Maxon OD-820

Very easy to use...You can good sounds easy--its just too bright for me! It might sound better with a different guitar/amp set up. The manual is good, but Im not a manual person if you know what I mean.

I have a newer Gibson SG with the 498 pickups. I plug into mostly Marshall amps. Im using a 50 watt Plexi reissue right now. It suprized me that The pedal was so bright, considering the Plexi is rather bassy. It just doesnt seem worth the price I paid for it. I wouldnt pay $200 for this pedal. But thats just me. The pedal did have a good amount of level and gain to it though...

Dont know, I sent it back the day after I got it.

Dont ask me....

I play rocknroll. I dislike gay Mesa Boogie type sounds. Lots of newer bands use this sound. Stay away!!! Ive been playing 10 years, and would never use this pedal. Its cheap Japanese junk. Thanx

Three simple knobs.

I use a PRS swamp ash into the od820 into a digitech rp2000 into a '69 fender twin reverb. the pedal is amazing. i upgraded from a ts9 reissue and the difference is night and day. the od820 is totally transparent and liquidy. so musical it's scary. Great range of overdrives--slightly boosted to singing sustain. This is NOT a distortion pedal though!! Very quiet and true bypass. The reason why you might opt for this over the od808 is that you get tons and tons greater headroom. I use the level knob set at about 9 o'clock to match the ts9 at 12 o'clock. So this thing is great as a boost as well. All around awesome tones in every setting. This is the first effect I have ever owned that blew me away. You get what you pay for.

Dunno yet. has a warranty. i don't expect any problems.

Also, dunno. Things may be tricky since this is a smaller Japanesse company. who knows though.

This pedal will out perform any other overdrive on the market guaranteed! Huge tones. I would replace it if it were lost because I'm spoiled now.

There is one small complaint. I wish it was a little heavier. My old tubescreamer was smaller, but heavier and it stuck to the ground better while playing. The od820 comes with a rubber adhesive bottom pad designed to give it some traction, but if you pull on your cord at all, it drags the whole pedal around. (you'd think that since I have to drag around a '69 twin reverb I would rejoice at the prospect of lightweight equipment.)

I compared this to a bunch of your standard overdrives out there: ts9, od808, guyatone od-2(my second choice...great value), sparkle drive, fulldrive, blah blah blah. Literally no contest.

However, this is not a cheap addition to your rig. If you need an outstanding overdrive, nothing comes close. But, if you only need a damn good overdrive, get the guyatone OD-2 for $60 and pocket the difference. The 9 rating is because it's so expensive. But you do get what you pay for.

Three knobs and the truth. Drive tone level. Your basic ts9 set up.

This is a really cool pedal. It is kinda like a grown up TS-9 (808).
The pedal has a bit more gain and bottom than the standard tube screamer but never looses the bell like tones across the highs. It is very transparent and works great for rock rhythm and lead tones, blues jazz etc..... I am using the pedal with a strat (w/fralin blues), PRS CU22, McCarty soapbar into a super lead. Really cool tones with out changing the sound of my guitar and amp. I have an analog man modded TS9 and a turbo Ts9 and this pedal spanks both of them way more musical. I prefer this pedal over the Fulldrive (although it really sounds great when I use my fatboost to kick it up a notch) and all of the other boo-teek and not so boo-teek overdrives that I have used over the years. I think that it was worth the 200.00 I have into it.

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Check with me in a few years

Bought mine at mesa hollywood, great bunch of guys.

Best OD yet. If you like the klon or the Tube Screamer I would recommend this pedal highly to you. I am thinking about another one to replace the ts9 that is currently sharing space next to this pig on my board.

ODs that I have been through that I like less than this pedal. red snapper, blue collar, king of brittons, Howie, fulldrive, Rat, OD-2, drive-o-matic, GTO, vtwin, tone pump, guv'nor, real tube, hot cake, hep cat...........to be continued