DOD Overdrive Preamp 250 Pedal - Yellow Finish

good pedal. Depends on your taste. I use a tube marshall amp and a vintage strat and I fiend for that tube sound. Solid state sound gives me nightmares. If you don't know what I mean, get a tube amp and you'll never go back. Do yourself the favor. K. The old gray dod250s from the 70's are sought after. They go upwards $400+ on eBay easily and climbing. It gave a tube sound and worked well with tube amps. On my tube Marshall this version of the 250 pedal sounds very transistory. Not bad in and of itself, but bad if you like tube sound. This pedal makes my (single coil pups) strat and tube amp sound like a solid state humbucker cheese fest. No matter how much tweaking. Even with an EQ pedal I don't normally use. It was cheese. And that's hard to do. I find the most kick butt strat sound comes from a YJM308 dod preamp overdrive. Better than the 'vintage' Ibanez tube screamer and dod 250. It is tubey and super crunchy and toney when used with a strat and a tube amp, simply cause it preserves the high frequencies better, which is my preference. Less of the muddy low end growl you think of when you think vintage dod 250. So why did I get this pedal if I love my dod 308? Because I wanted to have analogman.com mike do a 741 mod to this 250 to clone the vintage 250. Just to essentially have a vintage 250 for one quarter the price, and not 40 yrs old and possibly about to blow a resister or capacitor. Just as an effect option when my mood calls for its particular sound. Well, the point is, mike can't do the mojo 741 mod on this pedal cause everything is soldered to the board - alla cheap mass production Chinese style. He could 741 mod the 308 but I love it how it is. Soooo.....the previous yellow - not this new gold sparkly - version of this pedal can be 741 mod'd. As can the old yellow reissue version. Any of the post-gray (70's vintage) versions of these can. But not this one. so this transistory 250 will be sent packing. Anyways, that's my story. I figured it'll help people who know what I'm talking about; and intrigue those who don't; enough that it opens knowledge and experimental doors to them. When you find that holy grail yngwie strat sound: that combo of a vintage sounding preamp OD, with high a 'gain', low 'level' setting, and a tube amp, you'll send your obviates distortion pedals to the dung heap! So if you like warm, humbuckery, transistory type sound, you'll like this pedal. If not, get a 308.