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DOD FX-25B Envelope Filter
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86% of reviewers
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$34.80
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8.0
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Description:
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The FX25B is the reincarnation of our original envelope filter. You still get that great automatic wah sound, but we’ve taken it one step further by adding a blend control making the FX25 equally responsive to both the guitar and bass guitar.
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Rick_no7
Registered User
Registered: December 2005
Location: Cumming Georgia(yes its real)
Posts: 1060
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Review Date: Fri May 26, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Cheap and very effective
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Cons:
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takes lots of tweaking
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Like many people, I was first introduced to a version of this in the 1993 Flea video. This version is updated with a blend knob, which makes it near impossible to adjust using your foot on stage, but you don't want to mess with the knobs too much anyway.
The pluses are that it does exactly what I wanted it to do. I get the sounds Flea got out of it, and a little bit of tweakability with it. I have tried several multi-task units with built in filters, and all the notes seemed to step on each other. Like the digital electronics couldn't keep up with actual playing speed. This keeps up and keeps sounding great. The blend control is great. I can lower it to get more bass into the sound, or set it super high to get a mechanical synth out of it.
The bad parts. The range knob is your tricky knob. It can go to sounding like it did nothing, to completely haywire. Find a good range/sensitivity combo and don't touch those knobs again. use blend to change the tones. Also do yourself a favor and get a good compressor, because this thing has CRAZY high frequency spikes.
I chose this over the mini-Qtron, the Boss Synth and Wah, and also the Digitech Bass Synth. Its no Emma or EBS, but if you just want good working man's Envelope Filter, grab one. Just don't expect it to be 1,000 effects in one stomp box.
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"I hate being told it is pronounced Epiphone when I tell people I own Epifani cabs"
Warwick Club Member #12
'03 Warwick Bleach Blonde
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KeithBMI
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Registered: July 2005
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
Posts: 7393
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Review Date: Sat August 19, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $25.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Sounds great.
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Cons:
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Plastic foot switch.
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I guess I should let some people know about this pedal. For it's price range, it's awesome.
It has a nice mint green color and there are three knobs: blend, sensitivity, and range.
Blend controls the mix between the effect and the original signal, most helpful for keeping the bottom end. Sensitivity is the point at where your attack sets off the effect, and range controls the movement of the envelope's sweep. Counter-clockwise sweeps more lows and clockwise sweeps the high end.
There is a led that tells you when it's on, but I don't think it'll be bright enough for daytime shows. (not tested)
The foot switch is cheap plastic, this is probably where a lot of money saving goes on. Nothing wrong with it, but I'm a sucker for a big metal switch. Speaking of which, the actual casing is metal, so that's good.
I wasn't expecting much from this pedal, but for $25.00, I though, "What the heck?"
I plugged it in and I suddenly had a change of heart about DOD products. This one blew me away.
I've noticed the sensitivity knob effects the amount of bass response, above 8 or so it starts thinning out. Regarding the range control, I found that the more you sweep the bass frequencies, the less you hear the effect. Watch that knob if you're deciding between "wet and wild" or a subtle envelope.
I was most worried about the tone suck, but the bypass is good enough to stay in my signal chain 24/7. I could not tell the difference when I switched it in and out of my chain. The same cannot be said for my DOD FX91. (Bass overdrive)
The main thing everyone is going to wonder about is volume suck. Nothing wrong with mine, but I would suggest a compressor. When I take my Big Crush out of the chain, I can hear a large enough volume drop to make it useless. If you have a compressor, you won't be able to hear a difference. Place it after the DOD because you don't want to compress the signal going into an envelope filter. 
Is it worth $40.00? Sure, but the $25.00 I paid for it "used" was worth it. 
I'll give it a 8.5/10. It's a damn good tester pedal to see if you would like an envelope filter. I can for see this in my chain for a while.
Here are some pictures. Here is my thread in the effect's forum that has a sound clip.
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jumbosilverette
Supporting Member
Registered: October 2005
Location: L.A. (the Valley)
Posts: 2407
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Review Date: Mon October 9, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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great low dub tones for little cash
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Cons:
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volume suck
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Bought this new for $29 based on a TB'ers exhortation that it produced wonderful dub tones (think subharmonice, lots of air movment) and he was right. Setting all three pots at 12 o'clock turns your bass into a bottom-end monster. If you've got good sized speakers, like 212's this thing pushes a lot of bottom end air around the room -- you don't even have to crank your amp. Try it, you'll see. If you're looking for traditional envelope wah sound there are probably better boxes, Qtron, etc. While you can get the Bootsy envelope sound, I found you have to really pull the strings and I'm more a subdued finger player. The box does suck volume out, but if you're running a Sansamp you can push it back up -- or simply set your amp's volume to 11.
Construction is good and should hold up to regular gigging. If it doesn't, but another -- it's $29, man.
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johnny b
Registered User
Registered: September 2005
Location: zion
Posts: 36
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Review Date: Thu October 12, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $29.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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very flexsible
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drain batteries fast without an adaptor.
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 I own my dod envelope filter for years now man I tell u it's the best thing 4 the money,really better than units costing 2 or 3 times more than it.I really wish dod would reissue this unit again just to see what they can come up with next,no I'm talking about the digitech syth wah,it does not have the same filter sweep the 25b envelope has by far.
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what goes around comes around so treat everybody right
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Crunka
Registered User
Registered: March 2006
Location: Stockton, Ca
Posts: 85
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Review Date: Sun December 3, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Cheap, fun, cool sounds
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Cons:
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Badly built, battery and volume suckage
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It's a cool pedal, don't get me wrong, but it broke 2 months after I bought it, I didn't even play it that much because it sucked batteries so fast. Thank god I only paid 40 for that, but I could've used that money for something better along the run.
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"That ain't no god it's just a burning bush" - Why?
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jorje_villafan
Registered User
Registered: February 2007
Location: modesto
Posts: 12
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Review Date: Thu February 8, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Cheap - Souns good
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Cons:
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Quiet - Broke
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I only used this pedal a few times. No matter what I tried, every time I engaged the pedal it sucked the volume. And after only a few uses I started having to push harder and harder tot activate the switch. However, I'm sure thats not the case with every one, maybe I just got a bum switch.
As for the sound quality it was great. I'm not an expert on envelope filters but it seemed to sound pretty good to me. It was quiet so I could only use it when I played by myself or without drums. But, it was cheap.
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OilcanRacer
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Registered: May 2009
Posts: 137
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Review Date: Mon January 4, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
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in my opinion this pedals only real worth is for filtering out highs and getting that "dub bass" sound.
as a wah or quacker there are many other pedals even cheaper ones that are better. it has a bad volume spike as so many envelope filter do. run a compressor after it and it just makes it lame.
also it seems to cut out some bass using it in the envelope way. i prefer my filters to be more wet sounding. different sounding than the synth wah when you set it up for just wah-ing.
combined with other pedals it just sucks the energy out of them and becomes bland.
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