Its a DEATH-OFF...DOD FX86 vs FX86B vs DigiTech Death Metal

[@AndiKravljaca]

A DOD FX-86 with everything dimed was the sound of my first five or so years of playing guitar... Ah, the memories.

[@mattiasjp]

I really liked it with the strat. Sounded like a NWOBHM-dream.

[@robbader3]

So, you guys decided to compare 3 versions of the same death metal pedal by playing everything BUT death metal with them?

[@TSFAHTPS]

Seems like it! I really like these pedals and I don’t play Death Metal…it is possible to play other music with it

[@leadartist420]

No

[@metaldemonseanknels]

I love how they test death metal pedals, use rock n roll guitars and play basically 80’s hair metal lol I’d love to hear this same test done but with actual metal guitars playing actual death metal

[@TSFAHTPS]

“They” did that because “they” both think that these pedals are really great for a lot of things other than metal…we are not metal players but we like the pedals…just because it says metal in it doesn’t mean metal has to be played on it…

[@metaldemonseanknels]

@@TSFAHTPS I get that, and it shows the versatility of the pedals, I just think it would also be great to play some awesome death metal lol

[@michaelbarber590]

When the pots in a guitar pedal are dirty and scratchy, it absolutely will have an effect on what the pedal is actually capable of sounding like and the power and clarity it puts out. I recently found an old DOD FX56B Super American Metal pedal at a pawn shop for $15 dollars and the pots where scratchy and even at it's highest gain setting, it didn't sound nearly as heavy as I remembered the one I had bought new back in 1993 and was very impressed with at that time, so I cleaned the pots with DeoxIT spray contact cleaner and when I tried it out afterward, it sounded literally like 100% better, just like I remembered the one I had 28 years ago. I spent a couple of hours playing some of the old stuff I used to play through it back then (like Sepultura, Metallica, Gwar and Kreator) and it put a smile on my face just as it did back in those days. I then put it up for sale on Reverb and within 10 minutes I was offered $100 bucks on my price of S125 dollars and I took it.

[@AlexKrendor]

I've traded over 40-50 pedals in order to find what I am looking for and once I got 86B I never looked again. It got so much range for passive or active electronic, it's amazing.. Using it for over 10 years now, it's part of my pedal board and hell if I will get something else ever. On the side note - I did try the other 2 at my friends place, they just didn't chug enough, but highs are good.

[@michaelbarber590]

I'll tell you what; the Friedman BE-OD is one of the absolute most brutal distortion pedals I've ever played through in the last 33 years (and I've played through just about everything) it's truly mind blowing how much gain it puts out without becoming muddy. It's also the closest thing I've heard to and actual high gain tube amp's preamp section that I've ever heard in a pedal. Another cool thing about it is that if you cannot afford the $200 bucks that they cost; there's an exact clone of it called the DemonFx "Freedman BE-ODX" that looks almost exactly the same, has the same circuit and components and sounds so similar that you couldn't tell the difference if you were blindfolded, and it's only $46 bucks total after tax and shipping on Aliexpress. Check out some of the KZbin demos of it. The following video is a good example. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWHai4mCZbiUi6c

[@needlesinmyeyes7272]

@@michaelbarber590 damn that is a good one. It's possibly even better than the amptweaker tight metal pedal but idk it's pretty close though

[@grantlazenby8192]

Awesome stuff! They all sounded really good. I have the FX86 and Digitech versions, been using them to play death metal for years. I just never got into the screamer into a valve amp thing. I have used them for blues and rock gigs too. Thanks guys.

[@TSFAHTPS]

They are really versatile pedals and work really well with lots of genres...that’s what we are hoping to achieve with these videos. Thanks Grant!!

[@dhchoi]

5:25 RIP knob is already rest in peace.. All sounds so good to me but I like the FX86 design best :-)

[@TSFAHTPS]

Yeah I love the look of the 90s FX series...they are all unique too...put two next to each other and they will look slightly different!! Awesome pedals!! Hope you’re well choi dh!!

