Danelectro DJ-10 Grilled Cheese Distortion

3 knobs, level, distortion, resonance,,,,tweak it to your liking

for all you people who say its thing, and whinny and sounds like someones talking outta their nose..... thats the point of this distortion... it gives you that '60s style "cheesy" distortion, that thin high end, distortion, hence the name "grilled cheese distortio"

its plastic, but its been holding up... probly would have a back up... knowing how i play i would...but still, plastic? not very reliable unless you "touch" it to turn it on not "stomp" it like stompboxes should be

never dealt with any thing here.....

its a good distortion if your into that '60's era high end fuzzy distortion..... but other then that, thats all its good for.... i play bass, and i've found better pedals than this..... i sold it to my guitarist and he uses it with an overdrive pedal, which sounds thicker and heavier with the bottom end of the overdrive.... so yea, '60s and 70s era distortion = great, metal, punk etc = crap not even worht trying......

Very easy to use, you got the level of distortion and the resonance.

I'm a little confused as to how this pedal is supposed to sound. Live, it can't be an asset. It gives out a high pitched whinny, nasally distortion, it seems to just drop the bass altogether. I can see where it can add some variety and be kinda fun in the studio. It might sound pretty good paired with a flanger.

It seems as sturdy and reliable as any other dan pedal that I've used. Pretty tough equipement.

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Fun to mess around with, but I could never take one of these pedals seriously. It might be a neat toy in the studio for added effects.

Two knobs, one for level, one that changes the tone.

Cort Str@ through a Fender Champ. The sound is kind of nasal, not good for rhythm at all, but it makes a pretty good lead shriek at some settings.

The best sound I found was to run a Boss flanger into at at high speed, medium depth. It makes a bizarre science fiction kind of warble that is weirdly attractive, like a martian bird call.

The nasal sound tends to grow on you after a while. There's no bass whatsoever, even at its deepest setting, but it does cut through the clutter.

Punk-n-blues, it doesn't really fit with my style, but it's still fun to fool around with. I don't play lead very much, but since it doesn't really make a good rhythm sound, I end up noodling more when I kick it.

set for an idiot

if you want a very tinny...fuzzy sound...this is your pedal ..not for the hard rock 90s...good for playing nirvana and bush type rock

one of my other pedals (not this one) started to click when i steped on it...just be careful

good

The button is too small and i keep on missing

it can be made goo d when i use it with other effects like a flanger or phazer but on its own its very tinny

good solid build

ive never needed to get it repaired

its not a very good effect for heavy deep rock but for late 90s punk or 50s music it would sound good.

I use this Danelectro Grilled Cheese distortion pedal with a fender hot rod deluxe amp. ax's are fender strat & Tele.I get a wide range of sound,as far as noise,I just fnd a quiet spot to stand. This peddle in my opinion really puts out well for a cheep price,easy to use,I can go from a mellow sound to a crunch to jimi hendrix dist.

Easy of course.

Not for me. An ugly hollow notched distortion for use as a novely only a novelty I can do without

Ok you knows?

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Ok for turning a few heads, but anybody who played thru this all night
would be nuts.

2 Knobs. One for volume and a resoance knob to change the sound. Extremely simple.

I play this on a Silvertone guitar using a plain old amp and It rocks.
With the res. knob all the way to the left you get a real shrill, tinny distortion that makes your ears bleed and all the way to the right gives you a warmer, more muffled fuzzy sound. With the knob in the middle somewhere you get a a tone somewhere between the two mentioned above along with a high-pitch feedback underneath the sound (at least on my amp anyways).

I haven't had it that long but it seems ok. It is made of plastic but it's not "cheap plastic", it feels more like heavy duty plastic.

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I play lots of surf, and some rockabilly, punk, Noise-Pop and garage. This pedal can definately be adapted to all of these styles. The garage sound is a given, and if you're into Man or Astro-Man type surf you can put an echo on this and you'll be rolling. I tried hooking this up with a Boss Ds1 and you get LOTS of feedback and shrieks a la Henry's Dress. If you're into any of those styles I'd definately go to your local shop and at least give this a try.

it's about as easy as you can get to be honest. just a volume knob which adjusts the volume (bet you wouldn't have guessed that without an explanation), and one called resonance. the resonance is a bit funny, it's like the tone control but it's weird. it seems to control the sound as if it was a distortion pedal and a fixed position wah, and the resonance alters the 'position' that the wah pedal is in.

