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Official DOD Fan Club

FX90! Aug of 1985.

Finally got one and it's awesome.

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Highly underrated delays! I've had two, and they were hard to let go, but I couldn't justify it as I already had plenty of other delays and hardly use it at all...

Though my absolute favorite delay is the Rubberneck. I will NEVER use all of its functionality, but it's an amazing piece of gear nonetheless.

Unexpected how quirky this delay is, sure it has a great sounding delay but mess with the knobs a bit and you get modulation and even a bit of rubberknecking, and ofcourse self oscillations.
 
backwards on a resistor doesn't make any difference, but yours has the incorrect value (200 ohms) too, like many, if not most of them do. the factory schematic says that it's supposed to be a 5% 1K resistor. (color code: brown, black , red, gold). whoever built them must have confused it with a 5% 200 ohm resistor (red, black. brown, gold).
What is the result of the mistake? Like what does it do, or not do, to the tone of the pedal?
 
What is the result of the mistake? Like what does it do, or not do, to the tone of the pedal?
i makes the pedal's distortion brighter than it was designed to be. the funny thing is, i changed mine to a 1K resistor (as the factory schematic states) and i actually preferred the sound of the "mistake" resistor and changed it back on mine.
 
Slowly building my DOD collection. Picked up the FX65 for $15, and the FX10 for $40. I really dig the FX65, very different from my CE-2, and the trick with the outputs is very cool. Still want to pickup or build a 690 Chorus. Going to build some modded versions of the FX10, I absolutely love the circuit, as well as modded 250/FX50. Also have the Digitech Tone Driver, a highly underrated unit!

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I used to have... 30ish DOD pedals? Many duplicates. I actually had two identical guitar boards of nothing but early 90's FX series pedals. Still love me some DOD! The Rubberneck is the best delay I've ever played (though I don't need most of its functions), the Deep Freeze will always be my favorite bass chorus, and the Milk Box sorely needs reissued. It's by far my favorite compressor! In the name of simplifying much of my rig, I've downsized and gotten rid of most of my old DOD collection, but I still have fond memories of them, and I kept some of my favorites. A few of these competed very favorably to modern boutique boxes - I remember the FX70 Metal X being incredibly close to my Metal Shaman and Tight Metal Pro. And the FX 25B Envelope Filter is still in use for me on guitar. These days, I mostly have my "flavor" pedals - the Bass Stereo Flanger, Stereo Phaser, and a few others tucked away for when I need "that" sound.
 
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Slowly building my DOD collection. Picked up the FX65 for $15, and the FX10 for $40. I really dig the FX65, very different from my CE-2, and the trick with the outputs is very cool. Still want to pickup or build a 690 Chorus. Going to build some modded versions of the FX10, I absolutely love the circuit, as well as modded 250/FX50. Also have the Digitech Tone Driver, a highly underrated unit!

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I know it's been a couple of months since you posted, but if you see this, what is the trick with the outputs on the FX65? I'm curious, because one of these pedals is on its way to me. Thanks for any info you might have, D.M.N.

On the topic of the thread, I'm a DOD fan. I have an FX75-B flanger, FX25-B envelope filter, and an FX20-B phaser.
 
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I know it's been a couple of months since you posted, but if you see this, what is the trick with the outputs on the FX65? I'm curious, because one of these pedals is on its way to me. Thanks for any info you might have, D.M.N.

On the topic of the thread, I'm a DOD fan. I have an FX75-B flanger, FX25-B envelope filter, and an FX20-B phaser.
The "trick" is to plug only into the secondary output, which will result in a pretty subtle thru zero flange effect on certain notes. It seems what that note is can vary based on the component values of the specific FX65, but there's videos about it on youtube.
 
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