Danelectro DE-1 Dan-Echo

Easy to set up for a good tone, 4 knobs and a switch. Knobs are very sensitive and offer a lot of range, but it can be a little difficult to dial in exactly what you're looking for

The Dan-Echo sits in my effects loop in the second to last position with an ever-changing set of neighbours. Basic setup is Goth Explorer -> Bad Horsie -> JCM2000 100WDSL -> (loop) various modulation, fuzz, weird pedals -> Dan-Echo -> microamp clone (end loop) -> 1960A 4x12 cab.

It's weird, sometimes it's super quiet, sometimes it makes some noise. I think I was running too many pedals from the same power source nd now that I've split the load, bought heavier duty adapters, and finalized my pedal board, it's not been a problem. The sound is killer, very warm, very tight sounding. I use it a lot on its own for light runs, use it in conjunction with other effects to make some wild, swirly sounds, or kick it into "lo" mode to just thicken up a solo. It's super versatile and it makes really great, unpredictable sounds when you manipulate the "time" knob while holding a note. Kind of like a theremin. This thing has been in my rig since it came out and I've never heard another delay that I like as much.

It's never failed me. It's made some weird noise along the way, but I think that was my fault. It's survived 6 years of me tossing it into a milk crate, unprotected, after shows. I play a lot of shows and I never worry about this little bastard.

Never had to call

In life, pedals come and go, but this has remained static. Before I bought this, I had a cold, shrill sounding BOSS unit that I used, but never really liked. This thing is an integral part of my sound and I'll buy it again if it gets stolen, lost, or killed.

In addition to the standard knobs for delay time and number of repeats, a toggle switch lets you choose from Lo and Hi delay fields, effectively doubling the range of the Time knob. The mix knob lets you balance the volume of the delay against the dry signal, while the secret weapon -- the main marketing point when this came out some years back -- is Hi Cut, which filters out the high frequencies from each successive repeat, to approximate the signal degradation on an old tape-delay unit.

There's one footswitch, On-Off, and jacks for In and Out. Plug in, play, and twiddle the knobs til you find what you want. Easy.

You can get a pretty cool array of delay sounds out of this thing, spacey stuff, Pink Floyd solos, pristine digital "dang dang dang" repeats, slapback, reverby-sounding stuff, and the more muffled analog-style tones you can get with the Hi-Cut function. Notice i said analog-style; you CAN'T get any of the weird self-oscillation and infinite repeats that you can get with a real analog delay, and the repeats aren't as gloriously dirty as with a Memory Man or an AD9. Nor does it have some of the frills of the contemporary digital units, like Tap Tempo and Hold and what-not. But in terms of sounds, you can cover a lot more ground with the DanEcho than you can with either a digital or analog pedal.

And that's what's cool about it! I would think this is an excellent choice for guitarists on a budget or just starting out, players who haven't used delay before and want to explore the palette of delay "colors" without throwing a lot of cash into a Boss digital or an Ibanez analog. The sound quality is really quite good, especially for as cheap as you can pick these up Used these days. Try one!

Oh yeah, the delay time is up to 1 second as i recall. Longer than analog, shorter than most of today's better digitals, although why you'd need longer delays than that is beyond me.

I've played this with a lot of different guitars and pickups, Rickenbacker, Epiphone, Dano, Seymour Duncan, and always enjoyed it.

I've owned mine for about six years, and it's always worked fine. I made it a point to buy the 9 volt adapter, since digital delays will spend down a battery in nothing flat.

This SUCKS!!!!! Unbelievable! Can anyone find ANYTHING even remotely informative on the Danelectro web site? What a junk site, a complete waste of time. I've concluded that they don't feel any responsibility for customer service any more, and have made themselves inaccessible to avoid having to do repairs/replacement. (Read some of the other reviews of the products for some horror stories.) Shameful!

