Robert, I had an original 70's DOD Overdrive/Preamp 250. I wish I had it now. I ran it into the front of, get this, my first good guitar amp, a Randall RG 60, also a piece of gear I wish I had now. But I got what I like to call, and what sounds the best to my ears, "milkshake" distortion and overdrive, thick, rich, and punchy. Many years later, I was given a reissue of the DOD Overdrive/Preamp 250, by a lady friend of mine. I never told her about when I put it to the test, but the reissue sounded nothing like the original, it was thin, papery, and tinny, admittedly, it sucked. But I still have it, I can't get rid of it. She passed away 7 years ago, it's the only memento I have left from when I knew her, and she knew how much I love the guitar. But on the bright side, I also have a DigiTech Hardwire Reverb. It is a keeper, and is on my pedalboard. I can get different reverbs on it, and really tweak the sound. Great for an amp that doesn't have reverb. I think she would have been happy for me to have that too :) :)
I still think the best €20 I ever spent was when my Local Guitar Store had a blow-out sale on Digitech pedals and I snatched up a Bad Monkey for cheaper-than-Behringer money. Great drive pedal, and even comes with a surprisingly good amp/cab-simulation output.
I have the Ice Box, I heard it once on YT & bought one off eB straight away; fantastic sound, shame about bout the switch 😂. It replaced a CH-2 that I really didn't get on with. I've just bought a used Hardwire CM-2 Tube Overdrive, not played with it much yet but I'm amazed at the build quailty. A Hardwire SC-2 Value Distortion at least & a few other DOD & DigiTech pedals are on my to-buy list. Going to check out your older reviews now!
I was not a fan of digitech until I discovered the Polara, Obscura and the DOD boneshaker. Great pedals. Sounds great and very well built quality. I highly recommend the ones i mentioned to anyone.
I love the Polara and my next buy will be the Obscura. I also have a Screamin' Blues which was my first overdrive pedal and I still use it to this day.
Excellent video and I agree with you 100%! Digitech and DOD need a revival. I also stand by my claim that the (horribly misnamed) Grunge pedal is actually really good if set right. As long as the gain stays under half and the high is set at just a hair above minimum, it can be ferocious and super tight. Everyone laughs at me when I suggest running the emulated out straight to a recording console...... until they try it.
@@dektrimusic Yeah! It's such a killer pedal. Play it for people before telling them what it is and they'll say it sounds absolutely wicked. Then, tell them and watch their look of complete surprise. Run volume at noon, bass at 1 o'clock, treble at 9 o'clock, gain at half. If you have a boost pedal, roll the Grunge gain all the way down and spike it with the boost for a searing lead tone.
The older Digitech X series pedals are amazing, too. They seem to have been forgotten about. The Multi chorus, Digidelay, Hyper phase, Turbo flange, Digiverb, Hot Rod..etc are great pedal and still can be had CHEAP. You can catch them on GC used page anywhere from $29-$49 sometimes even cheaper. I have see the Hot Rod and the Hot Head Distortions for as low as $19.99! Another thing about the Hardwire series pedals i have learned. If it says HARDWIRE on the footswitch, its made in USA. If it says DIGITECH its china. Ive owned both and there is NO difference, just putting it out there. I currently own the Hardwire Valve Distortion and the Hardwire Metal Distortion..FANTASTIC. People think the Metal Distortion is a Boss Metal Zone copy..NOPE. Try it! Put the toggle switch on the 'tight' setting and it will blow you away!
Get a Mosaic while you can . I bought mine when they came out to use with my Rickenbacker 330/6 and discovered it also sounds amazing with my Les Paul, Tele & Strats 👌
I use both the Digitech and DOD Death Metal pedals through several other pedal boards including Mooer GE150 and 2 Mooer Radar pedals and even IK Multimedia Amplitube. I also use both the Digitech RP12 and RP20 which I record the pedals midi continuous controller. I mix anywhere between 4 to 8 different pefalboards together using ableton and akai apc40 for truly unique really heavy tones. I have tweaked the RP20's Scooped Death Metal patch into a stereo ensemble with its tube turned on instead of just solid state distortion. (I am very interested in checking out the Bad Monkey). Two other pedal boards I use are one from behringer for that swedish death metal sound and a Rocktron pedal board using Blackjck, Sansamp, and Tsunami. THREE OF MY PEDAL BOARDS EACH HAS TWO NOISE SUPPRESSORS, 4 Behringer, 1 Boss, and 1 Hush (not that great of a pedal except it has a dual function between two settings which I find useful). I also use in the guitar mix a GFX1 twin tube of which I use variations of all my heavy distortion pedals depending on what tonal qualities needs a finishing touch to the already saturated 6 channels of which the GFX1 does not have great stereo width but it adds an element of a grounded center previously missing in my mix. I also use a dedicated android phone without service running Tonebridge app with the iRig through the GFX1 or through Amplitube. And if that wasn't enough, I record all my guitars through a GK2 pickup and six channel breakout box with a Roland VG88 and GR33 and GR1. Any guitar parts that I cannot play due to my three broken and deformed fingers, I recently bought 5 simulated guitars from Ample Sound. Other Digitech products I use is both the Vocalist II and Vocalist Live Pro, I downloaded a program called RPedit which requires me to update my RP20's firmware. I most likely will add to my Digitech collection either the RP2112 or RP2120 rack units sometime next year. I will probably add the Bad Monkey and several of the Hardwire series. Imagine combining both heavy distortion with tube distortions that merge the tones of death metal, black metal, hard rock, and psychedelic funk all interwoven into one. I am blending tonalities of Cannibal Corpse, Obutuary, Entombed, Septicflesh, Burzum, Emperor, Bathory, Darkthrone, and Morbid Angel with hard rock rhythm tones of Foreigner, Heart, Toto, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Kiss along with heavy metal sounds of Black Sabbath, Demon, Lucifer's Friend, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest. The music I write is not only influenced by those bands, but also Limbonic Art, Billy Joel, Epica, Haggard, Yanni, Mannheim Steamrollers, Devin Townsend, Rush, Def Leppard. Scorpions, Krokus, Ihsahn, Painkiller, Mr. Bungle, Pan Thy Monoum, My Dying Bride, Enslaved, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica, Megadeth, Quuensryche, Deicide, Aquillus, Fleetwood Mac, ELO, Jucifer, Jinjer, Obscura, Ozzy Osbourne, Dark Funeral. Grave Declaration, Antestor, Bishop of Hexen. Carach Angren, Boston, Gerry Rafterty. Cradle of Filth, Cynic, Dio, Draconian, Elderwind, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Necrophagia, Orphaned Land, Bloodywood, Paradise Lost, Sigh, Therion. Unleashed, Voovod, Tiamat, Soundgarden. Amorphis, Obtained Enslavement, Igorrr, Omnium Gatherum. Oz. Panopticon, Samael, Satyricon, Vallendusk, The Glitch Mob, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Death, Triumph, Zebra, Type O Negative, Katatonia, Dol Ammad, Tristania, Nightwish, and so many many many thousands more. While Country, Bluegrass, Hip Hop, Rap, EDM, are not my musical tastes. I do want to throw in a few of those influences as well. I am currently writing cinematic type of music that interweaves between various genres of music but mainly within a mixture of symphony orchestra, atmospheric black and death metal, and electronic music with very little repetitions with lots of progressive death metal drumming with a bass drum infused with extremely low bass drums reminiscent of rap and edm, only not constrained to 4/4 timing nor stupid sounding electronic drums with a variety of tempos, blast beats, slow beats, timpani and everything in between.
