Danelectro Innuendo

Set up perfectly right from the sales floor. I played about 20 other guitars before I bought mine, and I kept coming back to it. The neck is perfect and the effects are a bonus, plus it has stereo outs, which sells itself.

I like the tone far more than any of the $500+ guitars I played that day. You can go from snappy twang to mellow strumming very easily. I did drop the pickups a hair due some mushout when you really bang the strings. I did notice a distinct clicking sound at times when my pick hits the pick guard, but its negligble.

Action was great, finish is nice, i bought a black one cuz its a little more subdued than the glitter covered models...

I think you could pound the crap out of this guitar night after night and it would be none worse for wear. Its a little heavy, but again, its negligble.

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Been playing 13 years, I own a Yamaha 12 string, and a Yamaha electric. Love: sound, playability, look. Hate:nothing really. I compared it to several other guitars, including a PRS, Strat, SG and Les Paul. I only wish they threw in a gig bag.

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PEOPLE BITCH ABOUT THE PLY BODY,,,,,THE HIGH PRICED {to die for gibson 335 ,,,,yea.right,,HAS A PLY TOP!!!!!!! always use a backup

PLAYING 33YRS/PLN ON GETTING ANOTHER ONE!!

The most unusual features are the four built-in effects: distortion, chorus, echo, and tremelo. After an email exchange with Danelectro, I determined that I own one with the second batch of PC boards, which has less of a volume boost with the distortion. You can control the distortion's tone and the tremolo speed. The chorus is fixed at medium settings and the echo is fixed at slapback.

The scale is 25", a 1/4" longer than a Les Paul and a 1/2" shorter than a Strat, if my facts are correct. The pickup configuration is the Start style 3 single coils with a 5-way selector. It also has a Strat style whammy bar. The nut is graphite and a hair narrower than a Strat, wider than other Danelectros. The tuning pegs are good quality. The fretboard is rosewood and fairly flat to my tastes, the neck not too thick or thin, and the frets are medium.

I have to give it high marks on features, especially given the price. The scale is 25", which I like

My present musical style range from country-influenced to jazz-influenced pop, with a healthy dose of blues rock. As a teenager I steeped myself in The Beatles, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, The Cars, Elvis Costello, The Ramones, and The Sex Pistols. I'm forty now and have been most impressed lately by Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind, the Graham Parsons tribute album (Return of the Grevious Angel?), and Frank Sinatra. I'm a songwriter who can't sing worth a damn, plays guitar well, and plays bass better than well (that's what people tell me).

I'm using the Innuendo with a Fender Princeton 65 and no effects that aren't in the guitar. The pickups do seem a little noisy to me, just a little, but they have a nice enough tone to put up with it. I like the pickups for rythmn playing very much; these are much better pickups than I've encountered on other budget guitars.

What is most surprising to me is how good this guitar sounds with all the effects turned off. It has wonderful clean rythmn sounds that I actually prefer to some expensive Strats I used to own. The sound is a little darker and more relaxed; to my ears, a Strat sounds tense, which I like for lead but not always for rythmn. You can get an excellent range of sounds too. The 2 and 4 positions on the pickup selector switch give you those honky out-of-phase sounds, and they're good ones. These aren't the best pickups for lead playing. They don't handle heavy picking as well as they could, but at this price you can't have everything.

Like other players, I find the distortion all but useless. Way too much gain for my style. I may try it in recording but I can't envision using it live. I have no complaints about the other effects. The presets Danelectro chose are very usable. The chorus sounds surprisingly good. I guess the tremelo could be a little deeper, but I use it and like it.

The factory setup was almost great. I lowered the pickups some because they were barking when I hit the lower strings with more than medium force. The whammy bar is too stiff; when I get around to changing the strings, I plan to take out one or two of the springs.

I haven't used this guitar at a gig yet and I don't know if I will. It is no refelection on it, though. I have a Rikter 335 copy that is my main guitar. The Innuendo seems perfectly capable of handling abuse, but I haven't tested it.

I emailed Danelectro about the distortion and they explained that the early PC boards had more gain than the later ones -- and offered to swap my board. I wound up swapping my guitar for a later one with the retailer (more on that in Overall Rating below). So I didn't actually do the transaction, and can't report how that went, but their offering to do it, with no prompting, certainly impressed me. They quickly answered any and all questions I sent them.

I've been playing for about 20 years total. I started when I was 10 and took the last 9 years off. This was my first electric guitar since I sold two Strats back in 1991; I bought it this fall. My amp is a Fender Princeton 65 and I own a Rikter 335 copy that is my main guitar. I also have a Danelectro Rumor bass, which is part of the Danoblaster line, like the Innuendo, and am very happy with it too.

I bought this guitar on the strength of the Guitar Player magazine review. They gave it an Editor's Pick Award and said something like "at this price, everyone should buy one". It plays great. I have pretty big hands but I always found a Strat a little too big. I can really wrap my hands around this neck without getting in my own way. If I built a dream solid body, I would use the exact same scale and body shape, but I would space the strings just a hair wider, probably the same nut width as a Strat.

