Danelectro DO-1 Daddy-O Overdrive

This is a pretty easy pedal to get a good sound out of. It has a three band EQ which is very nice. A rareity with Overdrive pedals.

I am Currently runing a Epiphone Les Paul Ultra(With Gibson Burstbucker pickups) into a Slash Crybaby Wah - Rocktron Metal Planet - Danelectro Daddy-O Overdrive - Digitech RP350 - Into a Crate V16 All Tube Amp. This is a good setup to have if your tight on money. This unit can be a little noisy when cranked up, but that is to be expected from a cheaply priced unit. The overdrive is very good. It sounds fairly warm, not as warm as a tubescreamer but it suits my needs just fine.

I havent had any problums yet. And I have used it live, and will continue to. The battery life seems good.

This is a very good overdrive for the price. And dont forget that the EQ is a bonus. Get it, you wont be disapointed.

This pedal is a sturdy and inexpensive way to boost your volume from R to L

I use the TCOB setting just for this. It is one of the few pedals that keeps the tone as the lower volume. In the TCOB setting that is, As far as tthe other settings go, well, then you may have a problem

But, as I said and will say once again, in the TCOB setting it can't be beat.

Just twiddle the knobs and Let your ears be the judge

I use this pedal with my Peavey Classic 30 and DC Solid Metal. I use it for my lead breaks. I find its very organic and pretty much just boosts the signal. The bypass on it seems to be very good also. It has a very unique tone to it. For what I use it for it sounds great

Built like a tank.

Fairly average price pedal, sounds great, strong and versatile. If its its good enough for Mike Campbell(Tom Petty's Guitarist) then its sure good enough for me.

Simple. Use your ears

I use this with an Epiphone Valve Junior, Laney hybrid and also with my gnx3000 and boss me50. I love it has a variety of tones because of the 3 eq knobs. I find it adds alot of warmth to my ss/digital rigs also.

Had it 4 years, so far so good. Its a very heavy and well built pedal. Dont get this pedal confused with the tiny little new dano's.

Never dealt

A very nice pedal suits me down to the ground, I use it for a solo boost and it does the job great

has tone controls that work .. nice - (kind of small though - so what)

i held off on getting one of these for a while because i saw they were so cheap on ebay and i thought it must suck - NOT SO! I tried it and I LIKED IT! my chain (one side) is an ibanez compressor >> then MXR phase 100 >> and then Daddy O - into fender 6v6gt tube amp ... i like it a lot - please dont do what i did, and judge it based on how other people don't how to use effects properly in their chain or expect a single pedal will give them every sound in the book. this pedal ESPESCIALLY for the money is a great value - i liked it better than the boss blues driver (no disrespect)

solid build

please

i think this pedal is underrated - if used with the right setup could be just the ticket for VERY LITTLE money - big value IMHO

Very easy to use, just use your ears.

Im using this with a Laney Hybrid LV200 and Boss ME50mfx. I find that the ME50's ods/dist can be a little harsh and this pedal warms them up just great. This pedal is very good used as a boost I find.

Had it for 4 years now and no worries. This pedal is one of the older style Dano's and is built like a tank. Very dependable

This is a great pedal for what I use it for. A nice warm sounding overdrive, which can do crunch and fuzz if tweaked.

Its easy to get a ok sound out of this box, but the knobs are too small and too close to each other, so even if my fingers are thin its hard to fine tune. the box is kind of large, so i wander why they have to make the knobs the way they do. like that it has a 3-band eq, makes it more versitile. the manual is ok.

Loved the sound until i tried something else. TS9, vox v810 and fulldrive 2 are all pedals far greater than the dady-o, the first two are in the same pricerange. I sold it years ago. Just didn't like it anymore. the sound lacks quality. it dosen't sound like a cranked amp, a beautiful distortion or a strange noisy peace of crappy wander. Now I use a fender japan tele, TU-2, CS-2, V810, TS9, Muff, Maxon CS-550, DD-6, PN-2 throug a fender Princeton and a Hot Rod Deville 212.

The only thing that can break is the knobs, and they will break if you step on them. The box is so heavy that i almost belive it's made of ledd. nothing can penetrate that shield! Give it a 5 because of the knobs, which is an essential part of a stomp, but everything else seems relieble.

I play mainly british rock, but dont think that influenses my opinion. this pedal just isn't great. It's not even good. It's OK, and ok is not good enough. You can get better pedals for less. I would like to share some thoughts about the design. It's different, but not good different. It's f.... ugly. The size of it makes it difficult to make place on the pedal-board.

Knob (indicators) are hard to see. Tiny little close-spaced knobs are hard to turn. Volume/Gain/Tone labels are hard to read to see which knob does what. Making this pedal relatively difficult to adjust on stage on-the-fly. Most pedals don't need too much tweaking so maybe this is nit-picking. Especially considering that this pedal pretty much sucks regardless of where you turn the knobs to.