Thanks for this video I still have and actively use my RP series pedals (5) Hardwire Reverb Digitech Death Metal Digitech EX-7 Digitech TimeBender I couldn’t believe DoD /Digitech closed/shut down Not happy about that either Good choices have owned many other Digitech Thanks again👌😎😂
I love both my DOD Phasor 201 and Stereo Phaser. Great phasers that I use for a very subtle phaser sound on my bass. 201 is on my small "everything" bass pedal board.
One thing to nitpick, the "Meatbox" was released in 94'(not early 80's), sold poorly and they stopped making them. With that, I've been a huge DOD fan since I started playing in the mid 90's, in fact the first pedal I bought was a brand new "Bass Grunge" pedal. Edit: No matter how great the pedals actually were, I suspect around this era (94-98)they lost respect from "serious" players because of the silly names for the pedals and the controls. Example: the Bass Grunge knobs are labeled "more"(blend), "zip"(treble), "stupid"(distortion) and "juice" (level). This, the cartoonish graphics(which I love), and pedals like the "Buzz Box"(super sought after and pricey MXR Blue Box clone), "Punkifier", etc all disappear by around 98 in favor of more "serious" pedals when production moved overseas. Either way I still own/use the "Bass Grunge", the "Bass Overdrive"(excellent bass friendly Tubescreamer), "Deep Freeze" chorus and the FX25 envelope(IMO, the best for bass). Glad you brought up the Hardwire series as well, both guitar and bass friendly. Thanks for bringing attention to these gems that get overshadowed by all the "boutique" brands!!
I bought a DOD FX51 Juice Box in 2001. It seems like a predecessor to the Bad Monkey. I love the pedal even today. The only drawback is it is a big tone sucker when bypassed.
Thanks for recognizing DOD/Digitech. I have 12 of there pedals. My favorites are the DOD Milk Box compressor, DOD Rubberneck Delay, DOD Looking Glass OD and the Digitech Chorus Factory.
I was fortunate enough to snag up an original grey box DOD 250 recently. The 250 has been my favorite pedal for a while, even before I bought it. I think DOD is easily my favorite vintage pedal company. Lots of underrated and crazy effects. Also, the DOD Meatbox wasn’t around in the 80s like you said. It came out in 1994. I don’t doubt that it was one of the earlier synth pedals out there, however. Probably too late for a correction in the video, but I figured it should be said that you go that wrong. Also, Digitech didn’t buy DOD. DOD firmed Digitech in the late 80s and as Digitech gained more traction in the early 2000s and DOD’s sales faded they simply shifted a number of things DOD was making to the Digitech name and the DOD name was retired. The fact that DOD made Digitech as a side-brand (mostly for rack-mount unit’s back in the day) can be supported by the fact that old WH-1 Whammy pedals will have DOD’s logo and company information on the bottom plate. Still liked the video, though! It’s nice to see these brands get thrown some more love. Makes me kinda regret selling my Bad Monkey a few years ago.
I have had quite a few DOD/Digitech pedals in the past, I still have some of my old USA made ones, but the ones I use exclusively are the Jamman Stereo( have about 5 of them) The 360xp(have 2)& the reason I have that many is I gig A Lot, so I have extras, & believe me, they work Great! All my live gigs I'm using them, if you want to hear that bass patch, put headphones on & check out some of my live video gigs & you'll be amazed at how powerful that bass sound is, absolute Work horses!!! Great video Robert, rock on & God Bless!!!
I have an OG 97 Ice Box, never will it leave my board Also own DOD Gunslinger, Carcosa, Boneshaker and Lookingglass. Simply 4 of the finest drive pedals ever made *Gunslinger - one of the best amps in a box ever made a stunning core tone, takes TS style boosts in the front end brilliantly *Carcosa- possibly the most versatile fuzz ever made, does pretty much all fuzz types well *Boneshaker- hugely misunderstood pedal, great fot Heavy guitars as a Boost, or and of chain tone shaping and extra gain character (hint Gunslinger for core tone into Boneshaker with small amounts of extra gain is a crushing tone) *Lookingglass- Unique Overdrive circuit and tone, very "round" and "warm" sounding, can even do stonery/psychedelic distortion in higher gain settings, but excels as vintage tube amp break up
I had a Digitech digital delay back in the mid to late 1980's that had a 2 second delay capability, but the best part was an "infinite repeat that could be played over while it repeated. It was fun to see how much you could cram into 2 seconds to play over. A looper before loopers were cool. L.O.L. William C. central Indiana. I also remembered that I have a DOD Turbo Stereo Chorus pedal (FX 67) in my gig bag from a long time ago. I figured it would be a Japanese manufactured pedal, but it turned out to be made in the U.S.A. Surprised me. Oh, and yes the battery door is LONG GONE someplace.
I have the yellow 250 OD/Preamp, Bad Monkey, Gunslinger, Big Pig Fat, (I understand it's a limited edition modified Grunge pedal made for Musicians Friend and maybe others) a fuzz from the late 80's in the older style burnt orange colored enclosure. A couple of old gray colored EQs, that the sliders broke on. The fuzz is so-so. I like my Danelectro French Toast Fuzz better. I like the BM alot, Gunslinger is good but a little noisy, BPF is really good but real scooped so I turn up the mids an give it more kick . Like my RP500, RP355, BP355.
I have the FX17 Wah, FX40B EQ, FX55B, Supra Distortion, FX69 Grunge and FX747 Supersonic Stereo Flanger. I'm thinking about picking up an FX50 Overdrive Plus if it's still in my LGS when I get to it next week. I love both the FX69 and the FX747.
I got a Jamman stereo for super cheap! It was marked as 'good' at Guitar Center, but not a scratch or problem with it. I love it. I had an SD card lying around, so for under $150, I got a decent buy. Good list, Robert!
@@RobertWJacksonWasn't expecting a reply from the man himself! After your video I bought a Digitech Digidelay from the X series. It looks super cool in reviews. It'll be added to the DOD Ice Box, Digitech Grunge, Digitech Screamin' Blues, and Hardwire HT-2 chromatic tuner. I love this company. Never had a single Boss pedal.
Hi Robert. I have the DOD Vibro Thang. When it came out, it was unique and it has a great lonely sounding tremolo. I picked it up for next to nothing. Cheers, Stephen
@@RobertWJackson People are into $300 OD pedals it's nuts. Here in Australia, $300 seems to be a standard price, but there are plenty of pedals which cost a lot more than that. Things were a lot simpler when I used to Gaffa tape 3 Boss pedals to the stage: OD, chorus and analogue delay, back in the days when I could still have a 100w tube amp in stage and the drummer wasn't in a plexiglass prison. 👍😁
Forgot my DOD FX747 Flanger. It's been on my board for years and it sounds amazing. The buffers are killer. I'm also using a Hardwire Supernatural. Love that thing. AND I'm using a Digitech Freqout as well, just a killer pedal.
