DOD DFX91 Delay/Sampler

I've been using this pedal forever...like 16 or 17 years and it has given me consistant quality of tone its entire life.
It's very simple to configure and mostly intuitive although, as with any stompbox, changing configurations "in medias res" is quite tricky.

In my current band, I swap between playing a late eighties BC Rich Warlock 6 string and a G&L L-1000 bass. The DOD sounds superb with either. No noise or hum at all with a good battery.

It's been a workhorse for years of gigs...Mine surrently is in need of a tweak here and there to make sure the input/output(s) are solid...but like I said...it's 17 years old.
I constantly use it onstage sans backup.

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This pedal is heads and shoulders above most new digital samplers as far as tone is concerned. It does lack somewhat in that the sample feature is only 1-2 seconds...but if you are primarily using it for delay it is wonderful.

Very easy to understand. 4 knobs: effect level, feedback, delay time and mode. The sample mode is a bit tricky but I've had best results with the delay time the whole way up, which gives you about a second of sampling, then you set it to trigger and hit it when you want it.

Since it's not true bypass, it does suck tone a little but I have it going through a true bypass looper so that's not so much an issue for me. This was actually the very first pedal I ever got back in 1989. I lost the power supply and accidentally ripped of the battery plug a number of years ago. I basically forgot about this pedal(been using a boss rv-3) until recently when I had to replace the battery terminal on my wah. Last night I fixed it and was blown away at how AWESOME it sounds. It kills the boss and will religate that unit to a reverb only pedal.

great considering the amount of frat basements and seedy bars it saw in the arly 90's. minus the battery plug ripping of(my fault) it's held up great for 17 years.

if you can find one, I highly recommend getting it.

This could get a bit hard if you don't have the manual, well not really, it's pretty damn easy. Well it has 4 knobs: Level, Repeat, Delay and Mode, modes are 6: 63 MS (slapback), 250 MS, 1 sec, Infinite repeat, Trigger and Sample. The last two modes I don't understand so much, they're the same thing; you step on it and it releases one time what's memorized... ??? Please if you know what this is about, write me to santiagoxyz@hotmail.com and explain it to me... :)

Well, I know this is a digital stompbox, but in my opinion it gives a very analog sound. I'm saying this because is you listen carefully enough you can tell that the fidelity of repetitions decays in time, and that is so warm and natural you forget this is a digital pedal. What the guy down there in the last review said about the infinite repetition is true; it's pretty annoying, but I know a trick if you want to make dreadful noise, listen (well, read) carefully: set the mode knob at infinite repeat and the delay knob at 12 o'clock and play anything, then step on the pedal again; the riff will be caught in infinite repetition. Then turn the delay knob at maximun: pitch will fall to the ground and you'll get very gutural strange ritualistic sounds... Very cool!!

Well, mine is like a million years old and it's perfect!, but I've had for only two months so I don't know what could hapen...

zip-ah-deh-doo-dah...

This pedal gives you wide range of options in delay efects, you can get slapback reverb, room, infinite annoying, natural delay for solos and lots of things, you just have to spend some time tweakin'... nice pedal...

Discontinued, so you are lucky if you have a user manual. No need for one really. The controls are basic. Easy to figure out. Delay ranges from slapback/verb to 2 seconds (I think) Has an infinite delay function that I tried using it a few time but just found annoying.

Cleanest delay I have used. Samples up to 2 seconds I think and in absolute perfect clarity. Tone it there 100%. No hum unless you have a low battery. This thing consumes batteries in less than a few hours of use (even in bypass). You MUST get a power supply for desirable results. Despite protest of others, I use a RadioShack 9V DC supply dedicated for this unit and have no distortion or hum. Perfectly clean. Plug this thing last in line in your effects chain.

A tank. The plastic stomp switch seems flimsy, but it is reliable and so far indestructible (9 years). The rest of the unit is housed in bulletproof metal I think. Used on gigs for many years. No need for a backup. A few back up batteries will definitely be necessary, unless you get a power supply for it. If you are considering buying used, do not fear that it would not be in working condition. I can't imaging breaking this thing unless you submerged it in salt water or corn syrup.

I lost one of the knobs recently. So I wrote to support@dod.com, explained my situation and asked where I could get a replacement. The following morning I received a courteous reply from a customer service rep who said that they happened to have one sitting on their desk and that it was already on its way to me in the mail free of charge. I was not expecting such a quick reply let alone a free replacement. I bet the knob costs less than the postage. Still, it's the little things that count.

I mainly use/buy BOSS pedals, but this one is an old standard that I have had since 1993. It has always been perfectly reliable (except when running on battery) and it delivers incredible delay and sound reproduction.

took me just 2 hours to learn how to use it

is not noisy, it sounds great, but be aware, moisture makes a undeseable distorted sound

if you like to play with delay, go for it, you have many options and it is 100% configurable.

no opinion

is cool, but keep it away from moisture

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