DOD FX20-B Stereo Phaser

Three knobs. Plug the guitar in and adjust. Adjusting it to get a desired tone became second nature very quickly.

Setup first. Low end Ibanez Guitar -> DOD FX20-B
Out #1 -> Danelectro Daddy-O Pedal -> Mixer (mixed hard left)
Out #2 -> Distortion -> Mixer (mixed hard right)

Oh yeah. Record "two" guitar parts in one take.

This device can be noisy when one or more of the dials get switched to a higher setting. At those levels, this box will make noise even when your guitar is muted.

What many people dislike about the effect it has on guitars is something that I have come to love. At low settings, it can deliver a gentle sweep with a healthy bite just the same. Bring the Depth or Regen up past six or so, and the pedal creates some very harsh but predictable effects.

Plugged in clean, with a low speed but just over half depth and regen, it also delivers a pleasant and dreamlike effect. While other pedals may be truer phasers, there is a lot of potential in this one's unapologetic sound.

Almost everything works the same as when I got it six years ago. Only the footswitch has gone out - but that's a pretty big deal in its own right. I won't lie and say that I gig, but I'd definitely leave this home during any live performance. Spending three minutes to find that "sweet spot" isn't going to kill you in a home recording situation. It would be something else entirely to turn it on in a real-time situation.

I'm a home musician with hard leanings toward industrial music and occasional forays into punk/goth material. At this point, I have been playing guitar for just around nine years. This pedal has proven useful in recording all of these genres. It often produces effects that I couldn't imagine finding elsewhere yet wish to have. With its stereo outputs, it has become an essential part of my home studio setup - even when it's never turned on.

The footswitch on this device is terrible, however. There's something very wrong with newer models of this pedal using the same switch.

Stereo outputs and wild effects mean that I hope to have this pedal by my side until the bitter end.

Pretty easy to use - just 3 knobs! Didn't get a manual with it! Bought it used from a friend in a lot of old boss pedals too (he bought an ART SGE.)

I use a few different strats (a 2003 Mexican and a 1978 Lefty Standard)
YES IT'S NOISY!!! I used to call it WINTERTIME IN A BOX!!!! LMAO! The effect is pretty good, but don't expect to get Jimi Hendrix UniVibe tones out of it. However, if you plug into only the B output jack, it will sound somewhat like it (maybe a little like Trower if you have some decent distortion after it.) I used to turn the regeration control up to 100% and turn the rate all the way down - it got this neat but noisy sound, like a winter storm. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! If you speed up the rate,it does some spaceship sounds pretty good with a delay after it. Overall, it's a pretty nice pedal. The only thing that I didn't like about it was that when the battery was going dead, the status LED would stay on and the only way that you could tell if it was working or not was to step on the footswitch. I guess that's typical of DOD pedals(?) And the name - was it supposed to be a stereo phaser or phasor? mine says phasor.

I depended on it for years. I think I dropped it in the snow once before a gig and it still worked! DOD built them like tanks, so yes I would bring it to the gig without a backup!

I've never dealt with customer support

I play mostly 70s rock with some newer stuff thrown in. I've been playing around about 20+ years and now I mostly play bass. I currently own a Line6 Flextone (First generation and I love it!) I don't use pedals at the moment, but I'm taking a liking to the Danelectro mini pedals. I used to use an Echoplex, but it died because it was knocked off an amp (Acoustic) at a gig, falling down to the ground, knocking it senseless. But that's another story for another day... If the DOD was stolen or lost, I might consider finding one on ebay or something. I wish that it had more of the ability to mimic a uni-vibe or leslie sound. Rather it had its own character, which was an acquired taste. My only advice is to be gentle on the footswitch, it's not meant to have all of one's weight put on it. Other than that, have fun.

Has the Standard controls for a Phaser.

I found an old receipt for this pedal and remembered that I actually had one of these in the early 90's. I was fairly new to guitar and wanted that "Lightning Crashes" stereo swirling around your head type thing. This just didn't do it at all, as a matter of fact it seemed to be more like a Flanger than a Phaser. It has that wierd flippy sound when the phase cycle starts over. Also on slow settings it is just too grainy. I took it back and traded it in towards a Boss Super Phaser, that pedal does everything and more. The Boss pedal is so smooth sounding on slow settings and really trippy on the extreme settings of mod 2. I really thought the DOD pedal would be better because it was stereo, but it was not even close. At that time I was looking for stereo effects to use in my 4-track effects loop so that I could get a full sound on just 4 tracks. I used a Digital delay on Drums and Vocals, Stereo Chorus or Flanger on Bass and Guitar. I hoped the Phaser would give me another option but it just didn't give me anything.

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This is definitly one of those pedals to try before you buy. It may not work for you.

