DOD BassTEC

I agree with most in that you would have to be a monkey with severe brain damage to not be able to figure this thing out. I bought it used, without a manual, and it all pretty much made sense.

Looking around at other reveiws, I am relieved to see that I am not crazy, and not the only one to hear the radio through my bass rig (and the shittiest station in town at that). Now I won't feel so bad when I rip the thing apart and start messing with the circuits. Maybe I'll find a cure, hell, it could be something as simple as adding a small capacitor in the input or output (if anyone has tried this, drop me a note and let me know what happened). As for the sounds that the unit is actually supposed to produce, they're not the best of effects, but they're down and dirty, simple, old-school, crappy effects. Make sure you only play with this thing in a really loud bar, with a really loud band, and maybe the combined noise of the crowd and the other instruments will cover the noise coming from this box. Just make sure you shut off your amp right when the song is done, or you may get your last "satan stomping babies" track encored with fuckin' Phil Collins.

yes. unfourtunatly it's rather rugged. It handles stomping, kicking, throwing, and beer like a good pedal. That's really the best thing I can say about it.

never contacted DOD

I play every style, so I get most effects some good use.

The Bass Tec is relatively easy to use, the four pedal system makes a lot of sense to me. and it makes it easy when playing on stage.
It has a pretty straight forward interface and intstuction manual.

Most of the factory settings arent the best, but if i mess with the settings myself and create some custom presets, i can make it sound how i want. I think some of the settings are just plain cheesy though. but theyre fun to mess around with. others are more functional and I use them often... like chorus and compression.

This unit has been reliable and I've owned it for a few years now. I feel comfortable playing out with out a back up, and i think that says something.

I had to send the power supply back right at the beggining because it was shorting out during practice... they where very cordial and I sent them the adaptor, they repaired it, and sent it back. that simple.

I think over all this is a good pedal for me because I'm into adapting my sound to be slightly different then the next guy. It's also got a convinient interface which lets me move around on it easily. over all i think its a solid pedal, i mean it's dod, what else can you expect.

Easy to use. I do occasionally hit the wrong pedal because they're a little close together for my clumsy feet. Don't have the "wah" pedal that gives additional control.

Using a 5-string Ibanez SR305DX with a Dean Markley K-300B amp. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones as I never get radio stations coming in or any of that. I've also never had it popping or cracking on me. I do agree the low end distortion is a bit weak but most other effects have been fine. The flanging could be a little bit better but I like mine fairly lite so it works.

I find it pretty reliable. I've used it for several years now and it's always worked and always given me the same sounds I've expected from it.

Have never dealt with the company or had it repaired so I'll give a moderate rating.

Generally a good buy, in my opinion. Not what I'd want if I was planning on being a big star but it gives decent sound, easy use, and is dependable. I would prefer it had a power switch rather than being dependant on a power strip to turn it on and off.

This thing isn't really that hard to use, if your kind of used to using effects pedals. But some things about it are tricky. You have to take it easy if your using a bass with active electronics, because if you have too much output from the pedal, and you slap, it will make the pedal clip and it sounds like a fart coming through your speakers.

I'm using an Ibanez BTB 1005 fretless, and a BTB 510. I'm using an SWR 500 (NOT a workingman series)head, through a BBE sonic maximizer, and a kustom 250 watt power amp, through two carvin 18's and four carvin 10's. Sometimes I use two madison 4 10 cabs. This thing can be noisy, the only effect that is usable is the chorus..but you can't use too much or it sounds crappy. Try not to use the eq on this thing either, you can never get it to sound solid. Every other effect sucks. I just use them to goof around. This thing is BY far the crappiest piece of equipment in my setup.

I have unfortunatly had to use this thing on gigs lately, because I broke my old pedal. I've beat the crap out of this thing and it always comes back just as crappy as before. It's strong though, I've stomped on it as hard as possible and it's fine.

DOD is stupid, I wouldn't call them anyway cuz the make shitty equipment

I play heavy rock, metal, or something like that. i've been playing for 3 to 4 years, and I've owned a couple of boss pedals, and I've had this thing lying around forever, and I finally have to use it. I am trying to buy something else, but I don't know what I want yet. I wish it was invisible, so other bass players wouldn't see me using it.

