Danelectro Innuendo

2002 model has good features fuz tremelo slapecho chorus - but needs older lead/acid batteries or effects don't work right (too much power) I use older worn out batteries from other toys and they work fine. Looks good except for sparkles (too corny). Neck and frets are better than most Gibsons and Fenders at any price. Tuners dont hold crap. BIG BAD Notation: ALWAYS tuning this thing..it won't hold tune for anything. Will most likely build a new body or put a solid tailpiece and tuners on it to see if that inproves it. Shame that it won't hold tune because it has so much potential! I can't even finish one song without stoping it is so badly out of tune. I want my money back or a different guitar and can't play it in public because of this which is what I bought it for with my limited funds.

Like I said its sound sucks cause out of tune all time. If it held tune the sound would be awsom! The pickups can be set to multiple settings and on a peavy amp, it sounds better then my long lost 70's SG with Humbuckers. It can also sound just like a Fender with lipsticks and even a P90's sound. I will try to salvage it with new tuners ($50) + new bridge (20) and might even cut a new body to eliminate the plywood one it is on (also suspect of tuning issues. Please note that the truss bar is only accessable after you unscrew the neck and take it apart (OUCH!)

things were set up right and proper, but lets face it, if it won't hold tune it aint worth the time!

Won't hold tune! This is either because of cheap tuners or cheap vibrato. Take your pick

Not even tried to deal with them. Just want to get rid of it on some dumb sucker.

give me my money back I was robbed! Anyone want to buy some firewood cheap? Spent what little I had on this thing, now can't afford a real one.

Four on board effects - distortion, chorus, trem and echo. 22 frets and fulcrum tremolo. Three single coils. Two outputs - one clean and one for effects. Can play the guitar into two amps at the same time with interesting results. Ply body, maple neck and rosewood board. Non locking tuners. Mine is a tobacco burst colour with speckled finish.

The guitar sounds great once you get used to the settings. All the usual sounds you would expect from a three single coil instrument - strat like sounds are all there. The pick ups are actually very good - as good if not better than many Strats I have played. The on board effects are good particularly the echo and chorus. Distortion is very loud but with a bit of fiddling about you can come up with a usable sound. Dont really use the tremolo arm much and tuning stability is fairlyy good. Surprisingly the dano also sounds good with overdrive amp settings.

Set up was not too bad intonation ok but action too high. Easily adjusted and now plays great. I find the fretboard exceptionally well finished and very playable. Had a problem in the first week with the bridge pick up cutting out. Took it back to the shop and it turned out to be a poor solder joint which they fixed. I adjusted the pickup heights to give me the front to back balance I wanted.

itTuners seem ok. Pickupsbis ai but b

Very heavy guitar but certainly feels pretty solid. I would expect it to last well. Good paint finish. Strap buttons are ok. Will play it live without hesitation.

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Been playing 30 years. Played Strats, Ibanez, OLP, Washburn, Ovation, Epiphone guitars, Danelectro (U2) etc. I really like this guitar because it is easy and fun to play plus you can dial up some great sounds. The guitar genuinely sounds a whole lot better than it should for this money. I bought the guitar as it was on special offer. Tried it out for 10 minutes and liked it straight away. This is probably the best "value for money" guitar purchase I have ever made. I record a lot of music and the overall tones and sound from this guitar is fabulous.

It was made in korea. It has 21 fret and volume tone and 2 that control the 4 effects(that suck). Don't buy it for the effects. I think it has a mahogany body with rosewood fretboard. The body style is very weird.

I play pretty much anything. All the way from James Taylor to Creed to Metallica. I use a Vox Pathfinder 15. The sound isn't that great. I would rather have a fuller sound, but it sounds alright for the money. I use mainly the middle pickup which too me sounds the best. The effects i think are a waste of time. I expected the distortion to be something heavy and thick. I figured out it was some funky sh*t.

It is a well-built guitar. The finish is cool and it stays together well. The only thing i have against it is that the input sucks and it wasn't put together well. The wammy bar is useless. I am always having to tune my guitar over and over.

It seems like this guitar will last a long time. The finish is still perfect. I would use a back up with this guitar(cus ya never know). It is pretty dependable but i wouldn't put my life behind it. I have a band and i have played at a few different places so i will withstand. But i am going to buy another guitar(ESP LTD ES-100)

I dunno i heard they suck bad.

I have been playing over a year. I shouldn't have bought it on the net though. IF it were stolen i would buy something else deffinetely. I love really nohting about. I hate the input and wiring. I like the neck the most though. I didn't really compare it to other guitars i just wanted one and a cheap one at that. I just wish i would have bout and LTD ES-100 which is what i am about to buy.

