DOD 250 Grey Spec Alternatives (For That Yngwie Sound) 

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This is one of the very few channels that I click "Like" even before watching because I know already that I'm going to like the content. I've yet to be proven wrong in this matter and really love this channel. "This guy" is doing his all for the love of it and getting some great tones and giving good advice and reviews. I want you to know, Elmo that we appreciate you even if some of us are too poor to do anything much but hit "LIKE". Keep on keeping on; Don't stop for anything !!

Using a DOD250 reissue into a Wampler Pantheon. The pre amp adds the top end sizzle but not very gainy. I don't get the Yngwie sound exactly but I get something close and unique. Cleans up with volume. I think you'd dig on it. Love the content and playing. Thanks, Elmo!!!!!!!!

I have an outlier modded dod 308. Outlier was a guy on the metro amp forum years back. I had mine with a smaller input cap to tighten it ever so much and it's incredible. Very organic extension of the amp with humbuckers. Thanks for reviewing these clones, o wanted to try one for fun but will look elsewhere. Anyone who has a clone that sounds too dark or bass heavy, look at swapping the input cap.

Fender seemed the tightest, not as fizzy. Found one on Reverb for reasonable, they are getting stupid expensive in the states. Appreciate your videos, a Schenker/Moore fan in a nutshell, you keep I entertaining, great playing!

I enjoyed the overdrive/dose. I know of a place that has some New Old Stock Yngwie pedals, but for some reason, they haven't posted them yet. I suspect they might realize that these are now Unicorn Farts and put them on Reverb instead. Not sure I could blame them. Given the prices those commend, the Riverside seems like a better modern choice. Or if you aren't a fumbler with a soldering iron, grab a kit. Wish there was a way to tune one via a "recording" that had all the min/max settings, so you know your extremes. One would would think that some tech and a lookup system could really help folks get "that sound". Thanks Elmo, this is among your avowed knowledge set, so you sharing it gives an excellent sense. One option, though not likely in your style, is to do one run on the guitar into a looper and feed each pedal in turn to hear the differences.

MXR Distortion plus is nearly the exact same thing. A few component swaps and viola!

Cedar filhio and Panos both use the dod 308 and get the best yjm tones I've heard. So there must be something going on with that pedal

I have the ODD Overdrive preamp 741 and I actually like it with a plexi and HS3 pickups. My gain and level on it are always at 3 o clock. I also have the fender YJM overdrive and it sounds very different in comparison. I like both pedals. The switch on the ODD overdrive makes it versatile for me.

The fender Malm and the DOD 250 for sure bro. They will stand the test of time:)

Get a demonfx overdrive preamp its like 30$ and has distortion plus,dod 250 and yjm308 modes plus silicon, germanium and no clipping options sounds great stupid cheap built rock solid and sounds spot on

Malmsteen Sound in Bedroom, DOD 250 fully turned up + Tech21 Trademark 60 CH 2 Drive 11,Growl 11,Level 2, Reverb Low and High 11 O'Clock

This is the only comparison I've seen where the presenter goes back and forth between the different pedals so you get a real comparison between each one. I dunno why other channels tend to think after we've heard 3 pedals, we'll still remember all the details by the 4th... Kudos. This was interesting.

Well....... because of you I searched the whole wide world of Sweden.... and at last! I found a used yjm308, I payed like 39 euro including shipping. But I haven’t tested it yet🤷‍♂️

Love your channel man. And this is a cool - and useful - video. Great playing by the way. All the very best, from the UK

I have to agree the fender was best followed by the dod 308

As I dough a bit about the DOD 250 because it's back in stock again. I heard that there is no grey spec DOD cause all of them sounds different. I was listening to Josh Scott from JHS today. Anyway there is a interesting story about the pedal and I might buy. Don't look inside the box, it's almost empty.

i also have a mosky pedal where the switch is broken. daemon tubescreamer clone came with a broken switch aswell. the cheap pedals have a thing with broken switches.

Thats a lot of overdrives to take in, also knowing they'll sound different in real life but you did a good job showing the differences. I personally like your normal overdriven sound I think its by Fender, you know the red one you always use . Some sounded muddy , some had that overdrive break up . it was a good gear vid non the less. By the way what gauge strings do you use ?

Definitely prefer the Fender😎💯

Great video! I think the DOD250 reissue and the Analogman mod YJM308 were mostly used by Yngwie with the DiMarzio HS3 pickups and sound a bit darker with more modern pickups. I think the fender YJM sounds best with newer pickups like the YJM Fury. Just my preference, really cool to hear all of those side to side or back to back or back to side. Also another good option for a grey spec pedal is Chicago Stompworks Gray Speck OD250 which is nicely build good sounding pedal.

they all sound cool an nice, i don't know which i prefer but Elmo what pedal is better for the more is more ?

