DOD Gonkulator - Old vs New Review

If you are looking for futuristic from the 90s then this is the pedal for you!
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[@ivarvanderheijden]

Yeah, I've got both of these. The original I bought off a 2nd hand guitarshop in the early 00's, for cheap. The reissue from a German webstore, somewhere in 2019. It's such a bizarre pedal, but it sounds great on a drum machine, or vocals, and sometimes, fretless bass.

[@mikec6840]

I like to run mine with the smear at about 10:30 the rest maxed out, into a meatbox that splits between a sonic stomp on the dry out and a sub on the fx side. Gut-punch squeelios

[@TSFAHTPS]

Oh…that would sound great!!

[@supernothing77]

I always think of Incubus and I think it's the song "Glass". I think a ring mod was used on Cheap Sunglasses. ..sounds like it anyway.

[@beauthenchez]

The gonkulator is practically synonymous with Incubus.

[@aangtonio5570]

That Jazzmaster 😍😍

[@Scotty_Russell_Music]

My BOSSGT5 has an "intellegent" ring mod, it tunes to your notes and will track in any key. Way way more useful for guitar. Id use this pedal one on a drum machine but it's a very limited one key/one trick pony on a guitar.

[@zanelli9273]

great review, guys! i´ve bought the new gonkulator, but i have a doubt. On my pedal we have a pitch knob, while in the older version, there is no pitch. Do you guys know the pitch on the first gonku? (i think it´s G - but i´m not sure)

[@iqif7063]

Could someone please answee this question ? 😁 love the vids btw

[@Setherian]

I just bought the digitech version after borrowing the original one for a few months, Im sorry but the new one does not sound like th original one at all. You guys have very low resolution hearing problems.. I do admit the Freq Knob is great but the original one was way more "dirty", it feels like the distortion in the old one was never so thin and high pitched like in the new one, I think it also amplified the input much better, warmer. I remember making several experiments, not only with guitar but with contact mics, noise boxes, the old one was "mean and weird af", I could use it just to give some balls to something, this new one sounds cleaner, softer. Well, I assume that's what happens when a cheap company tries to "clean" shit up that the original designer left there on purpose..

[@ArthurStephenHicks]

what kind of jazzmaster is that?

[@TSFAHTPS]

It's the Elvis Costello signature model...it was only in production for about a year or so maybe 10 years ago?!?

[@beeastman1235]

Is the guy on the right doing blow? He keeps sniffling

[@TSFAHTPS]

The guy on the right (me) has what some people would call "a cold"

[@austinkowalczyk9667]

"A bit more tunable." Meaning it's actually tunable? Hehe