It's sad, because a lot of their products have been cool, and they seemed like a pretty hot outfit four or five years ago. I've owned two or three Dano guitars and enjoyed them all, and right now I'm looking for a 12-string double cutaway in good condition (i think that dude in REM even played one in a video, and how cool is that? If the company wasn't so STUPID all of a sudden that would make a good endorsement, I should think).

I bought this because the Hi-Cut function seemed like a clever idea, and it proved to be so. This pedal may be the modern Danelectro's finest moment, or at least it's tied with the Tuna Melt tremolo, which is also excellent.

I own three delays, a vintage Ibanez AD9 analog, a vintage Ibanez DM1100 digital rackmount that sounds really rough and cool, and this Danelectro. I've also owned and sold several other delays at various points. As much as I love my Ibanezes --- and you really haven't lived until you've played with a real analog delay - I have to say this Dano is still really neat. I've thought about selling it, but I just can't bring myself to part with it. So now I think I'm going to set up a third guitar rig, just so I'll use this one more often.

very easy to use, with a little tweaking, it does a real good, full slapback. the manual will give you ideas, i just tweak to taste.

i use this pedal with my just purchased roland bc-60 blues cube, in the fx loop, this a great sounding amp by itself, but kick in the echo and the bitch comes alive!! i've owned dozens of amps and this is the first amp i've used an effects loop on! well done roland!!, i'm going to play this live soon, i'll probably leave the pedal on all the time!! i also have a tonebone hot british pedal, a boss od-3, and a boss super shifter, i like to run stereo when i can, usually with a cube 30, and i get an awsome sound!!

i have had this pedal for 8 years, never a problem!!, however-- i did have a dano-daddy-o overdrive,the dc jack came loose, got it fixed,farted out again, so apparently there is some probs with some of the models! luck of the draw, i guess!, back up for pedals?, if one takes a shit, i don't cry, if it all screws up i just play it straight!! when i was younger i'd whine because i need this and that, but after playing 35 years, 15 years as a pro, I LET THE FINGERS DO THE TALKIN!!

never had to!

it sounds great with my bc-60, i've played and recorded in many bands, rock, punk, country, blues, oldies, surf, etc., i'm 47, been playing guitar since "INNA GADDA DI VIDA" was on the radio,(1968), just a weekend warrior now, put johnny winter, alvin lee, ronnie montrose, stevie ray, and a dose of clapton, all together, and you have my identifiable style, which i'm proud of!! i have an orange ad-15 amp (SWEEET)! a gibson skylark, a small vox,and 2 cube 30's, also a line 6 flex-plus, (i'm sellin it soon!) NOTE TO YOUNG PLAYERS!-- I'VE SPENT MANY YEARS PLAYING AT DEAFINING VOLUME, IN SMALL PRACTICE PLACES WITH MARSHALLS, AMPEGS, WHATEVER WAS LOUD! I AM PAYING FOR IT! I HAVE SEVERE TINNITIS(RINGING IN EARS!)WORD TO THE WISE--"USE EAR PROTECTION!!" YOU ARE NOT FUCKING INVINCIBLE, TINNITIS SUCKS BAD, AND THERE IS NO CURE!! PEOPLE HAVE COMITTED SUICIDE OVER THIS AFFLICTION!,BE WISE--BE WARNED--HAVE FUN ! KEEP ROCKIN!!!!

I HAVE THIS PEDAL FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS AND WAS NEVER SATISFIED.
WHY? BECAUSE IT CHANGES MY SOUND EVEN WHEN ITS OFF!!! I HAVE SO
MANY EXPENSIVE EFFECTS IN MY PEDAL BOARD AND THIS ONE PEDAL SUCKS
AL THE TONE BACK! FINALLY TODAY I WENT TO A MUSIC STORE AND BOUGHT
A USED BOSS-DD3 FOR 100 BUCKS AND ASKED MYSELF WHY I DIDNT DO THIS
BEFORE.
GUYS...... THIS IS MY FIRST REVIEW HERE... BUT I HAD TO TELL THIS.........
********* NEVER EVER BUY THIS PEDAL. PERIOD ************
NOW I FEEL BETTER.

