All user reviews for the DOD FX86B Death Metal Distortion

This pedal is uniquely painted in mostly black with blood spattered graphics on the sides. I play metal all the way but not necessarily Death Metal. However that doesn't mean this pedal isn't right for me. I've played on and off for about eighteen years but am now back in the groove of things and full out into band mode.

I actually acquired this pedal for free (no joke). My buddy gave it to me along with another when I started playing again this last time, they were no longer of use to him.

What I love about this pedal is its clearly designed to fill your sound with just pure dirty distortion. Its disgustingly rich with gain and has just the right amount of EQ's to mess around with. I hear some players complain that its too cheap sounding, which may be the case for certain types of playing style, however if you've played as long as I have you know that one pedal is never gonna fulfill all of your playing needs unless you buy something like the Digitech RP1000 or something similar, I don't rely on one single pedal I like to collect a variety. If its a case of needing to be louder during solo's than I suggest placing a Crybaby Wah behind it in your effects loop.

There isn't much I dislike about this pedal unless as I said your looking for a louder, cleaner sound, than play around with others. But if you want a ridiculous amount of distortion than this is the one for you.

Its built to last, it gets kicked around so much around here if it were built cheap I would've noticed by now.

In closing, I'd have to say if your starting out and don't want to break the bank but need something to play metal riffs; you'd be wrong to not even at least try one of these out. I have plenty of other much more expensive gear to play around with but I always end up playing a few songs through the DOD Death Metal Pedal....why?....Cause its fun Dammit!

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DOD is known for offering very cool effect pedals at very reasonable prices. I should I review a discontinued product though? Well, not only this is awesome distortion pedal but also, as chessy as this may sound, it made the musician I’m today. Back in Brazil, this was the pedal that made my high school band, the heaviest in town, and trust me when you hold such a title, not only you will get to hook up with a bunch of girls, but you gain the respect of anyone on your school.

My brother bought this pedal for our band in Brazil in 1996, in my country, if you want to buy any electronic equipment and pay half of the price you go to our neighbor Paraguay. That’s where he found the DOD Death Metal. I recently purchased one on ebay, I paid $35.

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What I love the most about this pedal now, besides all the stories I can relate to it, it’s how thick and heavy I can get my guitar to sound. I currently leave the level knob (R.I.P) on 12 o’clock, the low knob (guts) on 3 o’clock, the mid knob (pain) and the high knob (scream) on 1 o’clock. But through experimentation I always find different settings that gives my guitar very interesting sounds.


The flaw here is from DOD for discontinue its production.

DOD pedal are really though, this death metal have been through rough times and still work perfectly. That’s how exactly a guitar pedal should be. You can power this pedal via 9 Volts batteries or through power cord. It comes with 4 interesting named knobs (R.I.P, Guts, Pain, Scream) that gives you control for respectively leve, low, mids and highs. A led light on right on center indicated when the pedal in on, or if you are running out of battery juice.

The heaviest guitar sound you can get by a small and inexpensive pedal. Look for it on Ebay now.


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One Day As I was Searching For A Better Distortion Than Amp Distortion, I Came Across This Pedal On Musiciansfrien.com. I Read The Description, Heard A Few Sound Clips And Was Blown Away. I bought This Pedal For The Main Reason Of That It Has A Bus-Load Of Gain And 3 EQ's Intead Of The Usual Crappy 2 EQ And Gain. I Paid Like 50 For It, And For What Its Worth Off The Hook

Like The Name Implies, Death Metal. The Pedal Itself, Is The Perfect Death Metal Stomp Box, Assumeing You Know How To EQ. You Can Get Anywhere From Extremely Scooped-Mids To Peircing Leads To Heavy Metal Overdrive Tones. The Range Of Tones Is Outstounding, Its Possible To Get Disturbed, Dimmu Borgir, Godsmack, Carcass, Pantera, And Opeth Tones From This Bitch. The Gain On It Is Fuckin "Whoa!". The Gain Is So High That The Best Application For Is Nothing Less Than Heavy Metal. Words Cannot Describe The Crazy Amount OfGain This Thing Has. The Battery Placement Is Great As Well, Right At The Top Of The Pedal. Very Easy To Get Too.

Like AllThings Man Made, This Thing Has Some Flaws. The Only Problem I Have With ThisPedal Is That The Placement Of The AdapterJack Is Set On The Side Kinda Awkwardly Under The Output. If You Can Look Past That, Just Shutup And Play. It Can Be A Bit Too Bass Heavy At Time Depending How The Low EQ Is Set

The Quailty And Construction Are Pretty Well Made, So Far In The 3 Years I've HadIt, its Survived Being Dropped On Concrete, Dropped out A Car Window, Run over With A Bike, Been Thrown Againt The Wall, And Beer Spilt On It. Dod Did A Damn Good Job Puttin This Bitch Together.