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

The death metal was my first distortion pedal, not even sure why I bought that one, but I foolishly did some kind of trade in with the music store for another guitar or drumset or cymbals or something, and NEVER got my hands on one again. For well over 20 years, I never had a distortion that I liked as much as that, but now I'm onto other means of dialing in and forming distortion.

[@mrigo23]

I have one and I am looking to get rid of it since I don’t use it anymore if you’re still looking for it

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

@@mrigo23 😂 Appreciate you letting me know, but as I've alluded to, I've got a Marshall Jackhammer given all kinds of character by boost, compression, eq and a noise gate, so I'm finally closer to being satisfied.

[@shelyqua2747]

@@mrigo23ill buy it

[@dustincarter7736]

Why a strat on such a noisey pedal? You should have used a guitar that people that would use one of these would actually play?

[@TSFAHTPS]

That was the first guitar of at least four different guitars we used…and we ALWAYS get comment if we don’t use a Strat style guitar in a video! We are just trying to cover a good variety of guitars

[@project9643]

the fx86b sounds deathly sweet and deep. Definitely my choice here

[@butthead9878]

Deathinitely

[@ginoames]

I seemed to prefer the middle one (version 2). Just seemed more alive to me.

[@timharbert7145]

Oh, holy F. I've the FX86B and could never coax such monster tones out of it. Gonna pull it out of storage and mess with it all weekend. Thanks for the video!

[@DemocracyManifest]

Love the sound of these bad boys, they have the ability when tweaked enough to hit exactly the sound you're looking for...long live the MetaL 🤘🤘

[@sweeterthananything]

parts tolerances from one unit to the next are as likely to explain the differences as are actual design differences between these cosmetic revisions. i recommend Aaron Lanterman’s video about that exact topic for anyone sizing up new vs old versions of a pedal, along with comparing an original to a clone - even plotting the edges for 5% tolerance in a single resistor can have very noticeable effects. like most humans, guitarists like to interpret an experiment with a sample size of 1-per-category as super meaningful to draw conclusions from but that isn’t how this stuff (especially anything analog) works.

[@robertmenzies3032]

With all three pedals the EQ changes are amazing and think they all sounds so fat, would have any one of them. Not a metal play but as a distorted tone for rock stuff just sounds epic on any guitar 💁🏻‍♂️impressive

[@TSFAHTPS]

Yeah absolutely...we are both really into metal pedals...and we are DEFINITELY not metal players...they just sound really good - and they can be used for a lot of different styles of music!!

[@deadoctopi5070]

TFW the dream of the 90s is alive and well inside a Digitech Death Metal, and this makes teen me manifest in adult me....and go to check prices on reverb? lol.

[@svartmetall]

You are contractually obliged to play Dethklok songs once you own this pedal :D It's ridiculous (I have the Mk.II version), but very fun.

[@hjl4754]

Thanks for the awesome video, the death metal is my favorite pedal, I own both the fx-86 and the digitech version

[@ULMIsTheNewBlegh]

I have the DOD still after all these years

[@guillermomuybuenapelicula.6645]

Hi.. I'm from Caracas, Venezuela. Have the second versión (black with the knobs and name in white). For me is very versatile And strong for Metall riffs and Hard Rock stuff. The noise can be positively cancelled with a correct grounding. I use this pedal in the first placer of a 7 stompboxes velcro fitted chain, and do the Right work..! Keep rockin' on. 👍

[@guillermomuybuenapelicula.6645]

place... sorry.

[@delivrance3961]

nice intro! and great vid!

[@TSFAHTPS]

Thank you Délivrance

[@ryanmurphyart]

I have the original one, and I really like it. They sound very similar. It might just be a rumour, but I heard Alex was a guest guitarist on the new Cannibal Corpse album? Great shootout guys!

[@TSFAHTPS]

Hahaha...he lives and breathes metal!!