It was made it Korea. It has 22 frets and 3 pickups. My controls include volume, tone and two that control the 4 effects.

I'm learning guitar, and this is my first full size. I tend to play songs classified as "oldies". John Lennon, Mammas and the Pappas, that stuff. The effects are great. They all work perfectly with the music.

I don't know what amp I'm using. I know it's orange and old. Dad picked it up at a garage sale.

I have no complaint with the noise. The effects include Distort, Chorus, Echo(?), and something else. It's a huge variety and I love it.

No complaints in this department.

The guitar was in perfect condition when I got it. It even came with the 9 volt needed for the effects. It was pre-strung and the pickups didn't (and still haven't) needed any adjustment.

I don't thing there can be any flaws with this guitar. I accedently banged it against a wall taking it into the basement where the amp is, and there is now a dent in the wall, but no even a scratch on the guitar. This thing was built to last!

I don't suggest using this with live playing, because it's rather heavy. I tend to play while sitting down. But, I'm sure it would withstand it.

And, as I said before, this thing was built to last. It takes me about 10 minutes to get the strap off, so the strap tends to stay ON.

The guitar is very dependable. I've only had to change the battery once in the over a year that I've had it.

I don't know weather or not to use a backup. I don't play in a band, and I really don't plan on it. I play by myself for the fun of it.

The one time I had a problem with it, we hadn't sent in the warrenty card. I called the company and told them the problem. I didn't even have to use technical terms. They suggested what they thought the problem would be. They were really helpful and friendly.

I'm not sure how long the warranty is, but I believe it's about a year.

If you don't count banging on the strings of Dad's guitar when I was three, I've been playing for a little under a year. I also own an Epiphone classical I got as a Christmas present.

If it were stolen or lost, I think I'd wait awhile before purchasing it again, just to see if it turned up really.

I love it because it's really fun to play around with the effects and the colour is really groovy. I don't really like the weight, though.

I can't really compaire it to other electrics, but the reason I chose this paticular guitar was the colours and the fact the price was one I'd be able to pay off before I die.

I really think this is a good starter guitar because of the fact it's in a good price range and the guitar can work well with any level. Plus the effects are fun to play around with. If you put on the distort effect and play Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, it sounds just like it should.

cheap body but cool effects, nice over all tone

nice tones from neck and middle pickup. i verry rarely use the bridge pickup.it has a very deep sound played throuh my crate vintage 30 or my crate gfx15r.

very easy to ajust my action was a little high untill a slight ajustment at the saddles. the pickups are in just about the right spot

the only dependable part of this guitar is the strap buttons. ive had mine 9 months and have already had to have the cheap circit board replaced, and now its going bad again. also the middle pickup quit working last week.

danelectro service sucks just as much as guitar centers does. i had to show up with 700 dollars worth of equipment and ask for my money back before they did any thing to fix my dano, thats when it was only 4 months old and the circut board went out.

ive been playing for 12 years ive got 2 crate amps as i mentioned before. i also own a fender telecaster. i bought the danelctro for 2 reasons,1 i like the sound of them,2 i wantd a cheap guitar to put in my tractor trailer so i could leave the fender at home. i really am not satis fied with my danelectro or the warraty. next time i want a cheap axe i'll get a squire or epiphone thak you.

Features already listed by everyone else. Useless whammy bar, 4 effects, Mosrite-shape, s/s/s 5 way, string thru body. Tone, volume and tremelo speed knobs. Foreign made.

I want to mention that I don't own this guitar anymore. I traded it last week. A)it was too heavy 2)I bought a multieffects pedal (Zoom 505II) and the effects on the guitar seemed silly 3) I saw another Danelectro (Hodad) at the store that I liked a lot better. The Innuendo is NOT a bad guitar. It's chock full of features and is great to learn on but after a while you will want something lighter, nicer-looking and less toy-like. Buy it for the person who is not sure if they'll be playing forever. Did well as a trade. I got my money's worth and when I went back to the store today it was long gone. It made someone happy.

It suited my music style just fine, which is muddy indie mope rock.
The only noisy setting is the distortion. Stay away from it.
Goes from rich and full to thin and bright..real nice.
At the time I was using no other effects and running it to an Epiphone practice amp.

Bottom line:variety? YES.

Black, non sparkly, flawless. Perfect action right out of the box. Though the frets buzz a bit if you're lazy.

Strap buttons solid and big. Heavy as 2 tons of bricks. Hardware seems fine. I'd say it was dependable, but like the person below said, make sure you have batteries! Finish is thick.

