Danelectro-luv 2 hate or hate 2 luv?

bassbrad · #1 09-23-2010, 03:42 PM

Danelectro, what a brand is it love to hate or hate to love? Just gotta French Toast and it is wickedly cool sounding, kitschy looking in it's pale green box nifty retro looking box. I also have a Daddy O which is a really cool overdrive that has driven more than 1 gtr player to hafta get one. I also have a Psycho Flange that gets used from time to time as a recording plug in and a Milk Shake Chorus that sounds pretty good too.
Any other shameful users?

audiophile21 · #2 09-23-2010, 05:12 PM

sadly i still use my hash browns flanger, its useless except for when all the nobs are at max, then it makes an underwater like sound thats tippy as ****

Voss451 · #3 09-23-2010, 05:57 PM

I have a Cool Cat Transparent OD running into my Bass VT and a Cool Cat Chorus coming out.

for the price, you won't do any better. It also helps that the OD has a bass control to offset the low end problems most guitar based od's have.

One Bad Monkey · #4 09-23-2010, 06:02 PM

For the longest time, I thought the 18v Cool Cat Chorus was THE chorus for bass. It was great; didn't crowd the tone at all, and had a good character to it. Until I found my H20, it was the standard for what choruses should sound like.

Kromwarp · #5 09-23-2010, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by bassbrad

Danelectro, what a brand is it love to hate or hate to love? Just gotta French Toast and it is wickedly cool sounding, kitschy looking in it's pale green box nifty retro looking box. I also have a Daddy O which is a really cool overdrive that has driven more than 1 gtr player to hafta get one. I also have a Psycho Flange that gets used from time to time as a recording plug in and a Milk Shake Chorus that sounds pretty good too.
Any other shameful users?

How is the French Toast? I've debated getting one for a long time

mikerophone · #6 09-23-2010, 06:22 PM

i use a borrowed Dan-Echo that is pretty fun to play with. not super practical for me, but i'm also not a big effects guy. the tempo knob is useful for getting cool noises, but tough for me to lock in live as a normal delay. i like to use it as a sort of makeshift tape echo by holding my bass up to the speaker as the signal repeats.

bassteban · #7 09-23-2010, 06:25 PM

I love the older, metal-cased ones but don't trust the plastic stuff. I also had a Daddy-O; great for bass & gtr IMO, but one of the jacks got iffy on me & I dumped it.

electracoyote · #8 09-23-2010, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by bassbrad

Danelectro, what a brand is it love to hate or hate to love? Just gotta French Toast and it is wickedly cool sounding, kitschy looking in it's pale green box nifty retro looking box. I also have a Daddy O which is a really cool overdrive that has driven more than 1 gtr player to hafta get one. I also have a Psycho Flange that gets used from time to time as a recording plug in and a Milk Shake Chorus that sounds pretty good too.
Any other shameful users?

Ha ha! I have several of the pedals you mentioned, a Psycho Flange (truly wild!), the Daddy O (I had mine modded into a super-charged, awesome overdrive), and the Milk Shake.

In fact, I have the little blue plastic pedal board loaded up in my teaching studio for when my young guitar players ask, "How does he get that sound?" That whole "food group" line is pretty amazing.

I have used the Tuna Melt tremolo on my main bass pedal board at some very important upscale gigs and it came through like a champ when I needed to wax John Paul Jones on some Zep tunes. I've since switched to a Marshall unit, but the Dano never let me down.

For me, regardless of the brand, if it does the trick, it's always a case of unashamed "love to love."

vigor&kandor · #9 09-23-2010, 06:59 PM

the current cool cat series rocks. metal cases. true bypass. most around $30. GOOD DEALS

i have a cool cat tremelo that rocks. also have the cool cat drive and it is an OCD clone.

FYI the daddy-o is a marshall govner clone.

**kenstee** · #10 09-23-2010, 07:10 PM

Want to get really wild and crazy?.............the one and only......... Danelectro Sitar Swami!!

