DOD BASS 30

Super easy to figure out. I generally dive into using a new product without bothering to read the manual. This one I had up and running and cranking out cool-ass sounds instantly. Within a few minutes I was changing parameters and customizing patches.

I use it for both recording and live playing and I think it sounds incredible, especially for the price. I went through a phase not long ago where I ditched all my effects; then I bought this on a whim and am completely stoked. I am really really impressed with how nice it sounds for recording, even straight into the board.

I have had it for a couple of years now and if it failed me I'd be completely surprised. It is kind of lightweight but it has taken all the punishment I have to give (and I can dish it out!) and still works like new. All the switches still function as new.

Never dealt with them.

This is one of the best buys I have ever made. Worth every penny; I am looking for another one on Ebay to have as a backup just in case. If it broke or got stolen I don't know what I would do.

I found the DOD Bass 30 very easy to use, but my grasp for understanding electronics is high. The manual helped great for the little things that were not obvious. Developing your own unique patch is easy as 123. Just toggle trhough the effects and modeling and you're there. Bada bing, bada boom. What I think needs improvenent is the phrase sampler.

I use this on a mainly fretless five string. Setting the gate high (like A7 or A8) with a little sounds quite psycodelic. Overall the flange, chorous, vib, delay, and reverb are nice but I wouldn't recomend the DOD Bass 30 for distortion. I use and recomend a seperate pedal for the other features. The bass synth is cool to make funny noises with but not good at all when it comes to striking chords. It for some reason or another sounds like it can't handle the sound. I really wish that the phrase sampler would work with delay. In between songs I like to loop a bass riff with some wierd sounds to keep the music flowing but if you like delay you just have to do without for this feature.

Its never let me down so far and I've had it for about almost five years. I've only played a couple of crowds and they weren't very big, even then I had a couple of backup pedals. Anything can happen and probobly will in time. You don't want to let down the crowd, they are the people that make you famous or make you nobody special. Being made of plastic souldn't be a problem. Thats what makes it inexpensive. As long as you don't jump as high as you can and stomp down on it like Kurt Cobain it should last indefinatly.

I've never had to call on the manufacturer so I can't say anything.

I bought this thing new about the time it first hit the shelves. They had a display model for half the price but one of the foot buttons was broken because everyone and their grandmas messed with it. I play kind of funky rock music for about 10 years and it works fine. If it were ever stolen I would need a new effects processor so I would brobobly buy a new DOD unless there was a better deal for the money I would spend. I like most everything about it, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise. Like I said I wish the phrase sampler would work with all of the effects. I picked it over a digitech because of price difference. I think they wanted like $280. They both had expression pedals. But if I wanted to get away really cheap I would have gone with the digitech without the wah pedal for about but I like the advantages that come with it. You can just go to town with this thing.

Pretty simple and straightforward. Very easy to edit. LED matrix makes it easy to see what you are editing and most effects only have a few parameters, so it's a snap to edit a preset to your taste. The manual is written well, plus there is the handy pocket card.

This is basically a toy, not a professional piece of equipment. (Anyone who bought this and expected it to sound great was kidding themselves. I know I knew better.) However, it is an easy-to-use, fun toy, and the sound is acceptable considering the price. It does generate a little bit of noise but I wouldn't call it terrible. It is by no means suitable for studio use unless you are going to run it through a bunch of other effects for the dirty, all-out, super-effected sound, but it is fine for just kicking around during a practice or at home. The effects in general are a little weak, and I found that things sounded a lot better if I split the signal from my bass and drove one channel clean and one through this; having the dry channel added a little bit of life back into the sound. I find the Bass Synth effects to be relatively useless but that may be my taste. The more basic stuff (reverb, delay, chorus, flange) are better and more useful but still a little thin. The "modeling" is something of a joke compared to more serious equipment out there these days--I would never use this for amp modeling in my home studio--but the different models do get you different overall sounds and distortions to choose from.

I've dropped it a couple of times and haven't had any trouble with it, but it is made entirely of plastic (except for the sheet metal bottom) so I wouldn't want to drop it too many more times. I would definitely not recommend going to a gig with this thing as your only effects source. I'm pretty sure things would crack if something even moderately heavy landed on it. I might take it as a back-up just in case something happened to my main effects unit(s), though.

Never had to contact them.

I mostly do industrial, synth pop, and progressive rock. Using a handful of Rickenbackers now and a Taylor acoustic bass. With this piece, I'm usually just running it either through headphones or my Crate B80XL practice amp. This is a good unit for just grabbing on your way to an impromptu practice session since it weighs next to nothing-- I think the wall wart weighs more-- or a unit to have around the house if all of your main gear is in your bandmate's garage (or to have in his/her garage if all your stuff is at home). It's also a good unit for someone just starting out who is not yet ready to start sinking a lot of money into equipment and/or wants something thatis easy to use. It would also be an adequate back-up in case your main effects rig goes south in the middle of a gig. If you are wanting something that is going to sound even semi-professional, however, I would steer clear of this one. I don't regret buying it since I've had a lot of fun with it and couldn't have done much better at the time for the combination of price and features, but neither would I replace it if anything happened to it since I now have much better equipment. I still get it out once in a while if I'm just in the mood to play and don't want to power up my entire studio, or for playing in the bedroom with headphones.

