Danelectro D-4 Fab Echo

Amazingly simple. In about 2 seconds I go from reverb to delay-esque sounds and it's great.

Really great for my bass. There's no tone suckage. Like I said I can get reverb or delay/reverb together. It sounds fine no matter what. I haven't found a tone I don't like or is too much. I'm very happy with it.

Made of plastic but I don't think I'd need a backup. Not like it'd cost me too much to get one though.

Very good. For the quality I doubt you can beat the price. I don't think I'd ever roll with any other pedal.

this pedal has 2 knobs one mix, one repeat. they are kinda tough to get dialed in at first but a few times messing around with it and you'll get it

right now im using a cheap behringer strat (junk) and the v tone amp. the echo sounds very clean (to me) the effects sound great. honestly. Especially when playing surf style guitar. on my junk strat i can almost sound like duane eddy with "rebel rouser"

i can def. depend on this pedal and i would use it on a gig without a backup, although at the price i paid for it $14.99 (musiciansfriend.com) i'm tempted to buy the whole line...2 of each

never dealt with them at all

i play all styles of music, and this is a good match for all of them. if it was lost or stolen i'd def buy another one. I also compared this to other pedals but for just a guy sitting at home in his guitar room i couldnt justify spending 60 bucks or more to get basically the same effect

So easy. From a mild slap back to the drippy water reverb/echo thing. Not having a speed knob is a plus as far as I'm concerned. I don't have to dial it in, it's already right there.

Sounds great. Keep in mind you don't buy this for a programmable digital delay. It's a cheap slap echo. What else do you want. Adds a nice sounds to a dry amp.

It's made of plastic. Be careful. If it breaks, buy a new one, they're $15. I also have a Fab distortion and I have a Fab overdrive. No problems with any. I baby my stuff anyway, even the stuff that's "built like a tank"

How can this not be a 10? Buy it for what it offers and you'll be happy. Don't buy it for U2 and then cry because you can do dotted eighth repeats at 1200 bpm.

Very easy to operate if you pay attention and understand WHAT this pedal is, since it's NOT a variable digital delay, not a tape echo simulator, not a reverb unit - it's something completely different. It has a "mix" (how much of the effected sound is injected into your signal) and "repeat" (how long it takes the echo's initial volume to fade to zero).

Read the "sound quality" section and you should understand it - many (if not most) of the reviews have completely missed the mark, as the reviewers seem to be reviewing a completely different pedal. Too many assumptions that this is a "normal" delay unit - it's NOT.

THIS IS NOT A DIGITAL OR ANALOG DELAY.

Please read that again. Reviews keep comparing it to other units - and there ARE no other units like this. It is a completely unique pedal, and an amazingly well thought-out one. It does not have a huge range of sounds; it does one thing, and does it very, very well. Had I known in advance about this one and not needed (or wanted to fool with) the other pedals in the 4-pedal set I bought, I would have been willing to spend the fifty bucks, keep this and throw the other ones out - put this in a metal case with a boutique brand name on it and you'd have no problem selling them for $150-200.

What this does is simple - it adds a fast, warm, analog-sounding (like an old analog delay or tape-based unit) slapback echo to your signal. You can vary the amount of echo you hear, and the number of repeats, which degrade in sound quality like a tape unit - a much warmer sound than a usual digital delay, which is completely clean in MOST cases (exceptions being pedals like the Ibanez EM-5, which is a digital delay with an added "crap factor" to make it sound more "analog" as the repeats fade).

BUT - Then comes the feature that makes this pedal completely different from anything else - it also adds a slight amount of something between a small-room and plate reverb to the mix. This feature is what makes this pedal unique, and what makes it really shine. The reverb is subtle, so it does not wash out or muddy your tone, and it is mixed in extremely well with the slapback echo. It's clear, warm, articulate and sounds "big", even through a smaller amp. I've run it through everything from a '64 Vibroverb, '69 Pro Reverb, Holland Little Jimi and other 35-50 watt tube units to a tweed Champ and a 1/2 watt ZVex Nano tube head - and it makes them all sound like there are speakers surrounding you - it just exapands the sound in an entirely unique way.

I've tried many combinations of delay and reverb units (I have digital, analog and tape delays and several types of reverb) and no combination sounds this good it is so well-integrated.

It makes absolutely NO noise run on good batteries or a high-quality power supply. If you buy a $9 adapter and get hum, you deserve it. Cheap adapters DO NOT work with effects pedals, and that's where 90% of the noise complaints come from. Most of the rest are related to house wiring (which is why serious players use line conditioners that are also voltage regulators AND hum eliminators - not $20 power strips that only stop damage from lightning strikes.)