Shady. Sometimes you hear back from them, and sometimes not. And when you do, it seems like all the response you get is some nutjob going to the website, copying and pasting quotes from the site. Really. I asked a question about a knob's function and I recieved an email that said word for word what their website did. So, what customer service? Show it to me and I'll believe you. I also sent in my warranty and it came to me 2 weeks later with a stamp on it stating that they did not get the warranty card in time. In time for what???

I've been playing about six months. I have the aforementioned amp and effects pedal. I wish I hadn't bought it online. Always try before you buy. Obviously I don't have it anymore, so if it had been stolen I would have ended up getting something different. Only because it was so heavy and I just wanted a more straight-forward basic guitar.
I chose it because of the effects and the price. Great buy.

Supposedly a "plywood" body. 21 frets, made in Korea. S/S/S 5-way selector. Why go over the features again?

I play through an Epiphone Studio 10 amp. No feedback, no buzzing, gives lots of sounds thanks to 5-way selector and 4 effects. Chorus is gorgeous, tremelo and echo have different speeds and you can alter the tone of the distortion (but use the distortion wisely, don't combine with your amp's gain or boost, or it makes an ungodly screeching). Suits my music style just fine, I play lo-fi indie stuff, riotgrrl, grunge, punk, and for fun I even tried out a Metallica song last night, and it sounded great. Variety? F**k yes!

Needed no setup. Only a little tuning. Action great. Finish, supersmooth paint, that pickguard HAS to go: ugly holographic mother of pearl. Everything was perfect. Nothing loose or poorly made.

Strap buttons-big. My strap isn't coming off without pliers. Hardware-no complaints. Finish-haven't scratched it yet and I don't even have a gig bag or a stand. Dependable...well just make sure if you're using those effects that you have a stash of 9volt batteries. I would most definitely gig without a backup. This thing is so solid (and heavy) that if you're into breaking your instruments after shows, smashing everything up, well better find something else, this guitar isn't going to break. It might break other things, though.

I don't know. No problems yet.

If it were stolen or lost, I'd buy it again. I've been playing acoustic for 4 months, and I got this guitar last week. Love everything but the fact that the effects use batteries, but what the hell, at this price where else are you going to get 4 effects AND a guitar? I bought it online without trying it out. Before that I tried Squier Telies and Strats, and a Yamaha Pacifica. Please, if you're getting your first guitar, don't get one of those knockoffs. The features, durability and price of this guitar are unbelievable. Plus Danelectro just makes cool stuff anyway.

I just bought what I believe is a 2001 Danelectro-Innuendo. It has all of the effects (tremolo, echo, chorus and distortion). I must agree with the general consensus that the distortion is very lack-luster, but the tremolo is great. it has 3 single coil pick-ups, which sound totally great. The 5 way switch is great, and let's you really get the sound you want, including some very hollow tones (if you're in to that). I was told that the pick-up configuration sucked, but THIS IS NOT TRUE. This guitar rocks for the money and then some. It has active electronics for the effects, but you can bypass this by using the 'bypass' output. The body feels very solid, unlike that of other Danelectros I've played. It feels more stable than the 'Hodad'. I'm not sure what it is made of, but would imagine stacked ply. It has a rosewood fretboard. I have the 'tobacco burst' finish. The body is unmistakebly very '60s and is modeled after the Mosrite guitars the Ventures used. This is not a Strat body. It has a 'string-thru' body, with fulcrum-style tremolo. The tuners feel very stable, I don't know who makes them though. 22 frets/ medium-width neck.

I play surf and garage music, and this guitar is it. I also play a Fender USA Strat. Amazingly enough, this guitar is comparable and at about 1/8 of the cost....you can't beat that. I send the guitar through a Fender Twin for gigs or my Peavey 'Revolution' at home. I use lots of tremolo, fuzz and slap-back/ echo in addition to reverb. The guitar has super low-action and can go anywhere from, a super hollow or 'tinny' sound to a very rich, dare I say pretty tone. I loosened the tremolo springs, because they come very tight....that's the only adjustment I've made.
The ONLY dislike I have is the pre-mentioned BAD distortion. I can not say enough good things about this guitar, although I bypass the effects. I would be just as happy without them, as I use stomp boxes. I will also say that it would be handy if the truss-rod was more accessible, but I've had no use for tweaking it yet.

The guitar was ready to play out of the box. It has staggered pick-ups, very low-action, well a couple of buzzes, but a 'minor' adjustment to the string saddle is all it took. The effects switches are kinda noisey when you're switching between them.
The saddles are nice, the tuners are great,it stays in tune.

The guitar seems very solid, time will tell. It seems built to last. The finish is nice and sparkly and well done/ authentic. Strap buttons are bigger than usual, but I think that's a good thing (it won't fall off as easily). I would not hesitate to use this with out a back-up.

