DOD FX35 Octoplus

Pretty simple. Octave volume, direct volume and a tone control.

Little bit noisy here. The tracking is pretty good and the noise level is controllable -- mess with the mix. Think Dr. Octavia from Black label Society. Seems to track better with humbuckers.

As dependable as other DOD pedals. This isn't a slam, I haven't had a problem out of any DOD pedal that was made in the USA. When purchased, the pots were scratchy. No problem! Take off the battery door and viola! you can clean the pots from there without full pedal disassembly.

DOD was great back in the day. I used to receive product brochures for free from them in my youth (predating the net and ebay)

This pedal is good for sound fx or for adding some low end to your tone. I like it because it sounds synth-like when used with a envelope filter in front. Still, it doesn't quite sound as good as other octave units I've tried/owned. Purchased for a DOD pedalboard from the 80's. Made in USA!

Very easy to use. Be sure to use neck pick-up or lower your tone for best results. Don't try playing chords either.

Excellent. I tried this pedal side-by-side with a boss oc-2. The Octoplus was overall a better sounding octave. The boss pedal sounds more like an organ and a bit more mechanical. The Octoplus sounds smooth.

This may be the best DOD FX series pedal. Most of them are horrible. This one is worth owning.

easy enough. been said before

so bad it's good. the tracking is so present it's insane. I like to just crank the octave, add some distortion and sound like shit. great for sludgy riffs that have to sound extra bad. badbadbad. i love it!

dod pedals are notorious for their reliability issues. especially the switches. treat them well and they should hold up for a long time though

great pedal to play around with. some of these old dods are just gems(fx90 fx51). some are really bad. this one is really bad, so ridiculously bad it's great fun!!

Three knobs, one pedal, how hard can it be??? no need to read manual.

I use a les paul sonex 180. Octoplus, boogie v-twin, gonkulator and dd3. Not noisy at all through my set up. The octave sound could be louder, But all I need is one octave. Using it through various amps.

Haven't gigd long enuf to rate

Haven't had it fixed since I got it

I play metal and alternative rock. This is a very essential pedal in my pedal board. I wouldn't gig without it. It takes the cake amone octaves because it has a tone control which is very useful. Like most DOD pedals I hate the pedal switch.

Three knobs, very easy to use. Works on battery or 9 volt. Solid on/off switch, must be able to survive for many years.

Negative: The LED is in 'off-mode' still burning, just a bit less light then when the octaver is 'on'.

I use a Richwood Telecaster, Keiper Les Paul and a Marshall amp (75 Reverb), and place the effect in my effectloop. When on, it does the octave-thing, but no quite loud. The effect only works to a severel tone hight, I guess it quites when I'm playing an E on 12 on high E string. When the effect is off you can still hear a little bit of octave sounds, very annoying, especcialy when playing with earphones.

I don't really like the sound + it's noisy + it's not completely off = a 4

Allways working, but can't use it on a gig because on it's own it's worthless. I now use two octavers at the same time. The DOD and a Behringer Ultra Octaver. Both using alone is crap, but together they make very weird (this time: nice!) sounds. Especially nice when playing a solo without any backing guitar or bass.

Never dealt with them.

I play simple rock, white stripes-style. So I like octavers, it makes the solos a bit 'bigger', because I am the only guitarplayer in the band that's nice. For this price after all, it's okay, especially when using my other octaver.

3 Knobs easy as others have stated

Does not over power by it self, it is about one octvave down.I play with a tele ,and an muti part esquire that I put humbucker SD Jazz pup in, and an LP Special. This Octvava is great with Big Muff in the front, Deep fuzz!!!,it also sings behind an Bad monkey OD,and a Dyna Comp. Works well with a wah (Dunlop Crybaby,and Morley Classic Wah) tracking is very good.I was able to play cords with Octava pedal ,something I could not do with the past two I owned(Boss OC-2,and MXR Blue Box)
So if you find one of these in a pawn shop or on ebay pick it up, it is a good effect for coloring your sound ,plus they aren't made any more.You can get Hendrix "Band of Gypsies" era Oct sound as well as Tom Morello,s Rage & Audio Slave riffs.

