DOD 250 Clones and Variants 

I have a Voodoo Lab Overdrive from 1998, based on the DOD 250. That generation of Voodoo pedals had a faulty circuit which was jokingly called by them the "Sullivan mod," named after the tech who was supposedly responsible for the error. The pedal had a huge, flubby bass response that made it unusable. I read on a pedal forum that Voodoo could and would fix that error. I sent it back to them, 15 years after I had purchased the pedal, with the knowledge of what had happened. They remembered the "Sullivan mod," and found it funny that I even knew about that. Then, they fixed the bad circuit and got the pedal back to its original sound, free of charge. I love the Voodoo Lab people. They did me and my pedal right.

I wonder if there will be a show on the Tom Sholtz Rockman. It’s not a pedal, but it was on a stack of recording and certainly influenced a lot of players tone/timbre.

People don’t understand how powerful the IStomp was. It has the processing power of a multi effect put behind one effect. That’s why the dirt and overdrive algorithms didn’t sound digital. There were also hidden features with the 2 outputs. Since every effect didn’t need to be in stereo that had other routing features for the inputs and outputs. Again, the sounds were fantastic.

I love the language of the pedal world and it was on full display in this great episode, my favorite being "Nasty quiet."

I dont own any JHS pedals, I'm buying one of the normal manufacturer overdrive preamps and you've totally earned my approval by doing all this, helping Mr. Cran's Spiral FX, giving it exposure and putting the smack down on the "it's just a MXR distortion +"

Love that you are featuring the Rubberneck again!

I’m surprised you guys made that BAT Quantum Mystic sound so polite. It can get pretty gnarly. Y’all should feature more BAT pedals. The Pharaoh is an incredible muff variant and pretty much everything they make is awesome.

Josh, I actually like that a company would put out a pedal even knowing that it won't sell well, or at least as well as something else you could have put out.

There's a really good demo channel out of Australia, called 'The Super Fun Awesome Happytime Pedal Show', that does a really cool ongoing series of DOD demos. Lots of rare stuff.

Proud original owner of a Grey Overdrive 250 I bought in the late 1970's and now just received the #75 Throwback Overdrive Preamp #177 of 250 made I fully endorse JHS

Oh fudge! The FX52 is my favorite fuzz of all time! Wish I saw this yesterday!

Thanks for the interview with Tom. Awesome deep dive into the 250 and its influence

I bought an EQD grey channel and I love it.

Tom Cram is a cool guy. I like that he is active in the online Dod community.

This show brings the most joy to my current state of existence.

DOD stuff is cool, I picked up an FX 55 Distortion a few weeks ago for $20 with the original power supply!

Al Cisneros of Sleep uses a 250 on his bass and it’s wonderful

Got a Quantum Mystic, being the unapologetic YOB fanboy that I am. It's an amazing pedal and running it into a HiWatt is pure magic.

The conversation around 50:00 about what guitar players say they want and what they actually want is so true.

I bought what I thought was my first 250 pedal a couple of years ago (the Tom Cram era version), but from today's video I learned that, in fact, I have had a 250 variation for close to twenty years. I'm talking about that HAO Sole Pressure that, unfortunately, Josh couldn't get to work for the video. This was my favorite overdrive for many years, so I was excited to see it on the table. Hope Josh can get it to work. I think he'll like it.

Really love the Tom Cram era of Digitech/DOD. The rubberneck and gunslinger are staples on my board. Big fan of the obscura as well.

The FX52 is severely underrated, probably because it doesn't really sound like classic fuzz and that disappoints people who are looking for that sound. It is, however, the sound of Ash Bowie from Polvo, as well as Rainer Maria and other 90s indie acts. It can go anywhere from tame overdrive to gnarly fuzz-tinged distortion. Really unique pedal.

The mosky 250 is good but, the fact they use a 500ka pot and not a 500kc pot annoys me and I will be changing that once my potentiometer gets here in the mail.

The format used on this channel is so good - it reminds me so much of the live TV I grew up watching (in a good way).

Addisons bass playing was FIRE! also, Nick, those on the spot drum beats make me jealous! Rock on fellas!

Hey Josh and team, I have found that I am a bigger fan of soft clipping overdrice and distortion, but until recently could not put a name to this preference. I would love to see a video on low and high gain pedals that utilize different clipping techniques. Thanks :)))

The Earthquakes Gray Channel is incredible. It’s always on my board, and I was shocked to see it discontinued.

the first pedal I ever bought in 1991 was a DOD classic fuzz. Still have it because its awesome!

I realize that I’m late to the conversation, but you can kind of think of grey matter as the components in a circuit (op-amp, diodes, caps, etc) and the wires and insulating material as the white matter. Grey matter = areas where signal gets processed; white matter = components that aid in passing along that signal.

