The Craziest Pedal Line Ever! The DOD Lamb Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Today I dive into the history of one of the most interesting pedal lines ever created. DOD is one of the big boys of the pedal industry and has created some of the most iconic effects in the last 50 years, but the line I'm calling the "Lamb Series" stands out among their other offers as some of the quirkiest and most interesting batch of pedal designs the world has ever seen. In the comments below let me know what you think about Nevermind and Vitalogy and your favorite 90s records from the grunge era!
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Check out the gear in this and past episodes here:
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Josh's guitar is a Bilt Relevator:
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Josh's guitar strap is a Jaykco Strap:
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Gear in this episode:
1:11 DOD FX69 Grunge
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1:15 DOD DFX5 Digital Turbo Distortion
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4:06 DOD FX33 Buzz Box
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6:49 DOD FX86 Death Metal
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8:24 DOD FX32 Meat Box
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9:44 DOD FX76 Punkifier
11:06 DOD FX51 Juice Box
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11:14 DOD FX53 Classic Tube
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11:58 DOD FX13 Gonkulator Modulator
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13:23 DOD FX101 Grind
14:08 DOD FX100 Even Harmonic Overdrive
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15:19 DOD Corrosion
15:25 DOD FX70 Metal X
16:28 DOD FX747 Supersonic Stereo Flange
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17:43 DOD FX84 Milk Box
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18:57 DOD FX64 Ice Box
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19:59 DOD FX70P Big Pig
Record Time:
Nirvana - Nevermind
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Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
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Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:
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6:00 “the buzz box is totally worthless, it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.”
Me, a shoegazer: a vacuum cleaner you say?
Exactly what I thought lmao
*_Kevin Shields would like to know your location_*
They had us in the first half,
not gonna lie
Maybe not for a normal guitar track, but for background color when you don't P lay keyboards, it could be worthwhile in a few places...a very few.🤣
VREEEEE VREEEEW
I did Industrial/Mechanical Design for Dod/Digitech for 23 years. Worked with Jason on all of these products and many more. Jason was an amazing dude and is missed like hell. This video is an awesome tribute to him & his creative genius! Thanks for doing it!
We're you involved with the Corrosion pedal? That has been my main pedal for the last umpteen years! I can not imagine my sound without one!
Rip Jason!
John Bogdan can you email me?! Vlog@jhspedals.com
@@alexanderhudson47 i'm actually going to go buy a corrosion pedal as soon as possible. even on youtube it sounded great to me. i play thrash/punk/death metal but i can see this on my board
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOD-Effects-Pedal-FX-70c-Corrosion/174119015314?hash=item288a4d5392:g:jFAAAOSwQLZd7DPS
“It’s not broken, it’s just sounds that way” might be the greatest marketing tag line ever.
You're onto something here.
Sony tried something that way with the first gen PSP. Didn't quite work so well for them.
@@krmusick hahahahaha
LMAO
Oof
Thank you for this awesome video! Proud to call Jason my uncle. I miss him everyday. Smoke Whiskey!
Corbin Krebs Smoke Whiskey!!
Wouldn’t the then be “The Lamb Of Dod”?
🤦♂️
Very good!!
You win!
You're grrounded. NO MOAR PUNZ FER YEW
That should be a tribute pedal to Jason.
Well done. I worked with Jason for 15 years during my time at DigiTech/DOD. Spent many a fun evening throwing back cold ones talking music. He was as unique a person as one could imagine. Still can’t believe he’s gone.
My brother had the Death Metal pedal. As a kid, I thought "guts" and "pain" were legit parameters.
Lol
I had it sounded awesome.
I own one for Bass, there is no other pedal on the planet like it, dunno if it’s my J-Bass or the ‘83 Carlsbro Amp, but the shock and awe it can punch into a crowd...
THEY ARE...
I had one in the 2000’s.