No Digitech Grunge?!.. haha that was THEE first pedal I ever purchased. Haven’t used it in years, but you could dial in a good sound on that thing. And built like a tank! Love the Boss-style foot pad. Made even better with the spring loaded pins to pop it off with a 1/4 plug :)
Totally agree about the Bad Monkey. Bought one new from Guitar Center for 35 Bucks, first series, too. It still sounds great! Also, I’d like to mention a few others. The Digitech RP1000 multi-effects is really good. As is the Digitech GSP 2101 Artist Preamp, and The Johnson J-Station Modeler. I’m still getting a lot of mileage out of all of mine. I know they’re technically not single pedal units, but all three have worked out well for me.
Hey, Robert Keith! I recently read your opinion about the DigiTech XP series and so maybe you can help me. I love Robin Trowers guitar tone, especially on "Bridge of Sighs" and "Day of the Eagle". The problem is I don't have a Univibe and would like to know what combination of effects (flanger and chorus?) could I use to approximate that of s Univibe. Grateful for any help! Mark Zuelch markziz60@yahoo.com
@@markzuelch7452 if you want a Univibe, get a Univibe. I use the Univibe sound in a Boss V-wah. Mine was $70 used on craigslist. There's lots of options are varying prices. Grab a Danelectro or Berhinger if you're on a budget or just use it for 2 or 3 tracks. MXR make a few "Hendrix-vibe" pedals that really nice.
The advice "If you want univibe, a get univibe" couldn't be more apropos, as I have said for decades, "The only thing that sounds like a Marshall is a Marshall," etc. Clearly, well-heeled advice speaks well for itself.
Great video man. I'm a huge DOD/Digitech fan since I first started playing 20 years ago. They are super underrated and over looked. But the real tone freaks like me, who NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT and unique have a great advantage here. Some oldies but goodies here of course, and that Mosaic is probably something I'll have to get for my 6 string bass. If it's compatible. And I'm also dissapinted that they closed their doors. Again!!
I love DigiTech and DOD! I have an original Whammy, and it is my favorite DigiTech, pedal, although the XP300 Space Station continues to be my unicorn. My favorite DOD pedal is my Super Distortion (pre-lawsuit)!
Just picked up a $35 “as-is” DBM, untested, and by a stroke of luck it works perfectly. Replaced it and my SD1 for less combined than I sold either for. Reveling in what I’ve been missing. The sad face came out when you brought up the ICE BOX… I loved that pedal. May try to pick up another, but it was my stereo splitter for almost two decades. My only question is why no love for the DOD FX51 Juice Box? I want another of those so bad I can taste the Pulp. Great selections!
Found an Ice Box on the cheap, and have loved having it back in my rig. It’s always on, and just adds that little extra shimmer to my rig, and I love that it’s a mono in/stereo out - makes a great splitter at the head of my stereo effects. Just curious though - most of the DOD pedals you featured are from their later lines. What are some of the older DOD pedals that you like? How bout the FX50-B, a bit of a different take on the 250?
Robert! Fearless Leader! I just caught your video about the 13 Boss and Digitech stomp boxes, etc. and your accumen was very cool. I couldn't hope to have half that much information stuffed in my brain and all the recall too. I was a little surprised you didn't mention the Blues Driver (haven't used one in ages and really should get another one one of these days). I've reached out to a couple of people who seem to perhaps know something about my DigiTech Element XP; I just want to know if I can approximate the sound of a Univibe by mixing a chorus and a flanger, but I'm pretty well convinced that I'm going to have to stick a crowbar in it and just buy a Univibe---I just love Trower's guitar tone on "Bridge of Sighs" and "Day of the Eagle" and will be happy to nail it one of these days. Be cool there in the Dungeon and by all means play the blues (hey I'm an old blues guy who enjoys classic rock)! Mark Zuelch markziz60@yahoo.com ☮
Finally there's somebody celebrating Tom Cram's FABULOUS work - ingenious, fantastic sounding and affordable pedals that outgunned boutique effects which cost three times as much. Robert, you rock!
One thing I think you should have included was the DOD power board. Held 5 pedals on removeable panels. Still have today with five DOD pedals still on it.
Everybody had a “METALLICA” pedal back in those days. LOL Mine was the Metal Zone and the Digitech PDS-1550 Dual Distortion thing they did back then. I still have both of them! LOL
I picked up a Digitech Luxe and while I have decided to get a Line 6 HX Effects for modulations and such, I have found the Luxe to be unique in what it does, so it stays on my board. My one criticism of the Luxe is that it does not play well with others and is super fussy about its power supply. It wasn't until I got a Strymon Ojai that it was happy with anything other than its own Digitech wall wart.
As usual, you knocked it out of the park with this one. I bought both the Gunslinger and the Luxe based on your reviews. I agree that the luxe is the best chorus I've used. Pryor to that, I had an old DOD Mini Chorus 460 that was so good, it was an "Always on" Pedal. Now I'm considering a Polara - again, based on your review - (another excellent video, BTW). You haven't steered me wrong yet. I didn't take to the Mosaic, but I bought that before you reviewed it, so that doesn't count. Sorry for the novel, but I HAVE to mention the Jimi Hendrix Experience pedal. It's one of my favorites - almost like a multi-fx in a wah housing.
I was never a "pedal' type of guy, i always went for the multi-effect pedals and my absolute favorite is the Digitech GNX4....I still have one, and can get most any sound out there. Oer the last few months I have been using the Digitech iPB-10 that uses an iPad for an interface, while all the hardware is in the pedal housing. It is also a great sounding unit that has a slick interface. It is "brighter, more mid-range" than the GNX4, but I feel the GNX4 kills on the Sabbath / Blackmore type of sounds. Either way Digitech & DOD rock, no matter what anyone says!
I remember when the iPB-10 came out. We had high hopes for it because Digitech had come in and plugged it pretty hard to us. But apparently the world just wasn’t quite ready for it yet because it just didn’t do well.
Your not the only Digitech fanboy. Lol. I do wish you would have brought up their awesome line level modeler/x fects processor. The great GSP 1101. I own two of them. When popular they were way ahead of the curve. Before Fractal, before Kemper, maybe before Line 6, there was the GSP. Many of today’s modeler’s took what Digitech had in this processor.
Still use my digi 2120 preamp ghetto Eventide I bought in 2000. Pretty much has 10 of everything. I use a jmp1 midi for the actual preamp section though but the effects are decent. You just have to spend a little bit of time building patches.
