Danelectro DJ-14 Fish & Chips 7-Band EQ

This thing is fool proof. Almost plug and play

My setup is dean evo xm->fish and chips->ibanes guitar tbe screamer->peavey 115. It is awesome it even eliminates some of the hiss in the line. I use it with my little practice amp (a crappy squire 10 inch) and it makes it sound good. lol

Yes I would ude it wiyhout a backup. It is made of plastic but good plastic. but have a battery backup.

I highly recomend this eq. a couple of friends of mine use it for guitar, i use it with bass and it makes a very good improvement. very nice for its price.

Depending on your setup will have an impact on how hard this thing is to use. For me its a fairly dynamic device; i can sit there and play with it for ages and find new sounds. So i suppose, you learn how this pedal works quickly, but from then on you have to learn how to get a good sound from it. Slowly tweaking the sliders is the key.

Sound quality is good! I have a Boss 7 Band EQ pedal which sounds slightly better, but they both can tighten up your sound alot and this one is up there with the boss for sound quality.

This is where the review goes bad / i get worked up and angry. I have had this pedal for about a month, always treated it with respect and never gigged with it. Infact i would say that i have treated it VERY well, never been dropped or knocked, never even stepped on the ON/OFF button! Always turned it On/Off with my hand. So why does it not work anymore? (It emits a really loud shrieking treble sound that is defening). I mean, i understand it only cost AU$40 but why make a product if its going to break after a month of light use? Absolute piece of garbage. A real shame, because i had to go and fork out another 150 bucks for a BOSS Eq pedal to replace it. I suppose there is one good thing about the Boss pedal. It will still be working 30 years after Danelectro goes bankrupt. Oh yeah, did i mention its made of plastic? I would give it a -6,000 if i could. Garbage.

I would say that if their customer support is as good as there product reliability you would be better off throwing it in the garbage then getting it fixed, but i will reserver my judgement as i havent delt with them.

I play my own weird style. Its a little hard to explain so i'll just say that its metal/heavy/hi-gain. This pedal (and my new Boss EQ pedal) really tightens up my sound. I almost cringe when i switch it off and play without it. The only reason im giving it a 3 overall is because the sound was actually pretty good. Ill warn you though if you get one, PRAY that you get one thats going to last longer then a month, or buy it from somewhere that you can return it.

Like everybody already said...it's easy.

OK...here is a different use. I am a harmonica player and had this left over from my bass playing days. Some time ago I attached a belt clip to the back of the pedal and use it to shape my tone while on stage. I also wear a wireless body pack to send the signal to a vintage (not re-issue) 59 Fender Bassman.
Normally, I would look with great pity on players that use electronic "crutches," but this little unit gets my vote. I am a purest and have not used anything between the harp and my amp in the 20 odd years that I have been playing blues. My original intent was to use it for a volume/tone box. I use several different vintage harp mics and have a diffulcult time cutting and drilling on these beauties to install volume controls. Enter the Fish & Chips EQ.
I have set most of the sliders "flat" with a slight cut on the highs, but other than that the unit is as quite as reported.

I have been gigging with it for a month without any problems, but keep in mind that I wear it on my belt and push the button with my finger and not my foot. However, I think that the plastic housing and button would hold up in normal use.

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Very pleased.

If you know what tye of music you want to play and a general EQ shape for this then its very easy. It gets 8 because i got it and could put in my favourite metal settings and some punk settings but i couldn't make anything else sound like what i thought it would. (mainly because i've never used an EQ before)

I run this in the FX loop of my Marshall AVT275. At first i put it in line with the Boss MT-2 but it made no difference to my sound practically. Once i got it in the FX loop i was blown away about how much difference it made. Basically once it was on over the top of my usual heavy metal settings it made my usual settings sound soft, like some sort of blues song with little gain. Not sure how good you can get over tones through this. It does manage to give you a truck load of sustain if you turn up the middles, i held a not for like 30 seconds but got bored, it just wouldn't stop ringing honestly. Doesn't get a 10 because working it in conjunction with the amps EQ can be annoying and confusing.