A combination of reverb+flanger+phaser+overdrive+ring modulator+distortion+EQ+a bit of octave, all of which are separately uncontrollable. Just two knobs on the pedal, EQ and Level (Volume.)

andvari7 · #11 09-23-2010, 07:22 PM

I will now attempt to explain the three Danelectro boxes I've owned:

Fab Tone: My first pedal. It is more of a guitar distortion pedal than a bass distortion. For a guitar-oriented box, it's actually pretty good.

Cool Cat (18v): The gold standard for choruses for a very long time, but the Roland Jazz Chorus, the REAL gold standard for chorus pedals, eats it for lunch.

Psycho Flange: I found it to have a unique sound, but not really one I find altogether useful.

slurpy · #12 09-23-2010, 07:33 PM

yeah i've got 2 of the fab tones. the fab flange which i really enjoy for a nice subtle flanger. and the fab echo which can really fatten my sound. theres not a lot of rep out there for danelectro but there cheap and they get the job done well.

bassbrad · #13 09-23-2010, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Kromwarp

How is the French Toast? I've debated getting one for a long time

I am diggin' it, freaky fuzz with the switchable octave up thing variable gain to tune a sweet spot and a tone control, for the 40 bucks they are new it's a smokin' bargain. It can cop the vibe & sounds of the Devi VFM but is way more versatile and usable to me. Perhaps a bit of low end loss but still enough for a driving bass tone w/o rumble. The switchable octave is a nice touch like 2 pedals in one. It sounds synthy cool driving into an envelope follower, phaser or chorus.

vigor&kandor · #14 09-23-2010, 08:15 PM

FYI the french toast is a foxx tone machine clone

bassbrad · #15 09-23-2010, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by bassteban

I love the older, metal-cased ones but don't trust the plastic stuff. I also had a Daddy-O; great for bass & gtr IMO, but one of the jacks got iffy on me & I dumped it.

I've had a Milk Shake for about 10 years and it has never let me down. But you do have to be ever mindful about the plastic jacks.

waveman · #16 09-23-2010, 08:49 PM

I have had a few of their pedals. Great for the money. I never tried them on bass. I was playing only guitar at the time. The Fab Chorus is great. I am surprised more bass players don't use the Fab OD. It has a lot of natural bass...I thought it was too bassy for guitar myself.

Bassdirty · #17 09-23-2010, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by bassbrad

Danelectro, what a brand is it love to hate or hate to love? Just gotta French Toast and it is wickedly cool sounding, kitschy looking in it's pale green box nifty retro looking box. I also have a Daddy O which is a really cool overdrive that has driven more than 1 gtr player to hafta get one. I also have a Psycho Flange that gets used from time to time as a recording plug in and a Milk Shake Chorus that sounds pretty good too.
Any other shameful users?

I had a tuner once..thnk it was purple ?...
worst/cheap piece o $H!t I've ever used...

broke after like a week.

never looked back.
never buy Danelectro again.

fitz420 · #18 09-23-2010, 09:13 PM

kind of liked some of their stuff, especially the 18v cool cat chorus but....Stephen Ridinger (owner and President of the Evets Corporation, which has owned the Danelectro name since the 1990s) donated at least $10,000 in support of Proposition 8, the California gay marriage ban.

not trying to bring up a political or otherwise sensitive debate but that goes against some of my own beliefs and probably wont use one of their products again.

electracoyote · #19 09-23-2010, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Bassdirty

I had a tuner once..thnk it was purple ?...
worst/cheap piece o $H!t I've ever used...

broke after like a week.

never looked back.
never buy Danelectro again.

Dano tuners are the worst, the rare exception. Don't judge their entire product line based on this one item.

vigor&kandor · #20 09-23-2010, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by fitz420

kind of liked some of their stuff, especially the 18v cool cat chorus but....Stephen Ridinger (owner and President of the Evets Corporation, which has owned the Danelectro name since the 1990s) donated at least $10,000 in support of Proposition 8, the California gay marriage ban.

not trying to bring up a political or otherwise sensitive debate but that goes against some of my own beliefs and probably wont use one of their products again.

yeah that is not cool. good thing i only buy used