I've always liked the BIG 'ol push button though.

This has got to be one of the worst sounding overdrive / distortion / gain pedals, whatever.. that has ever been created. Thin, bad tone, unresponsive. If it were just a little worse it may be bad enough to be good in a unigue way. If you like good tone I would stay away from this one. If you have a bad guitar, bad amp, AND you are a bad guitar player, buy it!!! Because it won't matter. And it does look cool so if your into looks more than tone, this could be a good buy for you. Maybe it's just me.. but aren't all the good pedals just square boxes. And all the bad ones look like a stealth fighter or a '57 chevy?

100% reliable. Never a problem. I think it is well made, quiet and consistant. The case is cast aluminum or zinc and "built like a tank". Insides are cheap-o but they always work. And this thing has been beer soaked and danced on many, many times.

The pedal has been reliable. So N/A.

My guitar playing style as is a diverse variety of hard rock, roots, country twang, blues. This pedal is not a good match to my playing style. Probably because I LOVE GOOD TONE! I have been playing steady in working bands for over 30 years. I have many tube amps (5watts to 130watts) from Fender, Mesa, Vox, Harmony. And I play real & old Les Pauls, Teles, Strats, 335. All stock, no fancy added stuff. I have used the Daddy-O on and off (over 10 years) as a back up or for a "less gain" sound to my vintage ProCo RAT. I have to say this pedal is not a good buy at any cost. It may be better than nothing. So for $10 ok, if that's all you're willing to spend. But I have never been pleased or inspired to play better while using this pedal. The Daddy-O & I just don't get along. It has overall a thin and nasty tone. So much so that I hesitate to use the word "tone" in decribing this pedal. I would not recommend this pedal to anyone. Sounds funny but the reason I have used it lately is that the name of my band is The Daddy-O's. So it was more for a laugh. I have decided to bury this pedal at sea by flushing it down my toilet. So my musing here is it's epitaph.

Dislikes: Tone-sucker: overall sound quality is poor. Knobs are difficult to see and adjust on-stage.

Not so easy, there's gain to be equalized!

So volume, gain, plus a gain equalizer... It's a lot of options,
and not all of them sound good. Could've been done simpler, that's all.

Another point-eating thang is that the knobs are small and bunched
together, so no play-by adjustments.

Nice one - I use it for a little crunch 'cause I like it.
It's attached to my Bolt-60 amp, and I'm feeling versatile and good.

I find that it sounds exceptionally lo-fi on higher drive
settings; it's not rude or shrieking, just not so good.
Charming for me, maybe, but people will generally say it sucks.
No shame in playing it that way a little just for fun, though.
Better stuff is to be had for high distortion sounds.

The equalizer is worth it's weight in gold for me, because I can
iron out my P-90 equipped guitar's sound, 'nuff said.
A smidgeon of drive gives me the honk I need when I dig in,
and I feel that this little tin-can responds to playing dynamics.
Not in a grand way, like an overdriven tube amp, but still
it shows some feeling, and it's better than none.

Certainly no noise, hiss, volume drop or boost - it's quiet and
peaceful.

If it stayed true in higher gain settings, it woulda earned
a niner easy due to the super-useful equalizer. More expensive
things don't have it.

Sure!
No backup needed - this thing is durable and thick,
plus it's designed fabulously for all vintage freaks.
You don't have to like it, but the design really works
for people of a certain sensibility.

Speaking of sensibility, my Daddy-O has been kicked and
banged around quite a bit, but still works like a charm
and keeps batteries for months. Good one.

Never tried. Assessing from the looks of their webpage,
I don't think that would ever be a clever idea.

Works for me! Can get into that Scofield vibe a little,
can even try and push it up a notch and hammer-in a few riffs too.

If it were stolen, I would buy something better-sounding,
then forever regret the lack of 3-band drive equalization.
Unless...

Five knobs, fiddle around a bit and you got it.

On my strat it produces a nasty fizzy tone, very transistorish and plasticky. This was one of my first few OD's but I quickly sold it because it sounds plain nasty. I modded mine, changed the op-amp and other stuff, sounded a tad better but still sucked.

Low gain simply doesnt work on this one, you need dirt at at least 9-10 o'clock. Anything higher than 2 o'clock sounds like angry hornets in a tin can.

The only reason anyone would get this pedal is the cheap price.

Casing is solid metal but sockets are plastic. Why?

Ok cheap beginners OD, play with it a few weeks till you tire of the artificial sounding nasty raspy buzzy tones, and get a decent pedal. Even the digitech bad monkey is a great OD compared to this.