Sure its plastic, but so long as your not playing drunk (now who'd ever do that....) its easy to step on, although i'd take my shoes off. It is plastic, but for sound quality its worth it. I'd gig it without a backup, i don't usually break stuff that easy, and if it breaks just make it part of your act.

Never dealt with the company. Although GAK where i ordere it from was helpful thanks to order tracking.

This has made my heavy metal settings sound quiet and soft. This pedal is great for metal rhythm or lead sounds, and can give you a great boost for solos in any type of music. I've been playing just under 2 years. I own a Vintage Metal Axxe Wraith (its crap for tone but looked great at first) a Marshall AVT275, a Boss MT-2 and a Dunlop Crybaby. If this was stolen i'd replace when i get some more money definetely. I love the way it can be used to change your sound completely halfway through a song with the touch of a button, and can make a soft sound sound heavy and a heavy sound go crazzzy. I wish it came with more suggested tones because i'm not good with them. I hate nothing about it, other than maybe the name sounding a bit odd. I haven't compared it physically but i think the reviews clearly show this one to be the best for the price range.

I have only a couple issues with this pedal.

1. When I put it on the floor, every time I stepped on it, I bumped all the sliders up. Maybe it's just me.

2. One day it started squealing and crackling really bad. Took it out of the chain, no problem. Put it back, More squealing. Took out the factory Dano battery, replaced it with a Duracell, problem solved.

The battery still had juice, the light was still bright, and it squealed like a son of a bitch. Change the battery. That's all I have to say about that.

You'd have to be brain dead not to get this.

I use it with a Fender Princeton Chorus and Epiphone Les Paul. I use it to make my metal pedals sound good; I find it works best before my Boss Metal Zone with the low-mids boosted (200-800) and everything else way cut. With my Ibanez Smash Box it works best in the effects loop with the lows boosted (I cut the lows on my amp) the mids boosted just a little and the highs slightly cut.

A little noise, but I think that's just it amplifying the noise at the boosted frequencies that's already there.

No problems, but plastic. Hey, for the price...

Very basic pedal, much cheaper than other brands that do the same thing. Go for it.

easy to use is one thing. easy to break is another

this thing is prolly a clone of another pedal's design, theyre all the same.

after using this thing, I tried playing it regularly with every song I do. just as soon as I take a break from it, I come back to turn it on. I wouldnt lite up. I figure the battery died. So I went to radioshack for a new 9v battery. pulgeed it in again and the lite turned yellow, prolly from some wires crossing after i strepped on it. HOW THE HELL ELSE ARE GOING TO TURN THE FREAKEN THING ON? You have to step REAL HARD on the button, thats why they make it so stiff, for durability. WHAT THE HELL DO THEY THINK MONEY GROWS ON TREES? I cant afford to try out junk when all get is minimum wage from a part time job. So after I realized I could have spent about $20 more on a nice used Boss or new Carvin when Danelectro wouldnt refund mine, i threw it so hard on the ground till it cracked. then i cummed on it. i was in a real bad mood. So i tossed it out in the dumpster.

They avoid customers that have too many questions like all companies do. Dont confuse danelectro with DANELECTRO from the 50s. I guess they made better stuff back then.

I play whatever im into on the radio. why dont they make combo amps have a better one built in?

well, it's an effectpedal - what do you expect? some knobs and a switch =P
just play around with the different frequencies. It's from low to high and then comes the volume boost.
plug the ac adapter and your cables in - be happy
(9V ~200mA)

okay - in my opinion this thing is great. My setup is:
Epiphone SG-400 Worn Brown -> Danelectro Fish and Chips -> Ibanez SM7 -> Schaller KV-50H 50W tube amp (35 years old, and just low and high controls)
I use a very cheay AC adapter and this thing doesn't make any noise. My amp is a ver old one channel tube/transistor hybrid amp - and you can just control the low and high frequencies. with the DJ-14 I can from the sound like I want it - even with my very old and bad sounding amp. I mostly play kind of metal like tool, deftones, a perfect circle, metallica or 3 doors down.
this thing is a must have for every guitar player who want to form his own sound.

well, I'ts perhaps not that robust like a boss pedal, but it's made to kick it, too! It's made of a very hard plastic - I think that you have to damage it purpose to destroy it.

not needet yet.

very good pedal, I won't give it up. a little helper which is essential for me =D

Pretty easy to use if u are already familiar with graphic equalizers of any kind ( my rating is based on this )...
Anyway, not too much difficult if u are new at this either...