Dano has made some awful pedals in the past (The Rocky Road one infamous dud) but this makes up for all of them in spades.

It's plastic, but very heavy and thick. It seems gig-worthy, but it's too early to tell if the switch will hold up. I have noted all the Fab pedals have a bit of an issue with One-Spot power supply plugs; the jacks are a hair on the loose side. Once it's inserted firmly it doesn't move unless you trip on a wire, though. However, if the power supply jack or switch failed I'd have no problem yanking all the guts and putting them in a different box with a new power jack. It's worth it, and I may just do that anyway.

Dano's service is nonexistent. I have never gotten a reply from a single email or phone message. I can do my own repairs, though, so it's not important to me. If you like wonderful company support more than good sound, don't buy one.

I play everything from hard rock to country, and almost every stringed instrument. This gadget works great with both 6-string and pedal steel (both normal country and rock steel), and is especially nice with distorted, violin-like lapsteel. If it broke I'd buy another instantly. As mentioned, I got it in a 4-pedal set for $49.95 - I bought it on a whim, actually looking for a particular type of distortion (which I got) and this was a "bonus" in the package that was totally unexpected. When you figure I spent about $12.50 for it, it's downright amazing. One last tech note - a few websites have posted instructions for replacing a resistor with a potentiometer and adding a variable speed control. It would be a fun idea for many players - personally, though, I like it exactly as-is.

Remember - this is NOT a "normal" delay unit. It is completely unique.

2 knobs, mix and repeat. You cant go wrong. No need for a manual..

The peddal sounds fine. It performed a little bit better than I expected. Easy to get a good old country sound or if you crank both knobs up you'll get a reggae type of sound. Its good for rockabilly and country. If you like Johnny Cash, Brian Setzer or Jon Spencer you may like it.

After about 20 hours it started to produce noice. When I hit the strings really hard it produces a loud feedback noice that doesn't stop until I unplugged it. It works if its feed with a small signal.

I dont know. I guess it's easier to buy a new pedal and keep the fingers crossed. If it was a more expensive product i would probably try to send it back for repair..

I will probably buy a nother one. Its a good product if you get one that works.

I dare to contest the bad reviews about this pedal-first of all try this on a real guitar amp with speakers of 12in. or better yet a tube amp, then you wouldn't compare the sound to a 2in. transistor AM radio, which is the same with a practice amp btw :-P. Secondly basic 101: use a no hum power supply to eliminate the noise.

I enjoy using this, its more of a delay/reverb type

of course it reliable- I gig with this every weekend

This pedal is great for the value. I bet the bad reviews given were of those kids who have only gig'd on a 2in AM transistor radio inside their heart-shaped bedroom. hahaha

Seriously. This is better than my amps reverb

2 knobs BUT gives you a wide array of delay/echo sound

First of all this unit is NOT noisy, just use a no hum power supply. I guess the review of this being noisy is of those who haven't done their homework, where in fact doesn't know how the way things work.

Second. the best setting is between 1:00-3:00 both in the mix and repeat knobs. any combination in between is great for soloing.

To make it short this is like delay&reverb with a time not greater than 200ms.

Pretty sturdy-nice metal base adds weight and stability- nice hard plastic casing-i would give it 9

I would give it 10 since for such an affordable price I could get the delay/reverb sound i want. This sounds very analog and warm. It can sounds like a part of the BOSS DD-3 on the 200ms time setting. Limited time on the delay? It still serves me well, who needs too much delay time anyway?

only has two knobs, very easyu to use right out of the box

this pedal had a good sound for the price you pay for it but besides that its not a very good sound, plus when u play with distortion, it completely drowns out

with a brand new 9 volt battery in it, it lasted one day, after that i went through three more 9 volts in a matter of days,
im not sure if it was the whole model or just my flawed pedal, after this outrage i was forced to buy the danelectro power supply and after a day, it began smoking and blew a capacitor

i enjoyed this pedal for the first hour after that the echoe wasnt good at all , it died on me several times so im not very impressed with this pedal

2 knobs - Repeat and Mix. Simple enough to dial in a great sounding slapback echo. The manual is minimalist and you don't really need it to get going. Like the other Fab pedals, it's a great shape that looks cool. Gotta give it high marks for its ease of use. I have mentioned the knobs in my Fab Chorus review and I'm used to them now.

