THEY'RE WRONG! This pedal is AWESOME | DOD Death Metal Distortion Pedal

[@TaylorDanley]

Thanks for dropping by guys! Leave me a comment, and let me know if you've ever used a DOD pedal!

[@gavincharles2842]

So it's 1995 I buy this pedal using my epiphone flying v and Marshall combo I created an unholy noise the sounded like boiled socks, both hated it, I took it back to the guitar shop and traded it in for a Marshall shredmaster. You my friend are wizard as you have got a great sound out of this pedal that I had previously believed to be hot potatoe water. Great work loved the video.

[@TaylorDanley]

😂🙌 thanks!

[@powerslave6944]

I bought one in 2004/05 with DiGitech Metal Master I used to believe they were the best.

[@thefuneralparade]

I love the did thrash master.abd the death metal pedal.th digitech one isn't as good I don't think.

[@user-ec6xd2ig4c]

I have quite a collection of DOD distortion and overdrive pedals including the death metal pedal because i think it sounds great the way it is. It is an easy way to get those really thick distortion sounds. I also have a few DOD modulation pedals and delays, a DOD power supply, and lucky me because i found a DOD carrying box / pedalboard on eBay which is a rare find nowadays. Most of my DOD pedals are the ones with the weird knob control descriptions or names. I do not like the older 3 knob pedals. But i do have a couple of them. I love how they sound and they are as sturdy like my Boss pedals in my huge Boss classic pedal and newer pedal collection. I am a pedal guy and i refuse to use the modern desktop softwares available today. I know it can do a lot of wonders for studio use but i really hate how complicated and clunky they are. I'm also not interested in the modern pedals and multi effect units of today. But i do own some older Boss, Zoom, and Korg multi effects and some of those tiny or mini pedals and the classic Boss Micro Studio Series half rack mountable effect units and the hard to find mobile rack for them. I do live gigs and couldn't care less about a recording set up. I just love to be able to quickly plug and play and all i care about is my chops. The bottom line is, i love old analog pedals.

[@EverettDudgeon138]

It’s incredible that almost every other demo of a pedal named Death Metal no one actually plays Death Metal. The manual literally references bands like Autopsy and Broken Hope And says it works best with tunings of C standard and B standard. Yet people plug in a Strat in standard tuning and say “omg it sounds like shit.” No you are just playing it wrong. Thank you so much for this video. Was just thinking about doing something similar and showing how you can mimic the tones of Massacre, Pungent Stench and others.

[@TaylorDanley]

Yes! It's so weird to me when I see those videos haha 😂 thanks dude! 🙌

[@Heka41]

Thats kinda a peeve of mine, these guys ''demoing'' super high gain distortion pedals with their teles

[@wickedmethod151]

This is what I hate about some of the pedal review channels when they demo any metal marketed pedals. They can't play any metal riffs to save their lives

[@SlyHikari03]

@@wickedmethod151 exactly.

[@bfluker85]

Funny thing is that I used it in an Eb standard crust punk band with a telecaster and it still sounded amazing. It's a great pedal.

[@braxtinbrown3369]

This is why I love pedals like DOD death metal. Brings me back to my high school days! It still sounds brutal in 2020

[@ShreddingFinn]

Best live music scene in film history

[@TaylorDanley]

This is 100% accurate.

[@audioengineer86]

I was about to say that! The extended cut is even better, I've seen it played on TV years ago

[@TaylorDanley]

This is actually from the extended cut I think, but I replaced the music with the music from the original scene 😂

[@BatmobileFerguson]

“IS GREG HERE!?”

[@jasonhoudyschell666]

The DOD Death Metal Distortion pedal sounds unbelievably good. I have always taken a lot of crap for loving DOD. My favorites are the DOD Thrash Master and the Supra Distortion. Yes it holds up compared to Modern day pedals. Thank you for creating this video.

[@TaylorDanley]

🙌

[@teemoleague907]

How are you supposed to use the supra distortion?? It sounds Like $hit to me.

[@ProCoRat]

Now DOD pedals are super trendy. This pedal, for example, is going for $130 now.

[@davidepperson70]

I have the grunge and death metal but now i am on the hunt for a thrash master.

