relic@$ter
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Saw a danelectro daddy-O on Craigslist for $50...is that a good price and even more important a good pedal?!?
Daddy o?!? Danelctro OD pedal on CL $50...good prices?good pedal?
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castpolymer
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I had one and it was okay. Nothing special IMHO. $ 50.00 is bit of a reach on the part of the seller unless it is " $ 50.00 OBO."
Agitator
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$50 is about the top price for most Dano pedals.
bo
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Beware the crappy plastic jacks too.
harold h
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You can get a mint one on ebay for half that.
Meshgearfox
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$50 seems high. They can be found around here for $20 - $30. Nice pedal, but I think of it more as a distortion than overdrive (pretty close to a Marshall Guv'nor at some settings). I bought mine new in '99 and its been in regular use ever since with no problems. Works well on bass too.
chunkyluke
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Meshgearfox said:
In fact it is very faithful to the Guv'nor circuit. I have one a paid $40 for it. It is a great dirt pedal and for the price you should still get it I think. It ain't on my board ATM but it comes out to play often. Great for giving some Marshall drive to another amp. With 5 knobs it does take a little longer to dial in but it's a rewarding process.
valvestate
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i love Dano pedal... i would buy that.
WaylonFan76
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As much as I love Danos, I owned that one and sold it. Not a great sounding OD IMO.
BB
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Top dollar for sure. While many dig the Daddy O, you can find em much, much lower priced. The last two I saw were $25 and $35.
relic@$ter
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I'll probably pass on this...sounds like $50's too much ( although being on CL I'm sure I could talk him down..) but even still don't think its for me because sounds like more of a Marshall distortion than an overdrive...I've got a sparkle drive for $50 (now that's a good deal!) and I thought maybe the daddy o was kind of like that but guess not...
tele salivas
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its good for trashy fizzy sounding distorted drive sounds, as well as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden type stuff. I have also used it as a cleanish mid -treble boost rolling off the guitar volume. it works great with other pedals for experimentation and recording. LIke a Fuzz Face with a Daddy-O. that's a good combo
relic@$ter
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No iron maiden or Judas Priest going through my amp...not that it's bad I just don't know any! I play like Jerry Garcia type riffs...blues,jazz,country ,and bluegrass I guess you'd say...and need a more organic natural sounding tube overdrive...maybe not a good fit for me...is there another dano type pedal that's more in my vein?
Agitator
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Transparent Overdrive, especially the Version 1. CTO-1 is the model number, CTO-2 is Version 2 (which I think is still supposed to be good).
Great for those bluesy Jerry riffs (Truckin', etc.) if I do say so myself. For "clean Jerry" sounds (e.g. ballads) I like a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster (<$50 used).
The Daddy-O sounds like it might be good for really distorted Jerry tones, if it's got that Maiden/Priest thing going on, e.g. "Hell in a Bucket" or the end of "Deal". You might try it in that context and see if you like it (if you play any of that stuff). I use a Rat for similar sounds, Jerry used a Boss HM-2 in the 80s.
relic@$ter
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Oh nice another Jerry enthusiast!!! Great info! I play "deal" and "truckin"but maybe the boss is more my style... Hmm haven't heard of the Duncan..is it like clean boost?
relic@$ter
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He used a heavy metal distortion pedal?!? Doesn't seem very jerry-esque? What did he use before that? I know most of his gain sound came from the amp it self, I believe he used a deluxe reverb...
relic@$ter
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That's right...
Agitator
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The Duncan is a clean boost. It's by Seymour Duncan, the pickup companies. There are a ton of different clean boosts, nothing really special about that one except you can sometimes find it cheap. You can also just turn your volume up on your guitar but I don't like tweaking my volume onstage so much.
For the Boss HM pedal, that's the truth. That's the heavy, saturated tone he started using on a few songs in the 80s. I don't know how similar that is to the pedal you have, but it seems like a pretty classic 80s hard rock/heavy metal sound.
Before that I believe he was using an MXR Distortion+ as a distortion pedal (late 70s). Of course, before the mid-70s he was just playing into his amp with a wah-wah pedal. Fender Twin pre-amp into a Macintosh power amp. In the latter days, he had a Groove Tubes rack-mount preamp. There's a lot of info about Garcia's rig out on the net if you have time to sift through it (and lots of other players, of course). I play in a Garcia tribute band but I don't worry about buying the exact same gear that he had, I try to think more in terms of the different sounds he liked to use on different songs and how I can get in the ballpark (e.g. Cool Cat Vibe for songs he played through a Leslie speaker, etc.).
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http://dozin.com/jers/90srig/90srack.html
