Danelectro D-4 Fab Echo

Easy to use just 2 knobs and you can dial-in a wide variety of different delay/reverb tones with it. The battery compartment is underneath which is its' base plate, which may took sometime to replace when the battery runs out. The bright Blue LED blinds me most of the time, leaving me colorblind and could not see the red markers on the knobs, It should have been white markers though.

I will keep this straight and simple. The effect is an analog reverb+delay. Reverb of a room and a delay estimated not greater than 300ms of slap delay. I love this pedal cause I'm a blues player who loves analogue sonding delay and reverb...who needs too much delay anyway? This pedal is quiet and does not suck tone, leaves my original guitar tone transparent.

Its made of plastic I guess it is still reliable unless you accedentaly left your pedal board somewhere else where vehicles could run them down.

I hate that sales man who says dano are cheap crap sounding pedal. Why the heck is he still working on that shop anyway?!

I love retro blues and rock&roll guitar where you preserve the true meaning of guitar playing ang this pedal is a match. I Have been playing for alost 20 yrs now and I had owned a zoom digital delay(very versatile but too hard to tweak)and a daphon delay(warm enough but too metallic), this dano is so simple and you can easily find the tone you been looking for.

FINAL WORDS: This is more of a reverb pedal!

The pedal is not rocket science to use. Two knobs; mix and repeat. Spring button to engage and disengage echo. Input and output jack. AC adapter outlet or run it on 9V battery like other pedals.

I find that the two adjustment knobs do little to vary the sound until both knobs are turned all the way clockwise. It's either on or off, and one can barely hear any echo when the knobs are anywhere other than max'ed out. IMO the sounds from the pedal are not echo sounding although the sound is pretty cool. This pedal adds no noise to the chain nor does it suck away tone.

Too soon to tell, but I think the pedal will hold up just fine with use.

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I have been playing for a few years now. Mainly rock and blues music although I was seeking a different sort of echo sound. While I found that the pedal hardly adds echo to the sound unless the knobs are turned to max. it does produce a pretty cool surf echo type sound for such an inexpensive pedal. I would have been really disappointed and would have felt taken had I paid more than $20 for it. The pedal seems built just fine. It's an okay pedal that I'll use on occasion and keep in my chain of pedals for the time being until I find a better echo pedal. Just don't expect to get gobs of echo and range of adjustment with it If it were lost or stolen, I would not replace it nor hunt the thief.

I just wanted some basic delay and echo effects, I'm not really big into that sort of stuff so I figured this cheap little pedal might be a good fit.

You can get some reverby effects or rockabilly/surf effects out of this unit pretty easily. It's a very simple pedal to use, two knobs, the number of repeats, and a "mix" knob to adjust the intensity of the effect (or how much wet output to dry output if you like).

You can get some Jack-Johnsoney or Hendrixy sounds out of this thing. It's not a U2 "The Edge" kind of pedal. You can get some ska/reggae sounds out of it too. I've also used it on some Doors numbers.

The effect is okay, but I much prefer the spring reverb in my amp to what this pedal does. I use it for more ambient numbers.

This pedal buzzes terribly. Not sure if that's my power supply as I haven't used it with a battery yet. The same power supply on it's brother, the D-1 distortion pedal is totally quiet however.

It's made of plastic but seems sturdy enough. Cheap enough to be able to afford a backup (or three).

I want to like this pedal a lot more. The buzzing however (especially when the effect is off) is quite annoying.

This pedal should be a good fit for people who want basic echo/delay effects without a lot of fuss. If it wasn't for the buzzing it would achieve this well.

As I mentioned before, this pedal's brother, the D-1 fab distortion is awesome however, so if you're buying a bunch of these be sure to throw that on the pile.

Just two knobs, kind of unusual that they're mounted to the back of the unit, but still easy to use. One controls the intensity of the echo, the other controls its presence in the mix.

Taken in context, it does what it's supposed to do. I bought this during a dark period in which I'd just moved to a new city, I was short on cash, and all I had in the way of an amp was a little Vox Pathfinder with no reverb. As a reverb junkie, I couldn't pass up the Fab Echo for $20. To my ears, it DOES NOT nail the Sun Studios slapback I had hoped it would. It just sounds too modern somehow. If you go too over the top with the echo and mix, it becomes really ham-fisted and just plain bad-sounding. But if you play around and find a moderate mix, it can be kinda nice. Like the label promises, it will add a fun echo to your guitar and tread the outskirts of the old-time reverb ballpark, but I can't imagine actually taking this to a gig.

It's made entirely of plastic, but like all Danelectro products, it seems pretty tough. I've used it a lot since buying in four months ago and it hasn't given me any problems. Then again, it hasn't been allowed out of my bedroom, so it hasn't had a chance to brave the beer/sweat gamut of playing a bar gig. As previously mentioned, it probably never will.

No idea.

In short, it's fun for goofing around at home, but to my ears, it isn't the kind of sound you'd want to apply to your sound at a gig. It's not worthless, it's actually kinda fun to use it when I do home recording because I live in an apartment where I can't get too noisy and usually hafta plug straight into my digital 8-track. So it's nice to add a little echo to my guitar that way, not that it sounds great, but when we're talking 8-track home recordings, I guess that's really not the point. So if you're in a tight spot and just want a little echo, it's not terrible. So if you just want to add a fun flavor to your guitar while you're just messing around at home, give it a shot. But if you're adament about adding a serious staple to your sound, save your pennies (literally) and just buy a kickass tube amp with good reverb. In the end, there's really no substitute for that.

