Danelectro DJ-2 T-Bone Distortion

It was very easy to use however the small size of the button means You have to be pretty sobre to hit it first time.

Sound quality is good for a pedal so cheap despite the occosional backgound hum its quite clear. The distortion quality is a bit dodgy at the higher end.

Mine has broken, don't no why it was working one minute then it wasn't. Explored all possibilities but to no avail. And no it was not the battery.

Very easy. Even a moron couldnt screw this up.

Well I like the sound. I have a Boss ME-30 that i used for distortion before i used a Real Tube. It seems to have a slight low noise hum at high volume or distortion settings but thats ok i use feedback sometimes. The setup i use is as follows : Guitar (either 1975 usa strat, Guild S-100 Polara, Guild Bluesbird, Jap Strat with duncans, 72 thinline tele, or Big Apple Strat), to T-bone distortion, tuna melt tremelo, pastrami overdrive, cornbeef reverb, black coffee metal distortion, blt slap echo, ME-30, Crybaby, Peavey 300 TNT (bass amp but killer low end) Black Widow equipped, to a 4x12 celestion cab. Great tone. great for Zakk Wylde, Lynard Skyanrd and softer distortion but i play alot of distortion when i use it. I know you cant tweak the pedal but i have my setting on the amp and thats all i need the pedal sounds great. great low end and great treble. I can squeeze out the pinch harmonics all day and once i add the EMG-81 and 85 to the polara it will be just alittle easier as if it already wasnt easy. The sound is great. Took it out of the box hooked it up and tweaked in 30 seconds. Great Pedal. but give it a 9 because of the low hum that alot of players wouldnt like but with a noise gate it takes it away

havent had a problem yet and i play pretty hard. but im not real hard of pedals just strings and necks from bending strings.

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For my style which is best discribed as Hard Alcohol Rock its great. i play stuff from Zakk Wylde to Lynard Skynard to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. When it comes to distortion this one is great for the solos i use the black coffee or my ME-30 usually becuase i can get a gain boost but i love this pedal. If it was stolen i would buy 2 more. One to use and one as a reserve just incase it got stolen again. I really like these pedals. I think the line is great. I can get the sound i like from these and mix alittle more if needed with my me-30 on the same effect. so i can get a dual chorus or delay at different settings pretty cool sounds. These pedals Rock. I play alot of distortion with hot humbuckers normally and this has some great tone!

There are two knobs. What else would like me to explain for you.

I found that the T-bone's distortion could easily keep up with my friends Metal Zone. There was one thing though that did sort of make me mad. The pedal didn't have enough high end and without the bright
switch on my Crate GX80 clean it would definetly suck.

The knobs are a little loose but if you are careful with it, it shouldn't be an issue. It doesn't the batteries too fast either.

Good

2 knobs and a button. Enough said.

I'm playing this for ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING with a hand-made les paul with a crybaby and a (gag)fender frontman amp. Only a little bit of noise.

It works great but it's plastic, i've already broken off one of the knobs, and would not want to hit the thing too hard for fear of it breaking. Would use in a gig without backup.

I play ANY sort of rock,alternative metal etc. If stolen, i'd buy another one, then put it in a metal box!

Two knobs and a button- there's a third knob if you can't figure it out. I had it in perfect position 3 minutes out of the box. No manual, but it's not like I needed one. Even came with a battery. just had to hook the battery up, put the pedal in the loop and do a bit of adjusting and "BAM" kick ass distortion for all!

This thing kicks ass! Right now I'm using it with a Cort Stellar guitar into the T-Bone, the Tunamelt, the Milkshake, and a Rocktek PHR-01 Phaser (which sucks maniacal dick). That all goes into a Crate EL-10G practice amp. I got it because it was inexpensive and I was a fan of the Milkshake and Tunamelt. The distortion on the pedal sounds much better than the distortion on my amp. Great dirty tone. I love this thing! Very quiet, no hum or tone degration. As I said before it kicks ass! Very awesome when you slam your foot down and kick into a ripping solo. Also great for Metallica. The intro to "Enter Sandman" starts out soft, builds, and builds, until BAM: Major distortion!

