I have one and I'll say this much, it's tremendous on any kind of dirty signal. If overdrive is your thing, you'll get 80s juicy, if you love fuzz, you'll get instant Cocteau Twins, and if you do hi-gain you'll go into Type O Negative territory. On it's own, it's really divisive. The detuning is pronounced. I adore mine.
I love that you do videos on pedals from DOD. I started getting into guitar again, and started putting together a new board. About halfway through, I went a little crazy, and a bit nostalgic, and started buying up DOD pedals that were good deals on eBay. Now I have a whole retro-DOD board of nothing but pedals from 1985 to 96. Some mint, some kinda trashed, but they all work and have their battery covers/knobs etc. 18 year old me would have been impressed.
the pedal chain bling made me laugh and smile. thanks for the cool videos - always nice to see something a bit off the beaten path that I haven’t come across before!
That thing is like a polar bear's toenails (thanks OutKast) I absolutely love the font / graphic that looks like it is melting or how they'd style a sign for a tavern at the local ski resort. The ice box- It's also the perfect color like subzero from mortal kombat. I'm sure CyberAttack would approve.
This and the Supro Distortion were the first pedals I ever bought in the 90s.. It still sounds great but the pedal must be wherever that battery door went.. Long gone!!
I’ve had a Boss Super Chorus on my board since 2006, but may pick one of these up if I have to replace it. I have a Small Clone too, but it’s set to warble.
*Schwartzenegger voice* "You need to chill out... with this pedal." Or honorable mention to: "what's cooler than being cool? The DOD Ice Box." All right all right all right all right... dad jokes out of the way, of all the 90s DOD brood (and yes, I love the Grunge), this seems to pass the test of time the best... with flying colors in fact. Great pedal from a highly underrated brand!
Surprised to see a video on DOD's Freeze Box Chorus... Well done! I have the same model which needs decoding. I've hung onto it all these years because it's a great chorus pedal. I think having the treble (freeze) control makes it stand apart from other chorus pedals. Cheers!
I always wondered about this pedal. had the DOD FX60 Chorus; it didn't sound like any other chorus. It wasn't all flowery like this, the Boss or the Ibanez. It was clear with a clean slice to it and did something cool to your midrange. Check that one out too.
It really does. I used one for a few years just because I liked what it did, not even really knowing *what* it was doing. Kinda makes me want to go back to it next time I need a compressor.
@@StompboxBreakdown It makes solid state amps like my Roland JC's come alive. I never play them without that Milk Box first in the chain. Secret always on weapon!
I had the Chinese version you showed for years and it was great. However I don’t recall I sounding as good is that one. Yours seemed like I have a little more than range and could be almost flanger-esque while mine was more CE-2ish with what sounds like more midrange. No telling with the trim pot tweakers that don’t know what they are doing. Same thing with the FX 90 analog delay. great and delay but trim pots all over the place
Its a great pedal. Like many DODs. I remember when I was like 13 in the mid-90s, my first pedal was a DOD Vibro Thang (another Lamb-era classic). I think there is still an ice box somewhere in a old crate of pedals upstairs, which belonged to my friend and other guitarist in the band (still my best friend to this day).
i can remember trying it in the store when it came out; most kids looking for Nirvana's "Come as you are" jumped on it. one of the better DOD pedals of that era.
I don't have any other choruses to compare, just an ice box, but i feel like mine doesn't do enough. Been wondering whether i should upgrade or if its just cuz i'm not using it in stereo. But if people like it then maybe i just don't like chorus idk
Just add another different chorus. Lol. The digitech Nautila is nice and has multi-voice and a tone control. EHX Stereo Electric Mistress is great with simultaneous flange and chorus. MXR Stereo Chorus has boost and cut eq that I think are super useful. A trick I like to do, when I want "more" and "lush" but I don't want to swamp out the guitar attack, is to use modulation delay, and set it to "doubling" range, just short of being a discreet echo. This gives the dry guitar signal some breathing room. You can do that with an Ibanez dml10 or similar, a EHX Deluxe Memory Man, a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail, a Walrus Audio D1 delay, a Keeley 30ms Doubling pedal, or a TC Flashback, though to get the correct percent of modulation you want, you might have to program your own patch using their Toneprint editor. The TC Flashback Alter Ego has some pretty good modulated delays as stock settings. Annother cool trick, if you feel your chorus is messing with your note attack too much, is to put a chorus in the feedback loop of a delay like the Strymon Timeline, or the Duncan Vapor Trail I mentioned before. Long story short, you can't have too many chorus pedals, especially if they all have mix/blend controls.
Hi, I need help deciding which DOD Chorus I buy: I'm debating between the FX60 or FX65. This is my first chorus pedal, and I'm set with DOD, but there's so many versions! Any advice is welcome Thanks!
So Jason Lamb designed this Ice Box Chorus pedal to have Special Filtering for each stage? The Special filters were designed by Jason Lamp to get a certain chorus tonality?
