Peavey Dirty Dog

This has replaced my boss sd-1 and metal zone for small gig and blues jams.I have a rocktron rack for bigger gig,but this thing is great for when i cant be bothered to carry loads of stuff around.

The lead channel is great,nice scooped metally sounds to fuzzy nonsense.Maybe not that great for really middly stuff and def better with humbuckers than singles.

Clean channel is just like the SD-1 with a bit more range on tone pots

Dunno.Guess its reliable.But the vol pots seem to be a bit loose on the circuit board compare to the other pots.

Pedals dont need backups,just spare batteries

I bought it cause it was on sale and looked cool.shallow i know.
Didnt expect to mutch from it but it rocks.

I use it into a sovtek valve midget head with a charvel 6 and its a great sound with little gear to carry around.

Now mr peavey,how about one with a real valve in it and separate bass/treble controls> ? and maybe a basic reverb? like a mini MAX100???

This would actually have to be a 7. It is easy to do... you can get distortion as soon as you pick it up. The manual is very helpful. As for the idiots who say the sound is terrible.. they have no idea how to use it... it took me a while. I used to like having the bite (tone) at 3-4. Then I realized it was a much better sound at 6-8. Try that... that is the sound you are looking for..

Great distortion... i mean great. Must turn tone up to 6-8... boost switch in. Crank the distortion... it is great.

The important thing is the EQ on your amp.
Don;t knock the pedal until u learn how to work your amp.

No Backup needed... it is amazing on batteries.. i have been on the same battery for months.

Can't break the damn thing... (that doesn't mean try to)
It is a literal tank. Even the knobs are recesed so you can't break them off.

It is every thing you want in a pedal.. indestructable... reliable.. not a battery guzzler.. Massive distortion.. and good sound.

Anyone who says it sounds bad needs to use a q-tip.
The important thing is that you have to use the eq on your amp.

This is an easy pedal to use. The layout of the pedal enables you to set up your sound with little hassle. I'm not a big fan of the way the controls are labeled. "Bark" for output, "Bite" for tone, and "Growl" for distortion. But thats just being old fashioned on my part. The manual is clear and precise and comes with some recomended settings.

You know I really wanted to be able to say that this pedal is everything I expected it to be. But the truth is, its not. I like Peavey products. I have owned some of their amps and have found them to be reliable and durable. I'm sure this pedal will be to. But it's sound is just not that impressive. There are no mids in this unit that I can find. It will probably appeal to the metal players more because of this. The two channels are a nice feature and the boost function ( on the lead channel) adds quite a step up in volume. The other channel features a thrash button. The manual states that when this button is being used that it inserts a notch filter to reduce mid-frequencies. Talk about a thin sound. I guess that "thin sounding" sums up my over all opinion of this pedal. While playing alone by myself, the pedal sound interesting at times. But when playing with the band I can hardly hear its tone, no matter how loud I am. Its distortion is all right. There is definitely some heavy bottoms there. I'm playing a Strat Plus and a Gibson "The Paul II" through a fender "The Twin" amp. The humbuckers of the gibson seem to help this pedal some what. Again, the scooped mids of this pedal will probably appeal more to those that like this sound.

I think that this pedal will be very durable. I've only had it about three months but I don't think you could break it with a hammer. If I was inclined to, Yes I would use it without a back-up.

I've never dealt with Peavey.

I play most everything. But mainly rock and hard rock. Some metal. Generaly what ever the band wants to try. This pedal worked nice on a Creed tune. But most of the music we do is from the seventies and eighties. I have been playing in a band for 24 years so most of our music spans those years ( we're all over 40). If this pedal was lost or stolen I naturally be pissed. But I don't think I'd buy another one. I think I'm to hung up on the old tube screamer sound. I do like the way this pedal looks though. Who knows, maybe I'll come around to liking its sound.

I was unable to get tones from this unit that I considered to be even remotely usable. Not hard to use, just useless!

Hideous, regardless of settings.

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I find it hard to imagine that anyone would design and promote something that sounds so bad.

