Danelectro DJ-14 Fish & Chips 7-Band EQ

The Fish & Chips EQ is pretty easy to use. Use the sliders to adjust different frequency ranges. Stomp the button to turn it on and off.

I use a Marshall JCM 600 2x12" combo. The guitars I've used the pedal with are a DeArmond Les Paul Copy (M65C) and an Epiphone SG. This pedal is a little bit noisy, despite claims of being a "studio quality" effect. However, this is nothing you would even notice in a live situation.

This pedal sounds great. It actually surprised me. I didn't realize how helpful a separate EQ can be. With this pedal out front, it really has an impact on my sound. In the effects loop, the pedal makes slighter changes to the amp's sound. If you don't like the sound of your guitar or your amp, and want a cheap way to adjust out the bad sounds, this is a good way to go. Obviously cheap gear is always going to sound like cheap gear, but you have much more versatility with the Dano Fish & Chips pedal.

This pedal is very compact. Unfortunately, the parts are all thin. You wouldn't want to drop, kick, hit, or otherwise expose this pedal to high impacts. Part of the reason these are so cheap is because they are made with inexpensive parts. No, I wouldn't gig without a backup.

I have never dealt with Danelectro.

I play punk, hardcore, emo, and rock. This pedal can make octave chords sound really crisp and can make fifth chords tighter. It can also give a little boost with the level control for leads. My favorite feature is its simplicity. My second favorite feature is the way you can click the sliders into the very middle, so that you always have a starting place. Like I said above, I was surprised at how much of an impact it could have. Overall, I'll give it a 10. It really is a "fantastic value" for $40.

Functions discussed below by others. Very easy to use assuming you have some idea what range of sounds each frequency band covers. But you'll figure that out soon.

I used to play a 72 RI Custom Tele > Arion Tuner> PRoCo Rat > Small Stone into a YCV4Oa amp and then through the effects loop> a Boss DD-5 > danalectro EQ > danalectro tremolo > Rocktek delay > Boss NS-2 noise suppressor back into the amp.

A word about EQ's. EQ is the most underrated effect in my opinion. It can take the hiss out of almost any single coil guitar, cheap or old effect, or microphone. It can compensate for nasal sounding guitars or guitars with uneven string response. Run through the effect loop it can take out the buzz and hiss out of a amp. Run before an amp and you can use it to overdrive your tubes. This can be very useful for tube amps and absolutely horrible for solid states. You can use it to shape the "tone" (a phrase which is used way to generically) of your clean or dirty channel.


But the fun thing thing to do with effects pedals is turn every knob but one down all the way to -15dB. Turn only one knob up to +15 dB and adjust the level slider so that there is no discernible volume drop when you engage the pedal. This works best with tube amps. Your guitar will sound like stationary auto-wah, or an old thin-sounding radio, or like your listening to your guitar through a long metal pipe. It's essentially become a filter.

Filters are fantastic for making your parts stand out in the mix. You literally carve a spot out for your guitar in the overall eq of the band. Use them on an intro and then turn em off when everyone else comes in. Or get real nuts and run a vocal loop through the pedal and manually sweep every range, it'll sound like a schizophrenic Speak and Spell.

Careful which order you put the pedal in your effects chain, cause it can overdrive you pedals in a nasty, non musical way. (Which can also be fun)

Compared to other eq's this pedal sounds as good as any other. It's pretty simple technology.

These are built like they were disposable. Seriously, I've seen bic pens more solidly built. THe screws on the inside are almost needle thin, and the footswitch is designed to collect dust and crap out.

BUT...

All of my pedals got destroyed in a flooded basement last week where they sat for 6 days before being found under 4 inches of water. Everything died except the Danalectro EQ.

I was completely surprised that this piece of crap survived. I doubt this would happen with others. I don't care about the others though. This pedal is now my hero. I give it a 10 for playing Lazarus.

I don't play with a backup, but I've been pretty pissed when pedals have shorted out on me in the past. If you like spending money, don't buy a back up; for the price of two, you could buy a Boss. (although my other boss pedals died in the flood so who knows)

I can't imagine you'd get a lot of support for such a cheap pedal. If they call you back they've probably lost half the cost of the pedal on the customer support guy's salary.

I play spacey/aquatic melancholy music.

Influences: Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, the Pixies, the Jesus Lizard, Led Zeppelin.

Similiar bands: Interpol, Blonde Redhead, the French Kicks, the Walkmen, Slowdive, Spoon, Smog.

I've been playing since I was 13, I'm 24 now. Been in gigging bands since I was 15.

I like any instrument or anything that makes pretty, strange, and/ or unique sounds. I hate chorus, flange, and octave pedals. I love delays, phasers, tremolos, and EQ's used as filters.

I heard other people complain that the volume dropped when they lowered some of the sliders. Or that the sound distorts when you turn the level to high. That's what EQ's pedals are supposed to do. dB means decibel. So when you turn the decibels down it gets quiet, when you turn them up it gets loud. Loud signals distort, which sounds good with tubes and like crap with solid state. The overall level slider is there to compensate for filtering out other frequencies.