Overall, If you Like Gain By The Busloads, And Extreme Amounts Of Tone Shapeing, Then Definately Buy This Pedal, Plug In, Power Up And Play.

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I purchased this Pedal a few weeks ago, needing some heavy distortion. I bought it from www.Music123.com who was having a sale on them. I paid $35.00 for the pedal. Which is great because normally it is about $80.00.

I love the distortion that this pedal punches out!!! It is so crunchy and heavy. I also like the look of the pedal. It is black with red splatters all over it to simulate blood. Also, for the Level it says R.I.P., Low it says GUTS, Mid it says PAIN, and High it says SCREAM.

The only thing I don't like about this pedal is that it is capable of blowing speakers really easily, which it says in the manual. If you turn the low and mid up and the high down, it can easily blow it.

The construction is awesome, it's got a solid metal contruction and the pedal works great. It never gets stuck or doesn't work.

If you need a heavy distortion that screams metal, you gotta buy this pedal.

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I got the pedal of a friend for £30 because he already had a similar effect on his Zoom 606,its definatly worth the £30 and a lot more

I like the names under the knobs - rip, scream, guts and pain. the pedal has a really distorted and heavy sound which is perfect for playing anything that is heavier than Metallica

I dont like the red paint slatters that are supposed to look like blood, its pretty lame really, also i get annoyed when the battery is low and you cant footswitch it anymore

the pedal is really well made and solid being that it is Metal, none of that plastic rubbish that you see so much of today

I think that you should definatly buy this pedal if you are into heavy metalor anything heavyier, although its not really death metal like the name would suggest, i tried plying the berzerker and its not got a deep enough tone on it

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I bought this pedal for 70 bucks off of e-bay. I was looking for a heavy distortion tone for rhythm and lead guitar.

There isn't much i like about this pedal.

Where do i begin. First off the distortion is awful,way to muddy. This pedal claims to emulate death metal bands such as carcass and napalm death , but this just isnt true.
The tone is also terrible for solos. It make way to much noise. It sounds very cheap. All 5 guys in the band got a laugh out of this pedal. If you go to musicians friend you can here this crap pedal there.


This pedal is made of metal so it is durable . I got rid of mine 3 hours after i bought it , so i can't really say.

This pedal is a waste of time. Do not buy this pedal. If you need a heavy tone , buy a boss mt-2 it . It's still the champ. My custom les paul sound bad through this unit enough said.

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I bought this distortion pedal cus im realy into death metal. I got it from seacos music for $49.00. A great price for such an awsume pedal

Like i said before im realy into death metal, and this pedal delivers it to you. the distortion is just aawwwww!!!! the price is also amzing . I'v used boss before and its a geat company but for the price of the dod death metal pedal its not far from being as good as boss.

it's a great pedal, but for something so good there is bound to be something bad. I'v noticed that it uses baterries up quit fast, and it sometimes want come on when u stomp it. but other than that its great

great but, i could do without the names writen on the pedal like, "scream, pain" and so on
it looks o-k and its pretty solid . just take care of it and it should work o-k.

great pedal for anyone who likes death metal i strongly recomend this pedal. take care of it and i will asure you that this will be one of the best distortion pedals you can get for a realy low price.

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I bought this pedal for £50 and as i was looking for a heavy distortion pedal the fact it was called 'DEATH METAL' made me buy it.

I dont like much about this pedal, it looks cool thats about it. Oh and its quite cheap!!

I was expecting a heavy metal sound what i got was a weak cheap metal sound. This pedal is crap for palm muting and playing heavy chords/riffs. Originally i had the BOSS METAL ZONE PEDAL which has its limits but it is still alot better for playing metal than this. Im yet to find a decent heavy distortion pedal but the digitech metal master heavy metal pedal seems to have good reviews.

Its metal and feels solid enough, you wouldnt wanna drop it, but when you stamp on the pedal to go between clean and distortion it feels a bit weak and you have to be accurate when doing so, sometimes, it doesnt activate at all.

Overall this is a misleading pedal beacause of the name and i wouldnt recommend it for metal. Although its cheap dont buy it!!

