Description
DOD’s Overdrive Preamp 250 has been a staple of grinding analog tone for over 40 years, and the 2013 reissue keeps that untamed character intact while fixing the parts that annoyed players for decades. Chief among them: true bypass, so your dry signal stays clean and uncolored the moment you click this pedal off — a real departure from the original circuit, which bled tone into your line even when bypassed.
Two simple controls give you a wide tonal range. Gain shapes the amount of distortion on tap, from a light edge-of-breakup rasp to full-blown saturated grind. Level sets the output — run it low for a set-and-forget always-on texture, or push it hard to punch solos above a loud band mix. A house trick worth trying: drop the Gain fully and crank the Level for a clean, cutting boost rather than distortion.
The chassis has been reworked too — now a lighter aluminum shell finished in metallic yellow flake with a matte black underside, plus a crisp blue LED for stage visibility. Power comes via standard 9V DC supply (in addition to a 9V battery option), so it drops right into a pedalboard power rig without a converter cable.
- Legendary analog overdrive circuit
- True bypass switching
- 9V DC power jack (PS0913 supply) or 9V battery
- Blue status LED
- Lightweight all-metal aluminum chassis
- 1/4″ instrument in/out, 2.2M Ohm input impedance
- 4.68″ x 2.63″ x 2.25″, ~0.62 lbs
- Includes two free 6″ patch cables
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