[@needlesinmyeyes7272]

I'm a huge fan of this pedal, but I must say the Amptweaker Tight Metal pedal reigns superior. I have always loved the DOD death metal pedal, because holy sh++ how could you not? The Amptweaker Tight Metal pedal is no joke though brother if you like this DOD d.m.p. then you'll love A.T. tmp

[@IanLambert]

This was my first distortion pedal when I was a teenager. I was just thinking about it the other day and stumbled across this video. Sounds like it holds up well, to me.

[@toddmaclauchlin296]

Lol! Me too! I bought mine when I was around 18 (I'm 53 now) and I STILL have it! It has a little buzz to it... but still works!

[@lichkrieg4898]

Had it in front of a cheap beginner amp as a kid better than the amp. Now I am considering revisiting more than ever, thank you.

[@TaylorDanley]

Awesome! Let me know what you think!

[@lichkrieg4898]

@@TaylorDanley i enjoyed it before and i enjoy the demos i hear when they aren't hating based on what the heard thinks. It's still a ways off financially but I've been on the lookout for pedals under $50 because my joyo mjolnir does clean, rock all the way up to thrash exceptionally well but high gain deathcore....well it falls just short of a great tone.

[@kevinrichards7980]

First pedal i ever got, back in 98, im gonna get it again not only for nostalgic reasons but i had a lot of fun with it

[@GG-ik6it]

It was my first distortion back then and i still use it

[@vukas4314]

The sample mix is better than 95% of the Metal I've heard in over a decade!

[@danield2685]

I had one of those like dang near 20 years ago i LOVED IT!!!!!

[@theproblemwithkidsthesedays]

This pedal was my hot sound for almost 15 years. Ran it straight into the front of a Triple Rec clean channel. I just switched it out a few months back for a Revv G3

[@foxolsen5747]

I've played with one of these for about 5 years now. Kind of touchy on the tone and easy to mess up something real nice. But when you hit the sweet spot this pedal is glorious. I got bored recently a plugged my bass into it and holy fuck, I'm never going back. I love this pedal

[@danlindsey3183]

Exactly.

[@metal571]

The trick with this one is putting in the fx loop of an amp. I owned one of these for about a decade and a half and never thought to do that until Ola started throwing distortions in the loop like a preamp. Out front it tends to be extremely bright and fizzy. Looks like you've effectively done the same thing as putting it straight into fx return by using a power amp here. Nice channel, just found it from the Rectifier blind test, which was excellent. Thanks

[@TaylorDanley]

Totally. I think this pedal sounds killer as a preamp. Thanks!!

[@SlyHikari03]

@@TaylorDanley yup. That’s what it’s definitely used for.

[@christopherklein4203]

Dude, you made a BRILLIANT point with this pedal. It’s always gotten a bad wrap because when most of us has used this pedal it was during our childhood teenage years and we all had a cheap small combo amp, and a 200 dollar guitar. My friend had the Grunge pedal and use it on bass. It sounded pretty awesome when he didn’t overdo it. If he had his volume knob turned all the way up it sounded too noisy and chaotic.but there’s a couple sweet spots by pulling could pull back the volume a bit and it was sounds like a massive bass distortion that fits perfect in a mix.

[@-OokySpooky-]

I literally JUST got mine back from a friend not 4 hours ago. It's been with him after he moved 3 years ago. And I remember the day my mom bought it for me when I was 14. First thing young me did was scoop the fuck out of it run it into a chorus pedal, stuck my bass in front of it and got instant Type O Negative October Rust tones. I'm soooo glad to have mine back. It really is a very versatile and dynamic and actually quite clear pedal compared to the other "Metal" distortions it competes with

[@TaylorDanley]

🤘🤘 nice!

[@drpibisback7680]

It still blows my mind that DOD casually took the gain control off a distortion pedal and it actually worked.

[@brandonvon3774]

When I was a teenager playing guitar, I never had a distortion pedal. I've never even played with a Metal Zone. I always used overdrive. But now that I've picked guitar up again, I've been messing with the Rowin Holy War and the Boss Heavy Metal. I like to boost the Holy War pedal with a Tubescreamer, and I like to use the Heavy Metal as a boost, with the gain at minimum and the high mid knob at around 4 o'clock. I don't like the cocked wah sound of the Heavy Metal when all the knobs are dimed.

