any good danelectro pedals?

Hey everyone!

I've been reading up on pedals, since I slowly want to start getting a few here and there. I know a lot of the danelectro pedals don't seem to get good reviews but I was wondering if any of you had good luck with some of them?

Are any of them worth checking into?

Thanks,

-Aaron

Welcome to TDPRI

They have a couple nice slap back echo and distortion pedals.
It kind of depends on which style of music you are playing and in what
venue. Are you gigging or just jamming with friends?

Welcome to TDPRI

They have a couple nice slap back echo and distortion pedals.
It kind of depends on which style of music you are playing and in what
venue. Are you gigging or just jamming with friends?

I'm kind of into indie (I hate that word) and experimental music. I also like blues inspired punk, like the White Stripes, The Stooges, and MC5 (Yay Detroit music!).

I'm just jamming with friends, I don't even have a decent amp yet, I was just curious.

I think the cool cat pedals are pretty decent overall and down right great for the price. I liked the Tremolo for the brief time I owned it.

Tuna Melt.

The mini pedals in general are great. Their low prices don't reflect their high quality.

I have about six and the only 'dud' is the Bacon n Eggs mini amp - it's its own thing.

I have a EQ pedal I believe it is called Fish & Chips, it is every bit as good as a boss eq pedal

Here are the pedals I've tried and had a lot of good results with:
Transparent Overdrive Version 1
Fish and Chips EQ
Tuna Melt Tremolo
Fab Tone Fuzz/Distortion
PB&J Delay

I really enjoyed all of them quite a bit. The TOD, and Tuna Melt have been on my board for over a year, and I am getting another PB&J quite soon.

Chicken Salad / Tuna Melt for me!

+1 on the tuna melt.

Tuna melt and Fish n Chips...both are really great. The Fish N chips is my not so secret weapon. Makes so-so amps wake the hell up.

Tuna Melt
FAB Echo is a great slapback.

Any of the Cool Cat Pedals I have tried have been nice. I own a Transparent Overdrive, and use it a lot. I have a Fab Echo as well, and it's a greta slapback pedal, especially for the money.

MY Dano faves:

The Dano CC CTO-1 ( Cool Cat Transparent Overdrive, V.1), the CC CO-1 (Drive V.1) if you can find them are great all purpose OD's with different tonalities.

The "food" series French Toast Octave/Fuzz is a powerful little sucker that is basically a knock-off of the Foxx Tone Machine in a very cheap box...there are a lot of pedals from this series that folks love for their tone and value

The Fab Distortion sounds insanely good for a $15 OD/Distortion

For someone like me, who is just starting to experiment with pedals, they are good because they are so cheap. No need to blow a ton of money while figuring out what you like. I just wish they made a reverb pedal.

For someone like me, who is just starting to experiment with pedals, they are good because they are so cheap. No need to blow a ton of money while figuring out what you like. I just wish they made a reverb pedal.

I have the Corned Beef. Most say it's not a reverb pedal, but I use it with my Pathfinder 15 and my Killer Ant (when I had one). It adds a little bit of depth. It does hate crappy 9V batteries though, squeals like a pig when you have a crappy 9v in there.

I'm picking up a Cool Cat trem pedal tonight after my guitar lesson.

Danelectro has done a great job creating effects to replicate sounds from the 50s and 60s,IMO. I would not leave the house without my Dan Echo and I love my Reel Echo dearly. The Cool Cat chorus is good too, although the 18V power is a little of a pain. Not so crazy about the Daddy O overdrive, I sold it. I play Honky Tonk music and Rockabilly, so their products are perfect for me.

I love all their pedals. The Tuna Melt is hands down the best tremolo on the market. The Dan Echo is a great delay pedal. Let's not forget the octave fuzz of the French Toast and Pepperoni Phaser. I've owned all of them at one time or another and for the price you cannot go wrong. Don't listen to some of these reviews, chalk it up to user error. These are solid pedals. I have an 11 shoe and have yet to crush these "plastic cheap" pedals. Most of them I've has at least 10m years.

The Dan- Echo replaced other delay pedals that cost much, much more on my board.

The Dan- Echo replaced other delay pedals that cost much, much more on my board.

Our blues/R&B band's harmonica player uses this- sits on top of a tweed Deluxe clone- badass!

The Dan- Echo replaced other delay pedals that cost much, much more on my board.

The last Slapback Echo pedal you'll ever need. I've actually been thinking of buying a couple of spare ones for when mine bites the dust.

I have Hashbrowns (flanger). I don't use it all the time but its not a bad pedal at all...

more thumbs up for Tuna Melt, Transparent OD version1, cool cat tremolo.

Don't overlook the Transparent OD version 2 either. I like mine, although I haven't been able to compare it with v1. But I no longer use my Crowther Hotcake, so that tells you something. At low gain settings it just adds a touch of amp-like "hair" to the tone, so long as you dial the tone controls in to match the bypassed tone.