It is easy to use the manual explains it all. The processor has a built in tuner, but it does not respond to the low B on a five string very well. It is completely programmable and you can reset it back to factory presets.

This thing is noisy. It has a high frequency noise that is extremely annoying. The only way you can get the noise out is to turn the highest frequency slider on the graphic eq to the negative position to filter the high frequency noise out. I only use it when I am goofing off, I would never play through this terd in front of anybody. It sound pittyful.

I don't use it enough to have problems with it.

I called them with a question about it and they were helpful.

The Basstec sound like crap. So it is useless to me.

This dod in my opinion is a waste of time and money, although the settings and and friendliness of this unit are easy to use, the effects are lacking quality and versatility.

At the moment i am running this with a chunk fuzz, boss noise suppresor but in the stages of purchasing a dunlop 105Q.This is played through a fender jp-90 into a lab systems ss600 with sovtek 410.The noises which come through the amp are at a minimum level but after the first uses and realising this was a waste of money it went straight into the cupboard.The effects which you are meant to be able to programme to your own settings are just shit. The only effects on this which i have found half usable are the ring modulater and the tremelo, still a pretty shitty sound.

No need to depend on using this pedal its not longer in use.

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This effect is mainly used in conjunction more with an alternative style of music,this does not work with this at all therefore i advise you not to purchase one of these extremely pathetic excuses for a multiple effects processor.
p.s even the built in tuner is shit.

Easy to use, but strictly for beginners learning about effects...
sorry, i take that back, even beginners don't deserve this crap.
I just edited the s''t out of the effects and made some even DODgier effects that the factory ones... get it DOD-gy... i m so funny.
manual is ok, but unless u r a total moron u should figure this thing out without it.

very very very very DODgy. (there it is again). like that other dude said it picks up the radio and pops... which i m sure is bad for the speaker.effects are weak as. using it with a hughes and kettner bassforce xl, and i stopped using it with it coz it might wreck my sub. can;t get any pro sounds out of it at all, not even worth trying.

cannot depend on it.... simply.
the power supply input jack spewed within two months of buying it.
bad news indeed.
wouldnt embarass myself by taking it to a gig... not even for the tuner.

never wasted my time.

i play punk/funk/soft rock. bad match. been playing two years, play a fender jazz bass through a h and k with a boss bass eq (buy this, u fool). i m going to try and trade it in for a digitech bp200 this week, but i dont like my chances of the retailer taking this hunk of junk so i ll probably just play soccer with it or throw it in the harbour, maybe even attach it to a tow bar for a couple of days.i chose this one coz i was just beginning with effects when i bought it, and it was cheap. wasnt even worth 99 bucks, seriously DODgy stuff. do not waste your time.

This pedal is pretty easy to use. Pretty stait forward, not two comlicated if you have used effects pedals before

The sound is Horrible, yes, i mean horrible. I have all these crappy noises coming out of my amp. It picks up radio signal and makes these poping noises and hissing. GODDAMN i can't stand it. Yes, it mattrs what amp i use with it, but a peavey minx 110 sux. The effects are ok but the interfence and hissing are HORRID!!!

First of all, I would never use it at a gig with all those frekin crap noises coming out of it. So i can pretty much say it is the most unreliable thing I own

Yes, I contacted them once. They gave me bullshit about how i had to buy a Power condtioner that cost almost as much as the damn unit itself. They said that would get rid of the noise, but i am broke as it is. I said screw that

Well, All i can say is that the effects work and yes, there are plenty of good sounding effects in this pedal, it is just the noise and crap that i hate. Sometimes if i plug it in upside down the noise goes away, but i had to give this pedal a scathing review because it has givin me lot o crappy noise

This unit is very easy to figure out. It is fairly compact and you can pass through channels quickly.

I'm using a Samick 5-string with a Hartke 1415 amplifier. Sometimes I get an annoying popping sound from it, other times I don't. The distortions are weak, the chorus is decent, and most of the other effects aren't anything to get excited over. The effects don't seem to carry enough low end.

I don't trust this unit mainly because when I first bought it I brought it home and the next day it broke down. I tend not to use it live because of this reason and for the fact that I don't have a spare adaptor.

When I sent the unit back to the manufactorer, it took almost three months before I received it fully repaired. Customor support is hard to get through to, and they don't offer a whole lot of help.