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I've been playing for about 10 years now. I would replace it if stole,in a heart drop. I love the 'retro' '60s look and sound. Consider buying this before you spend a bundle.

Hardware is nice and solid. Body is solid laminated whatever. Neck woods are fine, and not too thick. Must remove neck for truss adjust. How many guitars have on board effects? 10 due to features. S-S-S five way select.

Real nice, smooth, mellow. I'll never change the pick-ups. I had a lot of trouble with static at first. Everytime I touched the pick guard with my fingers it would produce a lot of static. I wrote to Danelectro, and they responded quickly, with option for return. I called a couple of shops locally, and they recommended changing battery, locations, etc. The static seems to be caused by myself mostly, and perhaps my body chemistry just reacts in an unfavorable way with the pick guard material. Don't have this problem with other guitars, but changing location reduced the static a lot, and it is very minimal now. It is strange, but negligable, and I'll continue to work on it. I talked to a tech, and he didn't think shielding was an issue, as much as my chemistry was. I'll repost if I have a definite fix. One other person mentioned this problem, but it doesn't distract from the functionality much. It did at first though.

Effects. They all sound fine. The distortion really took a while for me to dial in. The tone selectors and pick-up selection is tricky, then you need to have the volume off - push the button on, and slowly ramp up the volume to taste. Kind of a hassle, and no directions were supplied. I might use it with a smoky amp for a fuzz effect, but I'm way more into overdrive type of sounds. The other effects are easy, and sound great - very cool deal.

Plays out of the box. Action is a bit high, intonation is fine, tuners are fine. No flaws at all to finish or fit. I got the black one.

Built very solidly. I recommend hardshell because it's heavy. It will last longer than I will.

How can I give a 9? They didn't call right back one day. Danelectro is by far the best customer support company I know of.

For $150.00, black with pearl pick guard, dreamy sounding staggered pole pick-ups, good hardware, graphite nut, great finish, good neck, killer effects, did I mention dreamy sound? You don't get much more for a hundred and fifty than this folks, and great support too.

i think that mine is a 2000 model 22 frets solid body (some people say ply wood some say solid wood i think it might be solid wood as it is quite a bit lighter than my strat copy)3 single coil pickups that kick @$* maple neck with a rosewood frettboard the tuners are awsome realy smooth and the nut doesnt pinch the strings at all i didnt get a case or anything with this guitar but i still got a great deal

i play a little of everything (except country!) punk/ska mostly but also allot of older stuf like zeplin,hendrix,eagles(joe walsh) etc.
i play through a crate amp i got used and it sounds great although the distortion sux it is LOUD AS HELL!!! and even if you get past that it sounds awful! but the chorus sounds as good as any pedal ive played and the echo is great the trem is the best of all and with the speed control at your fingertips the sky is the limit man!

this guitar plays like it was built by God himself (o.k. maybe not quite that well but you get the picture)ive played les pauls and many strats and the action on this guitar was almost as good as any of them
the finish is soooo cool i got the blue silver sparkle thing and it is pretty! and the whole guitar is fit together realy tight nothing is loose this guitar looks like it will last forever i think that i might take it to a shop and have it set up though as there is some buzzing not allot but in a couple of places and i heard that other people have had this same problem and fixed it this way but this is the only problem

this guitar seems that it will live longer than i will the finish is exelent i have bonked it twice pretty hard (by accident) and you cant even see a scratch not even a little one the strap buttons are excelent (i dont know what everyone else is talking about!) this guitar seems reliable enough ive only had it a couple of months but it stays in tune better than any of my other guitars i probably would use this guitar in a pinch without a backup (i wouldnt recomend playing live without a backup for any guitar!)

i have been playing for about 8 years i have an epiphone pr200 acoustic an early 60's era fender 12 string a handmade clasical acoustic that i bought in mexico an old tanara acoustic and an empro hornet electric (this i think is just a strat copy e-mail me if you know anything about this guitar)this giutar kicks ass for and 200 dollars is probably the best deal ive ever gotten on a guitar (except maybe my fneder 12 string which was free!)if it was stolen id kill someone but would definetly by a new one i will say do not by one mail order because when i went to the store they had two that were supposed to be the same color and they looked totaly different the one i bought was a realy pretty placid blue to silver and it was feather'd alot better the other one was allmost black to silver and wasnt feather'd very well at all it looked like it had a blackish blueish grey stripe around a silver center they also played very different (the one i didnt buy buzzed really bad and sounded crappy!)
ive also read all kinds of reviews good and bad about this guitar so i think that the overall quality might vary from one guitar to another but every review also says that it is still a good deal so go to the store and play one if you find one that looks good and plays nice buy it!!! this is the coolest guitar ive ever played