Fun pedal, not a ton of uses these days but as a teenager I thought it was amazing
an MXR "blue box" story- dinosaur jr came to Mtv in london in early 1993 to do a studio session for "120 minutes". while I was helping the roadies set up mr mascis' tons of effects, one of them said "he wants to use this, but we think it's broken." we plugged one of J's guitars into the thing & it made *that* noise. "perhaps it needs a new battery", I offered, & duly fitted one. afterwards, it sounded exactly the same. we shrugged, & left it on the floor, on J's big perspex pedalboard. later, during the camera rehearsals, we watched as J went for the pedal during a solo. he switched it in for maybe half a bar, pulled a face & switched it off. we never heard the thing again.
😂
I loved the Death Metal back in the day. It gave me the gain I needed on my practice amp. 20 years later I got it out of the closet and decided to run it into my Marshall Jubilee stack. I could not believe how good it sounded into a dirty Marshall. Later I read that it was designed to be run in front of a dirty Marshall.
I use my original DM in a Marshall 410h
You never turned up the RIP knob on the Death Metal one!!! I feel robbed.
Now you'll never be able to "rest in peace"....
I'll show myself the way out
yeah i wanted to hear what the oscillation would sound like too haha
It kind of feeds back like the Corrosion one did between chords in his demo. Cool pedal- sounds great on bass.
i guess you could say “grave robbed”
He didn't play any death metal with it either.
"Grunge" was the first pedal I ever bought because I was a kid and I loved grunge.
I hated the pedal at the time.
Nearly 30 years later I love it.
It was first pedal that i bought in the mid-90s and i was pretty disappointed at the time and gave it away a few years later. I saw the newer Digitech version in a store last week for $25 and snapped it right up. It sounds a bit different but i'm loving it.
I know I'm a little late, but this might be my favorite JHS video of all times.
RIP Jason Lamb! He was a great friend for over 2 decades. He will forever be missed.
Wait did your Grunge pedal come with a smoke machine operator? Cause mine did not.
When you buy one now, it comes with a vape.
that smoke was the amp catching fire.
I love my grunge pedal
But I wouldn’t consider it a “grunge” sound. It’s a “blistering layers of distorted menacing ear bleeding” sound.
If they paid you a few dollars you would claim they did.
@@tomevans8240 remember kids, ... vaping kills you now, just as much as or more than actual smoking.
The Ice box chorus was the first chorus pedal that I ever owned. Damn, I shouldn't have sold that pedal
I just purchased a brand new never used (still in the box) Ice Box with the snowflake ❄️ graphics on it for the 1990’s price of $75 usd (it was actually $79.99 back then but anyway its going to join my MINT FX69 Grunge pedal my dad got me back in 1994. I just need the FX747 Supersonic Stereo Flanger & the FX22 VibroThang to complete the pedals I want from that era. Actually if they weren’t going for $250-300+ on ebay Id try n get more of the LAMB line up but I digress. Excellent video and awesome comments!
Keep on keeping on ! 🤘🏻🎸
The Ice Box was wonderful!
I bought one off an acquaintance a few years ago. It still works!
Not only are these videos super informative, but Joshua's super dry sense of humour makes him one of the most entertaining gear guys on youtube.
redskullz124 he was great in Eastbound and Down too!
Man, does this bring back memories. 14 year old me with a cheap Samick Strat from the General store, smashing down on a DOD grunge pedal with all the knobs dimed and thinking "Man, this sounds like shit, whatever, it says grunge on it"
Bruh for real. Took me back to high school. I remember a lot of these. We would swap em at lunch and tell everyone how rad they are. They still are.
Like Boss Heavy Metal.
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Ehhhh, maybe? This is the first set of pedals that JS hasn't been particularly effusive about. Behringer, DOD is not.
Never buy when upload, chill a month.
Rikkousa
Behringer had a slight increase, but pedals like their Dimension clone, or the Vibrato Clone, are still under a $100.
you should see their 1966 pedals on reverb, it’s insane lol
Shit legit annoys me. People will buy them, post them on Instagram, /r/Guitarpedals, and piss around with them for an hour and leave them in a drawer, or on their desk, and the prices will go up for no reason.
