Danelectro DD-1 Fab Tone

This pedal is easy to use.....it has all of your basic controlls with a 2 band EQ u can really tweak ur sound

i only give this a 10 because 11 is not on the list....this is the best sounding pedal ive played in my entire life...i played my friends once and it sounded awsome so i had to get one of my own

my imput jack went out after about a year and a half after buying it...it still works but u have to spend about 2 minutes trying to get the stupid thing to stop buzzing...then after u get it...u cant bump it the slightest bit otherwise it will happen again

i havnt delt w/ any customer support so ya....

i love the sound of this pedal...to me its worth the hassel i go through just to use it. ive played in everything from a pop-punk band all the way to a hardcore band...so i thinks its good for everything. my friend was braggin that he got a digi tech distortion factory...but i dont need any other pedal then this....cept maby a noise supressor because the guitar i use has some grounding issues so i get some feedback when i go dirty.

Its got 4 knobs, no gain knob. Pretty straight forward.

Epihpone Les Paul - Fab Tone - Peavey Classic 50.

It sounded alright for high gain applicatins. I was looking for more of an overdrive to push the front end of my amp. This thing doesnt clean up at all. Dont even try.

This thing sounds shitty with certain setups, ungodly good in others. Its very picky. Its gotta like what you are plugging it into. Tryy it out at least.

This thing is in a heavy metal case. The case seems pretty damn rugged. The knobs, however, are crappy plastic, and so is the switch. They will go out eventually.

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I play ambient indie, as well as post hardcore. It was a cool sound for the post hardcore band, and with the ambient band it offered some really cool controlled feedback that I used with the delay. If you are looking for a good overdrive, you might wanna look at an Ibanez TS9 or DOD 250 Overdrive. This thing is good for experimenting with higher gain and feedback.

man this thing is easy to use unless u are stupid or something

u have to find the right sound that you want i mean it can be very noisii and whit a lot of highs but if you found the righr setup it sounds greaat i use it the volume knob at half the low knob at 5 o clock and the highs at 9 o cloc and the fab at 9 too sounds sweet

man this thing iss hard i use it to play in stage and this thing is hard i mean very good

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this is a good distortion pedal for any kind of music
for all that says thats sucks and stuff i recommend to take a time to find the righr set up you wont regret

It just makes a bunch of distorted noise.

I couldn't get this pedal to stop making noise.
Squealing, Hissing etc.
YUK!

It will probably last forever.

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One of the worst pedals I've ever owned.
I have a Daddy-O & love it. The Fab Tone
is a squealing noise making machine.
If you want something to make uncontrolled
feedback pick one of these up.

this pedal is pretty easy use, though i find myself having to adjust the knobs every few months to find that right "sound" again.

this pedal sounds awful, but that is why i like it. i am using a rickenbacker 330, with a 40 watt traynor combo patched to a ampeg v-4 head (marshall cab and sun speaker cab) patched to a loud as hell 400 watt peavey combo. needless to say my gear is loud and with the fab tone i have a huge wall of distortion. i would recommend using this pedal all or nothing. my setting on this pedal usually stays around everything at 10. but as i said before, sometimes i will have to adjust after the sound i want has mysteriously gone. the unit is noisy and my only serious complaint is that at more than one show i have played the "sound" has disappeared before my set, making it an awkward playing experience. kind of hard to explain.

i have used the fab tone for about 6 years now and only had to replace it once.

danelectro has great customer support. if a pedal of theirs breaks, send it to their repair shop and you will end up with a new pedal in about 2 weeks free of any charges, including shipping the pedal back.

i think i have covered everything.

Egad! This pedal is not "fab" at all, and definitely has no "tone" whatsoever! Are we all using the same pedal? People mention overdrive tones to full high gain distortion with this pedal. No matter where I cranked the thing, all the tone I got was angry bumble-bee in a tin can. Kinda like a 2 stroke motocross bike or an outboard motor, but these are more musical than the FabtTone.

The nasty metal distortion on the Zoom 505 smokes this pedal hands down, and neither of these two seem usable at all. I play hard rock and heavy metal, but this pedal was just nasty. I was embarrassed to play through it even. I don't much like the Boss DS-1 (unless on the clean channel of a cranked tube amp) but I like it more than this steaming pile of poop. Danelectro's other pedals are good though.

I never had any problems with my old Daddy-O pedal and this is built the same. Very strong.

