DOD Looking Glass | Class-A FET Overdrive Pedal

Step Through the Looking Glass Into a New World of Overdrive.

Dial in the ideal refection of your sound with a set of powerful, yet easy-to-use controls. You can keep things simple and use the Looking Glass for tone shaping, glassy boost and light overdrive, or go further down the rabbit hole into the raw, psychedelic sounds of a vintage amp pushed to the brink of failure. Featuring a new hybrid of Class-A discrete FET design, the Looking Glass' asymmetrical clipping is so responsive that it can go from one end of the spectrum to the other with not only a flick of a switch, but with pick attack alone.

The Looking Glass Overdrive is collaboration between DOD and the boutique pedal company SHOE Pedals. Christopher Venter of SHOE Pedals is known for his unique circuits, colourful perspective on classic effects, and minimalist design aesthetic.

Built for maximum versatility, the Looking Glass' unique Input Filter feature allows the player to tame overly bright guitars and interacts with your guitar's pickups to help you cut through the mix without shredding the audience's ears. The versatile, intuitive pre-drive Bass Cut and post-drive Treble controls allow you to retain clarity in the mix or dial in any raunchy raw tone you desire. And, there's enough output and gain on tap to make even the Red Queen lose her head.

The Looking Glass is true bypass, which allows your guitar tone to remain pristine even when the it is off and the power supply input makes it pedalboard friendly.

A note from Christopher Venter:

"Years ago, when I was living in Brooklyn, I went on a quest to find the overdrive that worked for me. Most of these were slight variations on a few classic op-amp designs that just didn't do it for me. I tried a ridiculous number of pedals and found that I wasn't fully happy with any of them. So, having originally resolved only to make weird experimental fuzz pedals, I decided to break that rule and create a really nice overdrive that I actually wanted to play. After starting with a theory and refining it through extensive play-testing, I concocted the Savior Machine and named it after one of my favourite David Bowie songs.

When DOD approached me to collaborate on a new pedal, I was given free reign to make whatever I wanted (within reason). So, I first went back to my roots and designed a wild high gain fuzz. This sounded great, but I thought to myself that it would really be only useful for some people. I wanted to make something for ALL people. So, I decided to revisit my basic overdrive concept and re-design it with a completely different approach. The result is the Looking Glass. A super-responsive class-A FET design that, I hope will give a whole lot of players the satisfaction of feeling like their overdrive rewards their own unique playing style. It's great for blues, sure, but it's also great for hard rock, indie, experimental music, psychedelic music, shoegaze, alternative, punk, bass, etc. etc. etc. The Looking Glass is like a funhouse mirror that lets you twist and tweak your sound in every which way while still sounding like the ideal you."