Danelectro D-4 Fab Echo

Very easy to use - mix knob (to adjust the wet/dry mix) and repeat knob (to adjust the number of repeats). Plug in and adjust to taste.

Sound is rather limited with this pedal. It's basically a slap echo - in other words, when you hit a note, the echo is immediately generated and sounded right after you play a note. Keep the Mix knob at or near 100%, otherwise you won't hear anything. If you keep the Repeat knob in the early part of its sweep you get a heavy reverb kind of sound. Turn the Repeat knob further and the slap echo becomes more pronounced. But there's no delay time setting on this pedal, it's basically a one-trick pony.

I own other Danelectro Fab pedals so I can vouch for their reliability. As usual, it's a plastic pedal, so don't stomp on it with army boots, and don't forget to unplug the input jack when not in use so you don't go through a lot of 9v batteries

I wouldn't worry too much about dealing with Danelectro, at $15.00 just go ahead and replace it if it dies.

The Danelectro Fab Echo is a decent pedal for the money. It's a good pedal for rockabilly or surf, but I think it's a good pedal for blues, as well. You'll get a slightly different angle on the same old blues with it. Maybe someout out there that's reading this who's talented in electronics can figure out a way to add a delay time knob so it can become more like a true delay pedal. In summing up it's a decent pedal, a real value for the money, fairly durable, and I recommend it.

2 knobs. So easy a cave man could do it!
Mix (How much wet-to-dry signal) and Repeat (how many times). That's it! No noise, no hiss, no fuss no muss! I find it best suits me with both knobs at 12 o'clock. That just works for me, you'll find your own setting.

Great Rock-a-Billy, early Stones type echo effect. I said echo, not delay. You cannot set any time delay with this pedal. The sound quality seems to be wonderful. I play a Std Strat through a 65 watt Fender amp so you know Rock-a-billy is a snap! I actually turn off my amps Reverb in favor of this pedal for the stuff I play. Seems to work for me. You've fot to ease up on the Treble though, otherwise it sounds tinny. It real good for Reggae too. Ja Mon!

Built well should last me a good many years.

Musical styles mentioned above fare well with pedal. I don't play any metal or punk so I couldn't offer up an opinion. 30 years of playing have not made me want to play anything other than what I play. I kind of wish it had a small selection of delays on it. Say, 50mms, 120ms, and 300ms. That would give this pedal all 10's.
As it is I'd say it's pretty awesome for 15 USD.

2 knobs...mix and repeat...what could be more easier than this.?

I purchased this pedal 3 days ago, i didnt expect it to perform at first (the pedal looks flimsy since it's made from plastic cept for the base and the switch on the pedal employs a very very crude working mechanicsm)...

My setup goes as it is...
Yamaha Pacifica / EG303 -> ProCo Rat vintage -> Electro harmonix sovetek big muff -> Danelectro Fab Chorus -> Ibanez ph7 phaser -> Line 6 Delay Modeller -> Voodoo Labs tremolo -> Danelectro Fab Echo -> Electro Harmonix holy grail reverb -> Fender Bassman copy / Fender twin reverb...

Has a really nice and warm sound slap backs....from surf to rockabilly to experimental ambience and echoed drones (when mixed with other effects).

As long as u dont jump and stomp it hard...i would hold up i guess..
im planning to do a new metal casing (like mxr ones) for the fab echo...

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try it out for yerself...
be warned...this is not a delay pedal hence dont expect this thing to perform like a digital delay...and it is NOT a reverb pedal as well..although u can obtain a pretty good bathroom reverb with this pedal.

It will give you your echo sound straight out of the box and with two variables it is not exactly rocket science. However, further tinkering with the effects for a few hours, and different amp/ guitar/ fuzz box settings, will show there is quite a lot of variation and subtlty here.

Two knobs mounted on the vertical-top side of the box; mix and repeat. The positioning does not make them any more difficult to change in a gig situation but does take a bit of getting used to to make the tone exact.

