Danelectro DT-1 Tuner

easy to use , when it works.

we use it with a crate vintage tube amp and a fender strat and a fender tele..then, ernie ball volume pedal, the dano tuner, boss chorus ensemble, dod distortion, arion digital delay, and dod envelope filter.

ok im writing this because im a worship leader in a rock band for my church. we meet in a gym, we play on a stage, so we stick out like a sore thumb if anything goes wrong....and today it did. our guitar player that uses this dano tuner was tuning during a slower song and the tuner just unmuted itself. so there he was making huge noise during the song....not good. thats not all the trouble weve had with this thing. it doesnt tune well at all, he usually ends up using my boss tu2 tuner after using that dano thing. also, ours is extremely hard to unmute after tuning...well exept for today when it did it on its own!! we have 2 of these tuners just in case, theyre all like this....i cant believe its a lemon if theyre all this way.oh, by the way, i use a danelectric chorus pedal in my rig and it works pretty well, it must just be the tuner....so, do yourself a favor, buy the boss tu2 or the fender stage tuner.....anything else. youre going to have to fork out a few extra bucks, but its really worth it. thats the life of a musician anyway, isnt it? you may want to frequent ebay to find some good tuners, not a bad idea, and sometimes you can get a good deal.

never dealt with them....i dont think you can fix this tuner. however, i suggested to our guitar player after church that if he would pitch it to me i would hit it with a baseball bat. email me if you wanna know how that works, maybe ill get some pictures on our website. haha.

like i said before we play modern worship. ive been playing for 10 years, my rig is totally different since i play acoustic, ill tell you if you wanna email me.
if it were stolen or lost, i would track down the thief that took it and tell him im sorry that he stole something so useless. maybe he would use it for a paperweight, maybe he would put it under his tire to keep his car from rolling away.
i wish it worked. but its cool, were gonna get new tuners of a different brand this week.
email me if you want to know anything at all! thanks!

I find this pedal very easy to use and reasonably stable if (a) used with an external 9v D.C. supply and (b) placed 1st in pedalboard line-up or used with earlier-in-chain pedals turned off. I am only giving this pedal an 8, because, though I think this is a great tuner, I think that a Boss TU-2 or a Peterson virtual strobe pedal are superior. However, they cost a greatdeal more. One other thing, this tuner pedal is far superior to a DOD Tuna! That pedal truly is a worthless piece of dingo's kidneys!

This pedal does not seem to effect the sound quality when turned off and as I always use the muted output jack, I don't care what it does when it is on.

I have had this pedal for over a year, using it on a regular basis, and have had no problems. The casing is made of heavy die-cast metal and seems quite sturdy. The push-button on the pedal is not as absolute in its on/off functionality as I would like it to be and its physical size is dinky thus requiring a very absolute and definitive touch. For this reason, and this alone, I give it an 8 in reliability.

I have never had to deal with Danelectro's customer support as I have had no trouble with this product.

I play classic rock, blues and church music as well. I like to play the Beatles, Moody Blues, Clapton & Santana etc. I have played guitar, non-professionally, for 26 years. I usually play either a Les Paul Classic or an Ibanez Artist semi-hollowbody into a VOX Berkely Super Reverb valve amp. I use this pedal along with a Boss CS-3 compressor, Ibanez TS-9 overdrive, Boss HR-2 harmonist (for chimey,faux 12-string effects),Dunlop Uni-Vibe stereo chorus, DOD Phasor 201, Digitech X series Digidelay (on "TAPE" setting). I use the pedals in this order with the tuner 1st in line and I power them all with a Godlyke Power-All power supply. In this setup the pedal works fine and I really appreciate the large orange back-lit display.

Easy to use, but that doesn't help much if it doesn't work.

I've always liked Dano pedals, and I own several (love the cool cat!), but this thing sucks. By comparison, I recently played with a guy who had a line 6 amp & flooboard (w/built in tuner), and he could tune his entire guitar faster (and more accurately) than I could tune one string! I've since gone the same route (johnson amp with flooboard) and the tuner is way faster and better than the Dano.

Danelectro = Tank!

The first pedal I got (cream colored)was so crappy that I figured it must be faulty, so I sent it back to danelectro and they sent me an brand new replacement that was supposed to be an improved version (maroon colored). It worked a little bit better, but still way too slow and imprecise. My experience with Danelectro is that they stand behind what they make.

The other reviewers who like this pedal must be very patient people. If you want to be able to check your tuning in 20 seconds between songs (instead of twenty minutes between sets), do yourself a favor and stay away from this one.

Extremely EASY to use! The manual is very simple which reflects the easy of operation of this tuner.

I only use my DT-1 Tuner via the "Out to Tuner" jack from my Fender Bassman. This point is not a factor for me.

The perverbial "built like a tank!" I really like the way it is built, SOLID! I only just purchased it (12 Jan 2001) so I have no long term assessment available regarding structural and /or electronic reliability. So I will I will give it a 5 to remain neutral in this catagory.

No comment at this time as I have not had to contact them at this point.

Reading all the other reviews, the DT-1 Tuner appears to be (on the most part) a "lemon".

I for one do not agree to this point as I play a Chandler Royale 12-String Bass Guitar. This tuner worked exceptionally well (as good or better than most) when tuning the full sonic spectrum of the octaves and fundamentals. I was able to accurately and quickly tune my 12-string bass. In fact it is the best tuner I have ever used on a 12-string bass to date.

I found it "captured" the note(s) quickly enough for me. All in all I really like it. The important thing to remember with this tuner is that "YOU MUST" get the recommended adaptor as for some reason it does not work as well and is slow to respond (as described in the low scoring reviews) powered by a battery only. So it probably is not a good tuner if you plan to employ it that way.

