80-90s DOD pedals,tone suckers?

[6Tones]

How is the bypass signal on the older DOD pedals? Do they have decent buffers?
Looking into a Icebox chorus ..

 

[vanguard]

I normally don't give two ***** about bypass. Most of it is OCD BS. I had an old DOD analog delay for a minute, however, and that pedal had the absolute worst bypass I've ever experienced. it had a great delay sound, MN3005 chip and all, but the base tone, and the bypassed tone were so dark and muffled it was like I had rolled my tone knob all the way off. Ridiculous pedal, as a result.

 

[mjl9787]

I normally don't give two ***** about bypass. Most of it is OCD BS. I had an old DOD analog delay for a minute, however, and that pedal had the absolute worst bypass I've ever experienced. it had a great delay sound, MN3005 chip and all, but the base tone, and the bypassed tone were so dark and muffled it was like I had rolled my tone knob all the way off. Ridiculous pedal, as a result.

I've had several of the fx series. The bypass isn't bad on those but I had a couple that were noisy even with the effect disengaged. If you get a quiet one, run it in a loop or after a good buffer and you should be fine.

 

[yucatown]

I've had several of the fx series. The bypass isn't bad on those but I had a couple that were noisy even with the effect disengaged. If you get a quiet one, run it in a loop or after a good buffer and you should be fine.

That's the key. I'm a fan of several of the FX series pedals. Cheap, yet effective and useable.

 

[HayekFan]

I've got an old FX60 chorus (early '80s) whose bypassed sound is really good -- quiet and uncolored. My even older grey Phasor 201 (late '70s?) has a slight volume loss and loss of high end. This is a limited sample but I'm going to guess that by the '80s DOD had gotten their buffers pretty much right.

 

[BootRoots]

I've yet to have anyone at a gig tell me my tone was too colored by a disengaged pedal. The crapy switches were the weak spot on these but I still love my fx80b comp and have it on my board.

 

[Psychotronic]

I have an old DOD Bi-FET Preamp in my loop as a solo boost. Sounds awesome, and the bypass is fine. The switch is the weak link, though, and I think will go sooner rather than later.

 

[k tone]

The crapy switches were the weak spot on these

They are very cheap and easy to change though. I bought 10 of these momentary switches off of ebay for $2 w/ free shipping. The new ones had a nice audible "click" to them as well.

 

[J.T.]

 

[abnerfm]

I've yet to have anyone at a gig tell me my tone was too colored by a disengaged pedal

That would only be possible if the audience could compare your signal chain with then without the pedal

 

[ufo~]

I do recall my FX65 Stereo Chorus was a bit of a tone sucker when off. But mostly when the battery started to get weak. Which was often, so, yeah. I think most of those mid-late 80s DOD pedals were that way. I had an Octoplus for a while and it did not agree with my tone either.