On 2001-06-26, Kenneth K. gave this Danelectro Guitar Effects a 4


Purchase: Mars Music Las Vegas Nv $60
Pros: The fab tone sounds pretty good when you first try it all that you seem to be able to get is really fuzzy heavy sounds but as you play with it you learn to get pretty good low gain stuff. The trick is not the run the bass and treble controls real high start with them both a zero (which isn't really zero) and turn the bass up but leave the treble down (turning the treble above 5 makes the fabtone sound like paper thing screechy fuzz. But keeping it down and it sounds good. The distortion control should be labeled sustain because that pretty much what it controls which I think is pretty cool. The volume is cool to turn up really high and leave the fab far left the treble about 1/4 and the base about 2/3 or a little less It gets a cool classic rock sound with the neck pickup. Its very quite unless the volume is way up (its not too bad with single coils as long as the volume is down) One on the coolest things about this pedal is when the fab (sustain) control is all the way up (hard right) when you hole a note after a few seconds the oscilating (sp?) effects comes in before the note feedsback It sounds really cool
Cons: The knobs are plastic turing the treble to high and it sounds like crap. I don't like how the knobs are so close together. It looks really strong on the outside but when I opened it up I was very dissapointed cold solder joints all around some one even left a piece of solder connected to 2 different connections!! (I broke it off tho) All the knobs/pot shafts are plastic the smooth footswitch everyone likes the internal switch part is plastic and I doubt could stand up to the abuse
Quality: But it did only cost 60 bux. Its diffentally worth 60 dollars the sounds is pretty good (not really like a tube amp tho) I'm really fond of the plastic parts but If it really worried me I would replace them. I don't play out or anything so its not that big a deal. I think its worth the price Just try it out It sounds pretty good.

Summary: I use an Ibanez RG470 with seymour duncan pickups for an amp I use a Crate GX 2-12 I also played it with a Peavey Transtube Special 2-12 (which I used to own) and it sounds good with both but I really need to get a tube amp