DOD DFX94 Digital Delay/Sampler

Not too difficult. I own the manual, but it is not really needed to learn how to operate the pedal, if it is too tricky to operate ... perhaps you shouldnt be trying to use the delay to begin with. However it does take about 30mins to an hour of playing to figure it all out

I own two of these nice little stomp boxes. I own a dark blue one and a green blue one. The darker blue on has a more lush sound, almost analog... better than any other mass production pedals I have heard, atleast digital. The green-blue on has a more metallic sounding, but it adds a certain color to the sound anyways, but not as warm. Hence the rating of an 8. But the infinite repeat function is nice, and you can add sound while playing which is nice... over all for the prices I got them for cant beat the performance... as mentioned before repeats only being as loud as the orginal is a down fall but who cares. the delay trails off well also. I perfer to use two of these in my chain rather than a memory man, and it is more versitale than the EH memory man deleuxe ....only thing I would perfer to have that sounded better is the akai headrush.

Well here is the problem no major problems with the pedals build quality , however the lighter green blue verison doesnt like batteries and when played for about 30 mins will turn off and pass no signal, and make a horrid sound.. so power adapters recommended

never used them

Well for the styles I play these pedals can do alot, but I do have a rather complex chain going... I have looked around for stuff , and own other delays, but I like these alot. Like I said only mass production pedal I would want outside of these is the akai headrush...If stolen I would probably buy another pair because they are cheap at the moment.. I imagine if people realize these are good pedals they will go up in price but right now.. no one wants them.. So if you have the money to throw down, pick one up, its worth trying out. I wish they both sounded the same, but however they dont.... Def. helps in the music creation process... I have been playing for awhile right now playing a 1965 fender mustang--> dynacomp--->boss ds-1---> dallas arbiter fuzz face--> eh electric mistress---> small clone---> volume pedal---> dod dfx94 blue one---> microverb iv or various reverb units----> dod dfx94---> Sunn beta lead

Somewhat trickier than what I'd expect from a single stompbox, couldn't be bothered to wait for DOD to email me with a manual so I just got my head around the thing by tinkering. I still think triggering/recording with the infinite repeat function requires more than one footswitch, like the Digitech PDS delays.

As the unit comes stock, its a good digital delay with a warmer sound than the usual Boss digital stuff (I've tried DD-3 and DD-6). Nice repeat trails, shame you can't have the delays louder than the original signal.

Favourite features: firstly one I've not found on other delay pedals outside of the DFX series which is on infinite repeat mode you can adjust the speed of the sample over and over without any obvious degredation of the quality. Most other delays get out of control with more than a few twists. Secondly as a few others have mentioned, constantly retriggering the sample while changing delay time also produces unique effects. With these features in mind, I'd rate the stock pedal as a 7.

But I need to point out my pedal is no longer stock. I have opened my DFX94 and adjusted the trim pots found on the PCB (there are 3). This has allowed me to take the maximum delay/sample time to 6 seconds, and when the repeat knob is set past 3 oclock changes the behaviour of the delay: it now distorts and oscillates all over the place when I want it to. When set to six seconds the delay sample quality is a little more edgy and grainy.

For most players I expect adjusting it so the quality is lower and so it can oscillate more doesn't make a lot of sense. As I'm into a lot of ambient/gaze/noise playing these features appeal to me: lofi sounding delays that can make a lot of noise, guitar-based or otherwise, are very useful. It can be used now as a standard good-quality digital delay, or pushed over its limits to create some crazy sounds. Hence it gets a 9.

Don't like that footswitch much. Don't think its the sort of pedal I'd gig with in a rock band context, though I might if I was doing a more experimental gig. Never had troubles with DOD pedals in the past, not really one to attack my floorboard.

Never bothered with them... this pedal is second hand anyway. I wouldn't mind a look at the manual but I doubt it would be much help.

I play a lot of styles, most things outside of jazz (both kinds of R&B, soul, funk, hiphop, rock, folk, pop). This is a great match, it can do straight up or more unusual delay sounds when needed.

I've been playing seven years and I'm still no flash player by any means. I change my rig almost as often as I change my underwear, heres a few of the more prominant things I've owned and used: Fender Twins (old blackfaces, non-MV silverfaces, MV silverfaces, reissues including the current 2-channel version I own), 2 Marshall JMP halfstacks (late 70s), Orange Rockerverb 100 halfstack, Vox AC30s (most kinds), '77 Gibson LP Standard, '66 Gibson SG Junior, '94 Gibson LP Special Doublecut (my current main instrument), '01 Gibson SG Standard, Liberty ES-335 copy, Tanglewood TW-900 acoustic, various Fender Strats and Teles, Watkins Copicats (own a varispeed), Roland Tape Echos (RE-201, RE-301, RE-501) all the Boss GT multi effect units (GT-8 I currently own, the best one so far), other Boss: MT-2, CH-1, PH-2, DD-6, OD-1, OD-2, OD-3... so much more its a chore to list. I'm seldom satisfied with my sound.