Seems tuff o nuff for me, however the footswitch is alittle flimsy ( if you have a DOD effect from the 90's you know what I,m talking about) and it can be easly engaged with the slightest touch

Hey second hand pedal,will try to fix myself first.

Its a good pedal to get if you can find it cheap (check ebay) has a good tone with other pedals ,but not over powering(not like a boss OC-3) a good mix with other pedals,I had an OC-2 and a Blue Box. The OC-2 broke,so I never got another ,and the Blue Box was cool with the fuzz ,but would not sustain well (tended to cut out with OD,or Distortion behind it) so I'll give it an 8 , I like it.

Very easy to use. 3 knobs - volume for original signal, volume for octave signal, and a tone control for the octave signal. Stomp on it to turn it on, stomp again to turn it off.

Mine came secondhand without a manual but a manual would be a waste of paper for a pedal this simple and self-explanatory.

Hmmm... the octave effect isn't really bad. The tone it generates is a little rubbery sounding and a little dry but it blends well with the original signal. It doesn't sound very good by itself though, you definitely want to mix in at least a little of the original note to give it some overtones.

It sounds fine either thickening up a bass or doubling a guitar although tracking's not too great on really low notes on the bass and if you go high enough on the guitar you'll hit the high end of what it can track too.

The tone control makes it easy to get an octave sound that blends well. It's a cool effect as long as you're only asking it to double what you're playing and not stand on it's own.

However, this pedal has one huge drawback. It is a serious tone sucker. Listening to your instrument through this pedal, whether bypassed or not, is like looking through a window that's covered with dirt.

Seems plenty reliable. The DOD nameplate fell off the footswitch - seemingly common with DOD pedals - but otherwise it seems rock solid.

If I were going to gig with this pedal, I wouldn't worry about a backup.

No occasion to deal with customer support.

I've been playing nearly 20 years. My main instruments are a fretless Jazz Bass Special with EMGs and a fretted Power Jazz Bass Special with stock Fender active electronics and pickups. My main rig is a Sunn 1200S head through a Sunn 410H cabinet.

If it were lost or stolen, I would be mad because then I couldn't trade it towards something else at the local guitar store. I would not replace it though as I now get all my octave fulfillment from an Akai Deep Impact. If I were going to replace it, I would look at other octavers before buying another Octoplus though - one that didn't suck tone as badly.

I've played other basses, both active and passive, through it and my Mexican Strat, at one time with original pickups, now with EMGs, through it as well and it manages to absolutely kill the tone of all of them. I tried using it live a couple of times but could not live with what it did to my tone, despite how fun it was to have an octaver.

I do like the tone control. I don't like what the pedal does to your tone. I also don't like the odd 1/8" mini A/C power adapter plug - a standard Boss-style plug would be preferable.

I didn't really compare it to other products. I chose this one because it was cheap and fun and available at the time and I could trade another cheap pedal for it.

I wish it had better circuitry.

In the living room it helps me make music - out live it gets in the way.

Octavers are so inherently fun that it can cloud your judgement about them. There's gotta be better octavers than this one though. Despite a fairly cool effect, this is the absolute worst tone killing pedal I've ever plugged an instrument into.

Doesn't get much easier...input, output, 3 knobs and go. Don't have the manual for it but if you need a manual for this thing you must be retarded.

Using with a peavey express 112 and the usual guitars, single coils or double humbuckers. Now the real sound discusion. This thing sounds like a fat man farting through a really old PA speaker. The octave note doesn't stay constant and its creates irritating wailing sounds. I guess if you want something sounding really f'ed up then go for it. Keep in mind folks it only cost me 20 bucks so i guess i shouldn't demand too much.

Sure its dependable...typical stomp box...metal construction can take a beating.

Don't know

Overall i'd say for 20 bucks its something to play around with...but there is no way in hell anyone should use this live...its octave effect is very jumpy. I'd go for the Boss octave instead.

I bought this at a local shop for 30 dollars with no manual and without any prior knowledge of it's existance. But it was easy to use, three knobs..so forth.