Watching this is 2024, luckily Cort decided to buy the Digitech brand and re-released some pedals, on this list I would put the Digitech Talker, FreqOut and Whammy Ricochet
@@RobertWJackson thank you dude, this was a great video, I own a few DOD/Digi Tech pedals, Carcosa , Gunslinger, Trio, Digi-delay (favorite delay) I love'em all. They don't get enough credit due to name but they are excellent pedals. 🤘
I have a Digitech PDS-1002 two second delay and a DOD FX-65 Stereo Chorus both from the late 80s (I think) they still work and sound cool. *edit: I still have the battery doors for both.
Luckily for me I snagged one of the Luxe pedals for real cheap (new) before they announced they were stopping production. It’s a great chorus type effect that plays well with others. I find that most chorus pedals have to be played to, and you are forced to work with its rising and falling modulation. There are many that make this easily to accomplish. The Luxe however takes that out of the equation and just adds that shimmer, sparkle, or atmospheric effect.
Robert have you heard of or played the digitech black 13 Scott Ian pedal. That would be a great “forgotten gem of the past”. If you like Anthrax or S.O.D you’ll love the digitech black13. There is a video on RUclips of Scott Ian doing a demo of it from 11 years ago, check it out.
The Bad Monkey has always been recognised as a fine pedal *for the money*. No big secret there! Present day hype overlooks the fact that once the price inflates much beyond it's original RRP there are much better pedals out there for comparable prices. I use mine to boost and tone shape my Rat clone. I do notice some tone loss when it's disengaged; it's not terrible but it is perceptible.
The Carcosa is a great sounding fuzz (I am a fuzz fan mind you!) but, for a cheap (non-Digitech) alternative, you can pick up a Ginean Hairy Show fuzz for around £30 ($40?) from China
The DOD Milk Box (FX 84) is imho one of the best compressors. On Reverb I've seen them for over €200 for it. Crazy maybe, but they are awesome! Check that one out! I have the first version (with all the funny text and I also have the box, Josh... ;) ) and it's awesome! I had a Bad Monkey, sold it and regret that ever since... ;)
Hardwire line kicked ass. I hated every chorus out there except the multi chorus in my rp21d valve.. Soon as the hardwire series.? The only oedal I ever bought rand new upon release. The hardwire chorus. It's never left my board.
Man, I paid $50 in AUD for the Bad Monkey in 2014, probably around $20ish USD. There was a shelf full of them. Like, seriously. Nobody wanted them. Now, near a decade later, you can't find one for less than $150 AUD. It's a ridiculous price jump in a short space of time. A bass modded TS circuit is apparently what everyone never knew they wanted.
Apart form throwing cheap multifx pedals into the market Digitech made some historical gems. I really like the RPx400 as a floor recording studio. It's rare, but packed with features: Equipped with a RCA mike input with phantom, digital audio two way usb interface, drummer. Footstomp recording and playback. Free Cakewalk recording software. Glenn Tipton endorsed Digitech for a long time.
Probably, but I couldn’t tell you which one it was off the top of my head. The Hot Head, I believe, is basically a Marshall-in-a-box type of distortion.
I do plan to pick up a Bad Monkey for the collection at some point, and the Grunge pedal as a novelty. In my area, there were not many MXR pedals, the options were basically BOSS, DOD, and Ibanez 5 series (I'm that old). I had MANY 5 series pedals, but never got into DOD because they seemed to break easier than the Ibanez... which also broke easily but the battery covers stayed on, dammit.
I was mistaken about that. They’re still around, but they did relieve Tom Cram of his duties and discontinued all of their single stomp boxes. They still have the small RP processors and a few other things, but all of the Tom Cram era designs seem to be gone with no plans to replace them with anything new.
think your right about the whammy 4 I got one and its good but switch is dodgy sometime and the exp pedal seems to not sit flush sometime, the bad monkey and meat box are not very good was not impressed, wanna try that yellow dod someday
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Robert, I had an original 70's DOD Overdrive/Preamp 250. I wish I had it now. I ran it into the front of, get this, my first good guitar amp, a Randall RG 60, also a piece of gear I wish I had now. But I got what I like to call, and what sounds the best to my ears, "milkshake" distortion and overdrive, thick, rich, and punchy. Many years later, I was given a reissue of the DOD Overdrive/Preamp 250, by a lady friend of mine. I never told her about when I put it to the test, but the reissue sounded nothing like the original, it was thin, papery, and tinny, admittedly, it sucked. But I still have it, I can't get rid of it. She passed away 7 years ago, it's the only memento I have left from when I knew her, and she knew how much I love the guitar.
But on the bright side, I also have a DigiTech Hardwire Reverb. It is a keeper, and is on my pedalboard. I can get different reverbs on it, and really tweak the sound. Great for an amp that doesn't have reverb. I think she would have been happy for me to have that too :) :)
I still think the best €20 I ever spent was when my Local Guitar Store had a blow-out sale on Digitech pedals and I snatched up a Bad Monkey for cheaper-than-Behringer money. Great drive pedal, and even comes with a surprisingly good amp/cab-simulation output.
I have the Ice Box, I heard it once on YT & bought one off eB straight away; fantastic sound, shame about bout the switch 😂. It replaced a CH-2 that I really didn't get on with. I've just bought a used Hardwire CM-2 Tube Overdrive, not played with it much yet but I'm amazed at the build quailty. A Hardwire SC-2 Value Distortion at least & a few other DOD & DigiTech pedals are on my to-buy list. Going to check out your older reviews now!
I was not a fan of digitech until I discovered the Polara, Obscura and the DOD boneshaker. Great pedals. Sounds great and very well built quality. I highly recommend the ones i mentioned to anyone.
Yeah I will look those pedals up....thanks JCRS!
I think the digitech dirty robot will be a sought after classic in twenty years, it's pretty much the upgrade to their classic synth/wah
I love the Polara and my next buy will be the Obscura. I also have a Screamin' Blues which was my first overdrive pedal and I still use it to this day.
Excellent video and I agree with you 100%! Digitech and DOD need a revival.
I also stand by my claim that the (horribly misnamed) Grunge pedal is actually really good if set right. As long as the gain stays under half and the high is set at just a hair above minimum, it can be ferocious and super tight. Everyone laughs at me when I suggest running the emulated out straight to a recording console...... until they try it.
I didn’t even know they shut down
Hey, I’m glad I found your comment. Just bought a Grunge for 30$, still waiting for shipping…valuable advice here… thanks 🙏🤘
@@dektrimusic Yeah! It's such a killer pedal. Play it for people before telling them what it is and they'll say it sounds absolutely wicked. Then, tell them and watch their look of complete surprise.
Run volume at noon, bass at 1 o'clock, treble at 9 o'clock, gain at half. If you have a boost pedal, roll the Grunge gain all the way down and spike it with the boost for a searing lead tone.
@@Metalbass1979 thanks, again… really appreciate your help. A Bad Monkey could be a match as a booster or you meant a clean booster?
@@dektrimusic Bad Monkey is absolutely perfect!
The older Digitech X series pedals are amazing, too.
They seem to have been forgotten about. The Multi chorus, Digidelay, Hyper phase, Turbo flange, Digiverb, Hot Rod..etc are great pedal and still can be had CHEAP. You can catch them on GC used page anywhere from $29-$49 sometimes even cheaper. I have see the Hot Rod and the Hot Head Distortions for as low as $19.99!