Very simple to use, just 6 different knobs to mess with. Manuel is helpful for beginners and effects pedals. This is the latest distortion box from Peavey, very much like the distortions in their popular TransTube amplifiers.

This pedal is the greatest thing to happen to my setup ever! Sounds good with any guitar, any pickups, any amp, and any other effects. Smooth violin-like sustain, and killer combinations of tones. Countless tones avail from classic rock to blues, to full-on thrash metal. It really does convince of a boutique tube amp smokin', and has the ballsy sustain distortion much like that of virtuoso guitar players. Try one out, you will buy it immediatly. I would also recomend using this with a Wolfgang model guitar, as the 2 go togather nicer than anything you'll ever hear. You wont need anymore, just the axe and this pedal and you'll be hailin'!

This thing would make a good boat anchor in my opinion. I dont think you could break it if you tried. Buy an Ac though, eats battery quickly.

Never dealt w/ them personally.

I play various styles of music, and this pedal is my main source of distortion because it has it all. I switch tones a lot because I record instrumental music often and I like different sounds. This is the best of all definatly. Comes close to the sounds in my head...perfect match almost. I think it nails any tone dist. you need. I'd definatly buy another one if stolen, that very day. I like everything about it, exept maybe the size. It's a bit big. If you play in a pedal board, be prepared to hack the board, and make room for this monster of a pedal. Great tone and worthwhile.

This pedel is very easy to use.

I have search ed for a long time, and have finally found what i'm looking for. The overdrive on this amp beats the tube overdrive on my Blue Voodoo Amp, it beats EVERY Danelectro, and Ibanez pedal. Say good bye to the overrated tube screamer. I have been actively playing for 8 years and have never sound one this great.
I play blues, and this pedal gets it! I'm talking killer tone...it can get very mild, almost clean, or it can sound like a vintage amp smoking. You can get an incredible tube screamer oerdrive with much more low end thump, as wel as better sustain. This is the pedal of pedals. I am going to write peavey personallyand tell them what a great product they have!

Very very sturdy chunk of metal

never used em

Great Pedal...go buy it!

This is a dual distortion unit, with two independent footswitchable channels and a bypass mode. On the left is the heavier or lead overdrive section, with a boost control, and on the right is a lighter crunch mode, which has a ?thrash? button. The controls on each channel are ?bark? ?bite? and ?growl?, which are equivalent to output level, tone and pre-gain. The battery compartment is easily accessible, and status LEDs indicate the mode you?re in.

I keep the ?bark? or output knob at about 9 o?clock on the lead channel, and 10 o?clock on the crunch channel, to balance the pedal with my amplifier volume when the pedal is in bypass mode. To maximize the gain on the lead channel, I engage the boost switch and set the ?growl? level no higher than 3 o?clock - any more and there?s too much noise. Believe me, at this setting, there is tons of gain. The ?growl?level on the crunch channel is full up, and the ?bite? control on both channels is set at 3 o?clock. I don?t use the ?thrash? button, although some might like what it does, which is to kind of squash the sound for certain kinds of rhythm playing.

I use a Lace Sensor Strat Plus and a Fender Hot Rod deluxe amp with a Zoom 508 delay in the FX loop.

For me, the sound of this pedal is equivalent to the sound of a vintage tube amp running as hot as you can get it, on the verge of completely combusting. The two things that appeal to me most about the sound are: 1/ note definition is about as distinct as you could imagine from such a high gain unit, and 2/ there is amazingly minimal fuzz or distortion to muddy up the sound, thus the ?vintage? tone of this device. As well, the Dirty Dog is extremely sensitive to playing dynamics, pick attack and guitar volume.

For years I have been trying to find a way to achieve this effect, asking anyone and everyone how to get a high-gain, super-sustain, high-definition sound with minimal fuzz, so discovering this pedal was a major watershed in my quest for tone. The first time I used it on a gig, I quickly discovered that I didn?t want to turn it off. In fact, the only time I do hit bypass is when I need absolutely pristine clean, and even then I miss it.

Seems study enough, and the controls are recessed. In a worst case scenario, my Hot Rod deluxe has an overdrive channel, and I still occasionally kick in my sansamp GT-2.

Never tried to contact them.

