Danelectro D-4 Fab Chorus

This is a simple pedal. Three knobs--Level, Speed, and Depth. No-brainer here.

Sounds jump out of it with a little twiddling. Nirvana's "Come As You Are"? Check. Pink Floyd's --well, anything, really--? Check. This is a great alternative to the Electro-Harmonix Small Clone. All analog and f@#k-uppable like the EH pedal--it's not some digital modeling nightmare that can't do what it's not programmed to do. Don't get me wrong, it's not the same thing as the Small Clone, but it would make a great cheap alternative or backup pedal. If the EH is a "10", this Dano is a "9".

I take care of my stuff, so I'm not worried. But even if you don't, or if a freak accident should bring about the pedal's demise, it's ffteen bucks. Buy three.

Danelectro has changed hands again--I don't really buy gear for warranty or support (not cheap stuff like this, anyway. It's anothr story for high-end stuff).

I actually bought this pedal--I didn't just try it out at Guitar Center for five minutes (I hate reviews like that). I can tinker with this one pedal for hours. Any piece of gear that makes me play more is worth its spot in the lineup.

Three knobs - Level, Depth, Speed. You can get a nice smooth chorus, perfect for thickening your sound, or you can turn all the buttons to 10 and get the "I've finally arrived at the planet Vulcan!" sound.

Sound quality is very good for a $15 stompbox. Play it clean to simulate a 12-string guitar, or crank the Depth and Speed up a bit to nail the Alex Lifeson-Rush sound.

Just two things to remember - this pedal is plastic, so don't whomp it with your army boots. And don't forget to unplug the input jack when you're done, otherwise it'll eat 9v batteries, unless you've bought stock in Duracell.

If you bust it, don't sweat it - it's only $15 at Guitar Center.

I've been playing a lot of Rush in recent years, and this pedal helps nail the sounds Alex gets (such as on "Hemispheres"). I don't play any Police, but it should nail the Andy Summers sound as well. I highly recommend it. For $15 how can you go wrong?

Very easy to get a good sound. Only three knobs (level, depth, speed). Manual is tiny, but more than complete.

This chorus is has remarkably high fidelity, higher than the Carl Martin delay I just bought (to be fair, the delay has a more demanding job). It seems to have more headroom than my other pedals (except the compressor, of course). Another knob or two would be nice (something that could adjust the time offset, say).

It's plastic, but unlike the Behringers, actually seems reliable. It's well designed and good looking with polished look. Everything is placed intelligently and fits together comfortably. You open it by turning a plastic screw in the bottom with a coin slot. After much turning, the thickish chrome metal bottom plate comes off. Inside it's very interesting. You see the foot push button is attached to a cantilever, and the other side of the cantilever pushes the miniswitch, which is on a small printed circuit board hanging upside down like a bat at the rear of the pedal. So liquid and dirt is not going to fall from the push button onto the circuit board or the miniswitch (though the pushbutton has gaps that will let dirt and liquid into the front area of the pedal, there's nothing there that can be harmed). Then, your 9v battery actually goes sideways through a hole in the cantilever (have to see it to believe it, I think). The pots feel solidly mounted with no wobble at all, I doubt any liquid or dirt is getting past them. They are also on the back of the pedal, so again liquid and dirt is unlikely to be any issue there. In my book, an all time classic enclosure design. Hope we start seeing wider variations of this design with more controls. Seems as reliable as anything else out there, but if you want backups, it's cheap. Might want to buy these to back up more expensive stuff.

I'm not certain how much I like chorus effects, but it's great to be able to get a cheap high quality one to try. It doesn't suck tone. I'm sure I'll be using this often, tastefully I hope. The bright blue led looks great, so I tend to leave it on.

Very easy, three efficient knobs, with mix knob you can get the proper balance between dry and wet sound. Deep and speed cover all the range from deep and slow chorus to fast and gentle.

I have a washburn HB-30 semi-hollow-body gibson 335 clone with a fender amp. no noise. I play jazz with warm sound and i use a gentle chorus. Sounds great!

I use it in most of my playing with an acoustic simulator.

Don't need.

Good sound for the amazing price. Do the job for my jazz playing!

Fairly easy to set up - 3 knobs(mix,rate,depth).

For the price this is an amazing deal. Sounds almost as good as any Boss or any analogue chorus for that matter. Deep chorus sounds and you can get a reasonable leslie effect. Some signal boost when engaged. I can't understand the reviewers that say they can't hear any difference when the chorus is engaged. Either they have a defective unit, have really crappy equipment or are tone-deaf.

Sees well built.

Never dealt with them.

