Danelectro Review: French Toast Octave/Distortion

History:

Purchase: Traded a Fab Tone that I paid $30 bucks for at a pawn shop. Retail on the French Toast is about $49, but you can pick em up for $35 to $40.

What I Like About This Danelectro French Toast Octave/Distortion: Per Dano, this unit is a faithfull re-creation of the much loved and coveted Foxx Tone Machine. Has a great octave up effect. Best used with your neck pickup, tone rolled back and playing on the G, B, E strings 12th fret & higher. Think Purple Haze and you have the sound of this little gem. Distortion is more of a dirt type. Not a lot of finesse or control, but it sounds cool. A mini switch controls the octave up effect.

What I Do NOT Like About The Danelectro French Toast Octave/Distortion: No LED to tell if the unit is on.....but if you can't tell it's on, your deaf!!! Anyway, for the price, it is not a big issue.

Danelectro French Toast Octave/Distortion Quality Rating: These little units are nicely constructed. Unless you trash you gear it should last. A little care goes a long way. High density plastic case. Plastic input and output jacks may pose a problem...but os far, so good!!

Review Summary: The botom line is this....For the money you would be hard pressed to find a better sounding, better looking unit. Actually, the looks do not matter to me, ( the fact they design these things so coll is a bonus )it's the sound that matters and this unit has the sound in spades. Thank you Dano for the release of the mini-peal series. I wish I had these 30 years ago when I first started playing. From the auto-wah to the the leslie simulator, all of them are cool. Some cooler than others, but cool none the less!!!

Rating of this Danelectro product: 4

This Danelectro French Toast Octave/Distortion Guitar Effects Review Submitted By: BB

Review Date: 2001-07-15