Another thing about the Hardwire series pedals i have learned. If it says HARDWIRE on the footswitch, its made in USA. If it says DIGITECH its china. Ive owned both and there is NO difference, just putting it out there.
I currently own the Hardwire Valve Distortion and the Hardwire Metal Distortion..FANTASTIC. People think the Metal Distortion is a Boss Metal Zone copy..NOPE. Try it! Put the toggle switch on the 'tight' setting and it will blow you away!
Over the past year these pedals have become most of my board
Right on bro! I'm a big fan of Digitech. RP1000 is my best friend right now and I am very happy with it.
Agreed, the DOD Gunslinger is the best “in your face” hard rock pedal ever made. Love it!
Get a Mosaic while you can . I bought mine when they came out to use with my Rickenbacker 330/6 and discovered it also sounds amazing with my Les Paul, Tele & Strats 👌
I use both the Digitech and DOD Death Metal pedals through several other pedal boards including Mooer GE150 and 2 Mooer Radar pedals and even IK Multimedia Amplitube. I also use both the Digitech RP12 and RP20 which I record the pedals midi continuous controller. I mix anywhere between 4 to 8 different pefalboards together using ableton and akai apc40 for truly unique really heavy tones. I have tweaked the RP20's Scooped Death Metal patch into a stereo ensemble with its tube turned on instead of just solid state distortion. (I am very interested in checking out the Bad Monkey). Two other pedal boards I use are one from behringer for that swedish death metal sound and a Rocktron pedal board using Blackjck, Sansamp, and Tsunami. THREE OF MY PEDAL BOARDS EACH HAS TWO NOISE SUPPRESSORS, 4 Behringer, 1 Boss, and 1 Hush (not that great of a pedal except it has a dual function between two settings which I find useful). I also use in the guitar mix a GFX1 twin tube of which I use variations of all my heavy distortion pedals depending on what tonal qualities needs a finishing touch to the already saturated 6 channels of which the GFX1 does not have great stereo width but it adds an element of a grounded center previously missing in my mix. I also use a dedicated android phone without service running Tonebridge app with the iRig through the GFX1 or through Amplitube. And if that wasn't enough, I record all my guitars through a GK2 pickup and six channel breakout box with a Roland VG88 and GR33 and GR1. Any guitar parts that I cannot play due to my three broken and deformed fingers, I recently bought 5 simulated guitars from Ample Sound.
Other Digitech products I use is both the Vocalist II and Vocalist Live Pro,
I downloaded a program called RPedit which requires me to update my RP20's firmware.
I most likely will add to my Digitech collection either the RP2112 or RP2120 rack units sometime next year. I will probably add the Bad Monkey and several of the Hardwire series.
Imagine combining both heavy distortion with tube distortions that merge the tones of death metal, black metal, hard rock, and psychedelic funk all interwoven into one. I am blending tonalities of Cannibal Corpse, Obutuary, Entombed, Septicflesh, Burzum, Emperor, Bathory, Darkthrone, and Morbid Angel with hard rock rhythm tones of Foreigner, Heart, Toto, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Kiss along with heavy metal sounds of Black Sabbath, Demon, Lucifer's Friend, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.
The music I write is not only influenced by those bands, but also Limbonic Art, Billy Joel, Epica, Haggard, Yanni, Mannheim Steamrollers, Devin Townsend, Rush, Def Leppard. Scorpions, Krokus, Ihsahn, Painkiller, Mr. Bungle, Pan Thy Monoum, My Dying Bride, Enslaved, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica, Megadeth, Quuensryche, Deicide, Aquillus, Fleetwood Mac, ELO, Jucifer, Jinjer, Obscura, Ozzy Osbourne, Dark Funeral. Grave Declaration, Antestor, Bishop of Hexen. Carach Angren, Boston, Gerry Rafterty. Cradle of Filth, Cynic, Dio, Draconian, Elderwind, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Necrophagia, Orphaned Land, Bloodywood, Paradise Lost, Sigh, Therion. Unleashed, Voovod, Tiamat, Soundgarden. Amorphis, Obtained Enslavement, Igorrr, Omnium Gatherum. Oz. Panopticon, Samael, Satyricon, Vallendusk, The Glitch Mob, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Death, Triumph, Zebra, Type O Negative, Katatonia, Dol Ammad, Tristania, Nightwish, and so many many many thousands more. While Country, Bluegrass, Hip Hop, Rap, EDM, are not my musical tastes. I do want to throw in a few of those influences as well.
I am currently writing cinematic type of music that interweaves between various genres of music but mainly within a mixture of symphony orchestra, atmospheric black and death metal, and electronic music with very little repetitions with lots of progressive death metal drumming with a bass drum infused with extremely low bass drums reminiscent of rap and edm, only not constrained to 4/4 timing nor stupid sounding electronic drums with a variety of tempos, blast beats, slow beats, timpani and everything in between.
Dimebag using the Whammy on Suicide Note Pt.2 is absolutely killer.
And Becoming, classic riff
Thanks for this video I still have and actively use my RP series pedals (5) Hardwire Reverb Digitech Death Metal Digitech EX-7 Digitech TimeBender I couldn’t believe DoD /Digitech closed/shut down Not happy about that either Good choices have owned many other Digitech Thanks again👌😎😂
I love both my DOD Phasor 201 and Stereo Phaser. Great phasers that I use for a very subtle phaser sound on my bass. 201 is on my small "everything" bass pedal board.
One thing to nitpick, the "Meatbox" was released in 94'(not early 80's), sold poorly and they stopped making them. With that, I've been a huge DOD fan since I started playing in the mid 90's, in fact the first pedal I bought was a brand new "Bass Grunge" pedal.
Edit: No matter how great the pedals actually were, I suspect around this era (94-98)they lost respect from "serious" players because of the silly names for the pedals and the controls. Example: the Bass Grunge knobs are labeled "more"(blend), "zip"(treble), "stupid"(distortion) and "juice" (level). This, the cartoonish graphics(which I love), and pedals like the "Buzz Box"(super sought after and pricey MXR Blue Box clone), "Punkifier", etc all disappear by around 98 in favor of more "serious" pedals when production moved overseas.
Either way I still own/use the "Bass Grunge", the "Bass Overdrive"(excellent bass friendly Tubescreamer), "Deep Freeze" chorus and the FX25 envelope(IMO, the best for bass). Glad you brought up the Hardwire series as well, both guitar and bass friendly. Thanks for bringing attention to these gems that get overshadowed by all the "boutique" brands!!
I bought a DOD FX51 Juice Box in 2001. It seems like a predecessor to the Bad Monkey. I love the pedal even today. The only drawback is it is a big tone sucker when bypassed.
Thanks for recognizing DOD/Digitech. I have 12 of there pedals. My favorites are the DOD Milk Box compressor, DOD Rubberneck Delay, DOD Looking Glass OD and the Digitech Chorus Factory.
I was fortunate enough to snag up an original grey box DOD 250 recently. The 250 has been my favorite pedal for a while, even before I bought it. I think DOD is easily my favorite vintage pedal company. Lots of underrated and crazy effects.