A: So how much Distortion shall we put on those DOD pedals?
Lamb: Yes!
I have a Corrosion fx70c that I bought new in the 90s. Multiple wires broke off the board from opening up to tighten/fix inputs, and to fix that crappy switch that would always fail, and I didn't know where to solder them back. I kept the pedal around for years and finally last year (2018) was able to figure it out. I've learned a lot more about electronics over the years.. anyways, all new pots, a better switch and she's rockin again. I love that DOD sound!
Mad Season, one of those great 90s albums that went under the radar
Undisputed!!! RIP Layne.
River of Deceit GOAT!
That was such a great album I love the opening cut Wake Up.
Miss you,Layne.
Truly
Buzz Box sounds like any given Saturday at Guitar Center
That's actually pretty funny lol
I knew I heard that sound before.
Lou reed could’ve used this on the metal Machine album
I hope they do a reissue ;)
I want one tho
Favourite grunge records no one talks about are the first two Silverchair albums 95’s Frogstomp and 97’s Freakshow
Fantastic song writing, the heavy songs have amazing riffs and crushing tone and an amazing production all round
Plus the fact they were still in high school when they wrote them just adds to the vibe
Frogstomp is THE one. They were like 15/16 when they made that first album. So simple. So catchy.
Just pulled that album out .frog stop, the other day. And I wondered what had happened to the boys and of course I looked it up on google add found only sad stories. The singer developed some kind of funky arthritis and then drummer died. Turns out they had five studio albums though.
@@incredifunk dunno where you read it but Ben Gillies is alive and well as are all members
Dan's had some issues with Alcohol and isolation in recent years after battling arthritis and Anorexia in his youth and Chris the Bassist lost his sister to suicide but that's about it
No one in the band is dead or completely fucked up at least
@@violence30 I love frogstomp for the nostalgia but love freakshow for the pure anger, Ironically Diorama is my favorite album of theirs
That's not grunge, grunge is the grunge scene from Seattle basically.
The first Distortion I ever bought was a DOD Death Metal. Being 13, playing in a punk band and a total guitar noob, I just picked the distortion with the coolest look. And wow did it sound mean. Great memories. Thank you for this vid!
Pedal snobs: "DOD Buzz box sounds bad; it's worthless and unusable." *Introducing the Bee Barrel from Earthquaker Devices for $229* "What a brilliant, creative pedal! I'll take 7!"
That sound is pretty much the Dwarfcraft Great Destroyer.
Rich Newman god the great destroyer is a fantastic pedal.
A lot of people just don't know how to use pedals in a creative way. There are tons of useful sounds you can get from this line, if you stabilize the Buzz Box a little bit and use it on the higher end of a bass it sounds like an droning electricity generator, run vocals through it it can sound like killer bees (obligatory Wu Tang reference here), or if you want some absolutely insane tones run a drum machine through it or a drum kit for actually sonic destruction
That already happened with the Sunn Life Pedal
A pedal can not be great but become great with a little bit of tweaking.
“Basically you just put some flies on your slab of meat and move on”-Josh JHS
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... He's Whacky
Thanks so much for the smiles.
I was binge watching ALL the JHS Pedals vids, but had to slow down out of fear of running out.
OK - so now I'm on my 2nd time thru on some and 3rd or 4th watch on others.
Thanks so much, JHS - really !
Serious "thumbs up"!
I owned almost all of these pedals in high school. This video takes me back. :) Thanks for this!
I honestly never cared for any other brand just because DOD made TANKS! Also they had cool paint jobs compared to Boss & whoever else. Idk its just me I guess but yeah this was a blast from the past!
That corrosion pedal is really nasty in the best way.
Eric Chenier I agree, I am gonna have to have one of those corrosion pedals
I think it sounds fantastic, and I'm a really harsh critic when it comes to distortion pedals
Agreed. And I like it even more as Corrosion of Conformity has been a favorite of my wife and mine since the 90's. It sounds like that pedal could be used to approximate some of their guitar tones from over the years.
