Danelectro EQ pedal

[tubenit]

Got a Danelectro Fish & Chips EQ pedal.  I love it!  Really quiet pedal.  Sounded great in the front of the amp AND in the FX loop which is where I liked it the best.  I got it for $30 which included shipping off ebay.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/danelectro-dj14-fish-and-chips-7-band-eq-pedal

Never tried an EQ pedal before.  You can really get ALOT of different tones out of your amp using the thing.  I'd think if someone had two of them you could go from a mid scooped EQ for chording to a mid boosted EQ for lead and have that work really well.

I discovered I like it somewhat midboosted  with a slight notch on one of the mid sliders. It was interesting to me to move each slider one at a time to hear what it adds or subtracts in the mix/tone.

It's actually the nicest sounding "boost" pedal I've ever played thru.  Very very transparent sounding & it just sort of enhanced the tone that was already there without dramatically altering the tone.  Sort of a "more of the best of the tone" type boost pedal.

I tried it with my D'Mars ODS last night.  I watched a YouTube last week where it was used in conjunction with an overdrive pedal so that will be my next experiment. 

With respect, Tubenit

[Ed_Chambley]

I have not used the Danelectro as I am usually leery of the durability and EQ pedals are notorious for being noisy.  For the price I will give one a try since you say it is not noisy.  I have a couple different ones, but I use a modded Boss mostly.  The boss pedal has 4 caps and one diode you can change out and it becomes dead silent.

I am sort of amazed you have never used one being into building pedals.

I need another one for a different pedal board.  I use them first in the loop,  EQ>Chorus>Delay and maybe a phaser/flanger.  Most modulation pedals do not have any way to increase/decrease gain or control the tone and I find most chorus pedals and the modulation on dealys like the carbon copy diminish high end sparkle, but with the EQ you can get it back by pulling the mids which is very cool as you don't have effects making mud out of your overdrive since I have not been able to crank a 100 Watt super lead in years.

Thanks for the tip!

[tubenit]

I will be very interested in your review of the Dano EQ pedal!  Especially given your modded Boss EQ pedal being dead quiet. A comparison would be great. 

I actually considered a Boss EQ but kept reading they were noisy and read far more favorable reviews of quietness regarding the Dano ....... so I
bought it and really like it so far.  It's very quiet to my ears & dialing just one particular slider down makes it almost dead quiet.

It does seem odd that I've never tried an EQ pedal before.  I started playing guitar in 1965 and never got around to it til yesterday.  There were several  periods of decades that I virtually didn't play at all, but still ..............

As an FYI,  I don't particularly like the switch on the Dano but the thick plastic pedal shell seems just fine to me.  I can't imagine it being damaged unless something dramatic happened to it that could possibly mess up an alloy pedal shell also.

Jeff

[tubenit]

OK, I tried the EQ pedal before and after a Zenith Drive overdrive pedal.  It sounded fine.  Nothing spectacular & no "oh wow!" response but useful.

Up until this EQ, the only pedal that I felt like made any of my amps sound "better" was a delay pedal (or a reverb pedal) with a slight delay.

All the other pedals including distortions, fuzz, overdrives, wah-wah, compression, flanger, etc....... just provided a different sound and not one that I would say is better. I like all those pedals but seldom use them.  I use a very slight delay ALL the time.

However, the EQ pedal (like the delay) actually makes the amp sound "better" to me. It has a fuller richer tone.  I am really liking this pedal ALOT!
I am favoring using it in the active FX loop prior to the delay.  I tried it after the delay and that did not sound right. It is a quiet pedal for the D'Mars.

With respect, Tubenit

[Ritchie200]

I have a Scholz R&D EQ that is absolutely silent.  It is unique in design with extra mid freq adjustment.  Unfortunately they are $200-$300 IF you can find a good one on fleabay.  These things are fantastic for guitar.


http://www.rockman.fr/Reviews/EQ.htm


Jim

[alerich]

I've been using BOSS GE-7 Equalizer pedals for thirty years to boost the front end of Marshall type amps. Sounds great in front of a 2204/2203. They can be a tad noisy in their stock form especially if you nudge the volume slider up too far. I installed one of those Monte Allums mod kits in the one I currently use (basically just better quality caps and a few other things) and it helped lower the noise floor quite a bit. They are basically a frequency adjustable clean boost that doesn't otherwise tamper with the tone.

[tubenit]

I found this interesting .................

I got around to trying the Dano EQ on the Tweed BluezMeister where the tone stack is between V1a and V1b  VS. the D'Mars where the tone stack is off the cathode follower behind V1b.

It sounded very good on the Tweed BluezMeister but NOT "better".  It was just different like an OD pedal is just different and not necessarily better.  In contrast, it made the D'Mars sound MUCH better to my ears.

A delay pedal in both the TBM and the D'Mars does make both those amps sound "better" to me and I feel like the tone of the amp needs a slight delay (which is about all I use anyway).

I am making a wild guess that maybe the TBM is not as clean of a tone and has more "mids" already and so the EQ pedal didn't add as much.  In fact,  I've been playing the TBM the last few days and don't have the EQ pedal hooked up at all.   I think it will be rare that I don't have the EQ pedal hooked up on the D'Mars because it just made that amp sound "that good!".

Just an FYI.  Again, I am new to EQ pedals so maybe everyone has already known this as I am late to the party.

Best regards, Jeff

[jjasilli]

I use a Dano EQ pedal in my acoustic guitar pedal board.  My old school stomp box preamp lacks a notch filter to kill boomy feedback. The Dano pedal takes care of that & shapes tone for different venues or my own PA.