I have an older model than the one pictured. Same knobs, different look. Speed, Depth, Regen.

This baby is awesome. You can get a very full sound to a slight tone shift depending on the settings. I'm still finding new ways to use it. Unfortunately, it doesn't have different models like the Boss or DigiTech models do.

Too bad this is the category it failed in. Its a complete mess. I have to use an A/B box since the pedal broke. I am forced to use a crappy power supply since it's so old and I tore off the battery connector for my FX60. It is VERY old though

TERRIBLE SITE FOR THIS STUFF. BAD MANUALS!!

7 since it doesn't work well anymore and is a pain. If it worked fine, I'd give it a 9 since you can't give it a 10 due to the fact that there are some little "in-between" settings you can't get from it.

Well it's very easy to get the idea of it, no problem with that. 3 knobs: Speed, Depth, Regen (wahwheeness). 1 input and 2 outputs. I bought mine without the manual, but then I downloaded it from the DOD web page, it's pretty useless but it's a nice way to start.

I use a Fender Strat and a Fender M-80 amp. At the moment my setup is: Fender Strat>>BOSS Ds-1 Distortion>>DOD FX68 Stereo Chorus>>DOD DFX91 Digital Delay/Sampler>>DOD FX20-B Stereo Phaser>>Crybaby Wah>>Fender M-80 amp. Well I wish I didn't have so many DOD's but they are the cheapest if you buy them used, and they're not thaaaat bad.

I think this phaser is very good, it's essentially what we all look for when we're looking for a phaser: swinging slow underwater psychedellic fancy! And this baby has got it. It has flaws I think, maybe a little tiny bit of a volume boost and the fact that the speed knob doesn't get as far as I would like to, but that's forgiveable, dont you think?

If you have this pedal you know it is extremely versatile, you can get subtle space travel sound and even something like a leslie emulator if it could go faster. It does a nice job.

Why don't you try my favourite setting?:

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speed depth regen

(if you don't understand the regen setup coz of my inability to express it on graphics and my basic stupidity, it's 11 o'clock)

It's reliable, pretty solid.

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I don't really know what kind of music I play, actually this is the first time I stop to think of it... let's see: Psychedellic-chillout-slow-latin-funk-blues... This pedal goes fine with this but I think I'll get a Boss PH-3 someday, this DOD is very very good but it's too harsh, too dry maybe, for my ear. I wish you could get more speed in the phasing, I mean It would be nice if you could tweak the speed knob a bit more, that would be SO cool!!!

its easy to get and OK sound out of it. I dint really take a look at the manual, i just started to mess around with it right out of the box.

I play an Epiphone Les Paul through a VOX wah-wah, BOSS DD-3, BOSS OC-2 Octave and and a BOSS TU-2 tuner through a Marshall DSL(all tube) 40 watt combo into a 4x12 Marshall cab. I personaly think that it is way too noisy. i dont know if it is just mine pedal or the pedal in general. in combonation with my DD-3, i think is where it shines the brightest. it gets you a kind of Incubus sound. im tryin to go for a tone that mixes 311 with hoobastank with deftones. i think i'll be keeping it for a while, until i fully upgrade my rig.

i dont think I have really had a problem with it but im not quite sure! every once in a while, i will get this horrible scratchy POOP sound. i started tweaking with the patch cables inbetween the phaser and my OC-2, and it came right back to normal. i havnt had this problem for quite a while. I do use it to gig, and it hasent flopped on me yet, but who knows what will happen...

Never had to deal with them...

as i have said before, its ok...i wish it was a little smoother and more deep, so i think i might go for a small stone sometime in the future...

It's not very difficult to use. About the same as your typical distortion box. Getting a good sound seems to be very subjective, but when I tried it in the store I was able to get a couple of good sounds in under ten minutes. The manual pretty useless but had a few sample settings. I wasn't very impressed with the samples, but it's a good place to start.

I won't go into my complete setup ay the many variations but in it's most stripped down form I typicaly use it with a Fender Strat, a VOX Crybaby wah w/ true bypass, an Ibanez TS9DX w/ 808 mods and I run the stereo outputs into two amps; a Peavey Classic 30 and a Marshall JCM601.

I doesn't seem to ad too much noise when turned on and doesn't suck tone terribly bad (not like a Big Muff or wah). But does steal a little of the high end when turned on.

This pedal doesn't have the high end shimmer like the Phase 90 or the underwater warble like the Small Stone, so if that's what you're after you'll probably be disapointed. It also doesn't have the strong pahsing sound that some other pedals produce, it adds more of a subtle texture to the sound. It does roll off some of the high end, but I think this gives it part of it's character, kind of like old analog effects. You'll also find it disappointing if you want to use it for a rotatry speaker simulator, but I haven't heard a phaser yet that did this to my satisfaction.

