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06-16-2009, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | | DOD fx25 filters..
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how many "old" versions were there?? i just searched them on ebay, there was one lime green one that was listed as being the first model.. then the one that i have is also lime green, but with different knobs and different painting around the knobs. then theres the old green sparkle version..
do they all sound the same? has anyone tried more than one of these? is there one in particular that is THE "old one?" |
06-16-2009, 11:13 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | I have six of the seven versions of FX25 that have been made. The old "flat non-sparkly green" ones do sound better to me than the later sparkly green ones. Between the flat green ones though, I don't hear any difference between the light avocado and dark green ones. There were two versions of the light avocado ones, and they are the oldest.
I have been promising a proper shootout between them for almost two years now... it just keeps falling to the back burner.  
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06-16-2009, 11:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | | nice! after i posted this thread, i started looking on google immages and noticed that the one i have is differnt from the ones on ebay i thought were the same as mine- mine is the top middle of the picture, with the DOD logo in the middle.. theres more versions than i thought there were.
are those in age order? do you know how the cerial numbers work? mine is something like two digits, a bunch of zeros then it ends in "91," so i have to assume that must be the year it was made? same year i was born, i feel like that means i can never sell it.. |
06-16-2009, 11:31 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | I haven't examined the serial numbers, but yes that pic is in age order reading L-R. There's one more old avocado version I don't have. |
06-16-2009, 03:25 PM
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06-16-2009, 04:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | I have the bottom left one in Bongo's picture. Its a nice filter that cost me next to nothing. It has some craaaaazy low end to it though. It needs a bit of taming! I have had times when i've been happily playing away, decide to flick on the filter and... The world ends. First time it happened, I totally crapped myself and made a dive for the volume knob on my amp 
Great filter though
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06-16-2009, 05:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | Hmm, how about for dub? I've got the one on the top right and I love it, but I use a TS flavored boost after to give it some needed volume and bite when I have the sensitivity in the Laswell range. Any preference? |
06-16-2009, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by KarateKid25  I have the bottom left one in Bongo's picture. Its a nice filter that cost me next to nothing. It has some craaaaazy low end to it though. It needs a bit of taming! I have had times when i've been happily playing away, decide to flick on the filter and... The world ends. First time it happened, I totally crapped myself and made a dive for the volume knob on my amp
Great filter though | That was part of the fun of this filter if you ask me. Just need to make sure that your rig can handle it, and have a limiter handy.  I've had an avocado, a kermit green, and a sparkle version. |
06-16-2009, 07:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, its great It just caught me by surprise!
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06-16-2009, 07:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Guam | | | which one does Flea use? I have the green sparkle two-knob one but am having a hard time finding the 'sweet spot' on it. I'd like to get it to engage and sound similar to the sound that Flea gets in live clips but can't seem to tweek it. |
06-16-2009, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by andysvec which one does Flea use? I have the green sparkle two-knob one but am having a hard time finding the 'sweet spot' on it. I'd like to get it to engage and sound similar to the sound that Flea gets in live clips but can't seem to tweek it. | In his DVD, he does a demo on the Sparkle Green one. Bottom left in Bongo's pic.
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06-16-2009, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by andysvec which one does Flea use? I have the green sparkle two-knob one but am having a hard time finding the 'sweet spot' on it. I'd like to get it to engage and sound similar to the sound that Flea gets in live clips but can't seem to tweek it. | thats the thing about these filters, finding the sweet spot. its there, i assure you..
i really have been enjoying this filter more and more lately. i found i was getting too hung up on emulating the oldschool p-funk sounds rather than just enjoying what any given filter can do... it has a really big round sound, while not being subtle, yet not sounding too resonant...
now im just deciding on a compressor mainly for use combined with this pedal... even if that explosive low end thing is part of its character (wich i do love) i dont want to abuse my speakers too much.. |
03-31-2010, 09:00 AM
|  | Wanna buy some mandies, Bob? | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Longmont, Colorado | | | All - I'm considering picking up one of the old non-sparkle green ones (from top row in Bongo's pic) and I was wondering if there was any loss of low end when engaged. I've owned the fx25b and the sparkly, two knob fx25, both of which lost low end, so I want to make sure one of the older ones won't suffer from this as well...
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03-31-2010, 09:06 AM
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03-31-2010, 11:09 AM
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03-31-2010, 01:49 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | I wasn't able to hear any difference between them, and the circuitboard looked nearly identical. |
03-31-2010, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Planet Boulder All - I'm considering picking up one of the old non-sparkle green ones (from top row in Bongo's pic) and I was wondering if there was any loss of low end when engaged. I've owned the fx25b and the sparkly, two knob fx25, both of which lost low end, so I want to make sure one of the older ones won't suffer from this as well... | I have two of them: the top right (earlier issue) and the middle bottom (later issue). I find that my later issue has a loss of volume, but not the earlier issue.
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04-01-2010, 12:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | yeah not bad filters, i mean for the money they are great. in the next week though im selling mine to help fund my new groove regulator.
it is the same as the bottom left one. full working condition. few scratchs here and there. it be on ebay. ill post an add on this site when i put it up.
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04-01-2010, 05:27 AM
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Beyond that, I'm pretty incompatible with any of the FX-25's that I've played (To writ- the whole bottom row). |
04-01-2010, 06:24 AM
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