Yeah I agree. I loved the sound when I first heard it in an earlier JHS video.
Definitely sounds great in this video.
Josh make an updated grunge pedal. I’m sure you can take that circuit and make it cool.
Call it: Post Grunge
Agreed. The grunge is so close to being good, I bet Josh can tweak it up to rock.
Grunge was my first pedal ever. No idea what happened to it but lord I miss it. So yeah, I would love to see a modern clone.
It's already cool.
He did. It killed him and his clone is now posting videos.
I love Buzz. His tone is one of the best and he uses a solid state amp and a metal guitar.
this much passion, knowledge and humor in one person is so rare. wonderful. thank you for all of these!
“I’m sorry, he forgot to eat lunch that day...”
This is a brilliant vid Josh!!!
“In Bloom” is my fave Nirvana track by a country mile!
Grunge kind of passed me by as I was into more home grown UK bands.
As a link, you mentioned Blur tonight... Graham Coxon’s distortion on “Battle” is heavenly and raw... I’m sure you’ve heard it.
You make Thursday night fun! Cheers!
I grew up listening to all of Jason's bands in Salt Lake, and then became friends with him and his crew much more during the last years of his life. He had such a creative mind and a knack for marketing. Boy do I miss that dude.
Back in the 90s, these were not well regarded by most guitar players. Listening back to the tones, I feel like... we were right... :P
I ignored them and lost interest in DOD even though we used Digitech crap a lot. I did like the bucket brigade Supersonic and hope it’s still around here somewhere and I have a phaser that’s not mentioned that sucks volume badly so it needs surgery that I may never get around to.
The problem is that Josh is such a pedal geek that he makes us all want to play all of them for ourselves all over again.
Grunge sounds great to me! Death Metal too!
it would be amazing to see someone giving all the love Josh does give to pedals but through a bass player view
I don't know if it could be as popular but I totAlly agree.. Although a lot of pedals can be / are used through both formats
This was the time period that I started playing music and I remember friends having so many of these pedals. My first pedal was the Deep Freeze (bass version of the Ice Box). Thanks for letting me relive some of those memories.
By far , my favorite episode . Thanks a lot Josh , you' ve just pleased a 40 y.o. guitarist who was a teenager when grunge showed up
Same. Such a trip down the memories of my early years playing and discovering music.
FACTS! 🎸
I’ve always loved the way the Grunge sounded, it’s so ridiculously gained up that there’s nothing else like it, especially on bass
I've watched this video several times and learned much from it. Myself and several Facebook friends plan to change our profile photo to our favorite Lamb DOD Pedal to celebrate Jason Lamb's Birthday in Sept. THANK YOU for the Education.
14 year old me, plywood Ibanez, DOD death metal. I played in a grunge band at the time :D
haha yup. i thought Ibanez was so good.. nope.
@@MrSimondaniel3 I mean they are sort of like everyone else in the way that there are good and bad guitars they make right?
80’s ARIA with super microphonic pickups and a peavey pa/Bass amp, set up to play in drop b, I think I had the lowest low ends of my local hardcore scene in the late 2000’s when I kicked that did death metal on.
The re-issued meat box is a staple for crushing live sounds. It’s so low on bass it makes your guts hurt. It’s fantastic. If you are a bassist you need one.
Archie Montoya it looks like something GWAR would use lol.
It's an essential pedal on my board. I have the original and the re-issue and the new one is more useful than the OG version.
I got turned on to it by Janek Gwizdala from his synth sounds demos. I use it for huge sound scapes, big breakdowns, and as a foundation for making analog synth sounds on bass. What do you all use it for?
Thanks for a great episode, love the historical pedal content!!
I remember enjoying this line of pedals quite a bit back in the mid to late 90's as a new guitar player. Fun episode, thanks for a dive into nostalgia.
I remember when "Nevermind " came out, my kids were watching MTV and "Smells Like Teen Spirit " was in heavy rotation. I was lost at first, but after hearing it a gazillion times I was hooked. Rock On Josh.