Recommended use: keep one in your gig bad to konk at an obnoxious punter with. :-)

Soo easy, although I prefer the fab turned to almost nothing and the bass cranked with the high at 2-5 no matter how you dile it in this pedal sounds awesome.

Awesome sound. Probably THE best distortion pedal I have ever had the pleasure of using. I run an Ibanez s-series through a Fender FM 2-12 and it just sings. Not a big variety of sounds are going to come out of this pedal, so if your looking for versatility buy something else. Superb for anything from rock - metal. Anything lighter and your out of luck though.

Bought it used of ebay, havent had it for even a year but these things are built like tanks. I beat the crap out of all the gear I own and let me tell you, this thing is practically invincible. The only thing I would worry about is the cheap plastic inputs they use which I have heard are liable to crap out on you, and sometimes when adjusting knobs I get some crackle.

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I play mostly rock (classic, contemporary, a little bit of metal) and this pedal works great. A little over the top for playing rythm if your into classic rock but great for soloing in that case. If this were stolen or lost I would definately buy another one.

Takes alot of twiddling to find something musical. A slow hand and low numbers on the treble and fab controls is rewarding. Maunual was crap. I've had this p.o.s. for six years and I've finally fingured out how to dial it in. But, I never really bothered with it until lately.

I normally run a variety old 50-watt Sunns and Traynors along with a few small Gibosn combos. It does drastically drain tone--paricularly more so with class A amps--kinda makes the tone sound flat. Easy to oversaturate, but this pedal does have some nice overdriven tones with a very vocal quality. Pedal does back off to near clean when you play lightly--also responsive to riding the ol' volume knob. I can get a "Kill 'em all" tone, but the other tones have sound more like a ZZ Top like overdrive with a half-cocked wah somewhere in the mix.

All in all, it sounds like a distortion pedal--no fuzz like behavior, just gain.

I stopped caring about this pedal the first time I cranked up an old tube amp. It's been used as an ashtray, been spilt upon numerous times, and may have once been used as a doorstop.

It still works, so I guess I'm impressed.

I bought this when I knew nothing about how guitars actually work. Then, it was a waste of time and money. I'm a bit better these days, and I might use this little bastard in the studio at some point. An interesting pedal, if you can get it for under thirty bucks. Anything more would be a waste, if only for the fact that it will be an absolute tone vampire when off in your signal chain.

Its easy to setup if you play with it a little bit.

Prepare to bow before the god of all metal pedals. I had a friend with a BOSS Metal Zone, and this pedal absolutly demolishes it when it comes to walls of gain.

A review from below gave it a 2 with the statment and I quote:
"Hit the switch and get ear-splitting gain. Twist a knob and get blood in your stool." I agree completely. Thats why I give it a 10.

When I first saw it at the local Guitar Center, I thought it was some sort of 60's esq pop pedal. To me "fab-tone" sounded like something from that genre. So I pluged into it on a whem to kill some time, and walked out with it 5 minutes later.

It is the best metal pedal ive ever seen. It has more gain than god.

feels liek a solid chunk of iron.

never needed to call

I play metal, and this pedal is perfect for it. I have yet to touch a pedal with this much gain.

Pretty straight-foward and simple. Has treble and bass controls which are kind of interactive so you can come up with mids if you back off the treb. Volume and gain work indepedently though. I like a wide flat foot switch that I can smack without having to look down and aim. Very few pedals besides Boss and Ibanez have this as a standard. This pedal has a small flat round button for switch that is sunk into the top- I don't like it.

It's pretty much full-out overdrive from start to finish. If you turn the gain all the way down you still have massive overdrive albeit not as hairy souniding. This thing totally eats up your guitar and amp. You're playing the PEDAL and nothing else comes through. It does repond to the controls on your guitar which is a bit of a relief. I borrowed this from a buddy for fun and brought it back to him the next day. It's has no character but it does have relentless overdrive. I'm using a Les Paul Deluxe and a Fender Deluxe amp.

It weighs more than Boss pedals and most others. I don't see problems with dropping this over again on stage. The plastic control knobs will obviously break though.

Who knows. Once you buy it, good luck. Corporations are greed-driven... your money is all that counts.

Overall its not anything I would want to be stuck with. I like to have a little variation and flexiblilty with gain control and I definitely don't like the sterile, tone-sucking sound of it. They should've called it the "Crap Tone." I'll stick with my Boss overdrive.