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Tried to put this in the reviews section but for some reason the board won't let me post there?
Anyway, I 've been wanting to write this review for awhile but since I was selling these pedals it seemed in poor taste. Now that they are sold . . .
A General Note on the Dano mini pedals.
I had read these suffer from tone suck and cheap build quality. The tone suck was not bad at all and while you wouldn't want to stomp too hard on the units you don't really have to baby them either. As long as you are not literally throwing them in a bag after playing they should last for years.
If they are so great, why did I sell them? I don't use velcro to mount my pedals and couldn't mount these in my usual fashion. Other than that (and a trade for a boutique vibe) I would have happily kept these pedals. These things are so inexpensive that people simply won't believe that they sound really good!
Danelectro Chicken Salad Vibrato.
It's called a vibrato but it if really a vibe. This thing uses an actual photo cell like the original! I really liked this pedal. In fact, I much preferred it to the SweetSound Mofaux vibe pedal I was a/bing it with. The Chicken Salad has a nice throb and it sounds great clean or dirty. Having separate controls for speed and intensity is very nice for dialing it in just right. I would have no problem using this as my main vibe. From my own experience and what others have written, this is THE vibe if you don't want to spring for a full blown boutique job. Forget the Mofaux, Lovepedal vibe, Microvibe and Dunlop and get one of these. I happened upon a great deal/trade for a Sweetsound Mojovibe making this Dano expendable.
Danelectro Chili Dog Octaver.
If you like the Boss OC-2 you like this pedal. Yep, it's that simple and I believe the pedal is basically the same. Two octaves down, one octave down, and a direct signal. I LOVE octaver pedals for messing around and playing enormous phat riffs. A totally cool pedal at less than half the cost of the Boss. Again, if mounting this to my board wasn't a problem I would have kept this in a heartbeat. I just bought an Arion MOC-1 Octaver that I know I can mount on my board; it is supposedly an exact copy of the Boss unit.
I've got two other Dano pedals here but I won't review them because I don't want to seem like I am spamming (they are for sale; yep, the mounting problem again). I've read that the ones I have are the real keepers of the mini pedals; the tuna melt tremolo is also said to be awesome but I didn't try it because my amp has tube tremolo. If you have been considering any of these pedals but were hesitant just grab them somewhere; you won't regret it and will have a bunch of new fun toys!
TG
Anyway, I 've been wanting to write this review for awhile but since I was selling these pedals it seemed in poor taste. Now that they are sold . . .
A General Note on the Dano mini pedals.
I had read these suffer from tone suck and cheap build quality. The tone suck was not bad at all and while you wouldn't want to stomp too hard on the units you don't really have to baby them either. As long as you are not literally throwing them in a bag after playing they should last for years.
If they are so great, why did I sell them? I don't use velcro to mount my pedals and couldn't mount these in my usual fashion. Other than that (and a trade for a boutique vibe) I would have happily kept these pedals. These things are so inexpensive that people simply won't believe that they sound really good!
Danelectro Chicken Salad Vibrato.
It's called a vibrato but it if really a vibe. This thing uses an actual photo cell like the original! I really liked this pedal. In fact, I much preferred it to the SweetSound Mofaux vibe pedal I was a/bing it with. The Chicken Salad has a nice throb and it sounds great clean or dirty. Having separate controls for speed and intensity is very nice for dialing it in just right. I would have no problem using this as my main vibe. From my own experience and what others have written, this is THE vibe if you don't want to spring for a full blown boutique job. Forget the Mofaux, Lovepedal vibe, Microvibe and Dunlop and get one of these. I happened upon a great deal/trade for a Sweetsound Mojovibe making this Dano expendable.
Danelectro Chili Dog Octaver.
If you like the Boss OC-2 you like this pedal. Yep, it's that simple and I believe the pedal is basically the same. Two octaves down, one octave down, and a direct signal. I LOVE octaver pedals for messing around and playing enormous phat riffs. A totally cool pedal at less than half the cost of the Boss. Again, if mounting this to my board wasn't a problem I would have kept this in a heartbeat. I just bought an Arion MOC-1 Octaver that I know I can mount on my board; it is supposedly an exact copy of the Boss unit.
I've got two other Dano pedals here but I won't review them because I don't want to seem like I am spamming (they are for sale; yep, the mounting problem again). I've read that the ones I have are the real keepers of the mini pedals; the tuna melt tremolo is also said to be awesome but I didn't try it because my amp has tube tremolo. If you have been considering any of these pedals but were hesitant just grab them somewhere; you won't regret it and will have a bunch of new fun toys!
TG