The Corned Beef "reverb" is really a digital delay set to sound similar to reverb. I like it for what it is and use it in combination with an anlogue delay (both at subtle settings) to add a sense of space to my non-reverb amps.

I also own and like the PJ&B delay. It has its own charm, although it doesn't have the warmth and body of a top end analogue delay.

Actually I have a V2 on the way. The V1 was that good I bought a Timmy - and they're both great although not identical to my ear. Will do a Timmy/V1/V2 comparison sometime.

The V1 displaced MANY higher priced contenders, and still is one of my favourite ODs regardless of price. Let's see how V2 stacks up.

Well, since you have the Timmy you won't be needing your v1 any more :wink:

I'll be interested to read your thoughts on that comparison.

The Timmy sounds geat in the video clips I've seen, although I always take those with a pinch of salt. And the layout is much more sensible than those pesky stacked knobs on the Dano, but for NZ$69 new I can't complain.

Danelectro BLT slap echo rules! It makes any guitar sound cheap-no matter what it cost! This is a good thing, IMHO.

I like all of my Cool Cat pedals. Got the distortion, TOD v1, Drive v1, Chorus and vibe.

I'm curious about Reel Echo...

I have not tried a Cool Cat (the new line) pedal that I have been dissappointed in. I have the V1 Drive, V1 TOD, and V1 Fuzz as well as the Tremolo and the Vibe (and the Dano pedalboard to house them).

I like the V1 Drive so much (they say it is a OCD V2 clone) that I have a V2 Drive in the mail.

The Fab 600ms delay is pretty cool as well for $20 or so.

More votes for the Tuna Melt, Fish and Chips, and PB&J. I actually sold a DanEcho and kept the PB&J.

The Fab Overdrive and Distortion are good little pedals, and I've heard good things about the Cool Cat line (the newer one). If you're just starting out and learning about pedals, Danos are a good way to start. And a lot of people keep using them even after they try more expensive stuff.

So is the Dan Echo is worth trying even if I have the Fab Echo then?

My favorite Dano pedel (and only one currently on my board) is the Daddy O Overdrive pedal. I use it to add a hint of breakup to my cleans and it works wonders without coloring my tone much. It also stacks VERY well with other pedals.

-DJ

TUNA MELT!!!

So is the Dan Echo is worth trying even if I have the Fab Echo then?

I think it's definitely a step up from the Fab. Depends on what your needs are.

The Daddy O is my main pedal too,so much I have bought a backup..works really well with 6L6's,lots of EQ options allow it to do a good stab at everything from "normal" overdrive to fuzz to (oddly) a good scooped-mid metal impression....
Its one of these pedals which seems to "loop" back on itself,esp with a bit of vibrato, giving good controlled feedback without shrieking
Knobs are too closely grouped and seem flimsy....still there on mine though and its freestanding.
I like the switch...
Heavy and sits where its put for the most part..
As Ridge says stacks well..really well..I "juice" it with a Bad Monkey or Maxon OD9...
Dan Echo is good too,again versatile,lots of options..don't use it live but would if needed.
Had a cool cat V1 fuzz,thought it limited and hard sounding,though perhaps thats what its intended for..gave it away...
Spring King...does a great emulation of those really cheap and tinny reverbs in poor quality '70's transistor amps,great for that cheap and tinny poor quality early '70's transistor amp reverb sounds....my first amp was a 30watt Marlboro if that means anything anymore:neutral:

I own the BLT, TUNA MELT, DAN-ECHO, and the original COOL CAT chorus.
They all sound as good as other pedals costing 5 times as much.

+1 on the original Cool Cat Chorus -- that's the version with the heavy, metal housing -- for sure. Great sounding, and a terrific value, to boot.

I really adore my dano pedals, most of all - French Toast octave dist/fuzz. After my Morley Classic Wah it makes some cool textured chord noises from which single notes beautifully resonate. Added delay and reverb after and floated in it for hours.
Cool Cat CTO-1 acts perfectly as a booster, though I noticed it cuts some highs at low gain settings, but I can't say that's bad. Guess it does kinda slight compression also.
Cool Cat Chorus is also great and far more versatile than some more expensive stuff from EHX , but I don't like chorus in general so it stands on my shelf for 6 months already. But I feel like I'll not sell it however. One can get a cool vibrato from CC Chorus tweaking EQ and wet level.
Ordered a Cool Cat Tremolo - hope I'll get it in two weeks - it seems to be as astonishing as the over dano stuff I own.
And my next pedal will be Cool Cat Fuzz v2)
Of course, I'm a dano geek a little, but who's not?)) I own different over pedals, and for their price dano Cats seem to be the coolest ones on the market today!