Only qualm is the screw to open the pedal to install a battery is slightly odd in that the hatch doesnt open even if the screw has been twisted completely undone. After a few openings and closings this seemed to recify itself however but i nearly resorted to prising it open with a screw driver. Not Clever!

I have an original '66 Fender Telecaster and an Epiphone Les Paul standard. I play these through surf type settings usually (very high treble, backed off mids and barely any base) through ...

Hi-Watt G40 12R combo - clean channel - nice and bright but a little boomy and cold.
- Overdrive - dark, muddy, hollow pretty disgusting on its own
(with the Rat is brilliant!)
OR

Late 70's Fender Sidekick reverb 25 - Clean- VERY BRIGHT and warm, but old and prone to feedback.

and... A Pro Co - Vintage Rat - Big Muff in a different case, does surf stuff with bare distortion all the way up to Metallica.
I put the Dano pedal in last in the chain and it only adds the tinyest bit of wavy hiss on the highest volumes (were talking gig volumes here) no matter which amp or guitar I use.

Basically this pedal will NAIL surf, rockabilly, psychobilly, gothabilly and most 60's garage/ psych. It delivers the slap echo evidenced on the recordings of these sorts of music perfectly and whilst it may not be as tweakable as other pedals, for #15 it over delivers!

At approximately 1-4 o'clock (baring in mind the knobs turn the 'other way' with 1 o'clock being the lowest setting and 11 o'clock being the highest, with 6 o'clock the mid point) you get probably the most usable settings for the above genres. You can dial anything from a slight reverby sound here to a decent rockabilly slap. This sounds perfect for surf as it begins to emulate the low sustain sound of Jaguars/ Jazzmasters at low volumes and high treble because when the echo begins to fade it appears to cut the sound. BRILLIANT! Alternatively turn the guitars volume up a bit and add some distortion and you have the perfect settings for The Sonics 'The Witch' or The Cramps 'Human Fly'/'Can't Hardly Stand It'.
At 5-8 o'clock you can get some psychadelic or blues riffs or solos going in a smilar style to Hendrix adding variation to normal playing and also making sustain seem longer even when clipped.
At 9-11 o'clock things are going to start to mush if you use lots of fast chord work so this is better for simple slow riffs which will not mesh together or hitting chords and letting them ring. Alternatively (if you like it messy) crank this up along with some fuzz for some Sonic Youth style meshed noise or make those sustained notes ring even more shrill on something like Hendrix rendition of the 'Star Spangled Banner'!

Lastly are two interresting things about this pedal. One it IS versatile. There are lots of different sounds if you are patient and prepared to be subtle and the pedal responds especially well to varying degrees of pick attack. Two, the pedal works differently under different levels of distortion and seems to emphasise its echoes when the fuzz goes up.

Yes although DONT leave the leads in overnight if your using a battery... and easy mistake to make but so annoying when you next try to play.
The pedal is plastic but is robust and will take some force to break, the bottom is metal and quite weighty with a rubber pad for grip.

Note: THIS IS NOT A DELAY PEDAL! Whilst it does deliver a delayed note similar to the original note played it does not do this in the same way as a conventional delay, nor does it have a time differenciation of when the note will sound after being struck. It does what it says on the tin - ECHO.
Think about the start of 'Welcome To The Jungle' - if that is the sound you are after, look elsewhere. Equally If you want space age delay sounds this probably is not for you.

However, for those of us who are actually into decent music...

Think about the opening of 'Shaking all over' by Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, if this is the sound you crave then look no futher!
It is VERY important that I do not put a downer on this pedal as it absolutely nails what it is supposed to do!
For the money it is a steal!
It really brings the settings on my amp to life and adds lots of versitility to the sound which i used to find quite flat.
In a band situation, i played a practise without it the other day and thought my pickups were not working. It helps to cut through and is especially good for distinguishing high notes over another guitar's rhythm work, even better with lots of treble.

If it were stolen I would not buy it again, i would not rest until I had tracked down the culprit and given them what for. Then I would take my pedal back.

