amps and some stereo solid state amps to compete with roland
my first guitar pedal was a 80s Tokai Distortion pedal, TDS-1. it was a gift back when i first started playing guitar.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! That was also my first distortion pedal, I think I got it Christmas of 1992, and I remember trying hard to decide between this and the DOD American Overdrive, which was also about $50! Sounds pretty good though, might scratch that sentimental itch and pick one up!
Dude Fluff!! You and I seem to have a lot in common, but this DOD pedal was one of my first, also! Actually, I did have the FX-50 too! Fond memories as a kid having them both and glad to know you rocked this as well! Have a good one and cheers to you!
It´s fun to see this. In Sweden, in the late 80´s when I started to play, everyone used the BOSS Turbo Overdrive or in my case, the Turbo Distortion. I don´t recall seeing this pedal in the shops back then.
I must admit, I'm loving this trip down memory lane at all the "awesome" pedals that were available back in the day. Though, I do still use my DOD Juice Box for a nice solo boost.
my first was a DOD Metal Maniac, 50bucks from a pawnshop in 1992. Played with a Harmony (Sears) guitar into a tiny Dean Markley belt-clip amp.
My first distortion pedal too, and i also remember it not sounding that crunchy through my cheap Ross amp but worked for me at the time.
Sounds good. I suspect that Marshall JCM-800 definitely helps too! I bought the DoD Boneshaker new for only $34.95 shipped overnight by air on some special deal a year or so back. Sounds pretty cool with all the parametric controls.
Fluff, these are cool videos. I must admit a couple months back I got hit with the same nostalgia. My first pedal was a boss DS-2 from 2001, I don't remember what happened to it, by 2003 I had lost it. So I went on ebay and bought a used one. I can coax some cool sounds from it now. I just might track down my first guitar and do the same. Your supra distortion doesn't sound all that bad either, just a little noisy. Thanks for these videos!
I'm going to assume he was using a split coil pu at certain points thrru his demo that gave him that 60hz cycle hum, which every pedal will do. I recommend a noise gate.
I cherish mine for being my first pedal. I, personally, thought it was noisy and terrible, so it has sat in a drawer since I got mine in the early 90s. I still have it and it looks practically new. Still sounds like buzzy noise to me, though. Of course, this all could be attributed to the fact that I'm just not a good guitarist. Great vid! Good to see someone else's take on it!
This was my first pedal but I played it through a Peavey's clean channel. I seem to remember being able to get Rhoads Tribute kind of gain out of it pretty easy.
That pedal was my first distortion pedal in 1989 and when the BOSS Metal Zone came out, I bought it and gave away the DOD to another guitar player kid at school that needed it. I didn't like the Supra Distortion back then but it sounded decent in your video. I had a crappy Crate solid state combo back then, so... Thanks for the blast from the past!
Dude. This was my first pedal too. And I got it for the same exact reason. $20 at the music store I took lessons at. What a steal!
I use the newer version of the supra distortion on my board regularly. I love it.
I still own it, when you set it right...it has a killer tone!
Holy hell fluff my story is the very same. I got in nirvana and playing guitar at the same time and wanted to pedal that would give me a distortion sound. It did the trick until it fell apart. I still have it
see my dad had a Digitech DS1550, this pedal came out just barelt after the brand change. still has the dod buttons
My 1st pedal too. I still have it and play it thru my Peavy Bandit 112!
dod Supra Distortion is better than ds1 Boss. Good sound !
My first was a Digitech Screamin Blues which I used for ACDC tones out of a Marshall Valvestate. Preferred the sound of it over the valvestate. Not a bad pedal really. It was basically a modded Blues Driver I think
Actually sounds okay. Thanks for the demo!
My first as well, fond memories of plugging this into my Marshall JCM 800 split channel combo.
My first pedal was the dod thrash master switch stopped working the first night so took back to store and they gave me the metal maniac. Its switch stopped working after a couple weeks. I remember liking them through my Peavey studio pro 110. Lol
This was my very first pedal! I bought it used for $25 in the early 90's. Wish I still had it!
i had this dod pedal as well as the DOD all american metal pedal back in 92/93 when i was 14. lol i did find my american metal pedal last year still works
My first pedal waa a DOD tuner with a missing battery cover. My first distortion pedal was a Line 6 Dr. Distorto. It was okay, and it had interesting features. My amp at the time was a Marshall MG10CD which sounded okay, but it wasn't loud. I wish I knew at the time to plug it into a different speaker.
a beast of a pedal, found one in a pawnshop in Barcelona about ten years ago and used it on a record without a guitar plugged in, just jockeying the dials for some ungodly feedback. if you like noise it is extremely potent. defo mod out the crappy DOD footswitch for a spring switch or something though.
