DOD Overdrive 250 Analog Overdrive Preamp

good pedal. Depends on your taste. I use a tube marshall amp and a vintage strat and I fiend for that tube sound. Solid state sound gives me nightmares. If you don't know what I mean, get a tube amp and you'll never go back. Do yourself the favor.K. The old gray dod250s from the 70's are sought after. They go upwards $400+ on eBay easily and climbing. It gave a tube sound and worked well with tube amps. On my tube Marshall this version of the 250 pedal sounds very transistory. Not bad in and of itself, but bad if you like tube sound. This pedal makes my (single coil pups) strat and tube amp sound like a solid state humbucker cheese fest. No matter how much tweaking. Even with an EQ pedal I don't normally use. It was cheese. And that's hard to do.I find the most kick butt strat sound comes from a YJM308 dod preamp overdrive. Better than the 'vintage' Ibanez tube screamer and dod 250. It is tubey and super crunchy and toney when used with a strat and a tube amp, simply cause it preserves the high frequencies better, which is my preference. Less of the muddy low end growl you think of when you think vintage dod 250.So why did I get this pedal if I love my dod 308? Because I wanted to have analogman.com mike do a 741 mod to this 250 to clone the vintage 250. Just to essentially have a vintage 250 for one quarter the price, and not 40 yrs old and possibly about to blow a resister or capacitor. Just as an effect option when my mood calls for its particular sound.Well, the point is, mike can't do the mojo 741 mod on this pedal cause everything is soldered to the board - alla cheap mass production Chinese style. He could 741 mod the 308 but I love it how it is.Soooo.....the previous yellow - not this new gold sparkly - version of this pedal can be 741 mod'd. As can the old yellow reissue version. Any of the post-gray (70's vintage) versions of these can. But not this one. so this transistory 250 will be sent packing.Anyways, that's my story. I figured it'll help people who know what I'm talking about; and intrigue those who don't; enough that it opens knowledge and experimental doors to them. When you find that holy grail yngwie strat sound: that combo of a vintage sounding preamp OD, with high a 'gain', low 'level' setting, and a tube amp, you'll send your obviates distortion pedals to the dung heap!So if you like warm, humbuckery, transistory type sound, you'll like this pedal. If not, get a 308.

Ugly as sin but sounds totally kick@$$. I have a clone of this pedal which I became very attached to. I'm making a new minimal pedal board/case for traveling which includes only my "always-on" pedals so I bought some duplicates or even replacements. This came in cheaper than my clone and is hard to tell apart(not always the case with a reissue). I use it in combination with compression and sometimes not. It sounds great either way. See the GearMannDude review of it. He loves it and even makes the clone I bought (Time Bomb Boost). I love them both. Yeah, DOD color is hideous but I consider that another cool retro feature, having already made it through the sound test. Since it seems comparable to the Time Bomb Boost, I would say that it, too, plays well with other distortions/effects. Very happy with both. I would recommend either this pedal or the Time Bomb Boost from GearMannDude. I went with DOD this time because I was curious if the pedals were really similar. If I had it to do over, would probably pay more and go with GearMannDude because he's an awesome dude and for all he does for the effects pedal purchasing community and, well, the pedals are nearly identical. He actually pimped my TBB with a pinup decal. Advantages of the boutique producer. ;)

I love my DOD 250 and own two. I bought analogs to go with my 1960's Fender amps. The addition of a light on this newer model that shows when the guitar is plugged properly into the device has been a nice convenience. Unfortunately, some parts keep loosening. Maybe I am not strong enough to secure them properly or maybe the reverb on my Fender amp loosens them. Otherwise, I would give five stars. I plan to buy a spare if there are any analogs left out there.

I play primarily doom metal, I used to use distortion pedals, till I experimented with the Digitech Turbodriver, the setting I liked was the preset that was named after the DOD 250 preamp. I decided to get this pedal on a whim, and never looked back. It gives just enough edge to the distortion on my Marshall to help bring out some of the deeper tones hiding within the sound. If you are looking for a reliable, solid, yet straight forward overdrive pedal, look no further!

Great sounding overdrive, best used in my experience as a boost than a discrete overdrive. Turning up the gain can lead to it being a little excessive on the upper mid-range and treble frequencies, but keeping the gain between 9 and 11 and cranking the volume into an amp on the verge of breakup leads to a nice thickening of the signal.

Great pedal! Not only for the money, but for the quality and sound it produces.I already have a DOD 308 YJM and this DOD250 reissue has a better bass response.Sounds great with a Strat or Gibson SG plugged into a VOX AC30CC2X with Alnico Blue speakers.Great choice to take your clean amp or semi-clean into break up / overdrive territory.True-bypass and LED make it very useful and pedalboard friendly.This pedal has become a basic part of my board setup (picture) and will be staying for a long time.

I bought one of these because it's a classic and I like having a variety of pedals to play around with. But this one definitely isn't for me. There are some good sounds in here, but you have to spend some serious time with the pedal and amp settings to get something that doesn't sound flubby or farty. I play through a 50-watt Plexi and it's really hard to get a sound I like with the DOD 250 as a boost. On the other hand, it's really hard to get a sound I don't like when I use my normal Tubescreamer.I use humbucking pickups. I wonder if it's better with single-coils, like Yngwie (the most famous DOD 250 user) plays.

Truly a clean boost, from mild to strong. Very simple and basic device, but does exactly what I needed it to do.

I'm very glad that DigiTech chose to do a reissue of this vintage classic, and feel lucky to have been able to get one before they ran out of stock. This is all you would expect from a quality overdrive, and then some more. This has usable tones available through all the gain positions, but really shines between 11 o'clock and 3 o'clock. At 11 o'clock one can use it to just push an edge-of-breakup amp into dirty territory through pure picking dynamics. At 3 o'clock it can get you tight, full-bodied distortion. It pairs well with TubeScreamers and FuzzFace. I've also successfully used it to get compressed tones at bedroom volumes. It may not be the best pedal to push a clean amp to distortion, but then I don't think that approach gets great tones with any amp-pedal combination, anyway.

Je cherchait une pédale d.'overdrive typés british, avec un son bien défini et ce petit côté acide propre au post-punk.Elle est parfaite pour cela.La Tube Screamer m'a semblé trop douce.La Fulltone OCD trop métal.Et puis ce jaune métalisée, c'est la classe sur un pedalboard !