I'm going through a phase of collecting delays (already more fun than my phase of collecting distortion pedals) so unless I found something able to do the three or four quite unique things I like about it I'd probably replace it, if stolen or lost.

Anything I wish it had? Two footpedals instead of one, to make sample/hold features much easier to use without having to constantly adjust the pedals controls. Helps me make music, or noise, depending on my mood that day and/or whats required for a certain piece of music. Thumbs up.

fine for screwing around but NOT EASY for developing ideas. Be warned, even with a manual, this is the horse & buggy of sampling. It's basically just a delay with a very tiny memory and recall, and on top of it the sound is, well ... not great at all. given current sampling devices, this does very little and not much of it very well.

I CAN'T BELIEVE this thing OR the dfx92 (i've owned and used both) get ANY good reviews. The sound quality is not at all up to today's standards and BOTH models failed working eventually. The foot switch is exceptionally poor, the worst thing ever in a time-based unit!

It does introduce noise, even when bypassed. It's sampling is very junky, lifeless, degraded, kind of like an answering machine, not "singing" sounds at all. The delay is kind of like a bad phone connection, when you hear yourself talking a couple seconds later but muffled and grating. It's a mess.

It's so old and cheaply made, I can't give it a zero, so 3 it is.

This one and the "92" i had went bad. Sure it works, but it's not realiable.

Why bother. Too old. Who cares.

This is not a very usable piece of gear, and I can usually find a place for anything. It's just sucky. It's not a good sampler, NOT easy to use, and the delay is going somewhere in history for it's bad repeats.

Stay away. There's just SO many better things for affordable prices that do MUCH more MUCH, MUCH better.

Just got mine two days ago. The delay is good, but I'm not too picky about that aspect.

Okay, folks, here's what I've been doing with this pedal practically nonstop since I got it: Just turn the first three knobs up all the way, then turn the selector switch to the "INF RPT" mode. When both lights are on, then it is just playing, not recording. But step on the switch and everything you do to your guitar gets recorded on infinite loop. With the delay knob turned all the way up, you get approximately four seconds of looping. Unfortunately, in order to control how long the loop is you have to bend down and turn the delay knob. No Start/Stop switching available. (Note: every time another layer is added, the others drop in volume a little bit, even if you aren't playing anything, so if you want it to keep repeating without volume change, step on the switch and make sure both LEDs are on and just step on the switch again to record another layer.) It's a little hard to get the timing just right, and it probably wouldn't work in a live situation except for ambient background noise, but I've found that after a while of messing around with the pedal constantly sampling i can get the timing dead on.

So far, I've had a lot of fun just playing with this feature. The recording of a single measure and triggering it to play isn't too hard either, it just takes more knob turning.

Sounds good to me. Certainly not "pristine" repeats, but unless you're recording with it, you'd barely notice the difference. Sounds as good as my friend's boomerang near as I can tell, just less you can do with it.

Mine is a few years old. I just bought it off of ebay and aside from missing the pointer cap on the volume knob it is in excellent shape. Looks and works great. I think DOD pedals get a bad rap overall, but this pedal seems sturdy enough to get me through a gig.

N/A. dunno.

I like this pedal a lot right now. The band I was playing in just broke up and if it weren't for this pedal, i might go crazy playing by myself all the time. At least I have my sampler pedal to play with me for now even though nobody else will. =)

The delay part is easy, but sampler/trigger/infinite repeat is trickier. I used to only use the sampler for fake drum beat, percussive style loops, but it takes some time. Better for atmospheric, abstract style as of late. eats batteries, you should get an adapter.

Fender Japanese Strat through a Fender Bandmaster head, homemade 1x12 cabinet, Boss SD1 super overdrive. Haven't noticed much noise except it used to have a cycle-type hum that eventually disappeared, maybe I reversed the prongs on the adapter I was using. Sample sounds are really good, even when you change the pitch! The Boss sampler I have doesn't hold a candle to the sound quality. I love it. as for delay, it's great. never tried an analog pedal, but I like the character of the sounds and digital holds up better for synching up anyway.

I just spent 2 hours fixing it today after it powered up but no sound would come through. I opened it up, found a loose wire and braided the wire back because I didn't have a soldering iron. It's back and running (realized how much I missed it!), but I should probably reopen it and have it soldered back before a gig.

never dealt

I play all kind of music, and it matches me great. Pros: nice warm, clean delay and samples, intuitive once you get used to it, pretty solid, decent looking. Cons-eats batteries, don't think they make it anymore, may be noisy with certain combinations. If it were stolen I'd casually look for another, or just get a regular delay.

OK, folks...you have to spend some time with this one. There are pedals that are designed for one-eyed dyslexic monkeys, and there are pedals designed for super-intelligent cyborg monkeys. This pedal doesn't really fall into the latter category, but if you don't work on this one a little bit, it might as well be. It's not exactly intuitive, and some of the controls are a little unorthodox...at least to me they are. The sampler is kind of tough to use, or would be in a live situation. I did do this once, but I didn't know how to use it the right way and the results were less than spectacular.

