Danelectro DJ-6 Pepperoni Phaser

This thing has two knobs: one for the speed, one to turn it on. Complete doddle.

This isn't the best phaser available, but the money, I think it's fine. Past 12 o'clock, the speed becomes far too fast, it sounds like its trying to catch up with itself. I use it around 3 - 10 o'clock, it's almost like a chorus at slow speeds, it adds great character to arpeggios and chords.

It's plastic, and the entire bottom has to come off to change the battery; the washer on the screw fell off the first time i used it, and it's a pain to put back again. I always feel like I have to handle it gently, but it hasn't broken so far, so I'll have to give it a 10...

Never contacted them.

I'm very pleased with it for a cheap pedal, it's better in my opinion than the phasers built into multi effect units, and while it won't make you sound like VH, it's well worth trying if you come across a cheap one.

It is very easy to use. One knob for speed.

The sound is very bad. This is a wannabe MXR phase 90. The speed isn't built correctly on the Danelectro Pepperoni Phaser. The slow phase is ok but when you get to faster settings the transition is not smooth and gives you a fast speed at the middle clockwise position. This pedal adds unwanted gain if you are playing clean. I got this pedal because I wanted to get that phase sound as heard in some of Creed's songs without spending a lot. If you strum lightly you may not hear it but if you strum normally it gives you a gain sound. I no longer have this pedal but I used to use it after a boss distortion and boss oc-2 octave.

I only used it for about a week. Then I just said forget it . It's not worth it.

Never had to mess wit em

I play r&b, blues, and rock. Like I said I only bought this pedal because of its low price. I just wanted a phaser that I could use to get a phaser sound like in some of Creed's songs. But I guess in this case, cheap price means cheap quality. So....if you want a good natural sounding phaser, get an MXR phaser. If you want a good phaser that does more than just speed get a Boss Phaser.

Only 1 knob - it doesn't get any simpler!

Great for humbuckers, Teles & lipstick pickups. I don't like any of the Strat sounds with it. Neck or in-between neck & bridge is where it's at for me!

No good for combining with other effects - especially overdrives. Humbuckers are the only way to 'drive' your signal for cutting through in solos.

Anyone like Leo Nocentelli from the Meters? You can get some similar sounds ('Fire on the Bayou', 'All I Do Everyday', etc) with the knob at between 10 -12 o'clock. Humbucker plus pedal is all you need here!

At full-tilt you can get close to the Hendrix/live bezerk Johnny Winter/ Robin Trower rotary sounds.

I like it for all sorts of valve amps: from a tiny Epiphone with 1 10, a MusicMan 4 10 to a Fender Quad Reverb.

Buy a power pack. If you run the knob at 100% you can expect a flat battery within 15 minutes!

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A good fun pedal to have if you need it for any occasion.

I took this little pedal and built it into a very crappy Morley Wha that I've had for years. This Morley doesn't use the light/photoresistor design, but uses fishing line that moves two sliding pots inside.

I had enough room to fit the guts into it. The speed pot was a 500k pot, but I used two 100k pots in series for 200k. I had to change the switch in the Morley from a push on/push off to a momentary.

The whole thing was a success! Now I have a phaser with the speed on the pedal. Back off for slow, and as I push the pedal forward, it speeds up. One cheap "rotovibe".

So I give high marks for my modded pedal.

I will use this with guitar and bass. I've had a lot of phasers over the years and have built phase shifters. I can't say how many stages this thing is, but I suspect it's 4 stages. For a 4 stage phaser, I love it!

Usually with a phase shifter you have to turn up the depth at low speeds and turn down the depth at high speeds. This one does slow or fast well without a depth control. Hiss level is low. (Much lower than my nearly-unusable-because-of-the-hiss Rocky Road leslie simulator.

This thing speaks 70's to me big time. From Trower to Waylon, this will cover my needs for a phaser.

I rebuilt the thing into a little tank of a pedal. There won't be a backup.

Who knows?

I play all styles of music and I like this thing for the dated flavor it gives. I own too much gear to mention and I build and mod effects, amps and guitars. I couldn't build the basic circuit for what this little gem cost.

My favorite all time phaser was the big Maestro with the 3 big switches (where the slow and fast speeds mimicked the leslie speeds including the ramping.) This reminds me a bit of that sound. I like it better than my Akai Intellephase (until I add a couple more stages to it) and like it better than my DOD, or any of the phasing effects in my multi-effects pedals.

**IMPORTANT INFO**
*Please read my review for some important info on this unit's sound*

My cat could use it if he could figure out how to turn such a tiny knob!?!
About as easy as it gets; set a speed and go. AS for getting a good sound out of it... I finally figured that out.

Okay, here's the long part. I've had this little guy for almost a year now. I spent a lot of time debating purchasing it after reading the highly variable reviews here on H/C. To be honest, I've never really liked the sound of the pedal. It was too over the top in a Parliment (think "Flashlight") kind of way. I never understood why some people said it was very lush and MXR-like...

I was about to see the unit and try my luck elsewhere, but a funny thing happened this morning. My wife is out of town, so I didn't sleep well. That and being bored usually ends up with somethign being taken apart. Today I decided to see if I could find a way to take the dano apart and maybe change a resistor out to lessen the phase effect. I found two things out...

1.) these mini-pedals are HARD to take apart and rather "cheap" in construction
2.) There's an internal trimpot buried up in the main circuit board!!!

so up to the amp with a screwdriver and several pieces of phases oedal it was... The result? The trimpot seems to vaer the phase of the unit. to the left mellows it out for the "lush" sound, to the right gets to the over the top 70s sound. There is limited range before the sound cuts out though...

