Digitech Guitar Delay Effects Pedal (DOD-RUBBERNECK-U)

I picked this up on sale. Just a really great sounding analog delay with a few bonus features.I love the addition of a tone control for the echoes that most delays have these days, but the addition of a drive control on this unit is just a fantastic touch. You can add a saturated tape effect to your repeats and it just adds some great color.If you add the additional foot switch you can do your tap tempo, the “rubbernecking” feature and turn the additional modulation on or off. Lots of great sounds in this pedal. My only gripe is that it takes up the space of 2 regular size pedals. I’m sure it’ll stay on my board for a while.

Very impressed. I haven’t played a DOD pedal since the mid-90s and frankly didn’t know they were still around. I came across the Rubberneck after months of searching for a great analog delay pedal.I had originally had my eye on a JHS Panther Cub v1.5, and eventually was waiting on the v2 being released in 2018. The Rubberneck can get every sound of the Panther Cub and more (I A/Bed them). The tone and gain controls are a must have and the FX loop, regen, and rubberneck features are great extras. What confounds me is how this pedal is $100 cheaper with more features. I love JHS and own a couple of their pedals but the Rubberneck won me over for analog delay. Can’t recommend it enough!

Sounds very good and lots of flexibility. I haven't figured out how to make the Rubberneck feature useful in any musical context, but everything else is great. Forcing it into repeated oscillation is a lot of fun to do live.

I had some issues adding it to my pedal board because it draws a lot of power. Once I had it set up I was blown away by the sound quality and the extra functions and features. I play in a rockabilly band and need various delay times so the tap function made me more than happy!

The warmth of a bucket brigade style delay but with modern features like Tap Tempo. Nothing like this pedal anywhere else but DigiTech. Best addition to my pedalboard in a long time.

I plugged this in for a gig after owning it less than 2 months. Something was wrong - the delay taps, when regenerated, had a bassy distortion (not a nice sound). Open researching, it seems this is not at all uncommon. Unless the seller cares to help me out (past Amazon return window), this was no different than burning $260 in cash.

Unbelievable value for the money. I haven't even explored all of the many parameters that this pedal has to offer, but I am floored by the versatility that it has. Best pedal on my board, by a longshot.

Mine was clipping badly just out of warranty. Harman International (unfortunately now the owner of Digitech / DOD) told me to take it to their authorized service center for repair. I did that and paid the bench fee. Their own authorized service center can't get the schematics; so now I have a worthless pedal and am further out the bench fee. . . I called DOD back to get the schematics and they said they don't keep them because the cost to repair is more than replacement. . . Glad they sent me to waste more money after delivering a trashy broke-ass pedal.

More features than every other analog delay. Fantastic sound quality.

Excelente sonido y prestaciones

An analog, true-bypass delay with way more functions than you can find in most similar products, plus it sounds amazing!Functions in addition to the usual delay time, level/mix and feedback knobs:- effect loop: allows you to send the delayed sound through any other pedals you have. You just need a Y cable to split the "stereo" jack at the back of the pedal into "mono" send/return connections (1xTRS to 2xTS 1/4" jacks).- rubbernecking: if you keep the ON footswitch pressed, you can temporarily halve or double the delay time. You can decide how quickly this happens using the trimpot next to the footswitch.- temporary repeats setting: if you keep the TAP footswitch pressed, you can temporarily apply an alternate setting for the feedback, which you set with the trimpot next to the footswitch. This can be used to make the delay self-oscillate, for instance, but it's really up to you.- quarter, dotted eight and eight note settings via a 3-way mini switch.- modulation, with independent rate/width controls.- gain control, which allows you to distort the repeats. Turn all the way to the left if you want clean repeats, but note that if you place the Rubberneck after a loud pedal, your wet sound might be distorted even at the lowest setting.- tone control: applies a low-cut filter to each repeat, meaning the delayed sound gets darker and darker. Even with the tone control to the maximum, there is still a certain amount of treble cut. - no dry/tails on/tails off switch: 1) only the delayed sound at the Rubberneck output jack. Useful if you're using the pedal as a send effect; 2) have both direct and effected sound; when you turn the delay off, the repeats naturally die off; 3) again both direct and delayed sound, but the repeats are immediately cut off when the pedal is bypassed. With this setting, you have true bypass.- using an optional FS3X pedal switch, you can remotely control 1) rubbernecking (but you can NOT switch the pedal on/off remotely); 2) tap the delay time 3) turn on/off the modulation. You can also use a third party momentary switch with a TS jack to tap tempo. Just ensure you connect it to the Rubberneck BEFORE you power it up.On the plus side:The thing I love the most about the Rubberneck is that it leaves the level of the direct sound untouched. The level pot lets you dial in the volume of the repeats, while dry sound stays the same. This is great as I can't stand delays with a mix control. It provides the low-fi, mellow delay sound that you would expect from a BBD analog delay. The modulation works well in a range of settings, from mildly chorused repeats to completely crazy. The delay pot lets you dial in up to 1 sec of delay time, which is a lot! This can be increased to 1.5 using tap tempo or even more when rubbernecking, but please note that sound quality and noise deteriorate accordingly. This is a limit of the BBD technology, not of the product. The Rubberneck is still reasonably quiet for an analog delay, with no audible high-pitch artifacts when used at normal settings.Minor issues:- it can't operate on batteries, you need to have the usual 9V, negative center power supply (not included).- the pots feel definitely cheaper than I would expect from a £190 pedal.- the blinking LED next to the tap tempo footswitch is way too bright when seen from above.- when you release the repeats footswitch, the level of feedback goes back to the original setting quite abruptly. I would prefer something more gradual.- again, when placed in front of a loud effect, like a boost, the repeats can be distorted, even with the gain control at its minimum. Maybe an internal pot to lower the gain of the feedback loop would help?- when turning the level control, the volume of the repeats goes from zero to rather loud too quickly: again, I would prefer something more gradual.Final verdict: definitely worth the money, very usable in an array of styles and situations. Great sound, if you like old school analog delays.

Amazing sound, but theres major flaws in the construction and fuction of the pedal I recieved. First of all the tap tempo indicator light doesn't stay at a consistent rate, I though I was going crazy untill I matched the tap tempo with a metronome and watched the tap tempo change rate over time. The combined knobs are such a tight fit together that the inner knob spins when you try to adjust the outer control knob. It wouldn't work with my voodoo lab power supply with the 250ma switch on which should work since it only requires 150ma, yet it worked on a high current output at 400ma. Also the input for the power adapter is very loose and there's a warning on the box that says it causes cancer and reproduce harm which is very strange.

What's not to like about this? It's analogue, built like a tank and has some really useful features are not found on other pedals. The MXR Carbon copy is another great pedal of course, but to my ears this one is even better sonically, and with the all the added features on the pedal just make it perfect.Buy one, you won't regret it!