And a gen2 DOD Grunge was for 15 yr old me. "Loud Butt Face Grunge," dear friends Though, I think 15 yr old me would not have understood a Wampler Tumnus Deluxe. ♪ ♫
Your bass player doesnt look too hot with that toque on there in upstate New York. Maybe hes too C🕶L❗ Hee hee. Great video by the way.❗💯 Three thumbs up.👍👍👍
Thought you lived in Jersey. Where’d I get that from? 😙 I’m out in Suffolk, from Calif. People are just starting to understand, just how good DOD was/is…
Hey bud, I'm about to sell off a bunch of stuff...like 20 years of hoarding. I'm in Kingston...lmk if you want to get a leg up before I post on Reverb. PS: The DOD was too treble-y, the Boss was in the middle and the OG Small Clone was nice and dark...I regret selling mine back in the 90's.
People from NYC consider anything north of Westchester "Upstate". Some people say Upstate starts at Albany. Others consider Lake George and North to be Upstate. So I just say Relative Upstate because I'm somewhere between Westchester and Albany.
I have one and I'll say this much, it's tremendous on any kind of dirty signal. If overdrive is your thing, you'll get 80s juicy, if you love fuzz, you'll get instant Cocteau Twins, and if you do hi-gain you'll go into Type O Negative territory. On it's own, it's really divisive. The detuning is pronounced. I adore mine.
I can concur! I play psytrance metal guitar while doing laser effects. I have this gear + BOSS ME-80. Your statement is 100% legit!
I love that you do videos on pedals from DOD. I started getting into guitar again, and started putting together a new board. About halfway through, I went a little crazy, and a bit nostalgic, and started buying up DOD pedals that were good deals on eBay. Now I have a whole retro-DOD board of nothing but pedals from 1985 to 96. Some mint, some kinda trashed, but they all work and have their battery covers/knobs etc. 18 year old me would have been impressed.
You need to do a wall tour one of these days!
Loving this channel. It’s so relaxing and it covers uncommon pedals!
the pedal chain bling made me laugh and smile. thanks for the cool videos - always nice to see something a bit off the beaten path that I haven’t come across before!
That thing is like a polar bear's toenails (thanks OutKast)
I absolutely love the font / graphic that looks like it is melting or how they'd style a sign for a tavern at the local ski resort. The ice box-
It's also the perfect color like subzero from mortal kombat. I'm sure CyberAttack would approve.
👍👍👍 The (mix) level knob is, what make it so useful for overdriven or distorted guitars, as you can reduce the chorus to not be "overbearing".
Precisely
that's great, any chorus question i've had, you've already gone into better than i'd know to, thank you
You make the best chorus pedal review videos on UA-cam, keep up the great work!
Ooooo! It dropped 4.20 degrees in my studio just hearing this! Great demonstration and continued success & dropped picks!
Haha, thank you so much! So many dropped picks.
Nice, I love hearing these pedals I didn't know existed!
This and the Supro Distortion were the first pedals I ever bought in the 90s.. It still sounds great but the pedal must be wherever that battery door went.. Long gone!!
Great demo! I love my choruses.
I’ve had a Boss Super Chorus on my board since 2006, but may pick one of these up if I have to replace it.
I have a Small Clone too, but it’s set to warble.
*Schwartzenegger voice* "You need to chill out... with this pedal." Or honorable mention to: "what's cooler than being cool? The DOD Ice Box." All right all right all right all right... dad jokes out of the way, of all the 90s DOD brood (and yes, I love the Grunge), this seems to pass the test of time the best... with flying colors in fact. Great pedal from a highly underrated brand!
I considered doing the video just packed full of Arnold quotes. "Allow me to break the ice"
Surprised to see a video on DOD's Freeze Box Chorus... Well done! I have the same model which needs decoding. I've hung onto it all these years because it's a great chorus pedal. I think having the treble (freeze) control makes it stand apart from other chorus pedals. Cheers!
I always wondered about this pedal. had the DOD FX60 Chorus; it didn't sound like any other chorus. It wasn't all flowery like this, the Boss or the Ibanez. It was clear with a clean slice to it and did something cool to your midrange. Check that one out too.
That Milk Box compressor still rules!
It really does. I used one for a few years just because I liked what it did, not even really knowing *what* it was doing. Kinda makes me want to go back to it next time I need a compressor.
@@StompboxBreakdown It makes solid state amps like my Roland JC's come alive. I never play them without that Milk Box first in the chain. Secret always on weapon!
I'm also in relative upstate NY 🤣 and yeah it's been warm! I could use an ice box for sure haha love the channel!
Thank you so much!!
Ooh yeah, you're about two and a half hours NW of me. It's been brutal down here. We ever gonna see you on Forged In Fire?
@@StompboxBreakdown maybe some day haha I'd be content with doing it fulltime eventually 😂
The Boss CE 2 for me. You can set it so that it makes single notes with a touch of vibrato sound like it has a subtle wah going.
