DOD FX76 punkifier review

Really I think most distortion/OD/fuzz pedals can fall into two categories: the ones that sound good for chords and ones that just sound like a bunch of noise with chords, some are both. The DOD punkifier falls into both categories for a different reason; its an overdrive and a fuzz in parallel. The company gave the controls weird names, from left to right the controls are, PUNK( blendbetween fuzz and overdrive) SLAM(gain for the overdrive section) SPIKES(overall tone, can get really really shrill if you want) and MENACE (overall volume).

First back off the SPIKES(tone) knob, for some reason DOD always allows you to add way too much high range, which is cool if you need it. The overdrive section sounds really good to me, its like a lowfi sound, and then if you have the gain past 3oclock it gets pretty nasty sounding. Sounds to me like a mild distortion sound but playedback from a tape portastudio. The fuzz sound is crazy, doesn't handle chords well, doesnt even handle single notes too well. It somehow has a bad tracking octave type sound going on, but theres no octaving. I imagine the fuzz will be really useful for some overdubs, the overdrive section Im already incorporating to my main guitar sound.

I kinda dont like to use them blended together, which is a negative because you can never quite do away with either effect. The blend knob goes from 2% to 98%. You can always hear that fuzz sound if you really listen for it. Other than that, two sweet pedals in one!