i use it with my sg and my valvestate amp, and i run it along with 10 other pedals. it goes like this:
guitar>electro harmonix bass microsynth>cry baby>marshall jackhammer>GRILLED CHEESE>korg toneworks 411fx>boss dm3 analogue delay>marshall vibratrem>danelectro cool cat>dod vibrothang>dod stero flanger>electro harmonix small stone>amp.
the pedal by itself has very little background noise unless the resonance is turn fully to the left, but if in use with another distortion or overdrive pedal it can get pretty squeely between notes. but that's just cos of the amount of gain i suppose. the sounds it makes are very unique and i don't think it could ever be used as a straight ahead disortion or overdrive pedal. for a start the gain isn't adjustable, it's pretty high gain and you can't alter that. but also, it's very lo fi sounding....which i happen to like, but i'm sure certain people would hate it for this too. i wouldn't be supprised if ace from skunk anansie uses one by now. i can get perfect replica's of the intro sound to 'lakini's juice' by LIVE, the really tinny trebbly part half way through 'born of a broken man' by rage against the machine, and if you use it with the jackhammer and the small stone you can get a perfect sound like the solo to 'mayonaise' by smashing pumpkins. it's definitley not for everyone, and it is limited in it's application, but uses sparingly i think it would be excellent in a full band situation just to change the texture of your sound every now and again. also, i forgot, it sounds just exactly like the intro riff to 'leech' by limp bizkit. if you know these songs you will surely understand what it sounds like. i think blues guys will hate it, but anyone willing to be a bit different with their sound will put it to good use. my rating for this section is in my opinion, but i think it would get a 1 from jazz or blues players or anyone 'traditional'.

well it's plastic so i wouldnt exactly throw it about, but mine's on my pedalboard already so i dont see me having any problems with it. it does seems pretty rugged considering it's only plastic. although i've had it only one day, so i can't really judge this at all.

never dealt with them, but i've read that they're good.

i play loads of different styles of music, but in all honesty i think this would only work in a rock band. i have been playing about 5 years and recently i have become a pedal junkie.....and i must say i like it for it's originality. for not much money at all you can get funky weird sounds that most people don't have-providing you actually like the funky weird sounds it makes. i do love the sound. it sounds great to play a heavy riff with it on a really trebbly setting, and then switch to a huge sound from the jackhammer and play the same riff. the contrast in sounds really does sound good cos it goes from small and grainy sounding to big and fat sounding. try it. i do wish it was made in one of the metal boxes like my cool cat though cos it think that thing will long outlast me, and i can't see this one lasting anywhere near as long. i didn't really compare it to any other products because i dont know of any similar ones, there may well be other similar products out there but i have no idea. i plugged into the danelectro showroom pedalboard for a bit of a laugh, not intending to buy anything, and i came away from the shop with this because it sounded new and different. it will definitley help me make music on future, although i will stick to the jackhammer for my main rhythm sound and just use this on certain parts. also on the pedalboard, the others i'd recommend are the tuna melt trem pedal (although i will stick with my vibrothang), and the hash browns flanger. the flanger was fantastic, especially for the money. i am seriously considering trading my dod stereo flanger for the hash browns one because it sounds so much better.

NOTE: I'm re-reviewing this product. Mine was the original review that should be at the bottom of the page. I originally wrote the review after having it a day or two, so I wasn't completely exposed to it.

Eh, I think just about any stomp box is easy to use. It's a bit smaller than my liking, so that deducts a couple points... makes it harder to get the switch w/o stoping on the knobs as well.

On further evaluation of this box, it is not worth buying. In fact, I returned mine a couple weeks after I bought it. Like I said before, the presence of the effect was very subtle. It did boost the gain a whole bunch, so you could get killer feedback... but that was about it's only use. I'd expect a little better from Dano. Hey, save up another $20 and get one of their GOOD, bigger pedals.

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Didn't deal with Dano. I can say though that the salesman at Guitar Center (Booooo) was a pain when I tried to return it. For at least a half an hour, he tried to talk me out of returning it. Then he tried to blame me for it not sounding right. "oh, effect pedals usually don't work right on acoustic/electrics or with practice amps." BULL. I've used plenty of boxes that work fine with both.

Don't buy it, unless you're looking for some PASSIVE effect that sounds alright. I guess it makes that "hollow" sound that it's advertised as.... but you can get better effects for that. The price is tempting, but don't give in.