Fifty years ago, the effects pedal market wasn’t like today’s. Instead of an internet worth of pedal builders, you had to head to your local guitar shop and choose from two or three brands they carried. DOD was almost always one of them.
Named after co-founder, David O. DiFrancesco, DOD launched its first pedals in the middle of the golden era. It wasn’t long before you started seeing models like the DOD 250 Overdrive Preamp and the DOD 201 Phasor in front of some of the biggest names in electric guitar. Why? Because DOD pedals have always been designed by musicians, for musicians and built tough to withstand gigging night after night. Maybe that’s why they earned the moniker “America’s Pedals.”
Since Cortek’s acquisition of the brand in 2022 (along with sister brand Digitech) DOD pedals have been relaunched and returned to their former glory, bringing back both classic tones, and new innovations.
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