I love to play alternative/metal and this product has let me down too many times. It has some good features, but I wouldn't ever buy it again. It's not the worst sounding unit in the world, but for the price, I think I could have bought something better.

It's pretty easy to use, i wish it came with a manual though. I had to e-mail DOD to figure how to do some stuff.

Sounds pretty cool. I have a Fender Presicion Bass and a Crate 15 watt (stop laughing!). Some effects suck, some are really cool. I need to find some cool patches, so if you got any wmail me at bassline_1414@yahoo.com .

It's a pretty sturdy pedal

They were friendly, i wish they would have been more specific though.

I like this pedal, its got more ups than downs.

This was really easy to use, most of the factory presets SUCKED! But once you start scrolling through the effects you can get some really crazy sounds. Don't judge it by the presets experiment with it before giving it a final judgement. I know in the store they demoed it for me with some of their own Presets (even told me the patches).

Running a Fender Precis Squire through this pedal and a Basswah into a Fender Amp. didn't find any problems with excessive noise, Most of the effects were strong except for the distrotion, a little weak on the low end. I could get some nice lemmyish fuzz with it, and also found the delay pretty useful.

I would use it for gigs yes, I would depend on it for getting single effects during songs, but forget about scrolling through effects mid song, my size 11 feet are just too big for the little pedals.

Never Dealt with them.,

I play a lot of Maiden, Rush, Motohead stuff I've been playing for 6 years, I also play guitar. This pedal works well with My BOSS bass overdrive and I really got a lot out of this pedal.

This is a pretty good multi-effects processor. It is pretty easy to use, and it lets you make your own effects(the preset effects suck, though).

It has decent sound quality. The distortion could be better.

It seems to be pretty reliable.
I would use it in a gig because it is the only thing I own

I dont know

I usually play heavy metal, and have been playing for about two years.
I have a Fender bass and a Kramer guitar, and I use the BassTEC for both guitars, but it sounds best with the bass.
The wierdest thing about this thing is that when I plugged it in my amp started to pick up radio signals. Its damn strange playing some heavy metal when all of a sudden some church channel starts coming out of the speaker.

I give this a low ease of use becasue it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a good sound out of this thing. This unit crosses that line between user friendliness and crap. I figured this pedal out in a few days. The manual was WAY to brief.

HORRIBLE. This was such a waste for me. The distortion is weak weak weak. It has all the effects i wanted, but it just give every thing a k-mart cheesy quality to it. I used it with a hartke kickback 12.

I play grind core, experimental music. This effect was like a chain around any semblance of creativity and i cant wait to get rid of it. I urge everyone to search elsewhere.

The sounds are OK, but if it weren't for the noise gate, it would be totally useless! This thing makes a lot of noise. I use this (or used to use this) to record back-up tracks. I ussually play 6 string, but can learn bass tracks to record. I can't STAND hiss!!!

Mostt effects are decent, but shallow. Some hiss more than others. I have rated other DOD effects and always have the same bitch, but you get what you pay for.... I consider a '5' to be run of the mill.

It always works, and always gives me the same amount of hiss, so I would say it is dependable to be consistantly noisy.

Never bothered to tell them it is noisy, they probably already know.

I play whatever people will pay to hire me, from country to semi-hard rock. I do a one man show with backtracks and MIDI support and effects control. I only played bass to do the backtracks, but now do it all in MIDI. If somebody stole it from me, I wouldn't care but would still put a bullet in his or hers ass, but would hope that while removing the bullet, that their insurance would fix their hearing so that they could hear the his this thing makes. At least after the bullet was removed, they would know that stealing this thing was a stupid thing to do!

After two hours of messing with it and reading the manual I felt like I had owned this box for years. Very easy to learn and master. I erased the factory presets (30 in all) and created 30 of my own. The only drawback is that "I" can't seem to figure out how to reset them all back (as if I'd want to).

