DOD · FX90

DOD FX90 Analog Delay

The FX90 is the analog delay in DOD's FX series, the line DigiTech's own history calls the go-to effects for a lot of players through the '80s, '90s and beyond. DOD dates to 1974 in Salt Lake City, where founder David Oreste DiFrancesco gave the company his initials and the slogan America's Pedal. Analog delays of this era store the signal in bucket-brigade chips, the same approach Maxon used in its AD-series pedals, and the repeats come back warm with the highs rolled off. Maxon has written about redesigning its own delays when Panasonic stopped making the chips they relied on, so a dead delay chip in an old pedal can be hard to replace. That makes a sound clip the most useful thing a seller can give you. The FX90 isn't among the DOD models Wikipedia singles out as collectible, so this is a player's pedal. Test the footswitch, which Guitar World calls somewhat dodgy on older DODs, and buy the one that sounds right.