The Root Boy Cooks ! You broke my mood ring....
New level of comedy in this one. 🤣❤
Me: "Wait! A 25 minute video on DOD pedals that I never had an interest in? I'm not watching for that long?"
25 minutes later..... cool!👏👏👍
........ and then bothering to comment on it - Amazing! and we thought it was impressive that DOD could turn numbers with that line of dung pedals.
Haha, my thoughts exactly but it’s hard not to watch Josh geek out about pedals and even the overlooked ones. It’s bad, worse than a comic book collection I suppose.
@@4GotSumthingwhen did the dod pedals hurt you my dude
You’re my new hero! As a person with a pedal addiction on a budget you are a GOD!! Love your style and approach 👍
I like you josh, you have moxy. You are the kind of guy I would trust to feed my cat whilst I was out of town.
Great episode!
Smashing Pumpkins' 'Gish' is one of my favorite albums from that era (or any era).
ascii 70 85 I didn’t get into Gish much later after Siamese Dream. It’s such a great album.
Absolutely. Without question. Still my “go to” album when I want something good and great. From the opening drum refrain to the closing decay it’s non stop awesome. Saw them on that tour and is still one of the best sounding shows ever. And Darcy. Oh sweet sad Darcy. Such a slinky bass goddess. I don’t think they ever reached that height again, that sound and tone and dynamic songwriting. Saw them on the Siamese dream tour and they sounded terrible. Corgan was well into his self destructing I don’t care pity party by then
Great video Josh! My truly first sound guitar, back in 2001, was a mix of a DOD Grunge, a Boss flanger and a Boss dd-3 delay/sampler. At the time I thought it was the most awesome, unique sound to ever been created. To my ears it sounded futuristic and emotional, it was inspiring 24/7, I was ‘hooked’. Good memories!
my first setup was a reverb going into an overdrive going into a tremolo going into another overdrive
I love this vid - brings back many memories. I live in Salt Lake and was using Digitech Valve FX and 2120’s as a kid - we were always able to go to the factory and visit the guys making these. They gave my friend a Punkifier because we played a lot of U2 and they said Edge used one on the Pop album..(I think Mofo was the song?) I got the death metal one from them. They were so much fun. I even remember the technicians would go to music shops and take measurements (with an oscilloscope). To get their “modeling” that they were starting to do (right before the GNX line). Cool Vid Josh!!! And you mentioned Cram!! He one of the main guys we would visit. Love him!!
You had me at smoke machine.
Huh! "It's not broken, it sounds that way" is also the way I usually have to explain my guitar tone!
This is the best episode you’ve made. Thanks for sharing your passion with such honesty. I have a lucky cat delay but i think now you’re the lucky cat on my rig. Thanks man! From Barcelona.
I looked up Jason and I found out he died. Man's legacy is amazing. RIP.
So DOD shifted 8,000 units a months of a pedal that Kurt Cobain didn't use. Now that's clever marketing, I can see why you like them.
Cobain actually did use the Grunge on the Live and Loud performance. You can hear it specifically on the song “School” from that show.
He did use that pedal..you can hear it just by hearing it in the room
Supposedly he only ever used it mockingly
removedot He looked down on everyone. Heck, he looked down at Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam, ffs! He really was a Pretentious F***! Noone wants to say it because he's dead. I don't hate him or anything at all. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Teen Spirit - it was the defining moment of my adolscence... Even so, Kurt Cobain was a the sort of Snob that would put bike-riding, quinoa-chomping hipsters to shame!
Luey Sixty-six I would argue that he was extremely cynical, and skeptical of some of his contemporaries. Cobain was into subverting expectations, whereas Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins were both using “grunge” and “alternative” as marketing labels in order to fill arenas and make money. Cobain was brilliant but extremely immature (at least in my opinion, and I attribute it to early fame and drug addiction), and what comes of as pretentious may have been a sort of naive belief in artistic purity.
