Tom Cram Shares the key to Resurrecting DOD and Digitech

[@Metalbass1979]

ALL HAIL THE RETURN OF TOM! Please bring back the Grunge, Bad Monkey, and Deep Freeze. Andy, if you're trying to become one of my favorite guitar channels, by bringing interviews like these and your constant great content, it's working!

[@LB-qf3ef]

The company's gotta be good when you have to give a hug and not just say bye. Good love. Cool video.

[@davemish4163]

Tom is awesome, and is the absolute perfect person to be leading DOD and DigiTech.

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Totally agree

[@4nvil6]

I just dusted off my old Digitech RP12. Hours upon hours of fiddling with the effects parameters was half the fun!

[@timschmitz2873]

Tom Cram is a national treasure.

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

Let’s get that Grunge FX-69 30th-anniversary edition!

[@Metalbass1979]

I'll be a first day buyer! Such an underrated pedal. If used with the gain all the way down, low at 3 o'clock, high at 9 o'clock, boosted by an overdrive, it is the tightest distortion ever. I've got my Digitech version.

[@ickebins6948]

Seeing gear as being part of the art form is interesting but it makes sense It's like photographs having lenses they absolutely love and mad all their best photos with. Thanks for the interview!

[@dakzer55]

So glad I found this video 😊 and I will be keeping my Solo XT and just purchased the SDrum knowing Digitech is back ❤

[@stuartcarter7053]

Loved this video. What a great guy...well 2 great guys actually!

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Thanks Stuart. I had a blast

[@xneurianx]

On New Years my band played a show and our other guitarists couldn't bring any of his gear. We were running into a backline of JCM800s. We're a hardcore band and there just isn't enough gain in a JCM800 without a boost to get where we need to be. One of the other bands was also just using the venues backline. I had a Boss SD-1 and a Digitech Grunge in my bag. Love the Digitech Grunge. I offered it to this other band and they turned their noses up at it. They played an extreme metal set with an unboosted JCM800 tone. Our set came round, the guitarist plugs in the Grunge, we set it as close to a 'clean' boost and run the JCM cranked and out comes this wonderful, thick bloom of rich, harmonicly full aural bliss. Genuinely sounded astonishing. I will be using a lot more in future. I'm usually an HM2 nerd, but the Grunge is my second choice. Running both on a double tracked guitar is just blissful chaos. Very glad to see them back and I look forward to damaging my wallet.

[@TheGuitarGeek]

This is such a beautiful story. I love it

[@xneurianx]

@@TheGuitarGeek For me to even mention another pedal in the same breath as the HM2 is a really big deal!

[@jamujesperandersen8699]

I have the grunge distortion in my studio tube 2101 - and it is wild!!! Use it on low gain settings 2-5. Run a fuzz into it also on low gain and it goes from bad to evil👿

[@Metalbass1979]

I've had the Digitech version for years. It's my favorite distortion. People always laugh when it tell them that, but if set right, it is the tightest, meanest tone possible. I show them and watch them eat their words. The cab sim is also one of the best direct tones.

[@jjcollins]

Great to see this. Thankful to have them back in business, as truthfully they should have never left. Definitely looking forward to the new releases (or re releases) for this year.

[@TimSamoff]

What a cool dude. Great interview.

[@chrisbolton5461]

Brilliant. Great to see Digitech / DOD back and with Tom and the gang. Still use a set of IOS pedals with my electric violin. Also just bought a Whammy.

[@TheASMRGuitarist]

Hell yes! Love Digitech! I have the Mosaic and it's one of my favorite pedals. Saved me the trouble of having to get a twelve string guitar. Also had a meat box when I was younger. Great pedal.

[@Barry101er]

My 1st pedal was a DOD Envelope Filter 440, a blue one (1979).

[@sallopiccolo7336]

My first pedal was a DOD American Metal. Somewhere around 1986ish. I used it on Bass.