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$40 on E-bay

Take all of your other lame distortion or overdrive pedals, put them together, add a one month supply of steroids and you have the Deathmetal pedal. This pedal kicks butt. Even for more mellow Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, it is a great choice. And that is where the pedal starts - it gets thicker and more nasty.

It is not in the shape of a coffin.

Sturdy enough to pop somebody in the head with and still keep playing.

If somebody were to take this pedal, I would hunt them down and beat them into submission. You have got to try it to believe it.

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I got this thing off Musician's Friend for like 50 bucks, and it was worth every penny. I paid like 8 bucks on insurance, but I know I'm garunteed for 3 years.

I like everything about this pedal, the sound is just terrifying, the ear piercing highs on the e string, and the graoning low chords that could shake the ground. I really like the sound, because the only other distortion I had was the Danelectro Black Coffee, which was not givig me the sound I wanted. My amp also had no distortion, so I was screwed until I bought this little baby. I also like blood look on the pedal, along with the labels on the knobs.

The only thing I don't like is replacing battteries, that can be annoying.

It's made out of metal, not plastic, so it's obviousley well constructed. Everythiung is made out of plastic these days. I don't think it's going to break, I barely use my foot to turn it on and off, i usually use my hand, so I think it will last a long time.

If you like that sensitive crap rock, don't buy this pedal. If you like tear your guts out and serve them inside of an amp rock, this is the pedal for you. One more thing I don't think you should put the high Eq all the way up on this thing, it blows out amps easily.

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im not sure where i got the pedal,some web site. i got it for $45. i wanted it for quite some time. i couldnt decide whether to get the digitech metal master or this one,until i read the reviews. apperently, the metal master is horrible, and dissapointing.so i got this one.You can listen to this pedal on musicians friend.

i love its booming bass and screaming highs.if you like alot of 'chunk' in your playing, this pedal is perfect for you.its great for playing metal and hardcore. power chords sound so good and harmonics sound nice. the booklet gives you some knob combinations that sound awesome.

nothing except the theme of it is kinda lame, the knobs are labeled RIP(level), guts(low EQ),pain(mid EQ), and scream(high EQ). i thought that was pretty dumb, but it does not affect the tone of this pedal one little bit.I highly recommend this pedal.

the pedal has stomp box construction, which is good if you have stomping problems, because it will hold up and not break. nothing bad has happend to this pedal while ive had it.

I highly reccomend this pedal

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I bought this pedal new from Ebay for $45. It is listed as $85-90 in most places, and I was looking for an inexpensive way to get really heavy tonalities.

It is REALLY heavy. So far, it is the closest thing to perfect that I have played. It is eternally crunchy, and keeps good clarity even in low tunings (at one point, I was playing in GDG--4 steps lower than drop D).

It has broken twice. I am not a very aggressive player, and attribute the defects to poor construction. Also, the high EQ is a bit annoying. This isn't a great distortion for soloists. Finally, due to the extremity of its distortion, it doesn't work well in connection to effects processors.

Again, I thought that it could have been better. I took good care of the pedal, and paid to have it repaired the first time. DOD itself, however, is a good manufacturer, and I wouldn't condemn the entire company for this one pedal.

A good pedal for metal enthusiasts everywhere, from death to nu. JUST BE REALLY CAREFUL WITH IT!

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Bought it from a local store for about Usd 70 ( i know it's a bit expensive compared to other stores)..Actually, i have a Boss MD-2 Mega Dist. and altough i'm quite happy with that, this distortion blew me away from the first time i had a chance to try it.Then i bought it immediately..

This unit has a distortion tone that no-other product have ever had.so powerful, so loud..perfect for metal and hard rock guitarists.with a little turning and twisting the tone knob you can get any sound from power metal to hard-rock..

at fist, i had a feeling that when playing lead guitar it was a kind of a little fuzzy.but soon i fixed that by making some adjustments of the knobs..so, no problem for now..you have to make your own settings..

even this " like a tank" term refers to "Boss" products which they really are, this unit is exactly like a tank..

i'm a pedal lover. i like trying different pedals to get a unique sound..but believe me this is the best heavy metal distortion i've ever had or tried..

if you need to buy only one pedal but can not decide..definetely this is the one..

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I've been eye balling this pedal for sometime,next thing i know is christmas comes along and my girlfreind hands me a gift. fortunitly it was the fx86b,it has the very best distortion. she paid around 49.99 for it and the truth is that this pedal is priceless.

everything,the hights the ground shaking lows,thunderous mid, everything!

None!

this is the best quality pedal i have ever seen,metal constrution,

if you are lokking for a great distortion go get this the one and only(fx86b dod DEATH METAL)!!!

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