[@lydiagraham2188]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh Damn! that last riff was sooooo good bro!!!!! I actually liked the dod in the mix, brought me back to the good old days

[@TaylorDanley]

Right? That's why I bought it. I like having these old relics around. Not that I would ever use one necessarily, but it's just cool to have.

[@slimchance7748]

Awesome! Receiving 1 of these in a couple days, way more excited about it now. Thnx.

[@PassThePizza-n3t]

My dad gave me this today it was his pedal from his child or teenage hood he used it with his ESP

[@zombiemosher1139]

This is great man. You know in 1993 I was told you can't just run a distortion pedal into a poweramp by a music store, I'd say they were wrong. Lol

[@TaylorDanley]

😂🤣 so wrong!

[@jeremiahdaluperit4026]

Got my fx86b for Xmas back in either 98 or 99 and have been gigging it ever since. Tried the mt2 but returned that and continued with the fx86b absolutely love this pedal

[@BobPapadopoulos]

My FX86 is my safety blanket. I've never been without it, be it on the floor or on a pedalboard.

[@riffsnoleads]

The Death Metal can be used as a pretty good substitute for the HM2 (with a dirty amp, no cleans) when set up correctly. I also found it is really good for spacey/dream pop rhythm and leads. Just gotta be careful with them knobs. People will bitch about any pedal that is not perfect with knobs at noon into a clean amp as if that is the only bar to measure greatness from.

[@michaelstone456]

I plugged it into the power amp and on my katana sounds great

[@vitaharvey5332]

I’m amazed at how well-defined it sounds when playing more complex chords, while simultaneously being insanely distorted.

[@AdamFreeman123]

Digitech/DOD made some very cool cheap pedals. The Bad Monkey cost me something like $26 & is probably my favorite OD

[@TaylorDanley]

They did! I hear people say the Digitech versions aren't as good, but I don't have any experience with them.

[@DrummerCAS]

DOD still totally holds up today :) Nice presentation.

[@thobiheavymetal]

In the past I had the Digitech Death Metal. Being Honest, I bought it because the cool visual xd. Now I use the HX Stomp (bought under the influence of this channel) with my elegant but also killer E-II Horizon.

[@TaylorDanley]

Awesome! That Revv sim that they have is no joke, one of my favorite out of any modeler including the Axe-fx.

[@bobbycarmony5546]

I wanted one as a teen in the 90's but couldn't afford it. Found one last year for $25 that looked brand new. 🤘

[@marcomoscoso7402]

Just as many old/classic metal distortion pedals, the distortion is very good but when you compare to a real amp or a modern pedal the dynamics are lacking, very good demo :)

[@TaylorDanley]

Yeah no dynamics... But to be fair, is there really dynamics in Death Metal? 😂

[@marcomoscoso7402]

@@TaylorDanley haha true true, I actually use a danelectro metal pedal when I want that muffled, dense death metal tone. I believe the majority of modern death metal has more tube amp like dynamics (like djentier) thanks to plugins and more affordable amps/processors/modern pedals

[@KPGuitarStudios]

Hot damn! It's better than modern gear. Totally a pedal required for death metal 🤘

[@TaylorDanley]

Its surprisingly cool!

[@KPGuitarStudios]

@@TaylorDanley I've always loved that pedal. It's got a certain je ne c'est quoi? It grinds so hard! I would totally record an album with that pedal and experiment with it as a boost too 🤘

[@benmiddleton9984]

Sounded a lot better than I thought it would. Pretty surprised

[@jayjaymerritt2785]

The year was 1996. Teenage me, this very death metal pedal in front of my Fender stage 112 se...and my black 76 Gibson explorer reissue...those were the days...NO MIDS for me back then though

[@jamesblair2000]

Just like the MEtal Zone MT-2. I love the MT-2!! One of my favorites I use it all the time. The FX86 is a beast not easily tamed, much like the MT-2.

[@DugiDevetCarabolium]

I wonder how will sound in some Plug-in cabinet and Amp like Bias FX and similar?