If you can push buttons and turn a single dial, then you're set for this thing. It's as simple as it gets as long as you understand what everything does (and for those of you who don't the instruction manual is very well done.)

I use this thing with a Carlos Robelli 4 string fretless, and an ESP LTD B-105, and play on a Gorilla practice amp. Overall the sound is fair. Nothing spectacular in my opinion. The amp models all sound pretty good for thier respective types of music, with the exception of the synth bass, which ive never found a good use for. The effects all do pretty much what they say they do. If you're looking for one particular effect, i recommend going for the individual pedal instead of this one. As I said the effects are nothing to get to excited about although i found a few of them to be very useful.

Well, I did have one minor problem with the tuner. For some reason it read everything as being one step higher than it really was for no reason. Im not sure what caused it because i never use the detune option, but it was easily remedied by resetting the thing. All in all its pretty reliable. As far as using it at a gig, i might stick to a more durable pedal. My friend played one of these for a while, and when he was playing he stepped down onto the pedal and the plastic basically shattered under his foot. Not so durable if you're a high energy player.

never bothered, too much effort

I play a lot of punk rock/ alternative music, although you'll hear me play a little of everything from time to time. I've been playing a little over 2 years now, and its the only effects pedal I've purchased so far. If it were stolen, I might replace it. Its a good utility tool because it can do just about anything. My favorite feature to the pedal is the modern amp model, because it has a great sound. I don't really have any hated parts of the pedal. Overall I'd say its average, and great for a beginner. I dont know other bassists for the most part so I dont have any other pedals to compare it to. Nothing in particular i wish it had, its just right if you're just a garage musician like me. It really does help play songs/write music because it gives you a wide range of sounds to work with. Well good luck, hope you find the pedal thats right for you.

It is impossible to get a good sound out of this unit. The controls are easy enough, and the features are pretty straight-forward, but the damn thing is so noisy, I can't stand to use it. Probably a good entry-level processor, but not really practical for the serious bassist...

Used it with various basses...Fender Jazz Fretless, Epiphone hollowbody, and my main Tobias 5-string....pumped it through an Ampeg B2 into a 15 and 410s. Noisy as hell....if you can listen through the noise, the sound quality on the pure signal seems fine. Most of the effects are unusable unless tweaked alot by the player...I enjoy the synth sounding pitch shift effect preset, but that's more a novelty set filler effect...noisy, noisy, NOISY!!!!

Plastic POS...haven't gigged with it, not going to...Pedals crud up really easy....ugh

Good support, I lost my power adapter, and they sent me a new one...for 20 BUCKS!!! Of course that wouldn't have been necessary if they had used a standard nine-volt jack, but they made a custom one that only works with a certain adapter.

I play just about everything, and the band I'm currently with plays a breed of progressive/jam music that's hard to describe...hell, it's rock and roll, right? I've been playing for going on a decade, and this is probably the worst piece of gear I own. Honestly I prefer single effects, and I think I'm going to stick to that from now on. If it wasn't so noisy, I might use it, but as it is, I'm going to sell it to my singer who likes to think he can play bass...

This unit sounds OK out of the box. It has a lot of parameters, and you'll have to spend some time learning the interface if you want to get really good sounds out of it. I play synth and guitar, and this is the least complicated thing I own, and I still had to spend a little time learning what you could do with the effects and how much you could tweak them.

I just wanted a bass preamp for my project studio, something I could run my Jazz Bass into and have a solid basic sound, going into my mixer. I found this on sale, and it looked like a lot more options, cheap.
Out of the box, about 60% of the presets did something for me. I spent some time tweaking it, and frigging rocks! Others have griped about noise, but they must have problems elsewhere, 'cause mine is dead silent, even when I've got the Jazz by a monitor or speaker cab.

It's plastic. I have lots of Roland and some Ibanez pedals, but some of the guys I used to gig with used a lot of DOD gear. All that stuff held up well. I'd gig with it, but I'd buy or make a foam lined box to transport it.

Haven't had to deal with them. Friends had good service when they had problems.

I play stuff from Korn to NIN to Tool and some older hard rock. It has models of Ampeg, Trace, and SWR amps, and they sound rock solid. Nothing can replace a large transducer moving lots of air, but the models sound very good and record well.
The bass synth is weird. I might screw around with it, but I don't see it replacing one of my synths. The fretless model is interesting, but it has a bad lag. The only one I can see using right now is the bowed upright, which sounds great on legato passages.
It's definitely not a rack-mount unit with 80 effects, 23 simultaneously available, digital I/O, etc. However, it does have some of the most popular and useful effects, and it sounds very good, especially when you find it on sale for $100. For this price, I'd have a hard time finding anything that came close.