[@saarangnarayan123]

What a guy! What amazing pedals! DOD is the cool kids' Boss.

[@Earthshaker1965]

Excellent interview.❤

[@joeandreana2645]

That was a really cool video. Way over my head (and that's why I'll watch it twice!).

[@gobeco]

Tom Cram is a very sweet and nice person!!!

[@TheGuitarGeek]

he truly is

[@djay6651]

Tom has been decently active on the DOD/Digitech Facebook page. I'm excited for the relaunch, but I'm also hoping Spiral Effects keeps going.

[@ShiroiTengu]

Tom has made it clear that part of his negotiation with Cortek involved allowing him the time and freedom to continue with Spiral 😃

[@hozzer68]

My very first fx pedal in the late 80’s was a DOD chorus pedal, it was great.

[@manfredworner8528]

That’s awesome Been a fan for along time Would be nice to see a new version of trio pedal but have the headrush looper kinda set up Like a full band pedal board I would buy it 😊

[@akosGTA]

I still have my DOD distortion in the cabinet. Great motivation to get it out

[@musicalcompanion5890]

Bring back the darn Supernatural reverb

[@jimmcdougall9973]

He’s dead right. I look for pedals that will spark my creativity. And love pedals that colour my tone. It’s like using a painter’s pallet.

[@umbertoyltp]

I still have a RPx400, I actually bought it again when my first one broke down. Digitech flooded the market with cheap multifx pedals in the nineties(?) Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest was an endorser for the brand.

[@JimhawthorneNet]

Here's an idea for Tom for a new pedal. Behold ... "The Neck Shaker" ! It's a subtle vibrato with an envelope controlled delayed onset, so the vibrato won't start until it detects a sustained chord, then it gently shakes your guitars neck for you. I guess the detection would have to be more activity based than level threshold based. How many great guitarists have we seen shaking their necks at the end of their sustained chords? It MIGHT become an "always-On" pedal.

[@insearchoftone9602]

DOD was always on my radar as a young musician too because of the price but sadly I didn't buy any of their pedals until like 5 years ago.... ish...... anyway I got the boneshaker distortion pedal but unfortunately didn't get along with it. It stacked well but by its self it wasn't working for me. Plugged it into my buddies bass rig just to see what would happen and after hearing 10 seconds of dude playing I was like yep this belongs on your rig... it's still there today lol.

[@charliesox5397]

Please more hardwire series please

[@Fl4ppers]

My first pedal was a Dod fx53 fuzz. Went into a music shop and asked how "Never met a girl like you before" solo was made and he sold me that. He lied. I was 18, naive. But it worked out that I loved fuzz.

[@PooNinja]

I still miss my FX86 😢, still love my whammy and i reminisce about hearing a 2101 do it’s magic

[@sirrealistic5625]

I hope that they will revive/expand their multi-fx units like the RP360/XP so that you can stack modulation/overdrives or come up with something simply mind-blowing. If anyone can do it, it's DigiTech!!!

[@TheGuitarGeek]

I agree!!

[@poopoo-qz7sw]

Own every x series pedal Inc sig models and wahs and the boxes 😊

[@2ShadesOfGray]

I had the digitech RP1000, it was front of the pack by Miles, then Digitech just seemed to roll over and die.

[@DjDoggDad]

I want a compressor pedal with a sidechain

[@erlannderrantem6972]

What’d you need that for? I’m genuinely interested it your answer.

[@DjDoggDad]

@@erlannderrantem6972 for synths

[@DjDoggDad]

@@erlannderrantem6972 for synths, but I think for guitars it could be used in a stereo setup to have a ducking/pumping effect if used with certain fx on a side channel. i'll have to see if i can get any neat sounds from pedal setup and the rack compressor I have. If anything for guitars a metronome could be plugged into the sidechain insert.

[@RubyDimasStudio]

You forget to ask about Digitech

[@tigmil8116]

If they don't bring back the polara and punkifier I don't care 😂