[@natethebesttt]

Blackened death with not a whole lotta midrange clarity love it

[@Dhakadice]

This was my main pedal for years. I used it together with the world's cheapest, shittiest guitar, which I tuned down to drop-A, despite it being a strat type model (I even sawed off a piece of the string holders on the bridge so I'd get a couple of extra millimeters of string length and could improve the intonation). I also split the signal into two with a home-made Y-cable that was really a repurposed telephone cord and then plugged them into an A/B box so I could instantly switch between for example "clean with flanger" and "distortion with wah-wah" (naturally, I used a single power source with a split cable for all the pedals, instead of batteries or a power source specially designed for multiple pedals). We played some kind of grunge metal (halfway between KoRn and Nirvana) and my guitar sound was GLORIOUSLY shitty. :D We were notorious for our copious feedback and equipment failure. Our uncontrolled sound was feared and loathed by sound technicians all across the county.

[@natanoj4179]

Thank you so much for this video dude! Bought a Digitech Death Metal today too, I’m extremely happy with my purchase! A chug fest in amp’s effects return! I’ll upload a video soon reviewing the pedal too. 🙌🏻

[@CrissLiew]

Always wanted to try this pedal! Now seems like i need to find one 🧐

[@TaylorDanley]

🙌🤘🤘

[@danlindsey3183]

Man I started out with one those dod death metal. It was vicious when you turned up the mids.

[@dougmartinezjr]

Oh the memories

[@kcrich1310]

Did you play that pedal in front of the amp or through the effects loop bypassing the pre-amp tubes?

[@ManuSDP]

He was playing into a power amp, so like the effects loop of an amp

[@kcrich1310]

@@ManuSDP Oh fuck! It is a power amp. I wasn't paying attention. I just glanced at it and thought it was an amp. Well that answers that question. Now I can go die from embarrassment LOL

[@robertbmxpa]

I've owned one for 25 years....still sounds like ass. Good value? Maybe for $20. Wayyy different in the mix, there they actual sound good! Does def sound like there is some IR and processing magic going on for both in the mix. Just saying.

[@TaylorDanley]

@robertbmxpa I never do anything other than adding an IR, because I don't want to try and polish something up in a mix. I try to be transparent. That being said, there's been a LOT of instances where I thought guitars sound awesome in a mix, and then you solo them and they sound weak and thin, or just not as powerful as you'd expect. It's often the case that mixed guitars sound terrible on their own!

[@TaylorDanley]

Yeah, it was a power amp. To be fair, there is a preamp tube, but it doesn't actually have a preamp section.

[@elgrenudogediondo1740]

Can I pair this pedal with an overdrive? or would it be too much distortion

[@TaylorDanley]

Probably too much 🤷‍♂️ depends on how much gain you like I suppose.

[@DugiDevetCarabolium]

I wonder how would this sound to connect like in NEURAL DSP plugins like Cali and used just on amps and cabinets there. I thing will get whole new digital sound but with more color!

[@MaharlikaAWA]

I still have one of these. I am trying to sell it. I used it for a grindcore band in 1999-2001. Played live shows.

[@sdriscoll3586]

My very 1st pedal ! My set up made no sense , but I was a child, so I had what my mother got cheap. I had a Penco semi-hollow guitar that went into an old Gibson Tube amp. Both would be worth some coin now. Anyway, I bought the Death Metal Pedal . It was really too much at the time, sounded bad with my set up, but was so much fun!

[@corrado]

It still holds up today

[@ProCoRat]

I used to have this! I think I sold it to a friend, but I wish I didn't. It was a lot of fun!

[@AaronMorgan666]

Wow, very surprising. It sounds good!

[@notoriousone649]

How can I find this pedal? Do you have a link? I tried to search it but couldn't find it

[@EddyDarkNightmare]

What the actual fuck!? The dod sounds great as a preamp, I'd never expect that! Very very cool 😃

[@TaylorDanley]

🙌 yeah, I never would have thought either

[@thulsadoomed]

I had one of these pedals. I loved it but haven't heard one in 20 years

[@zandig666]

Sweet !!!🤟🤟🤟🤟 I had a bunch of the 80s amps n pedals that I ditched or traded prob worth a few bucks now 😂😂

[@NightOfTheLiving8bit]

For some reason this pedal reminds me of ‘my first half stack’, aka cheap Create amps with the gain on 8-9. Maybe Blue Voodoo?

[@adamhill4457]

I can't find this pedal anywhere! someone tell me where to buy. I used to own one but don't recall where I bought it?