Yellow one was the best in my opinion.

Fender 80s frontman 15, run straight into a 4 12 cab add delay and presto jgm.

Jhs just discontinued there overdrive preamp and were blowing em out for 69$ they were gone in seconds

Not true I was able to mad the fender with a 1347 ap amp chip . The difference is u need to use double size ap amp because the fender pedal is a quad drive amp witch means basically need a chip that can have dual value instead of single value

Elmo you rock thanks for another great vid

I have a dod chorus. It uses a totally different jack than any other pedals and went connect to my power supply so at sits

It would be useful to know how you are setting these units level and gain controls for the demo. Are both controls all the way up? Is there any information on how Yngwie sets them? I use my DOD YJM primarily as a boost, with the level all the way up, and the gain brought in about one third. Cheers~

I have been doing mods for this particular circuit, I had a cloned pedal with "grey" specs and I did not liked, my goal was to get the "more is more" type of sound, by investigating further, I discover how to extend the distortion range, on basically any DOD 250 type pedal, even the original grey pedal can get a "boost", instead of replacing chips, the goal is to create a pedal who can do what the vintage ones do and also get close to a distortion pedal, I copied this idea from other modders, I'm perfoming this simple mod on all my DODs now and future build ups, those Dimarzios are going to "scream"

Awesome you got a Ziltoid 🤣 got one on my 4x12 as well 🤣

Can we all agree about the white elephant in the room? BOSS needs to make DOD 250 Grey with LM741CN chip, I mean they did Sola Sound Tone bender fuzz (who plays fuzz, anyways) and they also did a collab with JHS -so it's not impossible, the thing is, not many people play tube amps, and even less people play genres which would suit DOD 250 grey well (you could play old school heavy metal, blues, hair metal, etc with it) but I really doubt how it would fare paired with proper humbuckers like Evolution or PAf Pro or Super Distortion which are all very high output pups... but Boss could do it, DOD 250 is the first hard clipper (some claim MXR dist plus is but it's debatable, anyhow, silicon clipping in DOD is much cleaner and articulate than germanium clipping which MXR has) ... in other words, we have to pester YOshi during live BOSS' live streams on FB ps. I have DOD 308 original and it works okay with my ORigin 50c, and I also snatched one Fender Yngwie for 60 euros (I got lucky) but the thing is - Fender Yngwie has even more UPPER MIDS and GAIN than DOD308 (both pedals are UPPER MID boosters, so have that in mind when tweaking your Mid knob on Marhsall amp, especially SV 20, SC20, ORigin as they inherently have too much UPPER MIDS and Treble by default - not the case with 1987x or the older Plexis) so it makes my Origin 50 squeal and it's unusable and I'm going to sell it. Super Overdrive is a great alternative but , in my case, it lacks a bit clartiy on low E and A strings when alternate picking those there's this french guy Guillame - check out his vid, if you have the right amp and EQ it up properly, then DOD250 and SD-1 should sound pretty close to one another > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xpbwJtvCBF8.html

dod250 is a great circuit . i love this one using clipping LEDS not diodes . but thats my thing . i set it as my first gain stage , always on thing .

The ODD 741 sounds the best to my ears!

How you can set the pedals all way up? I cant! I get a higher noise and whistle like a mad ! I have ns2 and 250,308,fender OD, all whistle!

Hi, nice video! Can you tell me other cheap dod-250 clone? Replacement for Mosky? Harley Benton or Behringer...Because I don't have Mosky in my country...

I got a fender one new for 100$ then got a used on for 55$ then saw they were not offering them on the fender site any more. Saw them go on eBay for 800, 900 even 1,000 $$ ! The fender one sounds the best to me. Anyone know the reason they stopped making the fender YJM overdrive? It was pulled with no explanation.

i like the modded moski best 😊

Hi Elmo

Elmo how do you rate the analog modded 308 to a mosky 250x?

The fender is very noisy, i have one and really taking care of it because even second hand i don't find them, i remember i've bought it 55 euros with a 20 euros noise gate

The better one was 308. it seems there is more sustained tone.

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Is the dod 250 modded or stock?

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Have you tried a Sweet Honey OD for Yngwie tones? Would like to know your opinion

To make ANY DOD 250/sound like a Malmsteen...you change the input capacitor from .01uf to .001uf ...which gives you a tighter bottom end...that's it. DOD 250 is not rocket science, it's one of the most basic circuits... tolerance with the components..tweak and they sound the same. Also the chip makes no difference at all....tweak your knobs ;-)

Have you seen the prices of the Fender Yngwie overdrive pedal? That is broken fo sho!