Alright. I'm having to curtail my main pedal board these days and stick to what I'm using as I'm happy with my sound. So I'm now thinking I'll put together a second board stocked exclusively with cheap pedals, as there's a glut of low cost ones around now (Joyo, Hotone, et al).

I really like the idea of having a scuzzy, snarly, nasty rig set up for when I fancy some dirty garage rock...SO! What are the SG101'ers recommending from the basement bin!?

CrazyAces wrote:

Behringer VD 400 Vintage Delay - Great Analog sounding Delay.

I've got one of these inbound & will run it upstream of my other analog delay. (Also a very modest pedal board.) Did some checking & same chipset & darn near the same schematic of the old Boss DM-2. This thing sounds VERY good & for what... $25, are you kidding? Dynamite for the price. You can even open up the repeat rate a bit with the same pot location. Not channeling Shadows yet, but I might.
Thanks for the lead on this one in an earlier post.

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

I can stand behind the quality of JOYO pedals. They really are built very well and tend to be on mark with the pedals they are clones of. I have the tremolo and have been very satisfied.

Back in the winter I wanted a Vibrato to experiment with for a new song. It wasn't worth a large investment for one part of a single song. So I jumped on the Behringer Ultra Vibrato. It is a clone of a long-out-of-production Boss pedal and nails it. Seeing as how the BOSS version now goes for over $400, I couldn't pass it up. Yes, the enclosure is absolute crap and would never withstand the rigors of constant road use. But that can easily be remedied with a switchout of the enclosure. None-the-less, these would be nice tools to keep on hand for studio use, as you could collect a lot of them for the price of one individual name-brand pedal.

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horax wrote:

The danelectro pedals are great for the price.
I have an od pedal that cost me 15 bucks new, and I'm shocked at how decent it is.

It's the FAB lineup.

The Cool Cat series is even better. The pedals have metal enclosures.

Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers.

LeeVanCleef wrote:

horax wrote:

The danelectro pedals are great for the price.
I have an od pedal that cost me 15 bucks new, and I'm shocked at how decent it is.

It's the FAB lineup.

Yes, yes, a hundred times yes. We played with a rockabilly band a few weeks ago and if the guitarist didn't have the tightest, fullest snapback I had ever heard. After their set my jaw just hit the floor when he told me it was a Danelectro Fab Echo.

I have a danelectro FAB distortion thats not bad at low dist, use it almost like an OD. rumoured to clone a Boss MT-2 or a DS-1
I have a boss DS-1 too and its definitely not as harsh a sound.

I have a danelectro cool cat fuzz v2 which i wasnt impressed with before i got my strat (with my two telecasters, one of which has a neck mini bucker), but now i have a strat it seems to have more potential. it has a lot of microswitch options and is rumoured to be a clone of a Frantone Peachfuzz.

Other than that i have an EHX LBP-1, an OD which was one of the first guitar effects ever made. it does fatten up (colour) the low end a bit so i have to take it off the EQ at the amp end when using it. i bought it to boost my passive bass when playing rocksmith 2014 as its not loud enough without it on. do use it other times too though.
a true original and not a clone http://www.ehx.com/products/lpb-1

I have a "Cutec OD-1" overdrive from the 80's that works good.
The one that really fits this post good is a brown Danelectro "Rocky Road".
It simulates a Leslie spinning speaker (??..well sort of), but it really nails the old Magnatone amp sound. For that, it was worth it ($40 in a
box w/AC Danelectro adapter). It seems to hsve "quieted down" a lot since I first got it & that is also good.

Rouserman73 wrote:

I Like those cheapo DanElectro-pedals alot. I have Tuna Melt tremolo and phaser-pedal (dont remember the name). I think they are good pedals for their value and they dont change the sound/signal too much, although there is no true by-pass on them. Then also Reel Echo is great if U want to simulate tape-echo sounds. It works well with two amplifiers together.

Those Tuna Melt tremolos have really created a nice legacy for themselves. Who would have ever thought a pedal from a line designed to appease young kids wanting to experiment with effects would have gone down as one of the more sought after of its kind? Mine, after about 14 years, finally bit the dirt.

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+1 for the Fab echo. I picked mine up used for 5 bucks a few years ago. It seems that now that they're discontinued all the Fab pedals are reselling for what they cost new now.

derekirving wrote:

I have a Danelectro DanEcho and think it's great! I'm a fan of the Dan Electro pedal line.

Those early Danaelectro pedals were pretty good. They are larger in size than the other series they made. Those early ones were also better constructed. In addition to the Dan Echo, there was an 18 volt (two 9v batteries) chorus, a Fab Tone and the Daddy-O. All of those except the echo sell pretty cheap on ebay. I have seen the Fab Tone sell for under $10 and the Daddy-O for under $20. The chorus does not bring a lot, but it is hard to find. The smaller version looks much the same, only smaller. The small one is a 9 volt. It is not as well constructed and I don't think is sounds nearly as good as the old 18 volt larger version.

Later,
Norm