I play in a wide variety of styles, mostly rootsy or traditional (I've been playing professionally for almost 40 years).

The Peavey Dirty Dog has become, after only a few weeks, the pedal I can?t do without, the if-I-could-only-have-one-pedal-this-is-it pedal. I have begun to retire my other stompboxes, including a Boss Blues Driver, Danelectro Daddy-O and even my precious Sansamp GT-2, all wonderful units, because I so rarely step on them now.

It has been said that what Peavey brought to the marketplace when they introduced their line of gear was midrange. And maybe that was the missing ingredient in my sound, and the reason why this pedal is so welcome as part of my setup. Thus, I wonder if players who use humbucking pickups would be as enamoured as I am with this unit. The only caveat I can come up with in regard to the Dirty Dog is that it has a somewhat generic, vintage rock and roll sound. For me, that?s a good thing.

a retarded person could use this one!!!!!!

good.thrash for metal in crunch channel.it can go from blues to hardcore metal.

very dependable....although i think i would be more comfortbale with a boss mt-2 to be start and this to back up.

no support

grrrrreat distortion with any amp.truly a good pedal.A+

So easy all you have to do is dial and punch
There's 2 buttons one for bypass and one for channel select
Which I think is a great system

I use a Ibanez 7 string and a fender Eric Clapton Strat
This pedal can make a beautiful purring overdrive or a harrsh crunch
Whatever you're interested in it can do

The thiings built like a tank that simple

A Encourage you to try it you won't turn back, ever

OK. Posting a review favorable to a Peavey product isn't politically correct, but when it works, it works. The Dirty Dog is a distortion pedal with two preamps, each with gain, tone, and level controls (in sticking with the Dog theme they are called Bark, Bite and Growl. The lead side has a boost button that kicks the gain into another galaxy. The other channel, crunch, has a thrash button that is, as far as I what I play, completely unnecessary. You can select either channel, with one stomp switch, or bypass either with a separate switch. Before anyone asks, I don't know if it is true bypass or not and I don't particularly care to jump into that debate. If it sounds good, I like it. This pedal is idiot-proof. Just think two TS-9's side by side and you get the idea. The manual is printed in about 37 different languages, so you'd pretty much have to be new to the planet not to find a dialect to your liking.

I own a Klon, an original TS-9, a Fulldrive, a Matchless Hotbox, a Rat, an 808-modified TS-9, a Vox Valve-Tone, and have owned oodles of cool pedals in the past, including a half dozen TS-808's. I have spent a couple of days doing an A-B comparison with my original TS-9, and I prefer the Dirty Dog. It can get louder, dirtier, fuller-sounding, and bigger-sounding than the other pedals I own, with the exception of the Klon, which has more clean punch but not the distorted quality of the Dog. The channels are very similar, so you can get two levels of crunch and switch to bypass for clean, or set one channel to clean boost and one for overdrive. I am getting closer and closer to saying it........ can't resist....... this pedal sounds great!!! For the price $119 list) I can't imagine a better deal. There. That's my story and i' sticking with it. Superb crunch and grit. Even makes a pretty clean amp (blond Bandmaster head) sound bodacious. On top of that, it is quiet with less hiss than other pedals. Can't give it a 10 - it's against my religion (Pedestrian) but is is darn close.

Don't know. The case is built like a Cold War bomb shelter, so it should hold up from abuse.

Don't normally buy Peavey, don't normally write reviews for them. Real human beings signed the inspection certificates, so I know there is someone minding the Plant.

I play blues and variations on the theme. I have been playing for about 30 years, but my technique makes me sound like a seasoned player of about a year and a half. I may be a casual player, but I have been through all the right gear. If I had that '62 Strat back, even bofore I sanded it down, maybe I'd play better. I am the kind of player that a great pedal really helps - it can downright inspire me to play "outside" myself.
Trust me. Suspend your biases and your brand loyalty and try one out. Please don't e-mail me to whine about Peavey until you try one of these Dirty Doggies out. Better yet, have a friend hook it up A-B against your favorite pedal, then you play through them blindfolded and judge their tone instead of the boutique karma.