Also, the DOD Meatbox wasn’t around in the 80s like you said. It came out in 1994. I don’t doubt that it was one of the earlier synth pedals out there, however. Probably too late for a correction in the video, but I figured it should be said that you go that wrong.
Also, Digitech didn’t buy DOD. DOD firmed Digitech in the late 80s and as Digitech gained more traction in the early 2000s and DOD’s sales faded they simply shifted a number of things DOD was making to the Digitech name and the DOD name was retired. The fact that DOD made Digitech as a side-brand (mostly for rack-mount unit’s back in the day) can be supported by the fact that old WH-1 Whammy pedals will have DOD’s logo and company information on the bottom plate.
Still liked the video, though! It’s nice to see these brands get thrown some more love. Makes me kinda regret selling my Bad Monkey a few years ago.
I have had quite a few DOD/Digitech pedals in the past, I still have some of my old USA made ones, but the ones I use exclusively are the Jamman Stereo( have about 5 of them) The 360xp(have 2)& the reason I have that many is I gig A Lot, so I have extras, & believe me, they work Great! All my live gigs I'm using them, if you want to hear that bass patch, put headphones on & check out some of my live video gigs & you'll be amazed at how powerful that bass sound is, absolute Work horses!!! Great video Robert, rock on & God Bless!!!
I have an OG 97 Ice Box, never will it leave my board
Also own DOD Gunslinger, Carcosa, Boneshaker and Lookingglass. Simply 4 of the finest drive pedals ever made
*Gunslinger - one of the best amps in a box ever made a stunning core tone, takes TS style boosts in the front end brilliantly
*Carcosa- possibly the most versatile fuzz ever made, does pretty much all fuzz types well
*Boneshaker- hugely misunderstood pedal, great fot Heavy guitars as a Boost, or and of chain tone shaping and extra gain character (hint Gunslinger for core tone into Boneshaker with small amounts of extra gain is a crushing tone)
*Lookingglass- Unique Overdrive circuit and tone, very "round" and "warm" sounding, can even do stonery/psychedelic distortion in higher gain settings, but excels as vintage tube amp break up
I didn’t get along with the Boneshaker. I’ll have to dig it back out and give it another whirl.
I had a Digitech digital delay back in the mid to late 1980's that had a 2 second delay capability, but the best part was an "infinite repeat that could be played over while it repeated. It was fun to see how much you could cram into 2 seconds to play over. A looper before loopers were cool. L.O.L. William C. central Indiana. I also remembered that I have a DOD Turbo Stereo Chorus pedal (FX 67) in my gig bag from a long time ago. I figured it would be a Japanese manufactured pedal, but it turned out to be made in the U.S.A. Surprised me. Oh, and yes the battery door is LONG GONE someplace.
I still have my Digitech 2 second delay: PDS-1002, and a DOD FX-65 stereo chorus. Both still work and sound cool.
Used to have Digitech Hot head, digital delay and death metal. Later on DoD pre-amp and phasor. Really cool pedals. Loved everyone of them!
I have the yellow 250 OD/Preamp, Bad Monkey, Gunslinger, Big Pig Fat, (I understand it's a limited edition modified Grunge pedal made for Musicians Friend and maybe others) a fuzz from the late 80's in the older style burnt orange colored enclosure. A couple of old gray colored EQs, that the sliders broke on. The fuzz is so-so. I like my Danelectro French Toast Fuzz better. I like the BM alot, Gunslinger is good but a little noisy, BPF is really good but real scooped so I turn up the mids an give it more kick . Like my RP500, RP355, BP355.
I have the FX17 Wah, FX40B EQ, FX55B, Supra Distortion, FX69 Grunge and FX747 Supersonic Stereo Flanger. I'm thinking about picking up an FX50 Overdrive Plus if it's still in my LGS when I get to it next week.
I love both the FX69 and the FX747.
DOD Looking Glass is my favorite OD and it's the must underrated pedal of ALL time....ALL TIME.
I like that one, as well. That was a collaboration they did with Shoe Pedals...whoever that is. 🤷🏻♂️
It's always on, first pedal in my chain. Fabulous sound.
I got a Jamman stereo for super cheap! It was marked as 'good' at Guitar Center, but not a scratch or problem with it. I love it. I had an SD card lying around, so for under $150, I got a decent buy. Good list, Robert!
Thanks Jim!
I have the Ice Box and it's such a great chorus.
Me too!
@@RobertWJacksonWasn't expecting a reply from the man himself! After your video I bought a Digitech Digidelay from the X series. It looks super cool in reviews.
It'll be added to the DOD Ice Box, Digitech Grunge, Digitech Screamin' Blues, and Hardwire HT-2 chromatic tuner. I love this company. Never had a single Boss pedal.
The DigiDelay is a good pedal, though I admit I’ve never owned one. Digitech has made some great pedals throughout their history.
Hi Robert. I have the DOD Vibro Thang. When it came out, it was unique and it has a great lonely sounding tremolo. I picked it up for next to nothing. Cheers, Stephen
I love those old DOD FX series pedals. There’s some real gems in that line that people don’t even pay attention to these days.
@@RobertWJackson I agree. My first pedals in the 70s were DOD. I can't believe that Harmon closed down DigiTech and DOD.
@@RobertWJackson People are into $300 OD pedals it's nuts. Here in Australia, $300 seems to be a standard price, but there are plenty of pedals which cost a lot more than that. Things were a lot simpler when I used to Gaffa tape 3 Boss pedals to the stage: OD, chorus and analogue delay, back in the days when I could still have a 100w tube amp in stage and the drummer wasn't in a plexiglass prison. 👍😁
Forgot my DOD FX747 Flanger. It's been on my board for years and it sounds amazing. The buffers are killer. I'm also using a Hardwire Supernatural. Love that thing. AND I'm using a Digitech Freqout as well, just a killer pedal.
Vibrothang.. first pedal I’ve ever bought! Still have it too!
No Digitech Grunge?!.. haha that was THEE first pedal I ever purchased. Haven’t used it in years, but you could dial in a good sound on that thing.
And built like a tank! Love the Boss-style foot pad. Made even better with the spring loaded pins to pop it off with a 1/4 plug :)
Totally agree about the Bad Monkey. Bought one new from Guitar Center for 35 Bucks, first series, too. It still sounds great! Also, I’d like to mention a few others. The Digitech RP1000 multi-effects is really good. As is the Digitech GSP 2101 Artist Preamp, and The Johnson J-Station Modeler. I’m still getting a lot of mileage out of all of mine. I know they’re technically not single pedal units, but all three have worked out well for me.
The Jamman-Delay is my desert island pedal. Love the PDS delays and XP series. Also the Jason Lamb series, and the Freqout.
Hey, Robert Keith!
I recently read your opinion about the DigiTech XP series and so maybe you can help me.
I love Robin Trowers guitar tone, especially on "Bridge of Sighs" and "Day of the Eagle". The problem is I don't have a Univibe and would like to know what combination of effects (flanger and chorus?) could I use to approximate that of s Univibe. Grateful for any help!