I'm using a Serrano amp custom and my Strat, this amp is designed for harmonicas only, so it lacks treble freq., but this pedal sure worked this out. Not noisy at all ( really! ). Great sound all the time. With a little time and pacience u can shape the sound very close to your favorite artist. Great as a clean booster too!
I really can't understand why would someone preffer a boss ge-7 over this one... The Boss is a good pedal when it comes to the sound quality, but it's really too noisy... Why in hell would an equalizer generate so much noise when u cut off a frequency? Can't really tell. Not to mention that they color way too much the bypassed signal ( Which, by the way, Danelectro doesn't do at all ).

Based on other reviews one could tell that this is a great survivor, but i won't take chances on mine, by being very carefull with it...
Cheap plastic doesn't look very reliable to me ( i can't be wrong though, cuz it may not be what it looks like ), but then again it's not my intention to abuse it ( And for that, no rating on this category )...
With this in mind, i'd sure use it on a gig without a backup.

I'm not in EUA or Canada, so there's no free support for me... Anyway, people at Danelectro seems to be very friendly, as i could notice from their response to my e-mail... So i can't really rate this once again...

I play rock'n'roll seriously and everything else for fun ( yet )... This is really a great pedal when your amp isn't helping with a certain frequency... It's great as a booster too, helps a lot to get a really fat sound of any amp... I'd sure buy it again if it was stolen or lost! Too much better than a boss or any other GE i've ever tried... It wasn't incredibly cheap, but then again i'm in another country, and it's worth every cent...
It only could get better if it had 10 or 14 bands and a metal box... And that's about it:)

just slide the slider-knobs, you'll figure out which does what

it is not noisy and does not color the sound in any way when set flat and thats alot more than can be said about alot of EQ pedals costing 3 times as much.

very useful tool for different sounds. i think its funny when a person saves up and gets thier "dream guitar & amp", only to sell it thinking its not what they wanted - when they should have added an EQ first.... an EQ is a very good tool, it can tighten up your muddy bass/mids, add some high end if other pedals kill treble, add some low end if needed, etc.

i mainly got this because my small tube amp combo is a great sounding class A amp, but my overdrive pedal is mid heavy so now i keep them in check. also, it really tightened up the sound alot which is also a big plus in my book

if youve searched and bought alot of pedals and still are not happy with your sound then invest in an EQ, you can really stretch the limits of your amps/guitars range. it seems almost like a "secret weapon" as others have said because a good deal of guitarists ignore them. it lets you have alot more control over your sound. if its muddy, trebly, - whatever, you can fix it by lowering the offending frequencies and adjusting the volume as needed.

ive had a dod EQ for a long time and it finally went to shit, so i went & searched for another. the boss was a little noisy and had that common boss "stank" that comes with thier pedals and alters the sound in a small way - even when its off or not supposed to. also tried the MXR EQ and while i will admit that its a better EQ (mostly because of the metal casing) i dont think its worth that much more than this - not when this sounds just as good and will work magic on any rig

i give it a seven cause its plastic, but ive never seen a broken dano mini, so i have to give it some credit.

i had a mini pedal go bad once, sent it in and they sent me a new one, they didnt even ask but the pedal was used, i bought it used and still got a free replacement

very good pedal and probable the most "bang for your buck" EQ pedal in existance. it does its job and it does it well. if you are one of those people who will avoid a pedal because its not made by (insert brnd - boss, mxr, digitech, etc.) then you'll never know about this little tool.

but if you are not worried about having a 1/2-pint sized little pedal on your board to help tighten up/smooth out your sounds then this is for you