Danelectro DJ-13 French Toast Octave Overdrive

Easy to use if you decide you want to

Custom tele thru 71 silver face deluxe reverb. yes it's noisy. Terrible sounds. I mean awful sounds. Got it as a package deal with a chorus pedal. I would send it back but I'd have to send the cool cat chorus back too and I happen to like it.

Will find someone to give it to.

Will not ever need it

Bought it just to play with a fuzz to see what the hype was about. I've been playing long enough to know I don't want this. Hope someone steals it. Will never buy it again. Have not compared it to any other fuzz boxes. Please don't waste your money unless you won the powerball lotto and just like to throw money away.

Aww,ain't this a cute little box?Does anyone else notice a resemblance between the danelectro pedals and epilators,y'know,those things that they used to have on tv fer women's leg-shavin needs?Well that,in a sense is what this little guy does-it shaves yr tone,filing it to a razor-sharp fuzz.I use it with an epiphone SG thru a PEEVEE amp.I own 12 other stompboxes,but the one I most commonly use with this pedal is,get ready,the fabulous 2-knob DOD envelope filter!I can hear the heckles from the M.I.T. grads n' gearheads now.Let me explain:with the octave switch engaged on the Dano and the range on max and the sens.3/4 of the way up on the envelope filter,you can nail the tone of the EH micro-synth.Be sure to turn the tone knob on your guitar all the way down and the distortion and EQ all the way down on the French toast.that enables yr octave to ring thru,creating nice ring-modulation effects.As a stand-alone the little booger kicks ass.French toast,indeed,made with moldy bread.It is quite noisy and keeps you up on current ball game stats but to avoid this,keep playing.

well its plastic and cheap.Highly replaceable,if need be.I don't gig right now so Ihave no need fer a back up.I just record and do guest spots on my friends'demos.Hasn't crapped out on me yet.

haven't dealt with em.

I play a peculiar breed of music.This thing helps me simulate analog synth tones over phat beats and echo-phased,tremo-ringed,humanized trippy geetars plus low-note casio Clav and bass cello.I've been playing guitar unconventionally fer 15 yeeers so I know what sounds good but its really all about taste.If you want pristine,go Digitech.I like ugly slimey tones cuz they remind me of my mom.If anyone stole this thing I'd laugh my ass off because cats around here aren't into fuzz and experimentation,no, they prefer the solace of ripping off Van Halen and driving Camaros.As stated before they are very replaceable.

It is rather easy to use 3 knobs and a switch. If you ever used a overdrive pedal before it shouldn't be a problem.

This pedal sucks tone, sounds harsh and distorts in a very unmusical way. I have tried it with a Strat, Epiphone Casino, Danelectro U2 and a Gibson Flying V. No good. Crap. The only thing I found it good for was for very noisy stuff.

It is made of plastic. My prior experience with plastic pedals, says no. It will not endure live use, with people spilling beer and stagediving. The knobs dont feel very solid.

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I dont find it very usefull, and I will trade it in for some other overdrive pedal. I play both pop music and freejazzhardcore stuff, but I could not find any use for it. The color was nice though. I used to have a Foxx Tone Machine, who craped out for good, so I was hoping that this pedal could replace it. No.
But check it out, could be just the sound you are looking for. It just didn't work for me.

How easy is it to get a sound out of it? Pretty simple. You got your level control, which controls the level of sound. Distortion control, which controls the amount of distortion coming out of your amp. Your octave switch, which turns it one octave higher of lower. Then finally you got you EQ control, which controls the clearness of the sound. Last you got your distortion button itself. Simple!

I have put a submission in here before and decided to twick it up a little bit. I use a Fender stratocastor and a fender frontman amp. If you have your settings the way you want it you can't get a very good sound quality out of your distortion pedal along with your amp.
It is noisy when you start to turn your EQ up maybe about half way, probably not even that. I can turn my selector and put my tone on my guitar to a certain spot where it'll reduce the noise coming out but unfortunately you can't reduce it all. The effects are amazing! It has a nice crunch to it, better than some distortion pedals out there. If you know how to set your amp and your guitar you can make it have a great sound.
There are some artists that I can get a almost near perfect sound. One is prince. If you listen to some of his songs, he has his distortion turned mighty high. And another is tool.