Overall, extremely useful for the amount of money this thing costs. The first pedals anyone should get are an eq and a stage tuner. There's no reason to buy an expensive version of either one of these unless you have money to blow.

this thing is GREAT'''''''it gives it a edge''''''to your amp'''
simple to work with no prob;;;;

boss-mt2 boss-digital delay-digitec rp200 for home..crate bv120 head-marshall cab.wahburn custom built-jackson- roads....the sound gives this head''' a KICK..no noisey'crap sounds .
you can get the gut of METAL ''OLD SCHOOL TO NEW'' TO DEATH METAL ''IT WORKS GREAT WITH MY TOYS...IT GIVES YOUR SOUND A MAJOR KICK..great ''happy as hell'''

i keep this on top of my amp this way i don't need to step on it and hit the levels ''' when you get to loaded''' laughing'''i use it all the time i just got it from musicans friend for 29 .dollars''''a few days ago ''' with adapter'' only 9 bucks.....

not tell with them .. there propley cool peps.....

Iplay from jazz metal to death,,, and this little jem '' is the way to go ;;;;;i compared this to the boss peddle'' and boss want's 90.00 bucks .. it doe;s the same thing '' it;s that the boss is all metal '' and it is costly'''so i saved a lot of money'''like 50.00 dollars and the adapter would be another 20..bucks'''''hey ''all i can say i love this fish and chips ..E-Q THANKS' DAN ELECTRO ; FOR NOT TAKING MY MONEY'''''YAHOO''''

You have 7 bands, a volume control, and an on/off button to tweak only. How hard can that be? Then again, its a common feature on most 7 band EQ pedals. Something though, the band slides are not too soft or hard , which ensures your settings aren't easily changed accidentally.

I have too much to say here but here goes: This pedal is a wonder!! Like other good 7 band EQ pedals ,its pretty noiseless and executes it job well. I use it via the effects loop. Anything I dial in well comes out nicely. Anything I dial in crap comes out crap. Notice it isn't the pedal's fault? So its a great pedal. But what makes it excellent? This is my story: my amp ( a 30W Charvel SS amp) speakers always made this crackling sound whenever the volume was past 10 o'clock. So it hindered from playing above 10. However with the Fish & chips, I found out that reason for the crackling sound was due to the speaker's ability to handle higher levels of frequency 600 Hz. So I lowered that particular frequency on the EQ and guess what? Its gone! Now I can play loud and raunchy without that horrific buzz. Of course I've compensated the slight loss in bass by increasing the other bass frequency. Thank God I'm no sound expert 'cause it sound the same after compensation. So I'll never complain! To sum it up, THe Dano EQ breathed new life into my amp. I had thoughts of getting rid of it. Now no more all because of it!! Its not jsut a pedal, its a life saver! Also, I use it with my bass amp and bass which grants me access to tone heaven given what my bass is. With that I'm giving it a rightful 10.

Okay this is the dodgy bit. Obviously one look at it tells all. I'm not confident in its ability to handle jumping & bouncing Angus Young gorrila performers. But I aint one, so great! Its not just the outer layer, its also the on/off switch. If its spoilt, shite it is for me 'cause I think I don't know how realiable it is. Also, the battery clip. It uses the really cheap,crappy ones that sutdents use in Electronic classes. With time, I reckon the rubber in it will rot and will get sticky. It'll be even worse if you forget to your battery out and leave it there for a millenium. My advice, change the battery clip 'cause otherwise its gonna be quite dodgy changing batteries. Bear in mind that its a cheap pedal.

They don't have Danelectro in Malaysia. So I can't comment.

Aside from the not so pleasing aesthethics its really a hidden gem. Doubt I'll ever get rid of it. Its application extends beyond guitar usage. Versatility is 10/10. Any guitarist should get one 'cause its seriously EQ pedals are seriously underrated and lots of professionals actually use this things. Buy it!

Good for such a cheap pedal

It's plastic so one should be more careful than with a solid steel pedal like DOD, BOSS, etc

I got this pedal so I could make a 3 channels version of my Marshall AVT50 head. This head has 2 channel: a clean which I like to keep as such, and a gain channel that I wanted to set for cruch or dirt. This way, with the F&C, It allows me strictly with the pedals volume to increase the gain and the sustain and simulate a 3rd channel. Basically, it's now like a Fender amp setup that has the pedal channel swithching with green, yellow and red channels.

If you have an amp like the AVT50H or something similar with 2 channels, this little Danalectro pedal does a great job creating a 3rd channel for very little money. It allows also if you whish to equalize a little more your lead sound. In Fact, I would not consider buying and using that head or the Marshall combos AVT20 or AVT50 without a F&C.

easy as falling off something which is really easy to fall off of, such as a log or other large rounded object.

good, but not great. most of the time i want to do strange things with eq, such as turning all the sliders down or up but one, but the frequenceys dont cut out all the other i.e. with just treble you can still hear bass. also the eq sliders affect the volume, it would be nice if the volume was solely controled by the level control. as a genral eq enhancer this is a great bit of kit, after delay and stuff it sounds amazing.

i gig with it and dont use a backup, i can depend on it, it's made of plastic but it's pretty solid, when i first got it i was scared of treating it ruffly, but now i can throw it about a bit and it's still working after about 2 years.