One of the things I do like about this pedal is the stereo outputs. It gives the phasing more depth and texture when run in stereo. If it weren't for this feature I probably would have sold the pedal several months ago when I got my Phase 90.

The sound of a phaser can vary greatly depending on where it is placed in relation to the distortion. This one seems to like to go after the distortion.

I have been able to get pretty close to the sound used by Kiss in the intro to Strutter and some of the Smashing Pumpkins stuff.

Almost two years without a problem. I can however see how the battery cover might get lost or damaged while gigging.

Never had to deal with them.

Overall I think that this is a good pedal for the money. It isn't the quality of the Phase 90 or the Small Stone, but has some useful sounds if you're not looking for a strong phasing sound.

I don't normally keep it on my pedalboard, but I do accasionaly drag it out to experiment.

If it were lost or stolen I might pick up a used one if I could find a good deal on it, but I don't use it enough to justify spending full price.

Very easy to use.

This pedal is not very versatile. As a keyboardist, I have found that there are only a few different sounds that this pedal compliments. It sounds good with string ensemble sounds and sweeping synth sounds, but it makes just about any other keyboard patch sound worse. When the phasing gets to its 'low' point, the sound is muffled (which sounds bad with any sounds other than the ones I mentioned) Adding regen creates a really undesirable sound (to my ears, anyway), so I like to leave the regen all the way down.

It drains batteries really fast. Also, the bolt that secures the jack on the right side gets loose often. One time I was going to use the pedal at a performance, but I didn't because of a buzzing sound that it seemed to be causing. But that may have been the cord I was using with it.

Not applicable.

I play all different kinds of music, but I have not found this pedal to be versatile enough to be useful for most of the keyboard stuff that I play. I also have a Casio keyboard, and Cort electric guitar, a Roland MC-303 Groove Box, a Digitech Talker, a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal, and a Boss SYB-3 Bass Synth pedal.

super easy. 3 knobs. setting them all at 12:00 is a good starting point

O.K. I have heard enough about how dod sucks. sure they make a few bad pedals but, nobody is making everything good. this one is fine.I have had this pedal about 12-15 years collecting dust. when I first got it I was trying to do chord work with it which was just about all I could do at the time.it sucked bad and it was put away for good. recently I have rediscovered this pedal after long giving up on dod and moving on to voodoo labs, lexicon,rocktron, etc.anyway, first of all it still sucks for finger plucking and chord work as much as it ever did. however, it flat rocks when used for lead with the right combination of effects. I hav'nt compared it to every phasor out there except for the phaser in my rocktron voodu valve. I have to admit I like my dod better. it is warmer sounding. my rocktron phasor is kind of trebly. if you really are looking for a bad pedal check out the rocktron purple haze octivider. it is without a doubt the worst pedal I have ever owned. SUCKS!!! I have had pedals from dod that were not that great but most were very good. but I have seen far worse for far more money from so-called "top names"

I have had it about 12-15 years

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It is definitely a "one trick pony" lead only. but so are a lot of pedals.it does its one trick very well in my opinion. oh! I forgot, I use it for frank marino style playing and for some trippy robin trower style blues riffs

Depth, Speed and Regain? Pretty self-explanatory

I play either a mexican strat (single coils) or a homemade prs type guitar (humbuckers) -> cry baby -> tube works 301 dist. -> FX20-B -> ibanez DD5 Delay -> Peavy bandit 112. For the money I have no complaints, I just wish the depth knob went another half turn for sometimes. I play mostly funk with some really heavy sounds too (like old school Incubus mixed with classic 70s funk) and for the heavy stuff I add a little crunch from the dirty channel which seems to beef up the phase more than with just my dist pedal. Its really the smooth funk/disco type stuff that I play on the clean channel that I think would benefit from a stronger phaser. For really kick ass phaser sounds I would rather have MXR but until I get the money this will suit me fine. - MXR would be a 10, I give this an 8

The way I have it set up now the pedal is only a little noisy and definitely tolerable. The strange thing is that when I ran it through the effects loop it was REALLY noisy but I got better sounds from it. No idea why this happened but it?s a little annoying to know that better sounds can come from this pedal and I can?t have them.

Got it used, had it for 3 years and it hasn't even flinched yet. But it has the DOD crappy foot switch so that's the only thing I can see being a problem... I can't imagine why they insist on that design, you'd think it would be cheaper to throw in a simple solid metal switch.

never dealt with them, never tried

There are definitely a lot worse pedals out there and people should give DOD more credit (well, except for their P.O.S. foot switches). It?s a decent pedal, especially for what I paid for it, and gives me most of the sounds I was looking for. If it were lost or stolen, I would miss it but I would probably get an MXR Phase 100 instead. I would really want both though because I really like the sounds I can get on the dirty channel.