Hell, he was right about Billy Corgan being a poseur, and Cobain died around the time Pearl Jam decided to embrace authenticity over arena rock. Say what you want about the guy, but Kurt was nothing if not a perceptive observer of his contemporaries.
That was great. Reminded me how hard it was to get a good sound for little money as a broke teen in the early 90’s 😁
damn straight. People take for granted all the cheap yet good gear they can get today. 20 years ago if you had little money, you got crap
Juan Valdez Very true.
Dude - I love your videos and your sense of humor which you place just perfectly!
& of course your experience!
I bought a DOD Stereo Chorus pedal back in the 1980's and I still use it to this day.
The Death Metal Distortion was my first pedal when I picked up the guitar. Naturally, I used it to play in a worship band😂
Naturally.
Was my first also. Lol
hah! mine was a DS-1, cause Nirvana. What's up Brett.
Chris Tsanjoures Hey, Chis! You chose wisely😆
I was 13,it was mid 90’s, Got cannibal corpse’s Bloodthirst and was like, of course THIS is what death metal boys MUST use. It’s labeled just for them!
I love Thursdays.
Things I never thought I'd ever say.
"I love Thursdays" that could be a very cool name for a band!! Think about it...."Next up from I Love Thursdays, Pedaling my way to fame!!" Okay, maybe that sucks but you get my drift, lol. You know the whole pedal thing with Josh being into bicycling...Okay, I'll see myself out now, lol.
@@jackallen6261 Haha, that's awesome, and I didn't even know Josh was into bikes. Even without that bit still good.
@@WhoWouldWantThisName Sure!! I mean we had Till Tuesday right? Why not I love Thursday?? I think I may be on to something here...Or not, lol.
@@jackallen6261 Quite a few of the TH-cam channels I follow release a video every Thursday. So this could be a cultural thing that people might relate to. I know if I hear someone say "I love Thursdays." that's exactly what I assume they are talking about.
Nevermind is the reason I play guitar. Lounge Act is my favorite song from the album and one of my favorites from the era for close to 30 years now. My favorite album from the era is Pisces Iscariot.
I had the DoD Grunge. Best studio distortion ever! Great mids and sustain. Combine it with an eq and a valve amp and you'll be amazed! Oh god I miss it already!
"I'm sorry, he forgot to eat lunch that day."
Genuine LOL.
FX 55C Supra Distortion was my very first pedal. Everyone who thinks that Metal Zone is a can of bees should listen to that nasty machine of torture.
I have one and I love it :)
The Grunge is probably my favorite Distortion pedal that I've ever used. I'm not really a big Distortion user, especially using single coils where distortion can get a bit brash. It had enough low-mid that just worked really well.
It's also the ONLY useable pedal in this line, or at least it can be used for more than 2 song. We have an independent record shop in town. The owner had a record company back in the 80s and 90s that worked with "noise rock" bands. If you're thinking "oh noise rock, like Sonic Youth,I like Sonic Youth," no that's not the noise rock I speak of, this is actually NOISE. It's pretty much only popular in the Merrimack valley in Massachusetts, and Japan; and that's not an exaggeration, look it up.
These pedals sound like that record store.
I still use the FX69 Grunge. I run it through an FX40B EQ and it tames it a bit.
I wish someone looked at me the way Josh looks at the milk box
🥲
I recently found my DOD Grunge pedal in my mom's house. Hadn't touched it in 20 years, and now I'm crazy about it again!
Off Topic: You should do a review on Ibanez's Soundtank line. They were super cheap 90's pedals that were plastic. My favorite was the Thrashmetal one. I like it so much that I have a backup. Don't let the name fool you, It's actually not super distorted. It's perfect!
The purchase of the Vitalogy album the day after its release was the probably the most pivotal moment in my life.
