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I lent a friend my IC Muff recently and he insisted that I borrow his favourite pedal in return, a Danelectro Fab Tone. I wasn't expecting much from this pedal and loved it. Just wondering if anyone knew of any clones of this pedal that have true bypass as I might think about getting one? Failing that suggestions of any pedals which are similar (with true bypass) would be good.

P.S. I know the situation re the Dano CEO so no need to bring it up again, especially as i'm not actually think of buying a Dano pedal but a clone or sound-a-like - if such a pedal indeed actually exists.

Isn't Fab Tone a run of pedals, not a single pedal itself?

edit: no. I'm wrong.

Nah, the original big metal series had a Fabtone distortion:



Don't know about any clones though, although I owned 2 of them in the past, it was my faaaaaaaaave for years.

To be more precise, it's the Danelectro DD-1 Fab Tone and it looks like this:

Doog beat me to it, but yeah - that's the one.

I had one, and it sounded amazing with my Tiny Terror, but cack with my Champ. Don't think it's a clone of anything: pick up a secondhand one and put it in a loop? If you make a feedback loop you can use it to make batshit insane squawks too. Regular feature on Mogwai's boards too, donchaknow. And for what it's worth, I never had any grief with the bypass.

Thanks for the suggestion Benecol but i've just moved to a smaller pedalboard and space is at a premium, not only is the Fab Tone huge but I wouldn't have space for an additional true bypass loop pedal and don't have a spare power jack to power it (the loop pedal that is).

I think my local music shop has one. Ill be popping in tomorrow if you want me to grab it for ya.

How much is it going for? I've been looking for a 2nd hand one but not found one yet. I don't want to pay the £60-70 that i've seen new ones go for on the web and i'd rather not be giving my cash straight to Dano, i'm sure you know why.

I used one of these for a while last year on my board - pretty wild distortion. I'm pretty sure where most other pedals' gain controls go from 0 to 10, this one goes from 10-20. Any setting gets you a heavy sound.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they haven't made these since the 90's, have they? They should reissue it!

- Steve

Some stores seem to sell them but maybe it's old stock.

i think they stopped making them for a while, but now they're making it again, every store seams to have them.
I love this pedal, the switch sucks, but i never had bypass problems.
I think i read somewhere this was a ds1 copy with some extra stuff, but might have dreamed it or something.

I'm sure it's used. It's about £40 I think. It's been there for ages.

For £40 i'd take it, but as it's been there for ages if you could try and knock them down i'd appreciate it. What condition is it in?

I know it's really dusty! I picked it up was going to plug it in one time but I never bothered. I think it was my friend steve's at some point and it's in really good nick.

The guitarist in my first band had one of these and it actually sounded great through his strat and little amp pushed hard. I bought one semi-recently and I enjoy it. I've read it's actually just a Boss MT-2 without more sophisticated tone shaping controls:

http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2064

Lots of talk about the Fabtone lately .. I'm still kicking myself for getting rid one mine. I do recall wishing there was a way to get just a little less distortion with it at times.

I'm going to have to break down and find one.

johnnyseven wrote:I don't want to pay the £60-70 that i've seen new ones go for on the web

Really? I've seen them floating around ebay for £25 this year, in fact there's one on ebay now £35 BIN and one bidded up to £10.
Someone famous uses this pedal and i cant remember who it is now. *sucks on a werthers original*

benecol wrote:Regular feature on Mogwai's boards too, donchaknow.

Bathchair for Lubas!

No, its a decent guitarist that uses them, cant remember his name..

Ummm... Ace from Skunk Anansie?