It doesn't get much easier than this, unless maybe you've never used any effects processor before. As the display is just two numbers, you need to keep the manual handy to remember which number corrisponds with what is assigned to the expression pedal. Also to refer to how the parameters relate to the synth model etc. Actually come to think of it, when you press the button for the pedal assign, the light next to the thing it is assigned to flashes, so thats pretty simple. Overall, dirt simple to operate. Great features for a low priced unit. Like the ability to bi-amp and adjust the x-over frequency. Also the compressor has a hi pass filter that allows you to set a frequecy limit on the range of the compressor. For example, set it at 2K and everything above 2K will not be compressed.

I use a Spector NS2000Q bass, and play the bass 30 into the effects return of a 200w rackmount Marshall bass amp into a single 15 EV cabinet.
OK here's the deal. The amp models, EQ, and Effects sound great. You can get really fat, punchy tones from this unit. Very impressive. The fretless models are OK, although this is the only thing I've ever used with this feature so I have nothing to compare it to. The synth bass absolutely sucks. Don't buy this if you want a happening bass synth, because it ain't here. You can actually get a kind of cool synthy sound by using the auto wah and the enhancer, which adds a sub octave. Fuzz and distortion are OK I guess. I never use these. And who uses delay and reverb on a bass anyway? The bass 30 is a bit noisy, as others have stated. Although when you stop playing, the noise gate kicks in. Don't think I would want to record with this. The best way around the noise thing is to run this through a power amp or into the effects loop of your amp. However, if your power amp doesn't have a volume control, or if you don't have use of your amp's master volume when plugged into the effecs return, you might have a problem, 'cause there is no master volume on this thing. Dumb. If you plug it into the front end of your bass amp, use the low gain input, or keep the channel gain low, and keep the EQ flat. This helps keep the nois to a minimum, as this unit has plenty of gain on it's own and handles the EQ end of things from within the patches.

It is largely made of plastic, with a metal bottom. I wouldn't abuse it. Haven't gigged with it yet. Just at home and rehearsals.

Never been there.

Been playing for 35 years. Pro and semi-pro. I play guitar too, and have a Digitech RP2000, which I love. I thought having a pedal/preamp with a built in tuner for bass would be pretty cool. For the money ($70 on Ebay) it's great. This is not a high end pro unit. It is what it is. If you are playing live, and don't need a great bass synth, this will suit you fine. If you need the pro features, like XLR outs, a master volume, digital output, and a great bass synth, you might want to look at some more expensive units. I will probably sell this and go down for the $400 for a Boss GT-6b. Not to say this isn't a great value, especially if you can pick up a used one. That makes it a fantastic value.

this prossesor is wonderfull, easy to use, easy to set, sounds are great, and its inexpensive.

I run a Conklin sidewinder into the unit, then through a sub-harmonic generator (any bass player that is a bass player should have one)then an alesis compressor, into a Gallien Kruger 800 RB.....its a little noisy, but tell your guitarist that so are his tubes. every effect is great, just have to twaek to tast.

mine has only crapped out once, turned it off and back on and it was fine. no backup for me, and im hard on my gear.

never had to deal with it.

this prossesor is great, any one who dosnt like it just doesnt know how to program it.

I thought this pedal was really easy to use once I read the instructions a few times and learned about all the perimeters and what they do and such. Its very simple and if I can learn how to do it, anyone can.

I play a Cort 5 String on a Hartke Kickback HS1200. I got my stuff for free and but I plan on getting an Ibanez Erdogyne 5 String and possibly a new amp cause the input on mine is fawked up. I think this pedal sounds awesome, but I haven't really heard much of any other pedals so I can't say that its the best. The synth on it is tricky to get used to. Like others have said, it just takes awhile to tweak with it and get the perfect sound.

I think this is very reliable and I haven't had any troubles with it yet and I would most definately play live with it.

Haven't had any problems.

I believe this is a good pedal overall but it isn't the best. For a beginner like me it is good but I think about it this way. If you need something to tide you over for a short time, get this. If you want an awesome processor, spend some more money and get your money's worth and be satisified for a long time with a DigiTech BP8, or a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. If you aren't sure about this pedal, contact me and I'll record some stuff for you to see how you like it.

This thing is a breeze when it comes to editing and/or creating patches.

I really only wanted a chorus pedal, but I found the Bass30 used for 50 bucks, so I had to give it a shot. The chorus on this thing is great. I am also using the EQ and noise gate, throw in the built in tuner, and I think I got my moneys worth. I run it through the effects loop on my bx-100 crate amp, and there is no noise at all. Anybody complaing of noise is either running it into the input of their amp or using shitty cables.

Havent had any problems yet but it is mostly plastic, so I could set it getting busted if you abuse it.

Havent had to deal with them. I did download the manual off there website though.

I am very pleased with it. If it were lost or stolen, I would probably buy it again. Even if i had to pay retail, which is around $150 i think. I did get a great deal though for $50!!!