It's the best PJ album
one of mine to. We waited in line for the vinyl
Great reviews and very professional. Well done sir
Proud 2nd owner of the DOD FX70P Big Pig here. A friend gave me this pedal several years ago. The story goes that his Gma bought it for him (from MF) as a gift to use with his bass. He hated this pedal and I remember him telling me not to feel bad if I decided to throw it away. I kept it. And got reacquainted with it 6-7 years ago and love it! It's not on either of my main pedalboards but it gets used fairly often as it's got its own thing going on and is a ton of fun to play. Definitely not a transparent pedal and it is in no way subtle or tame but it is a total good time for mid-bumped riffing and angular lead stuff. Glad this one made it to the video! :-)
I was awake for the midnight release of Vitalogy because my school mate insisted on getting it! Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, STP, Blind Melon and many others filled the airwaves from my childhood!
Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains.
I was very, very depressed when I was young and being able to know that someone else was hurting was comforting.
Now, I wish someone had reached out earlier to help. But it was incredible.
I've seen them on the Dirt Tour in in Cologne germany 1993 with a friend. They opened with Rotten Apple and it got so intense in the venue my buddy had to leave. Unforgettable show and Band.
As an ex colleague of Jason I can say this honors him in the right way!....thanks for this!
Cool vid man! I used to work at DOD in the 80's.
Cool commentary. Keep up the good work.
Very fun! Nirvana restored my love of Rock radio...remember radio!?! It kicked off another wave of guitar rock. Hope it happens again?
druwk Yes I remember that very much. I still love 80’s hard rock to this day. But by 1991, bands like Trixter, Dangerous Toys and Sleeze Beez were just played out. When Nevermind came out it made me excited to be a rock fan again.
Such a great tribute to a wonderful guy! I'm proud to say I played in a band with Mr. Lamb.
Went from chuckling 'cause of a pedal with meat marbling, to almost crying for a guy I had never even heard of before.
Reading the people who knew/worked with Mr. Lamb here in the comments is heartwarming. Josh is an amazing storyteller
The buzz box is what I'd imagine having a stroke sounds like
Oh what a good episode!!! LOVE IT, LOVE JHS, LOVE YOU JOSH!! I remember drooling over some of the pedals you mentioned around 96-97, I couldn't afford any of them but I used to have the SupraDistortion that a friend gave me, my favorite Grunge record it's really hard to define, Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop, Superunknown, In Utero, Yield?(does still counts as grunge), Well as you can see all of them! hahaha, But of course there couldn't be a Better World without a Better man...see what I just did there?, and On a Plain it's my favorite song of Nevermind also. Josh thank you for this great videos, and for making such amazing pedals!!!
“I have the box here...”
*shows box for like a second*
“Nobody cares...”
Me: I care
SeanPierceJohnson I don't know why this is funny, but I literally LOL'd!
Frank DeSalvo I’m a sucker for OG packaging
SeanPierceJohnson take my thumbs up. I hear ya.
I care too. I always keep all of the original packaging from my pedals too. Still have my Punkifier (first pedal I ever purchased) and Death Metal Distortion in the box on the shelf behind me.
A different era. JHS 1.0, before...HE *HAS* THE *BOX!*
really appreicate this ep. never miss any of these videos
Awesome episode. Thanks for this piece of history
Thanks for all the effort. Magical episode. School of rock (pedals).
I'm glad someone else is as into Pearl Jam as I am. Not as a novelty, but as my actual favorite band of all time. Favorite 90s grunge album: Pearl Jam - No Code
Howdy... see my reply above
PJ is my favorite band of all time, and No Code is an amazing album.
Thank you so much for this episode, it's just crazy !!! This is a super, duper, mega, hyper 2000 story! It is so soulful, so lamp-like, that I do not have enough words! My soul is experiencing bright, warm emotions! Spasibo!
Great stuff man. Keep it coming
When you look at the albums released the same year as Vitalogy, and realize how important that year was in the history of music, it shows how good this album is. They even performed Not For You on SNL the Saturday before the album release on Tuesday, further edifying how this was a big deal. I remember planning my escape from classes that day, in order to get down to the Sam The Record Man on Barrington St. in Halifax at opening, so I could buy the album. There was even this sense of wonder with the packaging they released it in; it was a bit impractical to someone whom loathes fingerprints on the surface of his media discs, but it was just a wonder to hear straight through the first time, you forgot about it. Pearl Jam evolved on that incredible album.