[@hmtp177]

Amazing guys! Please do the DF7 Distortion Factory by Digitech.

[@TSFAHTPS]

Thanks Hugo...I’ll try to get my hands on one!!

[@hmtp177]

@@TSFAHTPS Thanks by the way its DF7

[@steweco]

The three apocalyptic horsemen and their two dark dukes (Les Metalists?) riding on sonic high speed. Yes, please more of that.

[@ScuzCuz]

You've got to scoop the "Pains"

[@MarkDaniels2787]

I play the digitech DM with p90s for doommetal and it's hard to dial in😅

[@zombiemosher1139]

I've owned the Digitech version for a few years but recently got the DOD B version. The DOD just sounds better. I agree that the Digitech sounds a little thinner & somewhat compressed in comparison. I've never owned the original yet. 😊

[@seblo8462]

No joke, but these pedals work better together than "VS." eachother...let me explain, you can use the pedal you like the most as your main distortion and connect in another pedal in the chain before or after your main pedal to add a different frequency and volume for solos or rhythm parts that you want to cut through or you can use 2 or 3 in chain dime them all and get something really disgusting sounding for styles like goregrind and mincecore 👍

[@TSFAHTPS]

Interesting…I will try that!! Thank you!!

[@RickP2012]

Awesome!! 😈

[@TSFAHTPS]

Thank you Rick!!

[@KesslerMickschGeorgeII]

If you look at the bottom of the pedals, all are likely made in USA. Harman really held out on Chinese production

[@SirDerp909]

I was only marginally interested until you said there's no Gain control.

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

Wait, you said Carvin is now Kiesel???

[@TSFAHTPS]

Yeah...they were originally called Kiesel (that’s the families last name), then they became Carvin when they changed the business and moved to a different location in the late 1940s and then they changed back to Kiesel a few years back when they split from the audio and amplifier manufacturing side of Carvin

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

@@TSFAHTPS Thanks. I just read up on it. Carvin was a mix of his two son's names, but then they changed the name back when he passed in '09. I applied for a job at Carvin back at the turn of the century ( 21 years ago 🤯🤯🤯 time is lightning, man ) when I lived in San Diego. I had no idea today's Kiesel was Carvin. I'd never heard of the name before 2 or 3 years ago.

[@sassycat]

No Ola jokes yet? This place is slipping! 😂

[@TSFAHTPS]

Haha...I knew we forgot about something

[@disembodiedstudios]

Buddy in the light shirts additute is "nonsense" lol. Hes always trying to turn gain off on every high gain pedal, hes gonna be pretty upset to learn theres no gain control lol Edit: wait... Hes saying he likes the mid scoop.... Ok hell, hes ok in my book lol

[@ozm8642]

I don't like any of them. The tone from the amp/guitars just sounds so lacking, just sounds like 80s Metallica really. Not a bad thing but I'm not getting any death metal sounds coming thru? Don't think the set up does these pedals justice.

[@futra-ug1xo]

you must know how to play death metal first

[@djay6651]

My local music shop has a Digitech Death Metal. I really want to pick it up. I've heard it called the worst distortion pedal ever, which makes me want it even more. The original is a so-called ''Lamb series'' pedal, given the control labels, but I prefer the Digitech version.

[@welbertsouza9596]

Querm testar pedais ultra high gain com nomenclatura DEATH METAL tocando van halen? Oh Shit!

[@alejandropantojaAudio]

what a bad review! not because of the content, but because of the partner, why doesn't he put the pedals in the same configuration!?

[@TSFAHTPS]

No two pedals sound identical which the controls on the same settings…we tried to make them sound similar by changing the controls…what else should we have done?

[@ryebaldy8479]

Not exactly the metal guitar players, lol. Damn wankers. Thanks for the memories.

[@TSFAHTPS]

No need for name calling…we never said we were metal players!! I like these pedals even though I play other styles of music…

[@ryebaldy8479]

@@TSFAHTPS I was kidding bro

[@murdernova8217]

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