DOD Gunslinger MOSFET Distortion Pedal Reviews
The DOD Gunslinger MOSFET distortion pedal puts the tone of a genuine tube amplifier at your fingertips! No matter what style you play, you’ll appreciate how the Gunslinger’s tubelike harmonics deliver detailed and complex overdrive and distortion tones, with an incredible level of touch sensitivity. A 2-band EQ offers plenty of room to fine-tune your sound to taste, and when you roll back your guitar’s volume, the Gunslinger cleans up just like a traditional tube amplifier. What’s more, you can run this pedal using 9- or 12-volt power supplies, with the 12-volt mode giving you more headroom, less compression, and a tight, more open feel. Get the tubelike gain you want with the DOD Gunslinger MOSFET distortion pedal!
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This distortion just slays by cutting through. As most have said in other reviews, it's mid heavy, buts that's the point. Also the two band eq I found useful for tone shaping. It's aggressive and single notes do shine a bit more.
I really like it
I got it second hand. Sorry sweetwater. I play it thru a mesa mini rectifier and I think it sounds great. I like the mids it puts out but I like that you can also dial them out as well, you just got to get the bass and treble set at around 1 and 2 o'clock. The low end doesn't get muddy like some distortion I have used as well. It really shines on lead work. I'm gonna keep mine because it's the best distortion I have ever owned. I like it better than my ds-1, ds-2 and all the other distortion pedals that I use to own but sold. Yep, it has a permanent home between my fulltone old OCD and ehx soul food.
It's good, but it's raw
Really cool sounding,but not for everyone. It needs to be dialed in. There is a sweet spot or 2.
Not too bad, has good tones.
Got one when Digitech/DOD was blowing them out really cheap. It was either $ or $ I paid--for that little it was a great find and buy. Has plenty of gain and a good kicking sound, the extra mids people talk about are in a good way and not a detriment to the tone. My main issue is on a neck pickup, you can hear the sound kind of "close-up" on you, (maybe because of the FET, IDK) especially if you have Alnico 2 magnets in the neck pickup. At first there's clarity, then it gets muffled, I don't hear that on all pedals. Even other boutique FET type pedals like the Wampler Pinnacle are known for that. Whereas on the bridge pickup it does cut through and does it well. I wasn't as impressed as I thought it would be, even though cheap, (the TCE Dark Matter is a great alternative for the $ I paid for that the Dark Matter has a mid switch for the mid spike). At $ for this, knowing what it's like now I'd pass.
Gunslinger
Just got mine today and I recommend anyone interested in this pedal to try it out before buying it. It's got some good features and some bad ones. My impression is that it is a little too mid rangey for rhythm guitar but great for high note solos. I got it with intention of using it for rhythm guitar but it's much better for solo work. Power chords have a little bit of a big muff character to them but with plenty of attack which is something the big muff doesn't have. Wish it had a mid control so I could tame the mid range for rhythm guitar work. Very well built but careful when stomping on it or you'll move the control knobs. Plenty of volume and gain that doesn't get muddy. Great pinch harmonics and sustain but feeds back a little too easy although not out of control. All in all a great pedal to have for huge sounding high note solo work.
I Really Wanted To Like This.
I have a couple of the 90's DOD dirt boxes that I still rotate onto my pedalboard (the FX56 & FX66). I had the reissue 201 Phasor for a month or so (Pedal Genie). I didn't hold on to it (PG is a rental/try & before-you-buy thing). I already have the HardWire phaser (same parent company as DOD) & that sound is one of the 7 settings. Why I bother to mention the phasor is that it was my first acquaintance with the DOD redesign. The 201 sounds very musical & with extremely low noise. What made a bigger impression on me was that the form factor & build quality were impeccable.
On to the Gunslinger. I saw the ads & watched the demo videos. No one around here had one in stock. Sweetwater had one as a demo. The reduced price got my attention. I bought it. As with the 201, the design & build are top notch. For a high gain pedal, pretty low noise.
My rig: I don't play out. Just home studio & weekend jamming with friends. Both my guitars have ceramic humbuckers. I play through a Bugera V22 head, a Carl's Speaker Soak, & a 1x12 cab with a ceramic magnet speaker. I love the results, but like to throw in a fuzz or an OD for the same reasons anyone else does.
As I stated earlier, I really wanted to like this thing. I just couldn't get a good sound out of it. I'm sure it was designed with a certain type of amplifier in mind (the V22 is somewhere between a Blues Junior and an AC15). I read in an interview with one of Harman's designers that's a limited production run. Maybe they could target the player who uses the rig that this was designed to enhance. Who knows.
Anyway, I used a battery, & both a 9vt & an 18vt power supply. The resulting tone was really thin, brittle, & nasal; Mid-range heavy but in a totally different way than a Tube Screamer. With the 18vt I did get more headroom, but that's not really something I'm looking for. It was in no way touch sensitive.
I returned it after about a week & a half. Of course Sweetwater was totally cool about it.