I played on a zoom 506 for a while and switched to this just because of the sound quality and effects list(even though individual pedals are way better). I instantly started searching for my favorite bass player's sounds; from flea's thrash-funk spank-his-bass slap, to les claypools autowah-synthesizor "sh*t my pants the first time I heard it"-sounds, to stephan lessard's smooth blues-reggae-funk style. I was able to re-create their signature sounds (at a lesser, "multi-effects" level). But what's really kick*ss about this pedal is the thousands of effects in the fx list, bass players can easily customize their own sound with it. I run an Epiphone EBM-4~~a Morley Bass Wah~~DOD's BassTec~~to a Gallien-Krueger 400RB/115 and I don't think I'll ever need to change a thing, exept for buying another cabinet.
Anyways. . . the effects, in my opinion, are 7 out of 10.
oh, and I get a radio station also on certain settings

I guess the reliability is good, I wouldn't "drop it off an airplane" or "tie it to a bomb" or anything. It has rubber bottoms so you won't go arse-over-tit if you try to use it on a gym floor. I like how it came with an AC because i hate buying those, but it doesn't run on a battery so you have to use the adapter (which sucks).

I sent in the warranty. . .

I play anything from the RHCPs, to primus(I try anyway),to radiohead, to weezer. Mostly I slap, so I mostly use this pedal for Eq, Compression, and its synth effects. I have played bass for four years, and piano for ten so I've been composing for a long time. This pedal is a usefull tool (for people on a budget)when recording. If it were stolen or lost I probably wouldn't get another one, I don't know yet. What I love about it is that it has helped me finally find my signature sound. What I hate about it is it has sh*tty distortion, I was disapointed because thought it might have a grunge like nirvana or something but it doesn't. Like I said before, I compared it to the zoom506 and it's better. So, until GK comes out with a bass effects, (hoping. . .) this is probably the best multi-effects pedal for bass right now.

Once you get usto playing on the pedal and you know where the effect is that your trying to get, its pretty easy to use. The tuner is very handy and I use it more than the pedal.

Well I pick up some wierd latin radio station sometimes when I plug it into my amp. Its usually at night for some reason too. When I'm not catching up on mombo music, the sound quality is pretty good. I prefer the sound of individual pedals over a multi-effects pedal but thats one of the down sides of getting one. Overall its ok.

Well I can rely on gettin a latin gig right but thats not my sound. When it is not picking up radio stations I guess I can count on it to play well...

Havent had to deal with it...Maybe I should to see if the shielding is correct.

Its hard to say for me weather if it is good or not...I'm still experimenting with effects to get a new sound or a fresh sound. It has a good range of effects, altough they arent very indepth effects and are pretty basic. Making your own effects is kinda easy and fun if you have the time.

This is the only complaint I have for this FX pedal. Honestly, I would say easy of use is terrible. It is hard to hit the 3 pedals becuase of thier shape, especially if you have to switch an effect quickly during a solo. The bank isn't too bad, but there is no explaination (manual) for anything. Bottom: It has bad ergonomics, and you might hit the wrong effect during play.

I use an Ibanez EDC 700 bass, and a Fender 300BXR amp combo (the big one). The effects sound great. Actually, I think the pedal makes things sound so good, that I even built a "blank effect" and just run my straigt play through the pedal.

so far, so good. just a few outages, but I think that has to do with my house circuitry.

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I play up-tempo, punk rock and such. I just wish it was easier to switch the effects. But I've learned to deal with it. I don't think I buy it again, but it's good for the house. It does help the sound. I would put the extra dough into a BP-8.

Programming this unit isn't too difficult, though it would be nice if you didn't have to scroll sequentially through 50 different 'chorus' settings to get to the one you want.

I use an Epiphone EBM-5 bass through a Hartke 1410 amp. Some of the effects are great (chorus, flanger, tremolo), some suck (distortion), and some are just *cool* (delayed attack).

Some people have complained about the flimsy pedals. I haven't found this to be a problem. The only issue I have is that its fairly easy to accidently pull the AC adapter connector from the unit, because its on the side.

Never had to deal with 'em.

As inexpensive bass multi-effects units go (and I'm a former Zoom 506 user), this is a pretty decent unit. Will someone please explain to me why all of these pedals have an 'octave below' setting, but not an 'octave above' setting, when its a bass effects unit? Overall, I'm pretty happy.

It was hard to follow the bank system with only four pedals

some of the effects were nice, but others really did not support the deep end of my b string, mostly in the chorus

It seemed sturdy but it had plastic pedals that felt flimsy like they could break

Well it seemed like a pedal worth it's money to people with a low budget, but if you have the money to spend i don't recomend it