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it good, but not amazing, i'm not going to buy a different eq, it does what i want it to well, and being as cheap as it is, i cant conplain

Well, I think we all have used EQ's in one or other way. Analice the sound, what lacks? what you want to scoop? then try to play with the knobs and pay atention to you ears... you will be discovering new exciting tones and colour withing seconds.

There isn't any mistery with an EQ. It does what it is suposed to do, and I think the sound is clean, and bypass the original signal without altering it.

well, is little and made of plastic, you can use on a table, but not on the floor in a gig. But I use it for recording at my home studio, so I don't need a tank ;)

I don't know

If U want an EQ in a box, consider get this one. If you don't care about the fact that is made of plastic and don't want to pay extra money for a Boss or something like that, get this one. An EQ will bring you infinite sound posibilities and new sonic horizonts will be discovered to you... for the price of this cheap box, you can't pass.

easy enough, watch out and be careful about the adaptor jacks. and always always use dc power.

my set ups are tokai talbo through shredmaster, vintage rat, the fish n chips, small stone, supatrem , ibanez FL9 to fender twins. i'm not gonna go too deep since i like this cheap little box anyway, let's just say it's very clean and does the job right. it's not the best EQ out there but this is more than enough. however there's a huge downside to it, if your 9v battery is almost dead, it'll make signal noise that'll break your speakers, and battery runs out on this unit FAST.

i wouldn't dare to drop it, i'm more afraid that i'm strong to break the mold plastic case and the switch is the cheapest kind you'll ever seen

never need one, i rather drive 15 miles to get a refund then call danelectro

i bought it cuz of mogwai, 3 of them rely on it so i thought it's gotta be good. i wanted to mess with soundscape too but my church band would never allow me to. on yeah, any mogwai guitar sound can be achieve from MY guitar, from cleans like take me somewhere nice, to my father my king distortions. works for most of radiohead works too. i only played 5 years so it doesn't take a genius to get a B.A. on this thing. the box is so clean it doens't bother me except the battery prob, i hate adaptors. this box gets 8 because "the 10 sound" will only be in someone else's record, not mine

I'd have to say it's pretty easy to use up slider up or down till it sounds good. It's kinda nice that they throw down a few ideas for the E.Q. settings as well. Helps us unexpierenced E.Q.er's out a little.

I'm using this with an Epiphone Alleykat and Crate 212 tube amp somtimes I throw in a Danelectric Chorus,tremlo,overdrive, and/or Digitech RP2000. I have to say that it took the "twang" (not the descently sounding country twang but the make it go away mommy it's hurting my ears twang) out of my highs and made it sound really full as well. It really blends all the strings together as well to it's more like getting a nicely formulated sound out of it and not just a bunch of clanking strings. There is viturely no hiss and if that hiss annoys you then you have other issues I think that need more attention.

It seems like a sturdy little guy, I have to admit the top is plastic the bottom metal kinda weird but it works. I wouldn't go stomping on it.. after all it is an E.Q. pedal. Turn on before playing. Turn off when done.

haven't dealt with these guys

I like to dabble in all sorts of music mainly though I just play in church and what not. I've only been playing for 3 years and I can't really say that this is the best E.Q. ever cause I haven't really owned any besides the one built into my RP2000 (Danelectric is way better btw) but with this pedal I don't plan on wasting time and money just to see how much something else sucks. If this thing was lost I'd buy it again. I choose this because of all the posts that I read on this product including the ones on this site. The only thing I wish I had was more of them so I could keep certain ones on certain settings so I could just switch whenever I wanted.. however it could cost after a while.

Very simple - very obvious - 7 band EQ with overall output volume control in the form of an 8th "slider"

I have a Martin D-15, bone nut and saddle, K&K Pure Western passive pickup. I kept getting a mid-low howl when I stood near my vocal monitor. The Danelectro pulled the howl right out. I boost the top end and very bottom as well.

SUPER QUIET PEDAL! I was stunned at how quiet my guitar is with the pedal. I use the output volume slider to match the EQ volume to the dry volume. VERY VERY QUIET.

Running into a small PA, a Carvin SX-200 and sometimes an Epiphone acoustic regent (little 30 watt acoustic guitar/Vocal amp. Very pleased with all amps and the unit.

I said 9 only because of the economical plastic - it has a heavy metal plate in the base (feels fairly heavy",

Never needed support. There web site is nice everything seems fime.

I've played rock-fusion-pop for 27 years. Nice little unit. Tried it with my Tele and Strat also. Nice ~! I would get another. Compared MXR - this is quiter but plastic.

I wish it came with a tall girl (kidding).

SUPER FEEDBACK FIX FOR LIVE ACOUSTIC WORK (and cheap)