Que gran programa para terminar un miércoles. Estuvo excelente. Of course Beeerrrr!!!

I’m interested. Lemon ginger tea sounds lovely.

As an owner of a Tym OD666, can confirm he really knows how to make a great sounding 250. Although, all this is telling me is that they are all very similar takes of a brilliant circuit!

My first chorus was an FX60. I loved that pedal.

I love the iStomp! I have about 10 of them. I picked them up for about $40 each, great sound, very durable. Someday the app support will end and they'll be stuck at whatever pedal was last loaded. It's a great way to make your pedal board more flexible.

I can’t tell you how big the smile on my face was when I saw that there was an hour-and-a-half-long JHS video I haven’t watched yet

Would love to see that episode on Spiral FX ! Tom is an interesting cat for sure.

Confession time: I bought the limited edition JHS turntable to flip it. But now I love it and I'm keeping it forever.

The Rubberneck and the Obscura are both really good Delay pedals. One DOD and one Digitech and a different take but both great.

Glad to see @jhspedals show some love for the fx65! I love that pedal on guitar and in stereo on synth, it's fantastic!

The Yellow Spiral & Quantum Mystic are the 2 best “iterations” IMO. Really, both companies are just fantastic overall. Never heard anything I didn’t like from either of them. Also the fact that Tom’s wife made those knobs is awesome. I was just talking to him last week about his opinion on the knobs I’m looking for on my current project, but I guess I should’ve asked his wife! Lol

Just wanted to let you guys know I seriously love this channel. I've learned soooo much about the history of guitar effects and music in general.

45:02 that lick was soooo tasty. I rewound it multiple times to hear it again and again

More Tom Cram in the future. please! I love his DOD/DigiTech-era pedals. Also, you should have noted that KreeNakoorie was an Alcatrazz with Yngwie Malmsteen song, especially since you struggled with coming up with a definitive song or artist using the OD 250

That jam @23:00 was really beautiful and nostalgic. Love it man.

Jeezis.... I was into the underground scene before the Nirvana blowup and I had no idea that it was gonna be a definitive sound of decade. Yes, that jam IS "so 90's" 😂

Thanks for the Grey Channel moment guys! Wasn't sure that pedal was ever going to be on JHS. Easily my favorite overdrive!

RECORD TIME SUGGESTION: HUM’s “You’d Prefer An Astronaut” Please check it out if you haven’t. This album takes “shoegaze” and smashes it with walls of trippy driven guitars, backed by unique, jaw dropping, drums. It a perfect use of the “shades of colors” sound, and “beautiful quiet to heavy” formula. It blows me away, thinking that, after 20 something years of listening to this album, Im still hearing these new little sound and textures. To this day, they’re still so influential to me and countless others..

I very much agree about the rubberneck. I picked one up cause it was cheap and looked cool and it has become one of my most used delay pedals

1:11:24 the 'funny riff' sounds like a Tool(band) riff on it's own. It's great! :)

Grey Matter is also an AMAZING post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. from the 80's -90's

I really like the Dirty Haggard Audio 797. Just as simple as the original, 2 knobs, but has the DHA noise filtering, and the bottom end doesn't drop out as you increase the gain. Looks awesome too !!

Fwiw what they’re getting at with the “‘max bass” thing is that in not highpassing at all, the energy of the largest low wage forms still influences what brings a diode to clip. Eventually you’re talking about like. Sub 30hz well below what any guitar is reproducing as a fundamental tone (low E is 80hz, tbh you’re probably not hearing that as a fundamental through the amp either). But! you still have energy in those frequencies (look at any di guitar signal in a daw spectrum analyzer). What drives a diode to clip isn’t the max point of a frequency spectrum but the total energy it’s receiving. With this in mind; it makes total sense the clipping response would be noticable toggling between two setting that would perhaps be unnoticeable going into an amp (because the amp would definitely highpass that regardless)

Only a minute in and you have the dfx9 on the board!!! Best video on the internets today! My favorite and also first delay purchased new in ‘90 still going strong 💪. I had the box 📦 but tossed it a few years ago

A Virtual Cornucopia of DOD

I can’t believe you featured the DFX9 but I can relate to what you said about it. It was my first delay pedal - bought it in the mid 90’s. I still have it and I still have the box!! It is neither good nor bad.

What i really care about is when is Josh going to chain every pedal he owns together, turn all the controls to 2 o'clock and let rip?

I've been a committed DOD 250 user for decades now. I haven't seen too much love for the Pelican NoiseWorks 50/50 in the comments here or in the other JHS 250 video. When it comes to usability and also flexibility for different guitars, nothing beats this pedal. Single coils, humbuckers, P-90's... this pedal makes it so easy and quick to accomodate all those. One side is symmetrical clipping for more compression, saturated lead stuff, one side has asymmetrical clipping for more of the "cranked amp" sound. Tone switches for darker/brighter tones. And it's so small... It's the greatest swiss army 250 type overdrive pedal. Jah Bless Pelican NoiseWorks

Excellent bass tones, dude!!!