With the adapter however I find it works as advertized. The box now sports a littel sticker that recommends the use of the DA-1 adaptor for meter light and best tuning. I employ it that way as a permanent fixture with my pratice rig. I like the pedal format! I like this tuner!

Easy....it is what it is....a tuner.

Just like all tuner pedals...you lose some but not a lot.

Of sturdy construction...seems like you would have to try to break it.
It's gone on tour and will again in fall.

Never had to deal with them.

I was surprised when I got this thing because it didn't track a note very quick. At first I agreed with all those that said it was worthless. Since you have to get an adapter for the display to light up I decided to get it because when i play it is usually dark on stage. Once I plugged it in it seemed to work much better. I don't quite get it but it works wonderfully with the adapter...hit the string...reads the note...much quicker than with a battery. I have taken this thing on tour and am going to again in fall...my advice...get the adapter when you buy it...then all is good. If it were lost or stolen I would buy it again or steal someone elses.

As a big Dano fan, I was disappointed to find that THIS PEDAL IS USELESS.
Don't consider using one for rehearsals or gigs - by the time this thing tracks a note, everyone will have packed up and gone home.

The chassis is sturdy. Makes a great paperweight, doorstop, etc.

I've dealt with Danelectro over the net, and they were prompt and helpful in responding.

If this thing were stolen, I'd feel sorry for the person that stole it, 'cause I guess that they would've assumed that the pedal was actually worth something.
Save your money. Do not buy this pedal.

I give it one of my higher marks here. I like the pedal layout that attracted me to the tuner in the first place. This is the only one I have seen that has a needle(although digital) instead of leds in a pedal style. The mute out is a nice feature which every pedal style tuner has. I found it hard to read the display of which string I was tuning or the tuner thought I was tuning. So purchased the adapter which is necessary to make the display backlight. I thought this was kind of hokey. I found the tuner needle was jumpy and Indecisive.

Really bad. The last thing you want a tuner to do is alter your sound or produce extraneous noise. I was, emphasis on was, using it in front of my Line6 Ax2. The Line6 has a tuner on board which is very crude so I thought this would be a good tuner in front of my amp. I found the extra buzz and humm incredibly annoying. I couldn't seem to cancel it even with the noise gate, and hum canceller turned way up. It is posibble I had a defective unit.

Two months after owning the tuner with limited usage The display was totally burned in. I only used it a few times before a gig and had it out of my effects chain. Again I could have had a defective unit.

I have to give them high marks after going back to the store and complaining the dealer rep got me a new one which I promptly traded in on a Boss TU2.

Lousy

Pretty straight forward. I feel like a giddy schoolgirl everytime the backlight comes on, very cool.

I use it with a Super Strat and "the beast" a.k.a. my Deluxe 112 plus. It is a tuner, so not really much for sound quality. It has a mute output jack which is nice. Despite what the "other reviewers" out there say, this fits the bill just fine in my book.

*it's a brick....house*

I use it to tune, not much else. All the convience of a tuner in a pedal format.

Very easy to use. Step on it and if it's hooked up to an adapter, it lights up. Has two outputs, one that mutes your signal when you hit the button. The other sends the signal through if it's on or not. One note, the needle is sometimes hard to see, and the button is touchy, many times I've thought I turned it off and I later notice that it's still on, no big deal though.

I play a an Epiphone '56 Gold Top through a crybaby into my peavey classic 30. I have the tuner first in line then the wah. Tuner doesn't add any noise that I notice.

Built like all other Danelectro pedals. It should last.

Never dealt with them.

After owning and using this for about 11 months, I am beginning to get fed up with this thing. For awhile I though it might be my ear, but after awhile, I realized that this thing sucks. No offense to Danelctro, I think there other pedals are cool, but they should have stuck to effects. I'll play a low E and the needle will be right on saying that it is in perfect tune, I'll wait, play it again, and the tuner will try to tune it to an entirely different note. This thing is stupid. Thank God my guitar stays in tune, I don't have to use it that much. I am going to look at purchasing another tuner, possibly a Boss "TU-12H", I've heard that they're pretty good. My $20 tuner that I got when I first started playing 3 years ago is better than this thing, the ease of use was what sold me on this tuner. It's nice to be able to tune "hand's free" so to speak and not have to bend over or go dig out a tuner. For that it's great, for tuning it's not.

very easy to use self explanatory for any one who has used a tuner before

i'm using this tuner in my pedalboard, right after my cry-baby wah; second in line. I use les pauls and strats. I guess it sounds o.k. when the unit is by-passed, but for a tuner itself, it did fail a few tests. For one, it is a tuner and this heavy thing hogs up space in your gig bag, and the actual tuning capabilities cannot compare to my korg rackmount tuner or any thing else with a real needle. The digital needle is slow and awkward to get used to. The light comes on( with power plug only) when you're tuning and it mutes the sound while doing so. It even gives you a choice if you want it muted or not. All I really use it for is to shut off my rig with a tap of the foot to switch guitars during performances, which it does fool-proof, cause the light comes on, and you know it's muted. But I'll tune with something a little more quick and accurate, thank you.

I feel like I could depend on it for an emergency tuner, and reliably for a mute-kill switch for my marshall tube head, (it kills the sound quicker than the fading out stand-by switch on my amp). If it were lost or broken, I probably wouldn't care to much. It seems to be built tough to take constant gigging.

New company, never called them yet, have heard of others having bad luck with them.

I play metal, rock and blues. Been at it for15 years, this pedal has shown nothing new in tuners, except that some of them aren't quite as good as others. I actually traded stuff in on it, and got it to try it out. There are better tuners out there.