Mark Zuelch
markziz60@yahoo.com
@@markzuelch7452 if you want a Univibe, get a Univibe. I use the Univibe sound in a Boss V-wah. Mine was $70 used on craigslist. There's lots of options are varying prices. Grab a Danelectro or Berhinger if you're on a budget or just use it for 2 or 3 tracks. MXR make a few "Hendrix-vibe" pedals that really nice.
The advice "If you want univibe, a get univibe" couldn't be more apropos, as I have said for decades, "The only thing that sounds like a Marshall is a Marshall," etc. Clearly, well-heeled advice speaks well for itself.
Great video man. I'm a huge DOD/Digitech fan since I first started playing 20 years ago. They are super underrated and over looked. But the real tone freaks like me, who NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT and unique have a great advantage here. Some oldies but goodies here of course, and that Mosaic is probably something I'll have to get for my 6 string bass. If it's compatible. And I'm also dissapinted that they closed their doors. Again!!
I love DigiTech and DOD! I have an original Whammy, and it is my favorite DigiTech, pedal, although the XP300 Space Station continues to be my unicorn. My favorite DOD pedal is my Super Distortion (pre-lawsuit)!
Not sure if I missed it in your video or not, but just in case. A great delay pedal of the DOD DFX9
Just picked up a $35 “as-is” DBM, untested, and by a stroke of luck it works perfectly. Replaced it and my SD1 for less combined than I sold either for. Reveling in what I’ve been missing. The sad face came out when you brought up the ICE BOX… I loved that pedal. May try to pick up another, but it was my stereo splitter for almost two decades. My only question is why no love for the DOD FX51 Juice Box? I want another of those so bad I can taste the Pulp. Great selections!
Found an Ice Box on the cheap, and have loved having it back in my rig. It’s always on, and just adds that little extra shimmer to my rig, and I love that it’s a mono in/stereo out - makes a great splitter at the head of my stereo effects. Just curious though - most of the DOD pedals you featured are from their later lines. What are some of the older DOD pedals that you like? How bout the FX50-B, a bit of a different take on the 250?
I still use my Digitech 2120 that I bought new in 1999.
Robert! Fearless Leader!
I just caught your video about the 13 Boss and Digitech stomp boxes, etc. and your accumen was very cool. I couldn't hope to have half that much information stuffed in my brain and all the recall too. I was a little surprised you didn't mention the Blues Driver (haven't used one in ages and really should get another one one of these days).
I've reached out to a couple of people who seem to perhaps know something about my DigiTech Element XP; I just want to know if I can approximate the sound of a Univibe by mixing a chorus and a flanger, but I'm pretty well convinced that I'm going to have to stick a crowbar in it and just buy a Univibe---I just love Trower's guitar tone on "Bridge of Sighs" and "Day of the Eagle" and will be happy to nail it one of these days.
Be cool there in the Dungeon and by all means play the blues (hey I'm an old blues guy who enjoys classic rock)!
Mark Zuelch
markziz60@yahoo.com
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Fearless Leader? That’s a new one. LOL
The Digitech Trio+ changed my life.
Finally there's somebody celebrating Tom Cram's FABULOUS work - ingenious, fantastic sounding and affordable pedals that outgunned boutique effects which cost three times as much. Robert, you rock!
🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I bought 2 Digitech Hardwire pedals cheap at itar center in the Mid 2010's A Chorus and a Reverb. They were like $30 a piece new!
The reverb is now selling for STUPID money on the used market. About 10 times what you paid for it.
One thing I think you should have included was the DOD power board. Held 5 pedals on removeable panels. Still have today with five DOD pedals still on it.
I had a DOD FX56B American Metal for years. It was my "METALLICA" pedal.
Everybody had a “METALLICA” pedal back in those days. LOL Mine was the Metal Zone and the Digitech PDS-1550 Dual Distortion thing they did back then. I still have both of them! LOL
Still got one of those!
I love all my digitech. I have a bunch of them. Almost all the rps and rack units.
I picked up a Digitech Luxe and while I have decided to get a Line 6 HX Effects for modulations and such, I have found the Luxe to be unique in what it does, so it stays on my board. My one criticism of the Luxe is that it does not play well with others and is super fussy about its power supply. It wasn't until I got a Strymon Ojai that it was happy with anything other than its own Digitech wall wart.
It is a power hog, that’s for sure.
As usual, you knocked it out of the park with this one. I bought both the Gunslinger and the Luxe based on your reviews. I agree that the luxe is the best chorus I've used. Pryor to that, I had an old DOD Mini Chorus 460 that was so good, it was an "Always on" Pedal. Now I'm considering a Polara - again, based on your review - (another excellent video, BTW). You haven't steered me wrong yet. I didn't take to the Mosaic, but I bought that before you reviewed it, so that doesn't count. Sorry for the novel, but I HAVE to mention the Jimi Hendrix Experience pedal. It's one of my favorites - almost like a multi-fx in a wah housing.
Thanks man!
DOD and Digitech are the coolest pedals!! DOD milk box comp is my fav. Regret selling it really bad. Thanks Robert~!
You’re the second Milk Box Compressor comment in a row!
dod 490 phaser is by far THE phaser for me. also 18v dod performer compressor. man what a real beast.
I have the performer compressor as well, could very well be the best pedal format compressor ever
Cool to see the Hardwire line here. I have 2 on my board. Their metal distortion is a beast.
The TL-2 may actually be my next pedal.
I was never a "pedal' type of guy, i always went for the multi-effect pedals and my absolute favorite is the Digitech GNX4....I still have one, and can get most any sound out there. Oer the last few months I have been using the Digitech iPB-10 that uses an iPad for an interface, while all the hardware is in the pedal housing. It is also a great sounding unit that has a slick interface. It is "brighter, more mid-range" than the GNX4, but I feel the GNX4 kills on the Sabbath / Blackmore type of sounds.
Either way Digitech & DOD rock, no matter what anyone says!
I remember when the iPB-10 came out. We had high hopes for it because Digitech had come in and plugged it pretty hard to us. But apparently the world just wasn’t quite ready for it yet because it just didn’t do well.
Your not the only Digitech fanboy. Lol. I do wish you would have brought up their awesome line level modeler/x fects processor. The great GSP 1101. I own two of them. When popular they were way ahead of the curve. Before Fractal, before Kemper, maybe before Line 6, there was the GSP. Many of today’s modeler’s took what Digitech had in this processor.
Watching in 2023, the Bad Monkey part is almost a prophecy… and I’m agree that it’s a very cool TS
Still use my digi 2120 preamp ghetto Eventide I bought in 2000. Pretty much has 10 of everything. I use a jmp1 midi for the actual preamp section though but the effects are decent. You just have to spend a little bit of time building patches.
Great video, man! Very informative.
Thanks man!