Getting a whole bunch of Sunny Day Real Estate vibes from these jams

Can you guys do a Dearmond episode? Dearmond Square wave got a mention in the history of DOD 250 video, I just ordered a clone (the only ones on reverb are like $400). Every vintage Dearmond I have is amazing, the phaser, the 1800 wah, the preamp/volume pedal…Dearmond is super historic, if you know you know, Dearmond deserves some love

Did anyone else just stare at the EQD Grey Channel everytime it went to pedalboard cam? LOVVVVVE EQD stuff!

I love the content you put on RU-vid.

Grey matter is the cell bodies (main parts) of nerves, so the parts where most of the biological processes take place. White matter is the myelin sheaths, they are fatty wrappings around nerve axons that allow nerve signals to travel long distances. Grey matter is like a battery and white matter is the insulation around a wire. The thing in physics you mentioned is called dark matter (like the TC electronic dark matter distortion)

Pooh Josh would get wood over the Dr Acid take on the 250, it has a fantastic character

The original founders of DOD were David Oreste DeFrancesco and John Johnson.

Cactus Friday is 🔥🌵

I prefer the Caline White Heat to the Mosky, it's a brilliant 250 clone.

Purchased an Overdrive Preamp based on the sound of the bass.

DOD = instant upvote

I wish Josh demoed more edge-of-breakup sounds... That Earthquaker sounded amazing (for my uses) for like 2 seconds and then Josh cranked the gain.

Also I'd love to see a video about the Tom Cram era of DOD.

Oh no there's a bi fet preamp in there, I'm never gonna be able to get one cheap am I

Glad I bought my Mosky D250X a few days ago for $27 before this episode causes them to sell out and inflate in price :) it sounds pretty great but a tad noisy when the gain is cranked to the max.

That bass tone

My wife's knobs are great too, but you'll have to take my word for it.

Subbed again to see what’s upcoming, hope all is good at JHS!

Would like to see another video with Tom

The Fuzz Central/Philip Bryant Liquid Drive modded 250 is worth mentioning because Fuzz Central is an awesome website, even if it hasn’t been updated in 15 years

This was a really fun watch.

If cactus Friday is a Chevy truck commercial it would be for like a dead on reissue of like a late 70s 4x4 lol.

Build a pedal that sounds like s**t housed in a cinder block and make it imparctically difficult to use. Then make only 25 examples to see how much it sells for on Reverb. For science sake -- as a control.

I really like the lime spindrift

1:12:08 "Run Layla Run".

So cool your wife is making knobs for the pedals. My wife just mocks me for watching pedal videos. LOL!

I got my jetcity boost pedal on Musicians Friend stupid deal of the day for $29.99. I dig it. I also got the dual stage boost but those are not JHS Design. I have a sparkling 250 reissue too. Love all of them

Cactus Friday!

100% guitarists (and bassists) say they want new stuff but then when designers actually make new stuff, people don't buy it.

I have an iStomp. Was fun.

There’s a difference between “it can be measured” and “we can measure it”.

Lemon ginger was the last tea my 3-year-old had:)

the DOD FX52 and DOD FX65 were my first ever pedals.... I regret having sold them to buy a crappy multiFX back in the day.

Dude, that Mosky pedal sounds great, especially on the "M" setting, pushed with a klon klone, and a compressor...

I never comment on RU-vid videos, but I'd be remiss if I didn't chime in that, when used on bass, the FX52, to my ears, gets closer to McCartney's "Mean Mr. Mustard" tone than any fuzz pedal I've tried in the 'less than $100' price range. I've also recently noticed that it's pretty touch sensitive as well, so it can also pull off the clean-into-fuzz-when-pushed bass tone of the preceding track on 'Abbey Road', "Sun King". I'm not in a Beatles tribute band or anything; I'm just a nerd. If you've never heard these isolated: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ceNvbYZ2p8o.html

Late to the party, it makes me sad to have missed a chance at winning that fx52 classic fuzz. The fx52 and fx53 are on my collector’s wish list 😢

I-Stomp... Similar to the Neunaber exp series without the benefit of the exp contoller.

Grey Channel gang

"You were so impressive, 'cause you were pleasantly aggressive ...."

Kool, NOT A SAUSAGE FEST! Keep the woman!👏🏻🙏🏼✌🏻💜🎸😎

The DOD FX52 schematic is totally different plus with different RC values its nothing like the DOD250

Has there ever been a show on ADA? I keep my old ADA Flanger on my home pedalboard. Never leaves my house.