Omg the supra distortion was my first pedal too!! My friends dad gave it to me I was 16! Its the 80's version of it!!
My first pedal was a Boss SD-1 that i still have. Its a a pretty solid pedal.
Love it. Your like me. If i can find my first amp Marlboro Soundworks GX-30 (or something like that) i won't hesitate to snag it up. My first drive pedal was the DOD Classic Fuzz. Souded different on the Marlboro than on other amps but i loved it being 12 years old in '92.
I had the 2 knob DOD distortion pedal (no tone control). Sounded about the same as the "Supra Distortion".
I’m impressed you got an old DOD with a battery cover! I’ve got 2 old DODs and one cover between them.
Have you checked out the website about the old pedals? I think it’s called America’s pedal or something like that?
that quick little epic ozzy riff. had to really think about where i remember that riff from
It was my first pedal too, used it with a 60 watt heathkit amp.
1988- DOD American Metal into a Bandit 65. Good times.
I had an American Metal, too. 1987, and it sounded like garbage. A couple of years ago I bought one in perfect condish on eBay for nostalgia, and messed around with it... I realized that 13 year-old me had used it all wrong; 42 year-old me finally used in to the clean channel of an amp, and then realized that it was really not bad at all. It was one of the first "amp in a box" pedals, and prolly wasn't meant to be used in the gain channel of an amp like a DS-1 or an SD-1, etc. I was pretty darned impressed with it after that, lol...
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Yeah that's how we always did it. We played Skid Row and Cinderella tunes a lot so we need both clean and gain. Gotta have those cleans for Fade To Black and One as well. The American Metal pedal had a strange EQ to it, but I always liked it. It was the easiest way to get good grindy distortion for us po' kids that couldn't afford tube amps.
1995-1996 I had both of those 15 watt DOD GRIND IT and GRUNGE amps they were badass!!
I actually just bought this pedal and a peavey bandit 65 lol. Looks great next to my orange rockerverb mkiii lol
My first pedal was the DOD fx-50. I have never to this day gotten it to sound good. Still got it, though.
I used to stack this with a Tube Screamer, using the DOD as my base tone and boosting it with the tube screamer. Into the clean channel of a solid state Peavey of course.
This was my first distortion pedal too! I was 15 lol
Sounds pretty good to me !!! A little tweaking with the bass, mid and treble and you should be good to go.
Also my first Distortion pedal and Delay, Compressor and, for some reason, American Metal. The thing I liked the most about these pedals was the 'tap' pedal itself.
This was my first pedal as well... But I paid full retail, which was about $70, sometime in the mid-90's... I got took... I didn't know any better... I had not discovered Musician's Friend yet. I don't have my original any more, but I do have a DOD FX50 Distortion... I haven't used it in years though. I'll be getting it out soon. I haven't had a distortion pedal on my board in a while. Mostly mild drives and fuzzes.
I had the DOD yellow pedal... I like this one better. I got mine used and somebody stole it after a year and I got a metal zone thru a Bravo 112 lol!
I had one of the earlier Supras also. Eventually, it developed a short in it....or something fried and would straight out shriek when you stopped playing....even with the guitar and pedal volumes off. It then made for some good early 90's noise/grind.
My first pedal too. I think it was, in 1986, about $35 for the Super Distortion. It made my 10W Roland keyboard amp sound like a Marshall stack (if only to my young ears) with all knobs dimed.
Doesn't sound too bad. That said, it seems like there is some clean signal still until you crank the gain knob.
Sounded fizzy to me with the distortion cranked, but back it off a bit and what a great sludge tone!
Hey mate, you can hear this thing has Germanium diode clipping going on - it sounds pretty woolly and fluffy. I haven't seen the schematic, but I'll bet it's basically as DOD250 type circuit and probably wants to be used more like a dirty boost into an amp that's slready breaking up. Try a bit more preamp gain on your Marshall and use it like a Tubescreamer.
My first was the metal zone. Don’t hate me
Speed Cola don’t worry. Metal Zone was my first too, and I still have it
RockStar 25 same
Same. The Metal Zone wasn't bad, people just used it wrong.
Ectoplasmic36 people don’t know what a fx loop is
mine was even worse...RAT lol
i had a dod super distortion,about 1993 when i was around 15 years old , it was scathing , i remeber it was trebley and hurt my ears! theyre in a good quality case at least