[@AlphaOmega888]

yes it sounds good because he is running it directly into the computer so is getting all the HIGH END like we hear on studio recordings - he is not doing an external mic in front a cabinet. All live audio speakers are turned for as as high SPL they can get away with. This means if you play with a weak amp, and the speakers will push out WAY more volume than if you put a home theater serp. a Son of Done

[@antonkovalenko364]

I still have mine from ~25 years ago.

[@metalbeavis8429]

The dod death metal is probably one of the greatest heavy metal pedals, and it’s lack of gain control may be a short coming, but this device actually cleans up beautiful with the volume knob on the guitar.

[@SatansLeadGuitarist]

Man i remember when i started getting into guitar playing i had a little digitech catalog with all of the remakes of the old DOD pedals in it like the Grunge and the Death Metal. i wanted the Death Metal pedal so bad at the time it looked so cool and all i thought was "yes i would like to sound like death metal". unfortunately i ended up with a metalzone i got from a friend instead.

[@TaylorDanley]

Hey, nothing wrong with a Metal Zone, I actually just bought one because, well... it's a Metal Zone lol. Were the Digitech versions worse? I've heard they were, but never confirmed for myself!

[@SatansLeadGuitarist]

@@TaylorDanley I dont know if they were worse i never got to play any of them. i think they're just reissues that were branded Digitech but i dont know for sure. im sure there are people who will dislike them just because they're not the originals.

[@mateuszbarya9098]

@@TaylorDanley Digitech versions arent bad... just littlbit diferent. DOD used tht components and Digitech smd. Usualy didigtech ones are way louder and have stronger EQ (more range, but easier to fuckup tone)

[@TaylorDanley]

Yeah it's hard to find reliable videos on these pedals because most I've found are people talking about how bad they are. Hilariously, my friend that builds pedals took one apart and told me it's basically an HM2 with an extra eq knob and a fixed gain 👀👀👀

[@mateuszbarya9098]

@@TaylorDanley I modified my digitech myself, adding a gain knob makes it very universal. And it is simple because it uses almost the same circuitbord as in the digitech GRUNGE, which has a gain knob.

[@ZERONETWORK0]

Also sounds awesome for bass, and i find this pedal works really well DI with some highs cut. The noise is the only issue but gating is easy nowadays.

[@dabilogan]

Oh c'mon ur are using also a noise gate, pedal or plugin ?

[@continuum288]

Haven't used this pedal that I can remember.. Considering how your running it as a preamp it sounds pretty cool. The HX Stomp seemed to have more overall bite and mid(800Hz/1k)clarity to my ears through my pc speakers.. I think it's a great value. Personally i go for a more modern tone but I'm sure i could have some fun with the DOD. Cheers. Dig the content and will be watching out for more.

[@jokebat90]

[@brpadington]

I ran one of these into my Marshall stack and it was instant Napalm Death tone.

[@cirjames2540]

I love DOD pedals, but never tried the DM. Cool video \m/

[@TaylorDanley]

🙌🤘

[@aegisraven1284]

From the manual: "The FX86 creates a grinding wall of noise perfect for harmonic corruption of the highest order. The FX86 emulates the death metal and grindcore sounds of Napalm Death, Carcass, Brutal Truth, Pungent Stench, and others. One advantage of the FX86 is that it will oscillate when the R.I.P. control is turned up, allowing oscillation at any amp volume.

[@chasincapsaicin259]

I have the original DOD and the Digitech version. Both a brutal. Heaviest pedals I've ever used.

[@ghostofflesh2955]

Still using mine after 9 years of having it

[@bastianmaoro8278]

5:48 even on my Smartphone speakers I can hear how much the DOD has that attitude when the line6 preset was very "cleanish" ... The pedal give me the fell of listening a proper song and when I hear the multi fx I got the feel of a demo song, a comercial or something but not a proper metal song.

[@Tohfool]

Thought about reviewing the isp theta?

[@riffsnoleads]

Gotta dime the PAIN and R.I.P. knobs and set the GUTS and SCREAM around 30-50% into the front of a mid gain amp. Voila, you got yourself an American Chainsaw.

[@TaylorDanley]

Funny you say that. I had a friend pull it apart and examine it... turns out it's a glorified HM-2, which was pretty surprising to me. He may, or may not be modifying it for me 👀

[@InTheSh8]

So, this is kinda preamp?