I was suspicious about how good this pedal would be, as reviews are mixed. But I got it for just $20 Australian on eBay and wasn't too concerned if I didn't like it. Well, my concerns were unfounded, as this pedal sounds pretty good. I use a lot of spring reverb in my sound anyway and this gives me more when I want it. (I use a decent Tele copy [GFS vintage single coils] with a Peavey Studio Pro 112). It makes you sound like you're in a medium sized tiled room when you max out the repeats. Turning up the mix knob to maximum sounds pretty harsh and digital though, so I run my mix knob on a bit over half and just keep the repeat knob dimed. It's a retro-type of sound that evokes early rock'n'roll and surf tones - think Dick Dale of even Robbie Robertson on Mystery Train. Good for spacey minor-key blues too. I have to give it pretty high marks, although it doesn't have a lot of sounds out of the box - it's pretty much a one trick wonder. Modders have found ways to remove the resistors that limit the delay time and wet mix and have attached 100-500K pots to control the delay time. Sounds intriguing, but these chips in the Fab Echo are pretty lo-fi, apparently, and delay longer times will reveal this. Some sonic experimentalists might like this though.

I've got 4 of these pedals now and I think even though the top is plastic and the pots and jacks are soldered onto the board they feel solid to me. The base is very solid metal and the pedal has a very good weight to it. If you don't jump on it they should hold up okay. I gave a 7 for the Fab Chorus and No Opinion for the Fab Overdrive, so I'm a bit inconsistent here. Should just stick with no opinion, as it's early days, although I think they seem strong enough if you don't get out of control with your stomping

Just buy another one if it dies. They're cheap. Support isn't needed.

I play blues and some harder rock, folk-rock and semi-distorted-jazz-type stuff and this pedal is cool for me. I leave it on a lot. It has a very cool retro sound to it that isn't over the top. It's great for melancholic minor blues, ala Peter Green, and just thickens things up a bit. It doesn't have lots of variety unless you're prepared to pull out the soldering iron, but it delivers a great slapback that's heaps of fun to play with. Considering the price though this pedal is awesome. I'm a fan of these Fab pedals and have to give it high marks, as they're cheap and sound great.

Way to easy to use. Manual is pretty simple: 2 knobs. Turn either one either way.

I did my research, including on this forum, and came up with inconclusive opinions on whether or not this thing sucks tone. So I figured for 25 bones, why not solve the riddle?

To qualify this, in my day-time life, I work in the nuclear energy industry, so I like hard, scientific, repeatable experiments to provide evidence. To do this, I put my guitar directly into my amp, lined out to a 4-track with neutral eq, into my computer and recorded the Tennessee Flattop Box riff 6 times, paying careful attention to playing with the same dynamic level each time, and each on a different track:
1)bridge pickup /wo pedal
2)neck pickup /wo pedal,
3)bridge pickup /w pedal, turned off,
4)neck pickup /w pedal, turned off,
5)bridge pickup /w pedal, turned on,
6)neck pickup /w pedal turned on

Toggling back and forth between tracks, the results showed no evidence of tone sucking, neither by listening closely, nor by observing the resulting recorded waveform. Rather, I observed a very slight boost in volume in the neck pickup settings when the pedal was added, both turned on and turned off. Also, I recorded no notable evidence of 60 cycle hum nor other noise.

I would suggest that if people are experiencing tone suckage, it is not solely the pedal's fault, but rather the cumulative combination of the entire rig. Therefore, shell out the initial costof the pedal with the intention to audition it first, or simply bring your rig to the store and try it out before you $h!t on the pedal.

I'm putting an Epiphone Les Paul Classic through it into a Vox AD30VT on the 4x10 Tweed setting. Nice and fat. I'm looking forward to getting the pedal mod done to it, too.

It's not the best sounding echo or delay available, but considering what it delivers compared to what it costs, this thing gets a 9.

This rig (without pedal) has not let me down, EVER, in a year of gigging. Adding the pedal, I would still see cables as the weak link. Granted, it's not metal, but it IS a fairly hefty hunk of plastic, so as long as you treat it like it's made of plastic, I'm sure it would be fine. After all, I've used $1400 plastic office chairs with 20 year warrantees.

I would, however, be concerned with battery power, as I am with ALL batteries, in pedals, my acoustic's preamp, whatever...

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Played for almost 20 years. Right now, I play everything from 60's folk to 21st century metal. The pedal's sound has it's place SOMEWHERE along that timeline. I've been doing effects research trying to get some good insight into adding to my rig. I picked this pedal up because 1) it was cheap-o, 2) there were mixed reviews on tone suckage, and 3) I wanted to settle that debate. I believe my recommendations speak for themselves.

For what you pay for this pedal, you get boatloads, really. Like ALL pedals, they have their place. For example, I don't use a metal fuzz box to play Van Morrison's "Domino". Before you crap on a product, try it to figure out if you have anything in your repertoire to suit it. If not, don't buy it, but don't slag it, because I'm sure someone else does.

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.

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.