I bought this as a backup to my stage chorus. I use Strats and a Godin SP90 through a 1980 Mesa MKII with THD Yellow Jackets. Sometimes I overdrive the amp with a Guyatone OD2 and also use a Teese Wah. I play blues, R&B, rock, whatever the gig calls for. Been playing for 35 years professionally and semi pro.This a backup pedal, but since they are so inexpensive, I would probably get another.

Very easy to modify the sound from simple background chorus to fast Atari tweets.

I'm using an Ibanez Artist with humbuckler pickups and the sound quality is excellent. At low modulation, it actually cleaned up the tone a bit.

The battery could last longer, and the big blue light doesn't fade when the battery dies. It lasts fairly long (3-4 hours straight) but a power plug could rememdy this

Very fast shipping? No need so far

I play classical, oldies rock, and etherial. It was definately worth the price.

A great product for the price. You plug it in and go. Great sound right out of the box. Three main controls, mix/speed/depth. All you need.

I'm using it with an Ovation acoustic/electric, and a Behringer amp, very cool. Haven't heard any noise with this set-up. Can be set for
barely there, to I'M HERE! Easy to get classic chorus sounds, almost
12 string. (Wish You Were Here)

Haven't had it long, but seems solid. I don't stomp on my effects pedals, so it should be OK. Don't know anything about gigging, can't say. I'll give it an 8 for now.

Have never dealt with them. Although their website barely exists.

Have been messing around for over 20 years. No particular style, just
try to play what I like.

This is a great pedal, at a great price. I would definately buy it again. Compared reviews of other products before deciding to get this
one. Best bang for the buck.

Almost forgot to mention its cool, vintage looks.

I love the mix nob, I've been using an EH Small Clone that just totally takes over the sound when you step on it...I just need some light chorusing in certain phrases without being obvious, and this does the trick. Just dial in the rate, depth and mix and you're good to go. You can get the extreme wacked out sounds that are fun but useless or get the nice warm, lush stuff that I bought this thing for.

I bought this on a lark, promising my guy at GC that I wouldn't return it if it sucked ass. Got home and plugged it in and almost creamed in my pants ! This thing is really an amazing pedal for 15 bucks...like I said, nice warm chorus. You can get super watery, clean and crisp, or completely fried acid trip stuff out of this thing. The guys in the reviews that can't tell a difference when they switch it on must be on some some seriously bad crack...I was gonna blow 200 bucks on the MXR Stereo Chorus, but not anymore. This bad girl does what I need for a tenth of the price tag.

well, it's plastic and cheap, but I try not to spill beer on my shit and I don't jump on or kick my pedals around....and it's 15 dollars fer chrissake...just buy another one...no big loss. I'll take the cheap plastic for saving 150 bucks...I might even go buy like 4 of 'em so I have a stock on hand...but seriously, take care of your equipment and it won't fail 99% of the time, right ?

uh, well, see above. I've never used customer support except the 30 day return policy of retailers. Again, take care of your stuff...if you need customer support, you probably need ritalin as well.

My girlfriend is a singer-songwriter. We do Sarah McLachlan by way of U2 and Coldplay kinda stuff. Spacey, dreamy and melodic. Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/francescaleemusic
I've been playing seriously for about 10 years. This is my rig: Epiphone Sheraton II - Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive (sson to be a TS-9 reissue)- Digitech Digidelay- Danelectro Fab Chorus- MXR Phase 100- Line 6 Verbzilla- Boss Tuner- Morley Alligator volume into a vox pathfinder, soonto be an AC15 reissue. Sold my fender 4X10 monster...
No one steals my stuff cuz I keep my eyes on itALL THE TIME.
I'm revamping my rig after selling everything I owned to move across country...

it would have been easy to use if it worked more than once

when you hit the pedal to switch to the effect, it doesn't sound any different than the regulat guitar tone

you get what you pay for I guess

This is the easiest pedal to use. Plug in, move the knobs, get a good sound.

5-string BB Series Yamaha Bass --> Fab Chorus --> GK 115/210 Rig

I just played with it at my church and our drummer was sick, so the worship leader just said to me fill up the sound, which is the greatest thing to hear in this group. Playing through a PA system, I didn't expect anything world-changing, but when I turned it on, it sounded wicked. Fatass tones from a stellar $15 pedal. I seriously sounded like Jaco with this, and I didn't even have a fretless! The maxed out setting is very, very, very unpractical, but hey, what can you say for $15? No good vibrato when speed is maxed either. No noise, fat sound, $15. Buy this.

Bass with chorus is great for solos and solo gigs, alright for some songs, but still I'll use this at every gig.

Never had to deal with them.

This thing can make a power trio sound fuller, can take your solos to another lever, or make your funk or latin sound rich and fat. Buy this pedal now!