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.

DOD

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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.

NPI

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.

three knobs dude........speed depth regen....easy to fuck with....

eh, i just bought this a couple of hours ago.......i had one a couple of years ago, but i sold it cuz it sucked........still does, but it's different from the two other phasers i have, so it's cool, plus i bought it cheap.....$40.....

this is the old style version, with the grey metal casing, not the maroon......they sound exactly the same.......i'd rely on it for a gig, but like i said, i have two other phasers (mxr phase 90, and a boss) so i won't worry about a backup....

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i've been jammin for 4 years with a band (acutally we just broke up) and am starting another band.....i play a lot of melody based riffs with a lot of effects (think incubus)......and this phaser is diverse enough to be put on my board.....i run this pedal with a crybaby wah, DOD enevelope filter, digitech whammy reissue, DOD Gonkulator Modulator, BOSS DD-5 delay, BOSS BF-2 flanger, BOSS PH-3 phaser, MXR phase 90, DOD Vibro-thang, DOD Ice box chorus, and soon, a BOSS PS-3 (pitch/delay) or DOD Digital delay/sampler.......my board runs thru my marshall valvestate 100w head and mesa boogie 280w recto cab.....i play on charvel and ibanez guitars......i know 12 pedals is a lot to fuck up your signal, but everything sounds kosher to me, so blah..........also, no noise emits from this pedal.......a plus in a setup like mine!

It's easy, three knobs.

It sounds horrible, it has a "fake" sound to it, it's hard to explain. If you are thinking about getting this pedal two words, Small Stone :)

DOD is built pretty good.

Never needed it,, but DOD and DigiTech are the same company so i had my XP-100 fixed and I got it back in three weeks in perfect shape.

It is pitiful, but if you are a guitar player who has been playing for a little this is a good cheap (POS) for you.

Turn every knob up to full, and it sounds cool. Only three knobs. Very easy.

I use it for my Bass and it sounds pretty good, for something DOD made. I run a 5-String Ibanez SG805 through it and into a Cheap Kustom KB20 bass amp and it still sounds good.

I dont really know, the battery holder thingy looks pretty weak, but other than that it feels pretty solide.

Not yet

PRETTY COOL!!!

i think it sounds good and i like how it is kind of unreliable as to what sound you get

I use a BC rich warlock and a epiphone ep 800 I think it sounds good

Its reliable you could run over it with a tank.

I got it used from a friend

I like it for different kinds of music

Like a lot of DOD pedals, three controls. This one has depth, speed, and regeneration. Well, it shouldn't be too hard to use, but one thing I think this box is conspicuously lacking is some kind of center phase-angle control, because as it is it's impossible to control how bright your phasing sound is. Read on...

MUD. I was looking for a phaser that could produce a wide, shimmery phase, and boy was this one a mile off the target. Very muddy unless you crank the depth up past where it's usable, and then the shimmery freqs last an inordinately short time. Regen doesn't help much, either. The LFO used in this circuit sounds kinda funny, like a triangle wave more than a sine, so the modulation rate is funky.

I presume the thing could survive a rampaging pack of elephants like all DOD products, but having only plugged it in a few times, so disgusted am I with it, I haven't put it to the test. I'm pretty sure I can rely on it to be one *durable* crappy-ass product :-)

Eh?

I compared it at the shop with a Boss flanger and ended up going with this one primarily based on price, and because the Boss had some faintly eclectic controls. Bad mistake. More and more I'me disgusted with the schlock DOD puts out, and would probably go with the Boss unit or something else next time. DOD's attempt at a flanger is pure flatulence for my money.

good sound, 3 knobs.. hahah simple, i played around and got some cool sounds

i got a great sound i'm really happy. i use an ibanez rg450, godin g1000, and some really cheap gutiar that i turned into a 4string all through a peavey special 212, goin through the front. you can mimick the sound that Wes Borland uses on no sex, like that!

this thing is reliable, i may be contradicting everyone else, but hey, i've gigged about 100 times with this, and hell, it even dropped 6 feet from the top of my locker to a hard floor, and the only thing that happened was the battery cover fell off. it's reliable

i don't know, i've never really contacted them.

i play mainly industrial/hardcore type stuff, but i still jam with my metallica cd's and i play lead guitar for a blues band so i've got everything covered.. since i can't afford a wah, yet, i use the phase for blues solos setting it to pulsate, it's cool. i've played around with some effects processors, and i'm probably gonna buy the Boss GT-3 whence i rob a bank. I actually got this for my b-day, and it was a walk in to the store and get anything type of deal, so i didn't compare it. plus when i got it, i sucked so i didn't wanna make an ass out of myself, with 50 people around me. i would say it definately helps my music, cuz sometimes i get lazy, and just let the feedback and the phase do all the work..
and i'd like to share this:
You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.

Put every nob at 12:00 and play. To get the right sound takes a bit of playing around.... but only 3 knobs (labelled in English - unlike other DOD pedals) so not too much work

Well in short AMAZING. This is my favourite phaser. I've tried a bunch the Phase 90, the Phase 100, the Small Stone.... this can cover all the tonal spectrum of all these phaser and is (in my opinion) much more versatile then any of them. Very lush and sweet phasing!

Well DOD is BOSS' little sister... almost as tough... but you've got to be a little gentler with 'em

Got it used....

It's great.... I love it!

Pretty easy to use. After a little fiddling around, you can get something out of it...not sure if that something is good.