I had the Chinese version you showed for years and it was great. However I don’t recall I sounding as good is that one. Yours seemed like I have a little more than range and could be almost flanger-esque while mine was more CE-2ish with what sounds like more midrange. No telling with the trim pot tweakers that don’t know what they are doing. Same thing with the FX 90 analog delay. great and delay but trim pots all over the place
Its a great pedal. Like many DODs. I remember when I was like 13 in the mid-90s, my first pedal was a DOD Vibro Thang (another Lamb-era classic). I think there is still an ice box somewhere in a old crate of pedals upstairs, which belonged to my friend and other guitarist in the band (still my best friend to this day).
That ice on your neck is fly, dawg.
i can remember trying it in the store when it came out; most kids looking for Nirvana's "Come as you are" jumped on it. one of the better DOD pedals of that era.
I'm a huge fan of the Deep Freeze. The "bass" version of this. Sounds killer on guitar.
I want to buy two chorus to put in stereo split from a boss harmonist for a trichorus effect
I’m a chorus junkie. I love this one.
Me too! It's so good. Doesn't try to be anything crazy, doesn't try to be a copy... just a really tasty pedal.
That demo tune is a jam!
Thanks! That was a favorite, for sure
I don't have any other choruses to compare, just an ice box, but i feel like mine doesn't do enough. Been wondering whether i should upgrade or if its just cuz i'm not using it in stereo. But if people like it then maybe i just don't like chorus idk
Just add another different chorus. Lol.
The digitech Nautila is nice and has multi-voice and a tone control. EHX Stereo Electric Mistress is great with simultaneous flange and chorus. MXR Stereo Chorus has boost and cut eq that I think are super useful.
A trick I like to do, when I want "more" and "lush" but I don't want to swamp out the guitar attack, is to use modulation delay, and set it to "doubling" range, just short of being a discreet echo. This gives the dry guitar signal some breathing room. You can do that with an Ibanez dml10 or similar, a EHX Deluxe Memory Man, a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail, a Walrus Audio D1 delay, a Keeley 30ms Doubling pedal, or a TC Flashback, though to get the correct percent of modulation you want, you might have to program your own patch using their Toneprint editor. The TC Flashback Alter Ego has some pretty good modulated delays as stock settings.
Annother cool trick, if you feel your chorus is messing with your note attack too much, is to put a chorus in the feedback loop of a delay like the Strymon Timeline, or the Duncan Vapor Trail I mentioned before.
Long story short, you can't have too many chorus pedals, especially if they all have mix/blend controls.
@@xenod1066 i do love modulated delays
Hi, I need help deciding which DOD Chorus I buy: I'm debating between the FX60 or FX65. This is my first chorus pedal, and I'm set with DOD, but there's so many versions! Any advice is welcome Thanks!
Dude, that's quite the pedal. No mud.
So Jason Lamb designed this Ice Box Chorus pedal to have Special Filtering for each stage? The Special filters were designed by Jason Lamp to get a certain chorus tonality?
I like some of the DOD stuff from that era. I have the milk box and envelope filter which I really like. I have an original Grunge, but I'm not a fan.
Milk Box and Envelope Filter are definitely effects for the refined effects enthusiast.
And a gen2 DOD Grunge was for 15 yr old me.
"Loud Butt Face Grunge," dear friends
Though, I think 15 yr old me would not have understood a Wampler Tumnus Deluxe. ♪ ♫
Hell yes
Your bass player doesnt look too hot with that toque on there in upstate New York. Maybe hes too C🕶L❗ Hee hee. Great video by the way.❗💯 Three thumbs up.👍👍👍
Thought you lived in Jersey. Where’d I get that from? 😙
I’m out in Suffolk, from Calif.
People are just starting to understand, just how good DOD was/is…
I’m *from* NJ. Still make it down from time to time, too. Our states are tiny out here :)
Was the DOD punkifier also designed by Lamb?
I believe so
Hey bud, I'm about to sell off a bunch of stuff...like 20 years of hoarding. I'm in Kingston...lmk if you want to get a leg up before I post on Reverb. PS: The DOD was too treble-y, the Boss was in the middle and the OG Small Clone was nice and dark...I regret selling mine back in the 90's.
Hey Casey, yeah I’m curious if there’s anything I might be interested in. Can you shoot me an email (stompboxbreakdown@gmail.com) or on Instagram?
@@StompboxBreakdown Woof...I no longer do social media. I don't know of a way to privately exchange info on UA-cam. Do you?
I'll send you pics, so I don't waste your time.
@@StompboxBreakdown 🤦🏻♂️just saw that you gave me your addy, after I responded. I’ll shoot you some pics.
Funny they called it Ice Box, to me this is a quite 'warm' sounding chorus.
Or maybe it's the setup ...if even the Boss sounds warm somehow.
Saratoga Springs😊
Hey man that chorus pedal is pretty "cool" 😎
"relative upstate NY" 🤣
People from NYC consider anything north of Westchester "Upstate". Some people say Upstate starts at Albany. Others consider Lake George and North to be Upstate. So I just say Relative Upstate because I'm somewhere between Westchester and Albany.
It sounds a little weak.