Reliability. If you were going to gig with it I would make sure I would have another one on hand or use this one as a back-up. It has a hard plastic body and it probably won't stand up to hard stomping, if you plane on doing that. I would recommend one with a hard metal body. Overall I think I could depend on it.

Well I had delt with them through a music store. I never talked to them but I had to get my distortion pedal fixed. (for the first time). My jack out put was loose. I was disappointed when I got it back though. They hadn't quite got it back to normal. The jack wiggles around in the output. So if you move it just slightly it will turn off the distortion pedal. That is the only drawback with the company.

Overall I think this is a great pedal. I'm very happy with it. Great sound and easy to use. There is one thing I wish it had was an LCD light. Sometimes its on when you don't want it to be. I highly recommend this pedal for anyone who doesn't want to spend a whole lot a money but still wants a great sound.

About as easy as trying to make a piece of shit sound good, which is hard. No manual-- they probably couldn't come up with any example settings no doubt.

I have a guitar, I plug it into an amp, sometimes I use pedals. This thing sounds like crap no matter what. Absolute terrible sound. Can't believe they actually market junk like this. You know what they say though, a sucker is born every minute. If your trying to sound like shit then here's your pedal.

I can rely on this pedal to sound like shit.

If a company actually tries to sell this kind of garbage to people how trustworthy can they be? It's made in China, so we know Danelectro's reaping profits since they probably use child labor. Don't you just love these companies that love Americans so much that they send all our jobs to China? First we lose our jobs, then we gotta pay $40.00 for a piece of shit pedal. Then again the Chinese are smart and never pay full price like us, since they buy everything from the black market. They copy everything from computer games to Microsoft Windows and sell them for dirt cheap over there. Only us dumb American consumers pay the full prices on shit. Good thing there's dumb people like us to keep those rich people in buisness.

I play my own style of music. This pedal is useless. I've been playing for 8 years. Overall rating = crap.

this pedal is pretty easy to use, sometimes its a little tricky to turn it on and off because its so small. also its kind of hard to tell if its on or not because there is no led indicator. but other than that its super easy to use

Sound quality is pretty sweet. its nice and full with the distortion by itself, and with the octave swicth on its great. you just have to fiddle with the knobs until you figure out what you like. i like to use the neck pickup on my strat and roll down the tone to about 3 or 4. i think this pedal souds better when you use it with the distortion channel on the amp with the gain up to about 4 or 5 , it souds less shrill, its also less noisy this way than the using clean channel

i wouldnt rely on it to much, its only plastic

i am definetly happy i got this pedal, it couldnt get much better for how cheap the price is, the only thing it needs is the little red light to tell you if its on or off

Argh. It's a pedal.

My current setup is Fender Japanese (Reissue) Vintage Strat -> Vox V847 Wah -> Danelectro DJ-13 -> Vox Cambridge 30 Reverb. I, of course, like the sound. I thought that fuzz might sound better with the clean channel of my amp, but was wrong. Gain knob at abt. 1 o'clock in my amp, without the gain boost on sounds really good, especially with the wah. But I can't see no point in listing setups here.
The thing is a bit noisy, especially with higher distortion, but that's no wonder, considering the amount of 'fuzz'. I rarelly use the octavizer.

Plastic, small. Compared to my other pedals..

Very nice pedal. If you want a fuzz, this is great. If you don't, then stay away from this thing.

I think if you push the round button in the middle it makes it go on...