This is actually the second Innuendo I've had. I liked the first one so much I decided they would probably become collector's items, so I bought a second one -- that I liked even better! I decided I couldn't afford to have two of them, since I had developed a hankering for some other gear, and decided to return the first one. If I had the free cash, I would buy a bunch of them and put them in storage. I think these babies will appreciate.

The first Innuendo had the earlier PC board, with the louder distortion, and less sustain. The second one has the later PC board, more sustain, and even better tone. It weighs more than the first one, so I assume the tone and sustain differences are just the luck of the draw in the wood that was used. The distortion in the later PC boards is unfortunately even less usable to my ears. It has less gain, but still too much, and the tone isn't as good.

My bottom line: this is a truly excellent rythmn guitar, a real sound machine, and damn good fun to play. With better pickups, it would probably be a killer lead guitar too. As is, it is a little wanting as a lead guitar, but still highly usable as one. At this price, you're getting an enormously good value.

Final note: I didn't play my Innuendo for about a month after I got my Rikter. I took it out the other day and was afraid I wouldn't like it so much by comparison. No such disappointment. I was just as impressed as when I took it out of the box.

This model of Danelectro has 4 build in effects (distortion, choruc,, tremolo and echo) and 3 retro pick-ups, and you can choose to use the build in effects or bypass and go to a pedal. The neck is of hard maple with rosewood fingerboard,the scale is 25" and there are 21 frets.

I love the sound of my Dano, Ive always been one for retro-style music but it also does great thrasher too!

Over all the Dano was build great with no flaws.

I think it will withstand the antics of a hyper ska session, we will see soon won't we?

I just got my first Danelectro (not to mention my first electric guitar) and Im in love with it! IVe seen and played alot of guitars, but ive always gona back to this one model, the Inneundo. It has 4 built in effects adn 3 pick-ups... its sweet! I was told that a Dano wasnt the best route to go for a first guitar, but Im sure I made the right choice. Ive only been playing electric for about 12 hrs and acustic since May of '98.

Made in Korea, I think. Plywood body, I think the neck is maple with a rosewood fretboard. Decent quality sealed tuners (look like Gotoh). Three single-coils, aligned in a "strat-like" configuration. Looks like a cross between a strat and a mosrite ventures model, cool and funky looking. Scale is between a Tele and a Les Paul I think. Comfortable neck, feels real nice. Active electronics in a BIG way! Has 4 built-in effects: chorus, tremelo, distortion, and echo. Tremolo bridge, strat-style strings thru body.

Really cool. You can get a huge variety of sounds out of this funky machine, by mixing and matching the different effects. Here's my assessment of all four...

DISTORTION: Not a distortion that you could typically use for crunchy rhythm, it's more of an "effect," i.e., if you wanted a way different sounding solo or something. Distortion is loud, and really jumps in your face when you hit that button. Feeds back fairly bad too. I considered this to be the least useable effect, though there could be situations where you might call on it. There is a knob assigned to this effect that only adjusts the tone of it; I would have MUCH prefered they would have made the knob a gain control, so that you could ratchet it back to a more useable sound.

CHORUS: Really nice. A pretty "lush" sounding chorus that I just always have to keep on. No knob assigned to this one, but it's just about the right amount of speed and depth as far as I'm concerned.

TREM: Again, pretty cool. A bit noisy (sort of a swooshing effect). This one has a knob assigned to adjust the speed.

ECHO: The chorus and the echo are my two favorite effects on the guitar. By combining chorus, trem, and echo, you can get a fairly cool Leslie simulation (okay, it's a poor man's version, but for 2 and a quarter out-the-door, what do you want??). I only knock off a couple of points due to the sort of weak and limited distortion.

The sound with no effects is a decent strat knock-off. No, it's not like a nice Strat with Fralins, Bardens, etc., but it's not bad either. Positions 2 and 4 do the quack thing okay too.

Pickups a bit noisier than the 'average' single-coil guitar, as you might expect.

Not bad for such a cheap guitar. Stays in tune fine. I do find the whammy to be a bit stiff, not nearly as responsive as a Strat's trem set-up. Finish (I bought the sparkle blueburst one) looks as if it was done really well. No rough frets, none sticking out. Pearl pickguard is a nice touch.

I don't like where they place the pickup selector switch! It's right in the way of where I strum.

Not wise to ever gig without a back-up. I think this thing will probably hold up okay. I won't rate it, cuz I don't know (time will tell).

No idea, no rating.

Playing thru a Crate Vintage Club 30 tube amp. I've been playing off and on for 20+ years, you'd never believe it to hear me play. :)

I like all sorts of rock 'n roll: classic, alternative, modern, 80s, radio stuff, obscure stuff, you name it. Jimmy Page and Keith Richards are two of my favorites, but I also dig the Black Crowes, Southern Culture, Cake, Foo Fighters, Everclear, Aerosmith, tons more!!

I don't know how Danelectro does it. They continue to make guitars that are funky and fun to play, at throw-away (literally) prices. Amazing. Everybody ought to own one or two.