Danelectro DJ-22 Black Licorice Beyond Metal

You step on it, off and on. You click the octave on or off. Come on people maybe a wah is easier but thats it.

I have an Epiphone Les Paul Standard and a Squier Double Fat Strat running into a Crate Gx 65. I also have a crybaby wah wah for that Jimi Hendrix stuff. My favorite bands however, are all of the Nu Metal really heavy stuff. I am into Godsmack,Disturbed,Drowning Pool and etc. and this pedal is it for me. The tone I'm looking for is that of a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier but hey its not like I am rich or anything. This setup is perfect for my garage cover band. If you like Heavy music this is a great great pedal.

The plastic kinda scares me but I put it in that Danelectro carrying bag thing with the power supply and that keeps it protected.

dont know but they seem allright. the website is nice

Get this pedal and rock on if you like my type of music. If you like the Backstreet Boys blow it out your ass.

SIMPLE. Only has two buttons and a switch.

One major problem I have with this thing is that there's no control for treble. What kind of distortion doesn't have a control for treble? The distortion itself is fine, but it could use a little more high end, because even with my amp's High at maximum it still wasn't enough. By the way, I play a Strat through a Marshall. The octave sound is the real reason to purchase this pedal. Get this if you want good octave-distortion.

Appears to function properly, though...

It seems to buzz or create static whenever I play something while switched to the clean channel. My other Dano pedals don't make this noise. I guess it must have a defect or something. Has anyone else encountered this problem or is it just my pedal? E-mail and let me know if you can.

Haven't dealt with them.

I bought this pedal hoping to get a good retro sound. It sounds good when the octave is on. However, the distortion by itself isn't anything to write home about- plus it needs more treble. And unfortunately my pedal makes some sort of damn static sound, so I'll give it a 7 instead of an 8.

Two knobs and a switch? if the label reads "beyond metal", chances are they know not to make it too complex. The knobs are just an output level and a bass boost; there's no tweakable EQ, really (you live with the mids as they are, kids, and highs? This pedal was not made for highs?) and no gain control. It really is just stomp-and-go.

Well, it ain't an MXR Blue Box, but it ain't bad, either. Really? we've been kicking around looking for an evil, ugly Blue Box for a while, and saw the new Dano octave down distortion-- well, if their French Toast is a faithful clone of a Foxx Tone Machine octave up, maybe the Black Licorice is a faithful Blue Box.

Wrong. It's a completely different kind of flying, altogether.

First, this pedal has that Metalzonish tone thang-- I can't really describe it, but, I've never liked it. Sort of a squelchy, superharmonic cheesieness that always turned me off.. That sort of thing sounds thick when you're doing the palm-mute chunking around, but? well, we're just not a metalzone band (if you dig the BossMetal sound, this pedal will not make you happy-- it's too limited). Better and better-- now we've stomped out the urge to get that little box.

Our bassist is in love-- twist that bass knob and thump around on the low end, and this is the finest bass distortion you can find... for one specific type of distorted bass: for the pick-driven, palm muted, low E-string drive, this pedal reigns supreme. Without palm muting, there are no notes, just a big mass of harmonic clutter. It doesn't kill the low end? hell? this pedal *is* low end.

Flip the octave switch and the world goes sideways? I love analog pitch shifters, and this thing is a lot of fun. Throwing around powerchords on a guitar, this thing sloppily grinds away-- like most shifters, it likes single notes, and chords get messy (the more complex the chord, the messier the octave doubling). I like this for noise-- incoherent left hand muting and natural harmonics, preferably with lots of echo. The lower octave adds a little thickness to high end leadlines, too, taking some of that irritating metalzonishness off the top (again, this is just personal taste-- I'm just not a metalzone guy).

As far as being "beyond metal," I suppose? I'm not a Classic Tone Emulator (no one in the band is)? but it's great for chunking away, and can get really ugly. Um? I'm not sure this pedal would be useful to many coverbands.

It is the noisiest distortion pedal in our arsenal. Even with hard gated silence before it, this thing hisses away? it's the only pedal we run a noise gate before *and* after. That makes it sort of impractical in live situations, but in the studio? what this thing can do to a snare drum should be illegal?

Yes it is plastic, but we have the Dano French Toast octave up, Hash Browns flanger, and Pastrami? er? "Overdrive" (let's face it, it's a solid state distortion box), and they're all living pretty healthy, normal lives, so I'm not worried about this one. If they go, it's a great excuse to break out a soldering iron, build a better box, and add more controls?

But so far, none of them have broken.

I haven't gotten to know Dano personally

Limited, but useful and fun, and really worthwhile. I was lucky enough to pick one up at a local music shop at even under Musician's Friend prices (great store... the kind that has a real Univibe in the case for about $900, and-- so they say-- an even better one in the back), and everyone loves using it. Severe amounts of bang for the buck.

Hell, it makes me want to pick up a guitar full time and start a side noiserock project? which is as ringing an endorsement as I can give, since we tend to be a very anti-guitar band. This thing has been keeping me away from the stomping machine noises and more on a stringed instrument, and that is something very, very remarkable. If it was lost or stolen, I'd probably get another one.

You'd have to be a dyslexic aborignee to not be able to work this pedal. Controls are octave on/off, bass, and level (volume). Very easy.

I use a ibanez rg 170 through a peavey rage 158 amp and play heavy music. The bands I like are manson, mudvayne, the union underground and nonpoint. this pedal is perfect with this setup. its the heaviest distortion pedal ever.

the casing isn't really really big or thick and its a light pedal but nothign has gone wrong.

dont know. probably good

This is the holy grail of heavy distortion pedals. Turn on the octave and the bass all the way up and you can chunk with riffs that are heavier than you could even imagine. turn the bass down some and play with your amp settings and you can get some good aerosmith or guns n roses solo distortion tones. so versatile, so heavy at the same time. the only thing you cant use this for is weak distortion for pop or pop punk or something but its called the heavy metal pedal for a reason. if its related to metal at all this pedal covers it.