Mosky Audio D250X Mini Overdrive Preamp Pedal

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Others weren’t kidding about the limited range of the gain knob! It’s essential a 3-way switch where 1-9 is a low gain volume boost, 9-9.5 is dirty, and 9.5-10 is crunchy as hell.
The volume difference between D and M modes is just enough so that you can’t switch between the two and leave the rest of your set up unchanged, which is kind of a pain. But they do give distinct enough tones that it’s a nice feature to have the option.
But all that being said, still worth the money imo to experiment with a 250 style pedal before taking the plunge on the real thing.
I like not having a tone knob, keeps it nice and straight forward. I guess I don’t mind the limited gain knob range for the same reason.
I’m playing my Harley Benton te-62 into a Monoprice 15 watt tube amp. Towards the end of the video I hit the d250x with the caline Santa Clara for a little more oomph.

Sounds good

Sounds really good.
waiting on my MXR Distortion plus Randy Rhoads limited pedal and needed something to tide me over. This pedals delivers.

I’ve never used either of the DOD and MXR originals this pedals is based on but I have used boutique knockoffs that cost five times what this one does. I’ll take this one any day for the cheap price, good sounds and choice of both the 250 and Distortion+ circuits.

I mostly use the DOD side of the toggle switch, mostly combining it with some level of amp distortion to get anything from light backup to grinding, heavy distortion. Level is typically dimed and gain is anywhere from zero to 3 o’clock. I also frequently stack this setting with other drives: BD-2, HM-2 or various fuzzes.

The M setting I find a little less useful, but it can crank out a fuzzy kind of distortion (somewhat quieter than the D setting.)

The only potential drawback is the jacks (ant least in my dsmole—output doesn’t seem to grab onto the cable hardware, so it can pop out if bumped.

For a cheap mini pedal, this thing sounds outstanding. First you have the tight overdrive setting which has good bite and crunch and then the distortion setting which is a more saturated creamy distortion. The only reason I gave it four stars is that the gain pot does nothing until the last fourth, so it's an all or nothing pedal. I wasn't happy with the Mosky Plexi pedal but they have redeemed themselves with this one !

This is the ultimate sleeper cheap pedal. and MXR and DOD distortion in one pedal w really faithful circuitry.

This is on my board next to JHS, JRAD, STRYMON, and a bunch of other boutique-y stuff!