Danelectro DJ-16 Bacon & Eggs

It is very easy to get a good sound from it. Simply use the tone and volume knobs on the guitar to adjust the sound

Since this is my practice/carry around amp, I don't use it with any other amps. On my Lyon Washburn guitar, it sounds very trebly and raspy for a 1 watt amp. With my Squier mirror fat strat it sounds crunchy with the pickup switch on the humbucker position. Either way it sounds good. As far as other effects are concerned, I intend to use a Milkshake chorus pedal in the future.

Yes I can, unlike what some other people have said about the pedal amp, even though I have had for almost a week.

never dealt with them but I've heard they are good though.

I play a slow style of Black Metal( think of Mercyful Fate)with Hard Rock, other Metal styles, classical and Blues thrown in. I have been playing for 3 years straight now and haven't looked back since. My other gear is the aforementioned Washburn Lyon fat strat and Squier mirror fat strat, and a Polytone Mini Brute 2, 4 or 5 big amp with reverb. Lost or stolen, I would replace it with another Dano pedal amp. In the sound, department, it sounds better than the Honeytones that Dano makes or other amps in the price range. Since this is just a practice amp, I don't have any wishes for additions, such as a tone and volume knob

This is the easiest to use plug-in and play mini-amp you can get. No volume knob, no tone knobs. Mine was bought used off Ebay, so no manual came with it, but you don't need one for something this simple. If you have humbuckers with high output, turn them all the way up for heavy distortion or roll off the volume knob on your guitar for a cleaner sound. I have a Fender Stratocaster with a Pearly Gates bridge humbucker with coil tap and the singlecoil sounds best, as a general rule.

The distortion is great. Use your guitars tone knobs to cut down on the harshness. I generally use this along with a Dan-Echo, MXR Distortion+, a Vox V830, and a Boss TU-2 with daisy chain to power them all. Oddly, this pedal is noisy when you roll off the guitar volume. I give it an 8 because of the harshness, but for $20, you can't ask for too much from a living room amp, lol.

To cut down on harshness when using full guitar volume, place a stuffed animal or pillow over the speaker. The sound will be clearer, with less treble harshness. I'm not joking!

I've never had a problem with it, but I can't see this being useful for gigging. I record with it all the time though. Just stick a shoebox over it and stick the mic throught the shoebox as close to the speaker for strongest sound. I've also used this to record direct to board. Go to youtube and do a search for "carry the falcon home" and you'll see my set up in action recorded to a little camcorder. Its just noise experimentation, not compositions, though.

I lost the battery cover to my Dan-Echo. I called Danelectro to order a new one, and they sent me one for free in the mail, no questions asked. They were friendly and not annoyed. No problems with either of my Bacon 'N Eggs amps.

I play indie rock pop, and in a noise experimental band. I've been playing for 15 years in various bands as a passionate hobby. I play a Fender Strat hardtail hh, a hot rod deluxe, and also have a Dearmond M77T and an Ibanez Jet King 2. This is my 2nd bacon 'n eggs amp. The first one I sold on ebay just to get some quick cash in my bank account. The speaker in a stompbox is the best idea for a home amp.

Very easy plug in press the stompswitch and you have sound! or use as a distortion pedal - plug it in stomp on it and you have distortion!

raspy, rattley distortion on this but pretty loud for a little thing. I like it, as others have said it is good for bluesy stuff etc.

To be fair I doubt I would use as a giggin amp!! cos it v tiny but for home practice use UI reckon you could rely on it, well as much as you can rely on a 9 voly battery!

got it off ebay and it works so havent contacted them...

I think this is a good little amp for not annoying the neighbours with, if you are practising around the house great! Not sure how well it could compete with an acoustic guitar but I would think ok actually.

The only thing i half wish it had is a clean sound as well as the dist but no biggie

Its easy and very straight forward.

For its price, this mini amp serves its purpose. On its own, it pretty decent but I use it as a boost to my amp. If you tweak it, its really good. But the best part is able to carry it around in my small pocket as a portable amp

No problems with it thus far.

The best part is to be able to carry around and use it as a small practice amp. Take it to the beach or clip it around your waist and walk around playing your guitar.

On the note of mini amps, its much better than the Marshall counterparts.

it was really hard to press the button. my foot kept missing the button. also the pedal was invisible because i had to trade my magic shoes for it.

im using this with my tanglewood TSE - 605, its basically an SG copy. the sound is noisy when you use it as a miniamp, but as a distortion it doesnt buzz that much.

here is what i use-(DONT WORRY IF IT GETS ALITTLE COMPLICATED FOR YOU.)


Guitar-thingy-Amp

i can depend on this pretty well, although i wouldnt recaommend poking it with large stick that you found in the wood in the middle of night and it was really scary because i couldnt see. other than that, its pretty reliable. i wouldnt use it at a gig because no-0ne would hear me. unless i plugged it into my normal amp. then they would hear me.