I am sorry. th elast reveiwer said that is things was good to play sonic youth with...WRONG! This is one of the worst phasers I have ever heard. This and the BOSS Super Phaser are the most candy-assed phasers ypou can buy! The sound is thin, digital sounding, and bad in my opinion.

It's a DOD, they hold up great.

Never dealt with them.

I tried out this pedal again because of the last reveiwers Sonic Youth statement. This pedal is just plain bad. If your into sonic Youth, get there stuff or something cloase to it. Lee uses a Maesto phaser (or was in Mutron), Kim uses a tc electronics chorus/flanger.pitch shifter, and Thurston uses an MXR phase 90 9I beleive). I have a Small Stone, and that thing sounds like a phaser 90 when the color switch is off. A Ross phaser is another better pedal! My first phaser (a Soundtank) was better!!!!!! This pedal is only good for reliablity, not for its phasing

this pedal is really easy to get a good sound of it.it has only three buttons speed,depth and regen.

i'm using it with a standard strat and a practice amp.(also tried it on a big amp) there is only one thing to say about this pedal it KICKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the effects are strong.

if it's new you could depend on it for sure but in the end the switch gets pretty bad. it's dod what would you suspect (weak)

this pedal kicks ass if you're gonna play a sonic youth kind of music. very good pedal buy it.!1!111!1!!!!!!!!!

Very simple to use - plug it in, set everything to 12 o'clock switch it on and adjust to taste. only has three knobs - speed, depth and regeneration. With speed and depth all the way up and regen all the way you get a neat vibrato, turn the regen up and some unusual sounds start to occur.

I'm running a Fender Tele (Japanese) into a Boss CS3 compressor then the phaser then a Boss MT2 Metalzone, into a Fender blues de-Ville with a Boss DD3 in the effects loop. It's not hugely noisy like this though with the distortion pedal on you get a bit of a whooosh, but then it's a phaser isn't it? The effect is stronger when placed after the distortion but in my opinion it is too strong like that, I like to have it before the distrotion, this gives my solos an angular quality. Sounds great when clean, if used subtly can make a tele sound a bit like a strat in the 2 or 4 position. It boosts the volume just a tad and can be a useful addition to your lead sound, to cut through the band a bit more. I haven't used it's stereo feature as yet.

Hasn't failed yet, have had it for a year with daily use.

Never dealt with them

This is a neat pedal, I like to play some funky grooves and the phaser just adds to my sound. I like to use it subtly to spice up my lead sound. I would buy it again if it was lost or stolen. I would probably use it less if I could come to grips with using a wah wah pedal, but I'm not so impressed with the sound from my wah.

This is a standard three knob configuration, rate, depth, and regeneration. Start with everything on 5 or strait up and step on it.

This little box does create some extreemly useful sounds. Back the regen. off and the chrous and vibrato sounds leap the the fore front. Although the regeration is a little extreem when turned up, its there if you need it.

I played it every day for thirty minutes to an hour. I even giged one or twice a week. Six months later I steped on it and was greeted by an EXTREEMLY LOUD thumping. None of my guitar signal was getting through. I could vary the rate of the thumping with the rate knob, but where due I need a thump machine? I gave it to a friend who is a electronic mantience guy.

Sent my waranty card in on the day I got it. It promptly returned in three days stating the DOD had moved and didn't leave a forwarding address. I gave up rather quickly (if they don't want my waranty card I don't think they want to fix my phaser).

Warning: paser may become useless piece of thumping steel without warning. The box is useable for almost any occasion from vibratto to sweeping chours. All styles will be helped with the rich sound, and the stero out puts will surround you with tone. It gives you a slight boost, but it took a month to notice it (sometimes I play a little loud and I don't hear so good). I'm even concidering buying it again. It is more versitile than a Phase 90, Phase 100, or Small Stone. It may not be the best or most vintage, but it is versitile and that counts.

Extremely easy to get a good sound out of it. There is only 3 knobs and the controls actually have normal function names, unlike some of DOD's latest pedals. I have a manual but there is no sample settings and it is pretty useless, but why would you need a manual for this anyway?

I have never used any other phasers so I might not be the best judge, but I think it sounds great. It gives great phaser sounds and on some settings gives unique tremolo sounds. I think this pedal is better for subtle settings and sounds. Some of the drastic settings are cool but don't seem real useful.

I would use it without backup, I think DOD makes great products.

DOD has always been helpful. I have never had a problem with their equipment, but I have gotten info from them on several occasions.

I would buy it again, I am not sure what they cost new but I am sure it is a better value than the Boss phaser. I like Boss but I think they are overpriced. It is a great basic reliable phaser that I would recommend.

This is simple, no problems

This pedal sounds pretty good, but I have a major beef with the "stereo" sound. One channel is a nice, strong phaser vibe, the other is pretty much nothing. There is no reason to hook this pedal up in stereo, in my opinion. (I leave that for a stereo chorus pedal.)

Pretty easy after a little time spent messing around with it. Three Knobs: Speed: Makes sweep rate faster or slower. Depth: Varies amount of change in the phasing. Regen: Varies the height of the phasing peaks.

Sounds great *TO ME*, best to try it out before you buy it. I did. I think its wonderful, but I don't have a lot to compare it with other than albums, and it pretty much sounds like them:)

Absolutely zero problems thus far.

Never *had* to deal with the company. :)

I have absolutely no complains as of now, I think its a really great pedal, especially for the price. I'd buy it again! :)