BJFE / BearFoot fx Guitar Effects Community

It's still available, folks. Any and all are welcome to PM me with interest.

It is great to see how many people here have had this pedal.

Teahead wrote:I've never tried a SYOD of any type, so can't compare there, but I seem to recall Doc's Dynamic Orange was a similar/identical circuit too? Voiced to compliment the DRD when stacked if I remember right?

Yes, that is correct. The history is:

1. DocRock asked BJ to create the "Dynamic Amber Overdrive" (DAOD) as his "rhythm pedal". This was voiced to match his DRD running into a Hiwatt DR103 or a Marshall. Basically, DocRock was trying to create a "three channel amp": his "channel 1" was the clean sound of the plexi, the DAOD became "channel 2", his DRD was "channel 3" and finally his DAOD->DRD stack was the additional "channel 4" for, in his words, "absolute stadium anarchy".
2. When Teahead asked for his pedal BJ took the DAOD circuit and put it into a different enclosure, creating the Little Purple Overdrive (LPOD). So yes, DAOD = LPOD = DAOD.
3. The Sparking Yellow Overdrive (SYOD) was then created by tweaking the DAOD/LPOD circuits.
4. The Sparkling Orange Overdrive (SOOD) was then created by tweaking the SYOD even further, mainly by adjusting the EQ profile (a few people thought that the first SYOD was way too bright).
5. The SYOD V.2 was creating by merging the work from the SYOD, SOOD and a few other things.

That is the story so far

Thanks, mrpicard!!! Saved me some typing.

I used to own this pedal and A/B'd it against my SYOD and there is no noticable difference whatsoever in tone. I sold the purple one because I like yellow paint job better.

Okay. This has been on here long enough.....

PM sent.

this thing has been around. I owned it briefly as well. One of the absolute best overdrives I've ever owned.

mrpicard wrote:

Teahead wrote:I've never tried a SYOD of any type, so can't compare there, but I seem to recall Doc's Dynamic Orange was a similar/identical circuit too? Voiced to compliment the DRD when stacked if I remember right?

Yes, that is correct. The history is:

1. DocRock asked BJ to create the "Dynamic Amber Overdrive" (DAOD) as his "rhythm pedal". This was voiced to match his DRD running into a Hiwatt DR103 or a Marshall. Basically, DocRock was trying to create a "three channel amp": his "channel 1" was the clean sound of the plexi, the DAOD became "channel 2", his DRD was "channel 3" and finally his DAOD->DRD stack was the additional "channel 4" for, in his words, "absolute stadium anarchy".
2. When Teahead asked for his pedal BJ took the DAOD circuit and put it into a different enclosure, creating the Little Purple Overdrive (LPOD). So yes, DAOD = LPOD = DAOD.
3. The Sparking Yellow Overdrive (SYOD) was then created by tweaking the DAOD/LPOD circuits.
4. The Sparkling Orange Overdrive (SOOD) was then created by tweaking the SYOD even further, mainly by adjusting the EQ profile (a few people thought that the first SYOD was way too bright).
5. The SYOD V.2 was creating by merging the work from the SYOD, SOOD and a few other things.

That is the story so far

Oh a missing piece is the MysToury pedal version - after BJ made Docs he made me one for the MysToury box tours in 06/07 and I circulated it to a number of people for feedback ( this is what I used to do before I started this forum ) - thats why it has the odd knob arrangement so it wouldnt 'look like a BJF' pedal ~ more of a mystery ..... after that MysToury tour was over he transferred the guts into one of the boxes I had painted, yellow glittertop was closest to the Amber (which was honey bee paint but with a different color lettering to differentiate it from an HB) and it became the Sparkling Yellow OD as we had just done the Sparkling Red Fuzz and the Sparkling Blue EQ for ToneFest .....
and the MysToury box itself was reused with a different circuit for circulation, a fuzz this time - and that became the birth of the Snow White/Arctic White fuzz ......hmmmm maybe time for another MysToury tour

Ah, that is good, I did not know that the Mystoury Fuzz became the SWF. Actually, I have a section called "ANCESTRY" in the BJFE Pedal Descriptions thread that tries to keep track but it is an ongoing developing story...

From the numerous owners --- has anyone tried stacking it? With what and what were the results?