The FOD does a neat job in combining two different but complementary overdrive flavours and the controls you need to blend them.
Compact MXR format.
Good price.
FOD offers rich overdrive tones.
Four-screw battery access.
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MXR’s Dookie Drive pedal was based on the rig of modified Marshalls that Billie Joe Armstrong used on Green Day’s third album.
It had the basic aim of putting the sound of two amp stacks in a single housing with options for blending the two – and that’s exactly what the new M251 FOD Drive is designed to do, albeit with no artist affiliation and the option of a toggle-switched midrange boost, plus a scoop and a flat setting.
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