Members burton4snow Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Looking at the Echo, Distortion, and Overdrive. I heard some soundbytes of a guy playing his guitar through the different pedals, so it wasn't one of those preprocessed soundbytes, And they sounded pretty damn good. Does anyone have any of these are they any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HockeyRocker Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 For $15.00 I had to try one. I snagged the Fab Distortion, in the red plastic. It gets good, adjustable distortion, but mine's noisey. I don't know if they all are. It has a hum/buzz that I don't get from my Red Dunlop Hendrix Classic Fuzz (always set at max volume, min fuzz). I like having the extra box though. One of my buds is coming over now to jam and I think I'll break it out for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Burningleaves Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I like the mini-pedals better. You can pick them all up used for around $15-$20 a box. I think they sound better than the FABS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChrisGansz Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Originally posted by burton4snow Looking at the Echo, Distortion, and Overdrive. I heard some soundbytes of a guy playing his guitar through the different pedals, so it wasn't one of those preprocessed soundbytes, And they sounded pretty damn good. Does anyone have any of these are they any good? The echo pedal is basically a slapback (think rockabilly) echo - not much adjustment on that. I would think that most of those FAB pedals are re-hashes of the Dano Minis. For the most part I think the Danelectro pedals are ok for the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I highly recommend nearly all of the mini Dano pedals,regardless of price. Lots of great tones in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 10, 2006 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Originally posted by tlbonehead I highly recommend nearly all of the mini Dano pedals,regardless of price. Lots of great tones in them. Is that including the Fab ones or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Originally posted by burton4snow Is that including the Fab ones or not? Nope,never tried any of them. I have,I think,eight different minis that are all over two years old and have been gigged with about 8 times a month since I got them. All are working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members street survivor Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 the danelectro COOL CAT CHORUS is awsome!! i have owned many chorus pedals over 30 yrs and this the best considering the price! lush, built like a tank and the switch is dead on and quiet! the fab pedal are much better built than the small ones which are plastic. the fabs are metal and rock solid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 10, 2006 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Originally posted by tlbonehead I highly recommend nearly all of the mini Dano pedals,regardless of price. Lots of great tones in them. How is the distortion one, everybody on the reviews slam it. What I am looking to do is get one of those Danelectro pedal cases and just fill the thing up with the ones I think I will use the most. I like the it is all together and has a wall wart. The effects I think I want are Blt slap echo, Pastrami overdrive, and some kind of distortion one I think there is two. Other than that maybe you could give me more suggestions I like playing blues, blues rock, rockabilly, and I know I will get into the whole Ted Nugent, Kiss, Van Halen guitar sound:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 10, 2006 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I you just have one power supply 9v DC adapter is there a way to hook up your pedals together instead of having a bunch of adapters. Even if they are different brand pedals but all take 9v. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members book_of_lies777 Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I love Danelectro pedals in general, and I think the FAB line are pretty damn good too! The only one I personally wouldn't have a use for is the FAB Echo, which is, as others said, a non-adjustable(as far as delay time) slapback echo unit.The minis are abit more sturdy than the FAB line, but then again, "stompbox" is just a name, not an order! LOLI plan on picking up the FAB Chorus & Flanger myself next time I make it up to Guitar Center. I'd buy the overdrive too, except I already have 2 Bad Monkeys. They have a couple of "genre sets" of 5 mini pedals(one's a tuner) with the case & power supply, one for blues and one for metal:http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Danelectro-DJBlues-Pedal-Kit?sku=151890http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Danelectro-DJMetal-Pedal-Kit?sku=151889(there's soundclips of both there on the page)I think the T-Bone distortion can sound abit like old ZZ Top... Overall, the Danelectro FAB line gets a from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dimmypage Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 for over the top distortion you should check out the T Bone,whoa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 2deaconblues Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 The Fab Chorus is surprisingly good. I've got a couple of the regular mini's and two full size ones. Even so, I didn't expect the Fab Chorus to be as good as it is. I recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xStonr Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I tried the Fish and Chips EQ pedal but had to return it cause it was so noisy everywhere in my pedal chain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members book_of_lies777 Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Originally posted by xStonr I tried the Fish and Chips EQ pedal but had to return it cause it was so noisy everywhere in my pedal chain. oohhh, that sucks... you musta got a bad one, my Fish-n-Chips EQ is very quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Rocco Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I have the overdrive:) it does the job:o and more:love: its a good bang for your buck:freak: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 Originally posted by burton4snow I you just have one power supply 9v DC adapter is there a way to hook up your pedals together instead of having a bunch of adapters. Even if they are different brand pedals but all take 9v. If you get the little purple holder/board,it comes with a power supply and connectors to power all five in the board. Here's what I have. Fish/Chips graphic EQHash Browns flangerPepperoni phaserTuna Melt tremoloPB/Jelly delayRocky Road rotary speakerChili Dog octave French Toast distortion/octave up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members USian Pie Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 One of the cool things I found with the Fab Distortion is that there is a ridiculous amount of boost available out of it. If you can put up with the noise, it's a great tool for slamming the input stage of an amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members famousXguy Posted September 10, 2006 Members Share Posted September 10, 2006 I tried the fabtone distortion a couple years ago...with a lp standard through a mesa combo. It had some {censored}in balls, kinda noisy but much better than a metal zone for half the price. Through an SG it was a bit muddy but still cool. The only thing that kept me from buying it was I heard they are of shoddy quality (still might buy one someday though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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