Right now, I'm using as minimal a signal chain as I can. Teles and Strats through some Fender and Vox amps, with a TS-9 reissue primarily. Other pedals come and go, but this is the mainstay.

This pedal isn't bad. The sampler is kind of cool. It's tough to get the timing down on it though, at least for me it was. It's digital, no doubt about that, but I could see this being a really good, cheapish sampler for someone who was looking for one. Overall, I think the delay is a little on the weak side. It sounds a lot more "digital" than other digital delays I've encountered. It does the job, but isn't really stunning. On the plus side, it can go up to four seconds....a good amount of range if you ask me. I think that the sampler kind of requires that amount of time anyway.

This looks to be made very well. DOD pedals kind of get a bad rap, because Boss does such a good job, but I think that this pedal is at least within shooting distance of build-quality. The plastic footswitchy thing seems ok if you don't go after too badly.

never dealt

I don't really play anything that would make delay an essential part of my setup. If anything, I use a delay pedal sometimes for slapback, and this pedal only goes down to 250 ms, which is not quite enough (I like a very quick slap with more reverb than echo). It's definitely a great pedal for getting creative with. Like I said, I don't know well you would fair trying to do samples on the fly in a live situation, but it would certainly be cool in the studio. Tone and sound quality are very subjective things. This mofo might do it for you in the delay arena, but it just doesn't work for me. I don't use delay that much anyway, so it's very much expendable in that sense. If someone stole it, I would still hope that they got punished to full extent of the law, and I might even come to like the pedal more just because some ramrod swiped it from me. You know, something to get me even more riled up about.

Anyway, I wouldn't discourage anyone from buying this pedal at all. If the price is right, it could be a steal. Just try it out with some others (you should be doing that anyway...you know you're grandma wouldn't care how nice it sounded unless you could confirm to her you AB'd it with a DD-3 and a Memory Man first, and that you won't have to sweep floors at the barber shop longer than a week to pay for it). I'll give it a seven overall, taking into consideration that I have very little use for it, though it might cool in someone elses hands.

Easy to use on delay...but If you don't have the manual you're pretty much screwed on the infinite repeat and sampler modes.

sound quality sucks...I say that in a pitying and condescending way. Major loss of sound quality when plugged in. It wasn't the battery because I replaced it about four times and it wasn't the cables because plugged into the amp it was as loud as ever. Maybe I got the reject, but any pedal that the amp needs to be turned the whole way up before its heard needs to be shoved up DOD's hindquarters.

I wouldn't gig with it...I can't gig with it I sent it back to the store that I got it from. Those guys would rob a bananna from a blind monkey.

Am I supposed to call DOD up and tell them I got screwed and expect them to have sympathy on me?

Luckily I got my money back but...don't buy this pedal

IT TOOK ME ABOUT AN HOUR TO FIGURE IT OUT WITHOUT A BOOK TO THE PEDAL

IT'S VERY QUIET, EXCEPT WHEN YOU PUT THE VOLUME AND GAIN ALL THE WAY UP. I USE MINE WITH THE GRUNGE PEDAL AND IT SOUNDS GREAT. I USED TO PLAY STUFF LIKE LIMP BIZKIT AND ITS PERFECT FOR THAT SOUND.

I WOULD USE IT WITHOUT A BACKUP. JUST MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ADAPTOR BECAUSE I'VE NOTICED THAT IT EATS BATTERIES UP.

I'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR 4 YEARS AND THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEDALS. IT HELPS ME CREATE ORIGINAL MUSIC JUST BY GOING OFF WITH A LOT OF DELAY.I WILL DEFINITELY HAVE THIS PEDAL WITH ME ALWAYS. THE 4 SEC. DELAY AND INFINITE REPEAT IS EXCELLENT.

Easy once you get the hang of it. took me an hour. 4 knobs.

There is an annoying medium/high pitch hum when the vol. is set on max, the feedback is on max, the speed is on min, and the and the delay time is on min. pretty good otherwise. not as noisy as a korg, which is better anyhow.

pretty reliable overall, however the "stompswitch" has to be stomped on fairly hard to activate it.

Never dealt with DOD...

I play experimental/emo music and it is good for a lot of the stuff my band plays. pretty good pedal, but I paid too much.

It is not too easy to use.It kinda has a quirky switch on it....when it is in it's sample mode, to get the sample to play in time is very difficult, it is serious stunt guitar if you can do it.The 4 second delay in infinite repeat or without is beautiful and has a really cool effect on my style letting me blast off a little above things while in a solo capacity,or just messing around in my bedroom.

It is very quiet,and the delay is crisp and stays so even after the 4 second delay is on infinite repeat for a while it does not decay,like a jam man,but it is only 4 seconds.

It's never broken.but,(...and it is a big'ol but(t)...)Seems like the switch is kinda cheap and may go at any second.At any rate,delay is not so important to my sound to be that important at a gig that I would require a backup(even though I do have a boss digital delay)

Good sounds but,it's very particular and can't be used like some other effects,it's not tweakable enough in the sampler section.