I've used this pedal, with various les paul black beauties and a dan elctro dc3 i believe, as well as stripped down gibson v a epi riviera with bigsby and a peavey reactor (tele style)i run those through a boss dd5 boss flanger( now and then) a arion chorus guyatone "the fuzz" pedal, eh big muff, boss super over drive, digitech whammy and i periodically use a dod envelope filter, the last model that they released. Into a avt 50 head and crate cab (from the mid 80's) and a pair of 15 inch speaker cabs i made. I don't really try and imitate any ones sound, well I guess I do, I set out clean crunch and distorted rhythmm sounds for myself. I bought the pedal hoping it would fatten up my distorted sounds even more but got a nice surprise.
IT TRACKS HORRIBLY!!! Which i guess isn't a surprise, considering the manufacturer. But this is a good thing at least in my case, i ended up loving the thing just because of it's tendency to freak out. its okay for faking basslines on the low strings, but those interested in being a little creative might want to pick it up

I would say it's pretty reliable, i don't abuse it or anything though. So far I've had no problems with the switch, it's actually my first dod with this type of switch mechanism.

no opinion, well actually i did once send them a suggestion in the form of an email and they responded the next day, (apparently they have no real interest in releasing a buzz box reincarnation integrated with the death metal distortion circuit.

I play a lot of things, mainly things on the heavier spectrum, think Thrones , earth, melvins, integrated with of course, blues, honky tonk and surf. I've been playing for 5 years and im actually planning on buying another one as soon as I find one, seeing as how my boyfriend seems to have decided it's his now. I have my whammy pedal, one of the reissues, and too has bad tracking on it, but the octoplus it's worse making it more "unique" im thinking it's one of a kind, probably one of those pedals that will start a clone war in the coming years...nah probably not. It's absolutely great for what I do, iy adds a whole new layer of low to my sound as well as Flava, only joking. and they're pretty cheap, dirt cheap.

I bought this pedal used, without a manual, but it is about as easy to use as a pedal can be. The controls are Octave Level, Tone and Direct Level, and do exactly what the names imply.

I use the Octoplus in conjunction with a Morley ABY pedal, so that I can run a clean signal from my guitar to a bass amp, while still preserving my normal guitar tone on a second channel. Was simple to set up for this purpose.

I play both bass and lead guitar, but since I can't really do both at the same time, I use the Octoplus to mimic a bass during parts of my songs where the bass would normally follow the lead guitar. To do this, I run the clean signal from my guitar (Jackson or Hamer with humbuckers) to a Morley ABY. The A output goes to my standard guitar effects and amp, while the B channel goes to the Octoplus and then a Randall RB-60 bass combo. So I'm not really using this so much for an octaved guitar sound as I am for a "phantom bassist". I've only worked with it at home so far, but it does what I need it to do and will be using it live most likely.

Since I am running the Octoplus straight to a bass amp, I max the Octave Level, zero the Direct Level (don't want the sound of a clean guitar) and adjust the tone as needed. No noise to speak of, since there's really nothing much to dirty up the signal. The tracking is, for better or worse, about what I expected, with chords sounding horrible and tracking getting thrown off if I bend a string or hit the low E very hard. If I was trying to nail a real bass tone, it wouldn't really cut it, but for doubling a lead guitar track with a psuedo-bass sound, it works just fine. The only issue (aside from the tracking) is that the pedal's signal seems a bit weak when the Direct Level is turned all the way down, ie. only the effected sound is heard through the amp. It's not going to achieve a strong, punchy bass tone, but again, the signal is coming from a guitar humbucker with light strings, so I feel that a score of 7 is pretty fair.

Here is where DOD products can be a problem. Having only had this pedal long enough to experiment with it at home, I can't say how it would perform under gigging conditions. I bought it used, and already see that the pedal switch itself has potential for problems -- it sometimes responds with a light tap, but other times really needs a hard stomp. I won't rate this at the moment, but I will remain wary of footswitch problems down the road.

I play thrash and melodic death metal. My band doesn't currently have a bassist, but since I played bass in the studio, I know which parts really require a bass sound. The Octoplus will do what I need to do, although I wouldn't say that it's especially phenomenal in terms of sound or construction quality. However, there are so few octave pedals that get consistently good reviews, and so few available to even try out in my area, that I figured it was worth $30 to mess around with it. It will help me fill a gap in my band's live sound until we find a better solution, and for the price, I am happy with it so far.