Not dealed with them.

this is a pretty good pedal, aside from the fact that it is sending evil brainwaves into my head, and also sometimes it likes to fly around the room.
You cant really control the miniamp apart from the tone and volume settings on your guitar. the distortion is pretty basic, you can make it fuss if you turn tone to 0 on your guitar.

too easy by half- plug it in and play.

its a fairly decent mini amp- works fine and nice and portable. as a distortion pedal its a bit deceptive- you cant vary settings at all- just this horrible little overdriven sound which is difficult to match with other danelectro pedals- its constant and unvariable.

dependable as a small amp. i would NEVER use it in a stage situation as its not really my style of music.

not dealt with them

its just not very good really- dissapointing. if you like distortion, buy the grilled cheese danelectro- de-licious!

It's easy to use. It turns on when you put the cord in the input jack. There wasn't a manual because there's nothing to adjust.

I use it with home-made particle board body guitars that have either a Dano Lipstick or Peavey Super Ferrite single coil blade pickup, each wired direct to the output jack. My amp is a Crate GX-15R. I use it as both a mini amp and as a distortion box. As a mini amp it's great. I think it's geared toward single coil pickups, it's slightly twangy or maybe jangly is a better word. You can adjust the amount of distortion with your guitar's volume knob. My guitar has no knobs so it's wide open all the time. If I need to be really silent, I use regular walkman-style headphones with a simple Radio Shack adapter plugged into the output. The sound through headphones is a little muffled but warmer and overall pleasant. I play rockabilly so I don't want death metal distortion when I use it as a distortion box. Using the Bacon and Eggs with the Surf and Turf Compressor and the amp's reverb, I get the right twangy, lightly distorted sound I like. It's very warm really. Very pleasant on full chords and single-string stuff.

It can be a little indiosyncratic. I've had times when sound is coming out of both my regular amp and the mini amp at the same. Overall it's reliable. I use a 9V adapter (Radio Shack again) to make sure it's at full power all the time. Although frankly, I've had 9V batteries last for hours in this thing. I haven't experienced quick battery drains that others have reported.

Haven't really dealt with them.

For rockabilly and even maybe blues, this can be a good distortion box. I think it's better for single coil pickups. If you're disappointed because you can't play death metal with it, I'd say get a brain. Dano makes two metal distortion boxes. If they don't play metal for you, then complain. I've been seriously playing for 7 years. I also have the Smokey mini amp. The two are a about equal in volume. I think the Smokey is more geared toward humbucker sound. Personally, I think the Bacon and Eggs has a more "usable" sound. The Smokey is darker sounding. The Bacon and Eggs is great fun and is a versatile piece of equipment.

Very, very easy to use. Plug your guitar in and start playing. The amount of distortion can't be adjusted and there are also no other controls on the pedal itself, but you can always adjust the volume on your guitar.

I'm running a fairly decent quality Strat copy (Rogue ST-3, made by Squier) directly into the pedal as a mini-amp. Like most other amps, it's noisy at the 1, 3, and 5 positions, but noise-free at 2 and 4. The speaker's volume is okay for a mini-amp, not too loud, not too soft. Distortion is about average but non-adjustable, like I said before. Also, the distortion cannot be turned off, so forget using it as a clean boost.

If you end up buying this, make sure to buy the proper AC adapter. Running it with battery power when the battery power gets low completely botches the sound.

Nothing has really happened yet for me to test its reliability.

Personally, I'd never use this as a pedal, but as a mini-amp. As long as you're not playing soccer with it, it should hold up.

I play pretty much any kind of music (except bluegrass, country, folk, and heavy metal) and it doesn't always get the sounds I want, but in such a tiny package it amplifies my sound decently. If someone stole this, I'd probably just buy one of the Fender mini-amps, and personally, I'd recommend the Fender mini-amps over this one.

too easy, just plug in and ya're playing this little amp. sometimes you have to press the button too.

good sound and distortion but the speaker sounds like ti's going to blow sumtimes. when not playing it is very quiet, like ti's not even on. i use it only as a mini-amp, not as a pedal cos thats why i bought it right? it's not a marvelous tone you get but for that size u can expect more than noise? i dont think so. but it didnt disapoint me, it's loud enough for playing in the street and get sum money.

looks and probably is very cheap and fragile. so many plastic stuff and the wires inside are in your face, not even a cover to it.

never had to.

well, i like all kinds of music inside rock. and for that this is a good buy. i've never tried the Smokey amp from Zinky's for a comparative look, but it seens a cool mini-amp to me. a good buy, even that it's a chinese stuff, very very cheap and it looks it could break any moment. it's price is cool anyway.

Very simple to use.
Except that since the button you
step on is so small, sometimes it takes
2 or 3 tries to stomp this pedals a$$.

For a mini-amp, fine, sounds pretty good,
for a distortion pedal, it's not fine.
In the musicians friend, they said that it
was a cool distortion pedal, but nah, it sucks.
It's a good overdrive pedal, but I don't like overdrive
I like metal distortion. It is loud and has a very nice
variable boost, but not good for anything other than
blues and rhythym.

I can depend on it, but then agian, I don't gig
with it, just at home in my bedroom.

I got this bab boy for free, so no,
I've never talked to them.

I play rock and roll, anything from motley crue to Korn.
I play Ibanez guitars and I use a Boss MT-2 metal zone pedal.
If it were stolen, I'd cry like a baby
I love the way I got it for free, I hate the money I paid for it
I wish I had......