The Best of Danelectro fx pedals

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My fave has to be the Fuzz because it cleans up with your guitar volume knob like good old Germanium Fuzz Pedals and sounds great no matter what you use. The Chorus is like a CE-2, think 80s band 'House of Love'. I played along to the track 'Christine' when i first got this for days. The TOD is class and exactly what it supposed to be, like a Tubescreamer but with abetter EQ. The Distortion and Metal pedals are as good as most sub £100 models with very good EQ sections.
Are the Cool Cat series pedals all copies of specific, more expensive pedals (a la Behringer)? Do we know which each of them is supposed to be?

Is it correct that the Transaprent Overdrive is a clone of the Fulltone OCD? I saw gearmandude's comparison video demo the other day: he said there is a second, different version of the Transaprent Overdrive?
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The second one was brought out in response to everybody having basically discovered that the original was a direct copy.

Boo hoo.

But still, Danelectro are peddlars of hate (geddit? Pedal? Peddle?)

That said, I have the Spring King, the French Toast among others, but those two really stand out. Excellent pedals.
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Ro S wrote:Is it correct that the Transaprent Overdrive is a clone of the Fulltone OCD? I saw gearmandude's comparison video demo the other day: he said there is a second, different version of the Transaprent Overdrive?
The Cool Cat Drive is meant to be an OCD, the TOD meant to be a Timmy and the Fuzz a Peach Fuzz - hence why they had to bring out a version 2 of all of these pedals.
I've got a v1 Cool Cat Fuzz and TOD, both of which are really excellent pedals. I've also got a Tunamelt Tremolo which again is a great pedal.
Used to have a Fab OD which was pretty good and the Fab Echo which was less so, but still fun considering I got it for free.
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The whole Cool Cat series is great. Cheap, tough, and do exactly what they claim.
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you know whats a good dan electro effect? The sitar swami.......it makes a great door stop....or paper weight......or bludgeoning device
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The only Danelectro pedal I played was a fuzz pedal. It was in a plastic case, I don't know the name. For the price it was decent but it was not as good as a Big Muff. I would like to see if Danelectro has any cool phasers cause I don't want to drop $200 just yet on a Electro Harmonix Polychorus.
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I've not had the CC pedals out for a bit actually, i might have a day of it tomorrow... :D
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Ro S wrote:I gather that the infamous donation was made by an individual rather than the Danelectro company itself, or the group company, therefore to slate Danelectro as gay haters is probably libelous - which is contrary to the forum rules.

Given all the bad rap about Danelectro from some the posters, who I presume may boycott Danlectro products, I find it rather hypocritical that they visit and post regularly on a forum whose official youtube channel helps promotes, and arguably endorses, the current line of Danelectro pedals. :?
See. I take Fran's point and all, but if you hadn't proven to be such a bellend after the first few times this was mentioned, maybe this would have blown over quicker. To deal with your cunty points in order: it was the CEO of Dano that made that contribution, so someone utterly pivotal in the organisation. You also seem to have no idea at all as to how libel operates or is defined. As to your accusations of hypocrisy, how many Dano pedals have been demoed by shortscale since this contribution came to light? I think this thread shows that we as an online community have made our position pretty clear on how we feel about the way Dano operates. As a relative newcomer, do you not think it'd be a bit respectful to take these points on board?

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The food ones blow big time mostly due to the knobs abilities to turn to sh!t with the slightest tough of your shoe.
With that said though, if your in a tight and just got to have say a trem or chorus for a show they are cheap throw-away pedals.
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Re: The Best of Danelectro fx pedals

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I've updated been updating my initial post with the list, here's how stands at present:

Thanks for contributions so far.
Ro S wrote: Food series
French Toast (octave fuzz) [Foxx Tone Machine clone?]
? PB&J (delay) <<QUERIED>>
Tuna Melt (tremolo)
Hash Browns (flanger)
?? Fish & Chips (EQ) <<ADDED>>

Large metal casings
Dan Echo DE-1 (analogue sim delay)
Cool Cat DC-1 (chorus) [not to be confused with Cool Cat series]
Daddy-O DO-1 (overdrive)
Fabtone (distortion/fuzz) <<ADDED>>
Reel Tape Echo (tape sim delay)
?? Spring KIng (reverb) <<ADDED>>
Blue Paisley Pure Drive PD-01 (overdrive)
Back Talk DR-1 (reverse delay)

'Wasabi' series
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any?

'FAB' series?
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any?


'Cool Cat' series
http://www.coolcattone.com/product_to.html
? Transparent Overdrive - which vesion, 1 or 2? <<ADDED>>
? Drive (overdrive) - which version, 1 or 2? <<ADDED>>
? Fuzz - which version, 1 or 2? <<ADDED>>