So the long and short of this section is that I absoultely love the sound of this guy now (and it's in-line). Please email me if you have further questions about this (themrbwa1@yahoo.com)

Considering it was onlt $20, I expected I could experiment with it and replace if necessary... But, I've taken it all the waw apart and it's still working. Never had a problem with any of the mini-pedals, but I don't put them through hard use at all.

Never had to talk to Dano...

well, I'm definately not a tone freak or even that great of a guitar player.... I play in my spare time, mostly blues... (or maybe just noise that pisses off the wife and even the cat...)
One thing I am is a wannabe engineer; I've spent more time modding and rewiring guitars and effects athan learning to play them:
-done the TS808 mod on a TS-10 "plastic hunk-O-junk" tubescreamer
-tweaked with the dano
-Owned just about every amp modeler you can think of
-rewired a telecaster copy to 5-way:(neck, bridge, both in series, both in parallel) plus added a phase switch.
*btw the both in parallel + out of phases sounds just about like the guitar sound from "Play that Funky Music White Boy" (should I be proud or ashamed?)
-Replaced pups in several axes including an Ibanez GAX75 pseudo 70s SG conversion

Anyway, I have a lot of effects, and the more I learn, the more sparingly I use them. Now that I tweaked this pedal, I Love it and I'm thinking of taking apart my dano flanger for the fun of it.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my ramblings... I can probably dig up the tele 5-way mod for anyone interested,; it's around here somewhere

It's a knob and a button, even a band memeber from Slipknot could figure this one out.

My father bought this for me when I first started playing, just to try out. Since then I have gotten my hands on an old Maesto Phaser, and an EHX Small Stone. The pedal has no balls to it at all. It sounds like a chorus pedal with the rate on two.

I wouldn't use this on a gig or anytime. I gave it to one of the kids I am teaching to guitar, and it broke. Not worth the solder to fix.

No Experience

The thing isn't worth the money. I have only been playing for about three years and have found some good stuff cheap, but this pedal just blows. The Newest Boss Phaser is nice, the step phasing is cool, but sounds a little too digitally for my liking. The old Maestro shifter I have sounds great, a real warm sound. I recommend these over the 25 dollar wondermachine

One knob and a stomp button. Whoa, can it get any easier? Just don't stomp on the knob instead of the button. The knob breaks very easily.

You aren't going to get the same sound as those old orange single knob phasers, but you do get decent sounds for the price. I used to own a sick green Boss phaser in the 80s. This doesn't sound near as good. Like my other Dano pedals, it doesn't sound good in line. Plug it into the FX loop and the sound improves a lot.

I use it without a backup. Would you?

Dano has always treated me very good when I needed to contact them.

A Child Could easily figure this out

It's Pants unless you want a cutting range that you can't control all there is, is one speed control knob? on a phase? eh? i know it's a mini pedal but come on? this thing goes from raaaahhh to bluhhhh how can i use that? I mean if you want to go heh heh "i have effects i'm the man" then yeah use it it's OBVIOUS when you have it on but otherwise avoid avoid avoid... like the plague when you have the speed right up you can get some fun use out of it, but nothing serious i'm afraid. If you're a beginner you may like it but i wouldn't waste your money, you'll soon want something better, save about 20 more pounds or dollars and buy a multi effect-the zoom 505 for example has a better phase than this bit of junk, An absolute waste of a pedal board space.

Don't use it enough

RAAAWWWW P~SH

1 knob... 1 button... a 4 year old could use this.

I'm pretty stripped down...

ESP ECLPISE
AKG GUITAR BUG WIRELESS
CRYBABY WAH
BOSS DD-6
BOSS CE-2B
MARSHALL VS100RH
FENDER 4X12 W/ CELESTION V30'S

THREE WORDS ON THE SOUND QUALITY... THIS THING BLOWS.
WOULD FUZZ OUT PAST 3 ON CLEAN, CANT HEAR IT WITH HEAVY DISTORTION
BOUGHT IT ONE DAY, SOLD IT THE NEXT... POOR SAP...

WELL... IT SUCKS... BUT IF THERE WAS NO OTHER PHASER ONE THE PLANET... I'D GIG WITH IT.

BOUGHT IT OFF EBAY... BUT THEY WERE NICE PEOPLE

I'M A HARD ROCK GUITARIST OF 6 YEARS... WOULDN'T BUY ANOTHER ONE... THAT'S FOR SURE. REALLY NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL WITH THE DANO MINIS. BUY BOSS... THEY MAKE GOOD STUFF...

One knob (speed), an on/off switch, line in and line out, and a 9 volt powersource plug.... not insanely difficult to figure out.

Austin AU786 --> DOD FX64 --> DJ6 --> RMS 30W

Not extremely noisey. My amp is noisey, and if you turn the DJ6 up high enough the white noise you hear tends to pulsate quickly.

I can depend on it assuming I don't chuck it through the wall.

I'm about to start using a power supply for this though, because batterie's don't tend to last to long in storage for this pedal.

Nice website, but I have not had to contact their support staff for anything at this time.

I play mostly metallica stuff (song sections that don't require a distortion), some old country, some folk, but I mostly just noodle around on the instrument. I have been playing now for about 3 years this december.

What other gear do I own? Besides the stuff I already mentioned? A Springfield Accoustic guitar (EWD 10N), an an old Carvin Les Paul (I think that's what it is, no name on the headstock).

If it were lost or stolen, I might go looking for one again. But if I do, I'm heading to ebay.

I like that you can turn it on (set on low) and start playing stuff like "The Call of the Ktulu" with the FX64 and it adds a really interesting sound. I hate that it's made of cheap plastic.

I wish it came with a power supply.