Weird & Mostly Unknown Pedals that you love ??......

[studio1087]

My latest weird "no one has heard of this pedal" pedal.....

The DOD Vibro Thang



It's like an odd Uni-Vibe.

Controls....

RPM's - (that's obvious)
Drop - (sort of like a depth + swoosh kind of thing)
Intensity - (how loud the drop is)
Image - (it makes the ambiance of the rotating swoosh more pronounced)

I used to have a BBE Soul Vibe that cost me over $100 and this odd pedal blows the Soul Vibe away for the rotating speaker & vibe kind of thing.

Ebay - $27.

I'm digging it. I was looking at cheap old DOD pedals and I found this goofy thing. This is a cool old hunk-o-junk.



Do you have any odd and seldom known pedals that you really dig?

What's the strangest old pedal hiding in your gear bag??

John

[hal]

I have a Cutec OD-1. I got it for 25.00 a long time ago. It is a great TS-808 style pedal. I keep it on my board for light crunch. It gets swapped out with a Monte Allums OD-3 from time to time.

I have to mention another one on my board always. The original Nobels ODR-1. I use it for just a little juice. A killer pedal.

[metulmykul]

I'm watching out for a Vibro thang atm. Oh and if anyone has a DOD Buzz Box...

One of my faves...

The Zoom UF-01 Ultra Fuzz.


Mine is 0000009.

[czech-one-2]

While we are on the DOD bandwagon,the FX-80B is my all time favorite compressor.I just built a GGG orange squeezer,and have a/b'd the DOD with A 78 mxr dyna comp,modified boss cs3,maxon cp101,maxon cp-01 and old ibanez compressor II.The DOD FX-50B beat them all for clean,snappy and transparent compression,and is still the only one on my pedal board.Its also very quiet,but I did swap out the 1458 chip for a burr brown.
Mine has the rca ca3080 chip too!
Best $30.00 I ever spent.

[studio1087]

Originally Posted by czech-one-2

While we are on the DOD bandwagon,the FX-80B is my all time favorite compressor.I just built a GGG orange squeezer,and have a/b'd the DOD with A 78 mxr dyna comp,modified boss cs3,maxon cp101,maxon cp-01 and old ibanez compressor II.The DOD FX-50B beat them all for clean,snappy and transparent compression,and is still the only one on my pedal board.Its also very quiet,but I did swap out the 1458 chip for a burr brown.
Mine has the rca ca3080 chip too!
Best $30.00 I ever spent.

I see those on eBay and I always pass them by because they ate desgned for bass (probably a silly reason to worry).

Now I'll look for one. Thanks.

[11 Gauge]

I have a love/hate relationship with those old DOD enclosures - I have a pair of gutted ones.

...The weird D.C. jack can cause shorts if you insert or remove it and forget to cut the power first. The plastic battery hatch falls off never to be seen again. The springs for the footswitch mechanism get full of crud and have to be cleaned out.

...But the enclosure itself is tough as nails. Nearly indestructable.

Since those old pedals are almost all copies of something else, they are great diamonds in the rough.

I really like their envelope filters. Must grab one, one day.

[studio1087]

I have a DOD Milkbox compressor. Love it. I mean I really love it.

[Mike Eskimo]

$30 pedal that does the $1500 Magnatone amp thing. The Boss pedal it was cloned off of is still $300+



Enclosure is so crappy, it makes the DOD ones seem bullet-proof

[gatego]

The Sundecay f-bomb
a really aggressive fuzz with a lot of gain....

[Dana]

Anything made by Death by Audio

http://www.deathbyaudio.net/

[Dana]

Subdecay Noise Box

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...8829628628752#

[Martin R]

Used to be in a Grateful Dead cover band. Couldn't do the Jerry thing without a Boss T-Wah.

Trying to work it into this twang thang now with little success.

[umasstele]

My dad has one of those Vibro thangs he bought new like....10 years ago!

I'd have to say the maestro phase-shifter I have....very cool.

[metulmykul]

Originally Posted by Mike Eskimo

Enclosure is so crappy, it makes the DOD ones seem bullet-proof

+ 1 on that!

And since DOD have been mentioned...

I have a place for my DOD Grunge.
Crappy name, great distortion.

[FMA]

Used to have a Foxx Fuzz-Wah-Volume that I loved and stupidly got rid of.
Currently have a Ross Phaser on my board. Very nice phaser. Can go from mild swirl to madness. At more extreme settings can be almost chewy and weirdly funky. Kind of noisy, but very cool nonetheless.

[Frontier9]

Originally Posted by studio1087

My latest weird "no one has heard of this pedal" pedal.....

The DOD Vibro Thang

At first glance I thought it read Vibro Thong...

That would give new meaning to that signature I see around here from time to time: "Tone is in the underpants."

[fenderman2009]

One pedal that I use all the time is a DeltaLab Effectron digital delay. The reason I like it so much is that, unlike many delays, it actually makes the guitar sound better when played through it, sort of like always having new strings on the guitar. Only problem is, DeltaLab stopped making Effectrons about 20 years ago. Oh well.

[Bill Ashton]

Wife bought me the Vibro Thang for Christmas many years ago, as I had lost the tremolo on my venerable Guild 66-J and hoped it would return my lost sound. It did...sorta...not damning with faint praise, but the sound isn't just a pulsing tremolo, sorta factors some phasing in, almost Leslie like with the right setting.

Got one of those DOD Compressors off eBay cheap, but I just "don't get" compression so it went out on eBay...cheap.

As to the Deltalab Effectron, these were manufactured locally, and our favored local tech used to work there. I have bought couple off eBay but just didn't get on with them...perhaps they had troubles...so passed them onto the tech who was most pleased!

Side note: DeltaLab (at least the label) seems to have been revived, has has a small line of inexpensive pedals. Kinda want to try their time-based units, might be quite good...

[Jimmy Dean]

In the 80's I had an Ibanez PT-707 Phase Tone II. Double size stompbox with 3 controls, blue. It was the best phaser I ever owned. I never hear anyone mention it.

[LMmember]

Originally Posted by czech-one-2

While we are on the DOD bandwagon,the FX-80B is my all time favorite compressor.I just built a GGG orange squeezer,and have a/b'd the DOD with A 78 mxr dyna comp,modified boss cs3,maxon cp101,maxon cp-01 and old ibanez compressor II.The DOD FX-50B beat them all for clean,snappy and transparent compression,and is still the only one on my pedal board.Its also very quiet,but I did swap out the 1458 chip for a burr brown.
Mine has the rca ca3080 chip too!
Best $30.00 I ever spent.

Great comp. I had one years ago and just picked up another while back.