I definately would depend on it. This thing has already become vital to my sound. I would use without a backup, but hey, at that price I could afford two! I does have a plastic casing though and I do have a habit of stomping too hard. I've only had it for about three hours but I think it'll hold together...

Haven't contacted 'em yet. Like I said, it's only three hours old.

A great product for those of us with bad jobs who can normally only afford the low end products. It can't compare with the $200 pedals, but it's not trying to. It just offers a nice straight foward package for someone without a lot of cash. I play rock and metal and I already love this thing. I got it mainly to use on A perfect Circle 's Judith where I can kick in the distortion for the intro and main riff and turn it off for verses. It does that and more quite well. I've been tinkering for a while now and I've found a couple different cool settings. I bought it because it was cheap and I got more than my money's worth. Sounds awesome if you add just a bit of tremolo or Chorus to enhance the sound. It's a miniture goldmine for me... If it got stolen or broken I'd just buy two more. My only complaint is that there is no latching feeling when you activate the pedal. You have to check the LED to see if it was activated. Bravo to Danelectro for making such an incredible piece of equipment for so cheap! Right now I'm going out to cut some lawns so I can get the Hashbrowns and the Pepperoni.
To sum it up- Small pricetag, large sound!

Really easy to get a good sound. Its a really good pedal for stuff like metallica or bands of that sort. I really think its cool. No manual, none neaded.

I have a Hamer Archtop Custom and i plug it into a digitech whammy reissue-zoom1010-danelectro t-bone-original crybaby-peavy studio pro 112 amp. The only big problem ive had with the tbone is it gives A LOT of low end feedback unless you turn the distortion down to about half. The only really good artists that i found it work great for are metallica and a couple rage against the machine. Its not bad at all for making your own stuff.

Its plastic, and the button is kinda small and a pain to step on with shoes because i always end up pressing the entire pedal or something like that. If it wasnt plastic, id probably buy more of the series, as for gigging without backup, i havent had problems yet, i mean, it is pretty reliable i guess.

never delt wtih them.

Its pretty good i guess. if it were stolen, id probably be like"eh, oh well, ill buy another" cuz they are sooo cheap. I hate that it is plastic and the button is small and i get lots of low-end feedback. i wish it had a treble control and a middle and a low control. i guess it helps make music. I think anyone should go check it out and see if they like it.

Here's another good new Dano pedal. One knob for level and one for distortion, so it's pretty easy to get a good sound out of it. No manual, and none needed.

I bought this pedal to use with my practice amp setup, which is a Vox Pathfinder. I already had good luck with the Pepperoni Phaser, so I decided to try more of this series. In my opinion, they're all good!

It is part of a pedal chain that includes an Ibanez wah, and Dano's Pastrami Overdrive, Hash Browns Flanger, and Corned Beef Reverb too. The T-Bone has a very different sound from the Pastrami Overdrive. I couldn't decide which I liked better so I bought them both!

The T-Bone accentuates the low end more so than the top end, so there's no top-end brittleness or fuzziness. It adds a lot of gain for solos and chording. Very thick sounding - fans of old Metallica or Judas Priest will like it. I would rate it a 10 if it had a tone control to vary the high end a little.

I like the Pastrami better for rhythm playing, and then kick on the T-Bone for leads. It's not a real melt-your-face kind of distortion, it's more of a gain-boosting effect.

In all fairness, I say that the Pastrami Overdrive distorts more than the T-Bone Distortion does!

Well, here again it's a plastic pedal. I haven't had one break yet, but I'm still skeptical. I wish this series was metal. They all sound so good, I wish Dano would have realized what they had going here and put a little more into production costs. If a metal box would have raised the price no more than $10, I would still buy these.

Any time I've e-mailed Danelectro for info, they have always responded promptly and with the exact info I needed. No complaints here.

This is a great distortion that puts tone above noise. Very musical and useful. As I said, it's only for a practice setup, but if it were the only distortion that I could have I would not be unhappy. It really wakes up the Vox amp that I'm using it with, and it sounds great with the other pedals too. I would buy it again if it were stolen.