DOD brings back Bad Monkey as three-circuit Badder Monkey overdrive

July 6, 2026 · 2 sources

DOD has released the Badder Monkey, an expanded version of its long-discontinued Bad Monkey overdrive, the company's original creators having resurrected the pedal in a significantly expanded form¹. Gearnews reported the pedal on December 9, 2025, describing it as an updated version of the Bad Monkey²; Delicious Audio's coverage is dated July 6, 2026¹.

The Badder Monkey keeps the original Bad Monkey circuit and adds two more overdrive circuits, for three in total: Behaved, Bad and Badder². Gearnews describes Behaved as a new low-gain circuit for subtle break-up, Bad as the original classic Bad Monkey circuit, and Badder as a new modern, aggressive high-gain overdrive². Delicious Audio calls the pedal a comprehensive reimagining rather than a simple reissue that retains the core green-voiced circuit of its predecessor¹.

A 360-degree Barrel control blends any two of the three circuits in parallel, and a three-way toggle switch can invert the phase of the original circuit or engage Troop mode, which runs all three circuits at once¹². Gearnews describes the Barrel control as patent-pending². The controls carry monkey-themed names: Bananas is a triple-gang gain control for unified or separate adjustment of the drive circuits, Curiosity is the output level, and the Mood EQ pairs Grunt (low) and Screech (mid-high) cut and boost on one pot with dual concentric controls². Delicious Audio lists the knobs as Bananas, Curiosity and Mood¹. A tri-color LED indicates the blending mode².

The pedal is true bypass and runs from a +9V DC tip-negative barrel jack or a 9-volt battery². A reversible StagePlate on the base offers a rubber skid pad on one side and a hook-and-loop surface on the other for pedalboard mounting¹².

Gearnews gives the price as $145 and reports the pedal available now at Thomann². Delicious Audio's article gives no price or availability details¹. Neither source states a shipping date beyond Gearnews's availability report.

Delicious Audio attributes the revival to a surge of interest spurred by a viral demonstration video¹.