Nevermind was great too.
You're so right period psychology was such An important album. and just the whole time period from ninety four- ninetysix,ninetyseven. Mother love bone, Temple of the dog, Sound garden, Nirvana, weezer. Hole( to a lesser degree)And who can forget Rage.??!? The music that formed & possibly changed our lives. A precursor of what we were to become musically, Perhaps spiritually.
please include a fog machine in all episodes to come. Thank you.
^ Do this.
I think it was just someone vaping.
definitely not fog...
Dang, okay lol
Don't know about every episode, but it needs to make another appearance.
The Death Metal is my all time favorite distortion. I've owned mine since '94
R.I.P. =volume, Guts=bass, Pain=mid, Scream=treble
It sounded horrible, like a bunch of styrofoam surrounding your tone.
@@xhooliganx7297 Might be a good thing if your tone is lacking any redeeming value................
One day you will have to decide on playing it or putting it in the pedal museum - Until then Make music that relates to giving up your favorites in life. I can already feel your pain ...
The Death Metal has actually had a surprising revival among Noise musicians because the maximized gain and ludicrous EQ is perfect for making contact microphones scream. Plus they're much cheaper than similar dirt pedals like the HM-2 or Metalzone because they were bought and swiftly collected dust in droves.
@@xhooliganx7297 Sounds a lot better in the FX loop, much like the metal zone.
I worked with Jason at Fender in the 2000s. He was a great friend who would do anything for you. RIP old pal.
Nice to see the Juice Box... I've had mine for MANY years (I have the other version)... old Music Go-Round buy from the college days! Still have the box and all!
The Corrosion sounded awesome, it didn't have that high end splatty noise in the background some of the other distortions did 🤘🏼
Absolutely agree, i could use that one
Absolutely!!!
Awesome sounding pedal for sure. I can't remember the life of me what song you played. It's very familiar. What song was it? Silverchair song?
@@WarrenKingDudeface Stone Temple Pilots - "Down" off the album No. 4
I've watched this video a couple dozen times. I'm exactly the same age as Josh and I started playing at the same time, and being a broke kid in the 90's meant you had a bunch of DOD pedals! Great stuff. Josh I would love for you to do a big DOD video, if love to hear you interview people like Tom Cram and Roger Johnson and others from there. It'd be interesting to hear tales from the height of their popularity.
I have my dod supra distortion and I love it! Had it since '92.
One of my favourite albums from the Grunge era? Dirt, by AIC. It’s such a good album, with both classic songs and a deep pool of quality tracks
I will agree with you all day on that. Bought it as a teen the day it came out....
I was at their concert the week before it came out!! They opened for Ozzy! Layne Stalely broke his ankle before the show. He did the set with a cast on! It was seriously awesome!!
And that's how a DOD Grunge pedal goes up in price by 150% in 25 minutes... lol
Eh... I dunno. There are so, so many out there. And they do still sound like crap (including this demo). I would take any kind of regular RAT over it any day.
That's the big problem with these "hidden gems" videos. They essentially put a countdown on the collector's market ruining things for the working musician.
@@gregmerritt9366 It can become the hedgehog's dilemma for guitar pedal makers/buyers. Josh wants to point attention to underestimated/overlooked makers/pedals/fx but yet again since the boutique market has a big chunk dominated by JHS, their influence will cause a price/rarity increase.
@@gregmerritt9366 That is true though. I have put up buying this thing or another for years, and then Josh or Hainbach or whoever does a video on that specific thing and bam, they are expensive now.
@@notmyrealhandle Still can get a lot of them second hand here dirt cheap.
I love this channel, your videos are awesome and very informative! Thanks!
Perfect episode, forgiving the missed opportunity to name this epidose "Lamb of DOD"