Product: Danelectro DT-1 Tuner
Price Paid: US $65
Submitted
10/13/1998
at
12:57pm
by
Matthew Harris
Ease of Use
:
10
A vegetable can use this. You just turn it on and hit a string.
Sound Quality
:
4
Doesn't pickup notes to quickl or accurately. I was suprised. Usually Danelectro's are of fantastic quality. It's not too bad, but I like the Sabine one I have much better, plus it's about $10 cheaper.
Reliability
:
10
Built like a tank.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never Had to deal with them.
Overall Rating
:
3
It's built tough, but that's it. Sabine has a cheaper floor tuner for about $10 to $15 less. It just performs a lot better.
Product: Danelectro DT-1 Tuner
Price Paid: US $62.00
Submitted
09/03/1998
at
09:04pm
by
David Tomaloff
Email: apostles<at>execpc dot com
Ease of Use
:
10
This tuner as about as easy as it's going to get. It's an in-line tuner with your choice of either a mute or non-mute jack. The mute function, of course means that when you turn the tuner on, no sound is heard while you tune. It's easy to read as it has two different read outs. The top read out consists of two arrows meaning (sharp and flat) and a green LED in the middle signaling "in tune." The second is a lit up "70's dashboard style" digital readout with an LCD "needle." (see Overall) It can't get any easier.
Sound Quality
:
10
I use a Telecaster through a Bassman re-issue and a Fulltone Fulldrive 2 although I'm sure this works the same with any setup. This thing is DEAD quiet and it has the Danelectro TRUE BYPASS so it colors tone in no audible way whatsoever. This tuner is as accurate if not more accurate than any tuner I've owned. I don't think you can ask for more from a tuner.
Reliability
:
No Opinion
I've had it for about 3 or 4 weeks now and have used it at about 6 gigs without a problem (except for the time I counted off a song and forgot to take it off mute....I guess that's my fault though...(ha ha) I've heard both good and bad things about Dano reliability but this thing is built quite well and I generally take good care of things so I guess we'll see.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never dealt with them but I've good and bad about this too.
Overall Rating
:
8
Well as a tuner, this thing is tops. Best tuner I've ever owned. Now the downs.... One thing that made me kind of mad is that no one tells you until you buy it that the lit up "dashboard" read out needs an adapter to be lit up. It all still works with a battery except that part isn't lit up. You couldnt see it on a dark stage execpt for the top arrows. I guess I understand that the disply would kill a battery too quickly but then why dont they add a few bucks to the price and include the adapter?! However if you get an adapter, you feel like a little kid with a new race track. The display is great!!!!! The only other thing is metal jacks would have been favorable to the Dano plastic jacks. Other than this, the pedal is quite a value. I'm completely impressed with the both the product and price and I am actually quite hard to please. I cant see needing a backup but I would buy another if i had to in a second.