2 knobs, repeat and mix. They probably could've gotten away with one, but then who'd buy a one-knob echo pedal? Pretty easy to use, no need for a manual. I dock it one point only because the knobs face away so it's harder to make on-the-fly adjustments.

For $20, it absolutely nails the surf/rockabilly echo. Sure it's not a roland space echo or DL4 or DD20, but to my ears it sounds good for what it does. I give it an 8 because it's kind of a one-trick-pony, but it does the trick well.

Plastic, but it feels sturdy enough. I bought this hoping it would do some short delays and sound a bit warmer than my DD5, and while it's no Boss, it certainly will hold up against whatever I can throw at it.

Like I said before, I bought it hoping I could get some short delays that sounded a bit warmer than my brittle digital delay, and this pedal doesn't do that, but it certainly makes surf and rockabilly sound good. For $20, it's a keeper, hardly worth returning even if it wasn't.

If it got stolen, I might buy it again. Or I might try and get my DD5 modded or maybe buy a different delay altogether. I'd say pick it up, you probably can find these things on ebay for next to nothing.

Try this mod out - works on the BLT also - turns this into a proper delay pedal with grungy analog feel. Excellent.

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=41465.0

With the mod - excellent

Don;t rely on vatteries for live work

Even better do the mod above and rewire it into a Hammond-style stompbox.

So easy a caveman could use it.

Have you people ever used a real echo? How anyone could rate this more than a 1 is unbelievable. It has a hollow, cheap digital tone that doesn't go away when the pedal is off. It colors your tone even when idle and sounds like the $11 pedal that it is. It adds so much treble it sounds like you are playing through a 2" AM radio speaker. I tried it in my stage rig, my practice rig and mini practice rig.... it is useless in all of them. Into the spare parts box until I can dump it at a garage sale. Thank God I only paid $11 bucks for it on a whim.

Probably would not hold up to any live work. All plastic....

I bought this on a whim cuz it was $11 bucks at Guitar Center. Figured I could use it in my practice rig to add a little more echo/reverb. It is horrible, but I guess you get what you pay for. Danelectro's old mini pedal were much better than this current bunch. I still use an old "fish and chips" EQ on my board and it's held up for a good 5 or 6 years and sounds great. Tis one however will never see a spot on my pedalboard.

It's a no-brainer. Plug it in, twist the knobs until you're comfortable with what you hear, and go.

I'd like the knobs to be further away from the plug-ins as the plugs do get in the way. But for $15, who's complaining?

I had never heard one when I encouraged my dad to get one for himself, just for the heck of it, so he'd have something of an echo. For $15, what've you got to lose? Well, we got it home, plugged into it and...I went and bought one for myself.

It seems to warm the tone a bit, depending I guess on your level of effects "mix" but it is an eminently usable and useful sound I get out of it.

So far so good. Seems solid.

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At that price, a tremendous product...usability and price = outstanding value. Again, a no-brainer.

Easy enough to use, only 2 knobs, but difficult to get it open to put a battery in it. You have to use a screwdriver. Not good, not bad.

Sound Quality, can I give it a -1, It definitely ADDS noise to the signal when off. Sure, it does have echo, but the high band accelerates unnaturaly quick. Take a real echo and you will get highs when turned up, but not usually until turned up, way up. It is easily the worst echo effect I have ever heard, and I have played ALOT of effects in 25 years of playing. Couldn't even get it to be quiet when I plugged my JEM 7V into it. NOISY NOISY NOISY

Would I ever use this on a gig, never, I would be laughed out if I did. It is made out of way too much plasitic. I think it might explode if you drop it.

Never dealt with customer support

There is one nice thing about this unit, the LED is cool. Besides this it wasn't worth what I paid for it, and I got it for free. WAKE UP PEOPLE there is a reason these things list for $14.99, these things are not worth the money. I am so embarassed that I have this, I don't even think it's ethical to sell it at an online auction.

Very easy to use and understand. 2 knobs control the repeat and mix. The sounds that this pedal can help you make are fairly limited so it won't take long to fiddle with the controls and experience the range you have available.

I'm putting an Epiphone Crestwood into a early 60's AC30 and I have to say that considering the price (??10 from Ebay) the sound quality is very good. I can easily get a decent range of rockabilly sounds from it and with all controls set to maximum you can stretch to that kind of "shoegazing" swirly stuff. The only down side is that it doesn't seem to get on with overdrive pedals, both my Boss Turbo Distortion and Rangmaster Clone drown any effect even at fairly lo-gain levels. However, just using the amps natural overdrive there is no problem: I guess this pedal likes things simple.

It only really makes one sound but does it very well.

Daneletro pedals are made of plastic, decent plastic but it's still plastic so I wouldn't recommend it for self defence. Having opened it the switch appears to be some form of overly complicated cantilever system that seems destined to break one day. If I look after it I can't see there being a problem though.

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I really like the noise this makes. It's quite subtle and is far more useful for creating a stock sound for your guitar than being used as an "Impact" pedal. If you wan't to cut from your normal sound to something appreciably different try Tremolo. If your amp is single channel or doesn't have reverb or something similar this would be a decent place to start adding range to your sounds.