[@TaylorDanley]

I don't know if they intended the pedal to be a preamp or not, but it does sound better to me as a preamp.

[@InTheSh8]

@@TaylorDanley This Marshall poweramp is really an eye-catcher.

[@TaylorDanley]

Haha, yeah I bought it from a friend who didnt use it anymore. Planned on playing shows with it, but it's just to damn heavy! It's got the components of 2 amplifiers essentially!

[@fuckenps3]

Seems quite a lot of these old Metal pedals work well as preamp/in FX loop

[@InTheSh8]

@@fuckenps3 And we always thought, why do they sound so shitty plugging them into our clean channels, haha!

[@arkavagoswami3068]

damn..dod rules with that ir..nice riffs man

[@TaylorDanley]

🙌🤘🤘

[@ironmantran]

Love it ! i did the same, got 1 for 35 pops just for show. I use RAT deucetone.

[@jeffdmisty]

Still have mine sitting beside my amp :) was my first pedal :)

[@joshuataft5541]

Your comparable setups was the same..good point...genius..love ya bro 😊

[@pinkyellowblue007]

Anyone know if Digitech will be making this again?

[@smokebillowin]

Dang sounds great in mix, even better than line 6 in some ways

[@hellf.o]

Thank you so much for this proper demo of an awesome but underrated pedal named Death Metal usually played by hipsters with boring standard-tuned strats

[@JiTiAr35]

Do DNAfx GiT and Nux MG-300. Both about 150 bucks.

[@JakelikejakefromSF4936]

Man those squealies are awesome

[@SamaelAzazel131]

Goddamn that sounded amazing in the mix! Awesome vid. Subbed.

[@dumpsterjesus6662]

Groovy shirt and video man

[@TaylorDanley]

😂 love the name! 🤘🤘

[@arkavagoswami3068]

kindly try tc electronic dark matter distortion/boss md2 with external ir next time

[@pinkdiamond8991]

I don’t understand why my pedal and gear never sounds anything like anyone else

[@crusingandbrusingtv3824]

Awesome pedal !

[@Firebird2001]

Great pedal

[@CarcPazu]

I'm not a fan personally. I've tried one back in the 90s and it was really hard to make it sound good because of all the fizzy sizzle. In a mix, I supposed it would be possible to EQ it to taste though. Good playing at the end though!

[@Kevin.Kelly.]

The trick is to turn down the scream down almost all the way and make up the highs with the amp.

[@michaelj.anderson1116]

Taylor: I picked this up online for $50 Me: looks on reverb for the pedal & finds most of them closer to $200, one for more than $300 & a few for close to $80. 😪

[@TaylorDanley]

😂 check ebay? When I bought it there were quite a few

[@AimiliosM]

Thats because taylor is using the DOD FX86B , the ones you look at reverb are First generation Dod fx86 which is more rare !

[@spazemunky]

I got constantly mocked for using this pedal by all the gear heads. But I loved it. Also I was broke and this was all I could afford.

[@SlyHikari03]

Now THIS is how you use the pedal. It’s made for death metal, Hence the name.

[@fishnmetal4383]

I love the death metal pedal.

[@joker6388]

Thorns used the FX out on the Digitech one.

[@joshuataft5541]

Ifnypungrt docknofnitni cherrisjnit so much I'd have ntonmakena frame with a hole fornthe chords to use it...a noise gate.would make it useable

[@justinfletcher3419]

Cool video. I would suggest doing the Revv G3 next. Great pedal for rock/metal

[@themadmattster9647]

It has that classic murky Scott Burns produced album guitar sound. I prefer Colin Richardson but it’s damn accurate

[@needlesinmyeyes7272]

Hey Cory, sorry to hear about the "old man". Condolences. Is Chumlee really not an actual employee at the pawn shop?

[@ryandonnelly9142]

I had this thing as my first distortion and I remember it being soooooo bad lmao

[@PhobosTV1]

fiy Gary Moore used one on the Monsters of Rock 2003 tone!

[@Ronny1031]

I had a Digitech Death Metal pedal back in the 2000s and I used to love that thing.

[@kylemcgill2966]

Was that the one that had red writing on it?

[@flame4928]

Man this sounds so fucking good, I am really suprised. I would love to see your opinion on Bogner Ubeschall pedal since you started to like that sound, I think it would fit you well! :D Have a great day!