Watching this is 2024, luckily Cort decided to buy the Digitech brand and re-released some pedals, on this list I would put the Digitech Talker, FreqOut and Whammy Ricochet
My favorite most versatile Fuzz! I love the Carcosa it's on my board permanently 🤘😈
Even if you hated it, you just won the award for Greatest Screen Name EVER!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@RobertWJackson thank you dude, this was a great video, I own a few DOD/Digi Tech pedals, Carcosa , Gunslinger, Trio, Digi-delay (favorite delay) I love'em all. They don't get enough credit due to name but they are excellent pedals. 🤘
I have a Digitech PDS-1002 two second delay and a DOD FX-65 Stereo Chorus both from the late 80s (I think) they still work and sound cool. *edit: I still have the battery doors for both.
Send me the door for mine, I need one
The trio is revolutionary
Hey Robert, did you hear Harman closed the doors on DOD and Digitec?
Luckily for me I snagged one of the Luxe pedals for real cheap (new) before they announced they were stopping production. It’s a great chorus type effect that plays well with others. I find that most chorus pedals have to be played to, and you are forced to work with its rising and falling modulation. There are many that make this easily to accomplish. The Luxe however takes that out of the equation and just adds that shimmer, sparkle, or atmospheric effect.
That’s when I snagged mine, as well. It’s also my favorite chorus pedal.
I picked up my bad monkey for only $25 bucks about 3 years ago!! Well worth it!!
Same here!
@@RobertWJackson we were lucky. 😊
Robert have you heard of or played the digitech black 13 Scott Ian pedal. That would be a great “forgotten gem of the past”. If you like Anthrax or S.O.D you’ll love the digitech black13. There is a video on RUclips of Scott Ian doing a demo of it from 11 years ago, check it out.
DigiTech Freqout. Feedback on tap. Badass.
Thanks .. very informative! 👍
I love both DigiTech and DOD pedals. I even own a few of these.
The Digitech Drop is my favorite.
The Bad Monkey has always been recognised as a fine pedal *for the money*. No big secret there! Present day hype overlooks the fact that once the price inflates much beyond it's original RRP there are much better pedals out there for comparable prices. I use mine to boost and tone shape my Rat clone. I do notice some tone loss when it's disengaged; it's not terrible but it is perceptible.
The Carcosa is a great sounding fuzz (I am a fuzz fan mind you!) but, for a cheap (non-Digitech) alternative, you can pick up a Ginean Hairy Show fuzz for around £30 ($40?) from China
The DOD Milkbox Compressor is literally the ONLY good cheap compressor pedal.
I have one and really dig it!
Not so cheap anymore, they go for around ~£100 used
I saw one listed a couple of weeks ago for $289. We can thank Josh Scott for the market on those skyrocketing. LOL
Preach!
The FX80 and FX80B are awesome compressors.
I bought a Hardwire CM-2 back in 2010. It has never left my signal chain.
I’m thinking of picking one of those up myself. There’s actually quite a few of the HardWire pedals I’d like to have.
Hardwire series is great
Bad Monkey tube Overdrive/ Lux anti chorus/ Hardwire Metal distortion 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁😁😁 love the Dungeon
I still have the Digitech weapon for the sitar effect alone even though the Auto wah and whammy emulations seem to be good as well from it.
I love my GSP 1101 & Control 2.
The DOD Milk Box (FX 84) is imho one of the best compressors. On Reverb I've seen them for over €200 for it. Crazy maybe, but they are awesome! Check that one out! I have the first version (with all the funny text and I also have the box, Josh... ;) ) and it's awesome! I had a Bad Monkey, sold it and regret that ever since... ;)
I have a jam man stereo delay on my board. Such a great sleeper pedal
great video Robert! Diggin' your channel!
Thanks man!
Hardwire line kicked ass. I hated every chorus out there except the multi chorus in my rp21d valve..
Soon as the hardwire series.? The only oedal I ever bought rand new upon release. The hardwire chorus.
It's never left my board.
Don’t forget the DOD Supra Distortion and the Vibrothang!
Really dig these videos, always something cool, I’ve never heard of.
I love the DOD FX17 effect pedal. Has anyone else used it before? What's your thoughts on it? ☺️
I have always thought Digitech was a cool brand. I can't wait to try the Luxe pedal. And I never really liked fuzz either.
Man, I paid $50 in AUD for the Bad Monkey in 2014, probably around $20ish USD. There was a shelf full of them. Like, seriously. Nobody wanted them.
Now, near a decade later, you can't find one for less than $150 AUD. It's a ridiculous price jump in a short space of time. A bass modded TS circuit is apparently what everyone never knew they wanted.
I saw that price jump coming, and I snagged one off the used market when they were still dirt cheap. I think I paid $25 USD. Sure enough… LOL
Apart form throwing cheap multifx pedals into the market Digitech made some historical gems.
I really like the RPx400 as a floor recording studio. It's rare, but packed with features:
Equipped with a RCA mike input with phantom, digital audio two way usb interface, drummer.
Footstomp recording and playback. Free Cakewalk recording software.
Glenn Tipton endorsed Digitech for a long time.
Yes sir Correct on the bad monkey . $60.00 -$125.00 both include shipping on reverb just now . Dang !
I have the Boneshaker, real cool.
I have that one too!
DigiTech DigiDelay (already have) or DOD DFX9 for blues/rock/80's metal?
DigiDelay, hands down.
@@RobertWJackson thanks for the reply Robert, that saved me £45 and an awkward conversation with the wife 😁
I LOVED DOD!!
Love my Bad Monkey, got it for $20 bucks! Now I see it going for triple of that.
I paid $25 for mine!
Hi Robert, was there a DOD predecessor to Digitech's Hothead? Like Bad Monkey and the Juice Box.
Probably, but I couldn’t tell you which one it was off the top of my head. The Hot Head, I believe, is basically a Marshall-in-a-box type of distortion.
Digitech and DOD are not shut down. The office in Utah was closed. As of now, no new products planned but that may change.
So how do you contact them...has the office opened yet..please....
I srill love my Digitech GNX4, its broke like me right now
Great video! I must check out that Mosaic pedal. 👍🏻
I do plan to pick up a Bad Monkey for the collection at some point, and the Grunge pedal as a novelty. In my area, there were not many MXR pedals, the options were basically BOSS, DOD, and Ibanez 5 series (I'm that old). I had MANY 5 series pedals, but never got into DOD because they seemed to break easier than the Ibanez... which also broke easily but the battery covers stayed on, dammit.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about the screamin blues pedal?
I think it's a fantastic pedal.
Why did DOD/Digiitech shut down? I bought several DOD pedals back in the 90s and wouldn’t mind getting a few more.
I was mistaken about that. They’re still around, but they did relieve Tom Cram of his duties and discontinued all of their single stomp boxes. They still have the small RP processors and a few other things, but all of the Tom Cram era designs seem to be gone with no plans to replace them with anything new.
digitech time bender...my fave
I love a couple digi tech and dod pedals. I own a couple myself
think your right about the whammy 4 I got one and its good but switch is dodgy sometime and the exp pedal seems to not sit flush sometime, the bad monkey and meat box are not very good was not impressed, wanna try that yellow dod someday
The Bad Monkey is one of the best Tube Screamer circuits out there.
The Juice Box is a killer drive in my opinion.