It can't get any easier

2 knobs:

mix

repeats

It has a set time for the slap, but its a nice setting for traditional slap echoes. Maxing the repeat knob is too many repeats for anything I could ever use for, but lots of nice options in between.

the switch seems to be comprised of a hitch on a rocker arm, which in turn engages/disengages the effect in the box.

Very simple but thats OK.

No noise, no hiss and the effect itself is pretty smooth. I can see using this pedal for alot of slap needs, especially rockabilly type echoes.

I was not expecting much but Dano packed a nice little punch in this pedal. it is not for tweakers as you cannot adjust the delay time, but it is a nice addition to another delay/echo pedal. keep this one for the short sweet rock-a-rhythms and your other for longer times, and mix them for the double-delay thing.

I run it using various Les Pauls and Strats/Teles into various tube amps, mostly a modded bassman and stock bandmaster. and although it does 1 thing, it does that really well. the time for the echo was nicely placed for scotty moore and early rock recordings and that alone is why I got this.

time will tell

I am not having expectations beyond belief but I do have 2 of the dano Mini pedals still laying around that are 5+ years and going strong.

I know for a fact the guys at Evets (dano corp.) are very good with customer service

It fits the bill perfectly for old rock slappy needs. I have tried mixing this with other pedals and it really gets along.

Again, I was not expecting much but was surprised. It is not quite as dark/warm as some analog delays, but it is in no way harsh and I do not notice any abnormal tone sucking. I think its great to add onto another delay, not so much for having 2 at once but for keeping 2 set differently for shorter and longer times

I can't think of anything easier to use. Two knobs, mix and repeat; mix determines how much of the effect signal is mixed with the original signal, and repeat determines how many echos there are.

I use a multitude of effects:
Ibanez GAX-70 guitar-->EHX Flanger Hoax-->Fab Echo-->Zoom 505II-->EHX English Muff'n-->Behringer BX6000 bass amp
This pedal sounds great. I was expecting it to be nothing special, and it isn't really - it does what it says on the box, it echoes. But it does it well! No noise/hiss whatsoever. You can only really get one kind of sound from it, and though it would be nice to have more controls, you don't really need them. It sounds just like a vintage echo, like Hendrix used on Voodoo Child.

Its plastic, but doesnt look like its going to fall apart anytime soon. In fact, its quite robust.
The lack of features on it means there is less to go wrong with it. I like the footswitch - its not an ugly metal button, its a smooth-action plate.
Its easy to open up, useful if anything goes wrong inside.
I would gig without a backup. I can't see anything going wrong with it.

Never dealt with customer support.

It doesn't really matter what style of music you play - everyone can use an echo pedal. But it seems quite cool in slow blues.
If it was stolen or lost, I certainly would buy another - its so cheap, and every guitarist needs an echo. Even though its a simple pedal, I like it.
For the price, you really can't expect anything more. But then for most people, you wont need anything more.
It was given to me as a present. I wouldnt have bought it by myself, because I was looking for something more advanced. But now Ive tried it, I am pleasantly surprised. I would recommend it to anyone.

It's extremely easy to use, it only has 2 nobs; a mix nob and a repeat nob. The repeat nob controls how many echoes there are and the mix nob controls how much echo sound will be mixed with the dry sound (the sound coming into the pedal). The minimum setting being no echo sound being mixed with the sound that comes into the pedal and the maximum setting being as much echo sound possible mixed with the sound coming in.

I use this pedal along with the FAB Metal, FAB Overdrive, FAB Chorus, FAB Flange, and Hashbrowns Flanger. I have it all going into a Fender Frontman 15B amp and I use a Squire Fender P-Bass. I don't really have a set order that I use my pedals in (yet). The pedal doesn't really make much noise but the thing is the pedal isn't much of a delay pedal; the delay it gives you is more like a short echo with some reverb. I give this pedal a 10 for sound quality because it has it's own unique sound that I admire.

I can't say how reliable this pedal is because I haven't even had it for a month.

What I love about this pedal is that it has a very unique sound to it, I thought it would just be a delay pedal but instead it gives you a short echo with a bit of reverb! For the money this pedal definetly gets a 10.