The manual is the only thing that helps here.

I used a Strat and a Fender Twin Reverb with this and it sounds ok. You can get the Pink Floyd sound out of it but not too much more versatile. I don't care much for the Sun Sound slapback anyway.

THIS IS A PIECE OF S%$#!! Do not waste your money on this as the unit will crap out on you during a practice or worse yet-a gig! The jacks are cheaply made and fail after one month or so of STUDIO USE! I sent the unit back to Danelectro @ their San Clemente Post Office with my complaint and received a fresh new one that crapped out within a few months. TERRIBLE PRODUCT!! DO NOT SUBSIDIZE THESE CAPITALISTIC THIEVES!

Their customer support is practically non-existent because you wil get NO CService by phone. The only thing to do is take it back to SamAsh or GCenter and get your money back.

Overall, this pedal sucked up much of my energy in trying to get it to stabilize and work as it should. fresh out of the box you are lucky to get a few months of life out of it. PIECES OF JUNK!

Although this pedal has 4 knobs and some idiots won't know how to work it, I bought it Secondhand for $10. And it 's like a charm to work. But that's befor the problems start.

I have a Gibson Explorer, Fender Strat, Played on a Marshall MG Amp and a Samick SM%0 Amp. Effects Rack : Boss DS2-trubo, Danelectro flanger, Boss overdrive.This damn pedal was supposed to be my analog delay...but it faield me within two days.

This is the cheapest piece of sh@# that you can buy. It makes a good delay effect up until it starts picking up weird noises. That no-one seems to be able to fix. So if some one knows how to bypass this(And I think it's happens when you turn the Repeat knob) please let me know at josias_esterhuizen6@hotmail.com. PLEASSSSEEEEEEE.

Can't get hold of the FU@#$%# to SH@#$@# on their heads for constructing this "thing" - mind you the website isn't even worth visiting

I play absolutely everything from rock-metal-pop-blues-jazz-reggae ext. And I have been playing for eternity now. I should have used my knowledge when buying this...but for the price it was a deal. (Which turned out to be a bad one)

Very Simple to use. This was my first delay type of pedal ever and I figured out tons of settings and formats within a few hours of toying with it. Manual was very helpful. I basically set one in and then worked it from there till I found my own little prefrences. Im giving it an 8 because it took some time to get to know everything, but it wont be a problem with anyone that has ever used a delay before.

I play this with a Standard Stratocaster, a Big Muff Distortion, and a Roland Blues Cube 60. By itself it is very nice, it cuts the highs slightly, but all you have to do is readjust the EQ. The effects are very distinctive in the sound and can clearly be heard. This helps me get some David Gilmour sounds when I have a very slight delay by thickening up the sound. It makes it sound powerful for single coils. The downside is when I use this in combo with my distortion, it gets VERY muddy and I have to cut the bass and mids completely to get it to sound decent. Im thinking of buying some more cables and running it through the loop to see if that helps.

Very dependeble, the jacks seem pretty good, but may wear down after time. The knobs also seem a tad weak, so dont push them to hard. But yes, I have and will continue to gig without a back up.

Never dealt with them. Though they gave me a free sticker with it:)

I play mostly classic rock, Pink Floyd mostly, usually some Led Zeppelin and some Beatles, and occasionally The Yardbirds and The Allman Brothers. Ive been playing about 6 years. If it were lost or stolen, I would probably buy one again, although I would shop around first since Ive never used any other types of delays or echoes. I wish the delays kept going after I turned it off. This makes it impossible to play a solo over chords. You can get some nice chords, and then when you start playing something over it, that keeps repeating too. So basically you get a big mess of noise. Overall I would recomend it to anyone interested, mainly because of the price.

delay is never very easy, but this one doesnt require a class to understand it. has mix, cut, speed,and repeat and also has a hi-lo switch for speeds.

it sounds wonderful. good vintage delay that ranges from low-mid speed echo to fast reverb-type sounds. it can get a little muddy and looses articulation when used after dist. its not noisy at all and it always sounds good.

so far so good

using delay is an art form and it takes practice, but this is a really good pedal. if you need a super wide range of delay sounds, go with one of the boss delays that have four or five different modes on them. this is a vintage type "tape" delay and has a set sound with basic controls. try it out... i love it.