The knobs turn... uuuhh

I think this pedal sounds pretty damn good. I have never used a vintage effect of the sort but i like it. Personally i kind of think that the new trendy binge of vintage effects purchases is rather annoying, all of these people basically hoping that spending $400+ will make them better guitar players... oh searching for that classic Jimi sound you say? GET A LIFE AND BE ORIGINAL

but yeah, uh , anyway... this pedal sounds good
although noisy as hell, i need a noise gate

Whoever decided that plastic knobs would be a good idea has hopefully been shot. I think danelectro developed a process by which they could weaken the plastic used to make the knobs so that if given enough time the knobs just break themselves. I know that one day i will step down to turn my pedal on and will find a pile of dano knobs under my foot.

Once I could not get this pedal to turn off. The switch did not work and it wouldnt turn it off, so I just put it away for a while, i just recently took it back out and it works great again.

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I love the sound of this pedal
I hate dork guitar players who want vintage equipment because they think that the amount of money they fork out will make them better.
I hate cheap plastic and self destructing pedals...

but we can blame it all on communist china- RIGHT GEORGE?

Its as easy as falling off a rather big log to get a fantastic sound out of this. I ran home, set it up and almost died with ecstasy. Although I only have a Squier strat, it was exactly the sound I was after. I had to mess with the tone to get rid of the noise, but then it was heaven.

It came with no manual, but then thats kinda good, since you can mess around and discover stuff for yourself.

I'm only using a Squier Strat and a practice amp, and it was really difficult to flip the overdrive switch during mid-lick so I was contemplating gatting a Big Muff, but then I saw this and read many good things about it so thats where my money went to.

Its only noisy if you have the tone up on single coil guitars, especially using the octave toggle.

The distortion is great, it sounds orgasmic even with the volume a 1/4 of the way up. If you fret a note above fret 9 on the higher strings the note will wallow and swallow itself. The sustain is also brilliant using this.

I wouldnt depend on this since its only plastic, man.

I'd use a backup, since if things got pretty hectic during the song I might smash it (It seems pretty sturdy though, no problems yet). If i didnt use a backup, it might destroy the songs, since you NEED this type of sound on stage.

I've never had to deal with them.

So i don't know.

I doubt my opinion is very good, since I've only been playing a couple of years, and i only own a Squier Strat and a Hohner Classical acoustic. Theres a Jagmaster coming my way soon though (I did have doubts because of the 'Squier' headstock, but, by all accounts, Its basically a Japanese made Fender with the samller frets, Thinner neck etc. Anyway...). I think these would be better used on guitars w/ humbuckers (another Jagmaster reference). I really only bought this for the distortion but when i got it outta the box, i realised this things filled with great noises! If you turn the octave effect on and turn the tone down, and then hammer on the notes above the 9th frets its gives it a kinda synthy-like sounds. If it were stolen or lost, I would get another one but I'd probably just invest in a cheaper overdrive or distortion to see me through. I doubt they would be as good as this though. The only complaint about this is a little LED indicator, but once your playing, its become clear.

This baby definetley helps me make music, with all its excellent sounds and strange noises.

This is the easiest pedal I have ever used!! One of my friends has an Ibanez distortion pedal, and mine is easier to use. There is a level knob, distortion knob, a octave switch, and a Equalizer knob. Then the distortion button.

I have a small room so I use a Fender Frontman Amp with my pedal. The higher the distortion the more buzzing sound you are going get through the amp. For me the buzzing noise does not bother me, but to each its own.
The sound is very amazing for how little the pedal is.
Some songs I can get the sound I want but not all the time.
The distortion can sound very excellent if you have you settings on your amp just right.

I would not gig with this pedal withour a backup. The casing is a hard plastic, and I imagine you don't want to stomp on it. If I had a second pedal I would you the Boss Brand.

Never had to deal with them.

I play any style of music (besides country) and it seems to do the job.
I have been using this pedal since last christmas.
If it were stolen there would be a great chance that I would buy another one.
At the music store they only had the danelectro pedals so I did not have a chance to compare with others.
I wish it had more tone knobs, but its good enough.