Okay, let's start with a few facts....up until the last few months I've always pretty much been a plug and play kinda guy, so I'm not an expert on effects pedals. This is the first delay pedal I've owned (digital/analog or otherwise). So, it took me a little bit to figure out how the knobs and switches interacted with each other. However, Dano does supply a nifty manual with several suggested jumping off points for different sounds and delay types. But, with a little patience and lots of fun experimenting it all makes sense now. Would probably like it a little better if it had either a tap tempo feature, or at least a blinking LED like my chorus to help fine tune the delay rate.

No, it does not have super hi-fi sound reproduction, but, it's not supposed to. What it's supposed to do is sound like vintage tape echo. I don't know how well it does that, but it gives me a really nice rock-a-billy slapback and adds a reverb presence to my non-reverb Ampeg. It seems to function better on an adapter as it gets noisy when the battery starts to die. I will say that eats batteries quicker than any other pedal I own. It doesn't add any noticable hum to my tone, and i don't notice any huge tone suckage either. A little loss of high end, maybe? One quirk I have noticed..and this is only in battery mode, was some weird 8 bit atari noises when I was switching the lo/hi delay switch. The high end roll-off knob is extra nice to muddy up the repeats and keep it retro sounding, as well.

Have only had it for a few weeks, but my Daddy-o has held up fine, with the exception of the battery compartment door. I always gig without back-ups...I'm poor. Plus...I use effects to add texture, I don't depend on them for the song.

Haven't ever had to deal with Danelectro, but they seem awfully hard to get ahold of..their website doesn't have support for any of their older pedals abd when I did e-mail them to see if I could get a manual for my Daddy-o (I got it second hand), I never got any response.

This rating is based on what I paid...I got it on e-bay from a music store that had closed and was selling their new stock. Would I think it was a 9 if I had paid $100 or whatever list is? Probably not. But for $50 it fit's the bill for what I need. It gives a nice slapback echo to single note runs and adds echo texture to chord progressions. Don't get me wrong..the delay and repeats are enough to do some brit-pop noodling or metal soloing, but it's forte is VINTAGE.

It would be easier to use if the knobs were not on top of each other. Manual is ok. Never depended too much on manuals. You have to play with the settings to get the type tone and sound for your individual style of playing.

I play thru a Carvin XV-100 Tube Amp with Celestion Greenback 12" speaker. From my guitar I go into an "Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer(Reissue and unmodified), into a "MXR dyna comp", and into the "Dan-Echo". I presently do not use a noise gate but plan on getting the "MXR Smart Gate" to put at the end of the chain. At present the pedal is not noisy. Have had it for about a year and a half now and no problems. The sound to me is fine, I have no complaints as far as that goes.

I do not like the PLASTIC INPUT AND OUTPUT JACKS. That was a very unintelligent move on this company to save money. The body itself is built like a tank so why go cheap on two of the most used parts on the unit? Has the input or output broken or not worked as of yet? NO! But you have to know I am very, very careful when I plug into or pull out my cords in this unit. This is why I would not buy another one for a backup. Learn from "MXR". They've been selling some of their units for over 20 years now and some players have reported not ever having to call customer service because the unit never gave them a problem in 20 YEARS!! Do you think it's because they built them right the first time Dan-Echo?

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I PLAY Rock, a little blues for a long time. If it was lost or stolen I would not replace it because of the plastic input and output jacks.
To me, the sound is great. Knobs are too damn close to work with unless you have toothpicks for fingers.