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Danelectro review
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07-06-2010 8:05am#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejLGKJyX2UComments
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Weird, I ordered a Danelectro pedal yesterday. They seem to be really good bang for your buck.
Most of my pedal board is made up of boutique pedals but I wanted a cheap, metal housed, true bypass chorus pedal (Danelectro cool cat) to do me until I can afford a decent analogue one.
Don't think these guys can be beaten for quality budget gear. Or so I hear anyway, I'll let you know once it arrives in the post
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Weird, I ordered a Danelectro pedal yesterday. They seem to be really good bang for your buck.
Most of my pedal board is made up of boutique pedals but I wanted a cheap, metal housed, true bypass chorus pedal (Danelectro cool cat) to do me until I can afford a decent analogue one.
Don't think these guys can be beaten for quality budget gear. Or so I hear anyway, I'll let you know once it arrives in the post
As a complete by the by.
I don't think true by-pass for a modulation based effect is a good thing.
My Carbon Copy sucks out top end if I place it last in the chain of loop FX with anything more than a 5 meter cable to FX return. Putting it before the graphic (which is 18 Volt and is buffered well) solves the problem.
If I could change on thing on the pedal it would be to have a switchable output buffer for when you need to drive longer cables back to the FX return of a loop.
A good, well designed buffer doesn't change the tone at all.*
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landsleaving wrote: »He gives great lessons too. SKip to 1.40 to hear him play an incredibly unique version of Smoke on the Water.
Please stop.
Any more of that guy and he'll pass his guitar cancer onto all of us...0 -
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landsleaving wrote: »He gives great lessons too. SKip to 1.40 to hear him play an incredibly unique version of Smoke on the Water.
Also this guy is hilarious. Dropped my pick there!
Where is that obnoxious hiss coming from? Sounds like the ground loop I had with my ****ty speakers.0 -
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Yes. A lot of the Boss pedals have less than awesome buffers which give them a bad reputation. I remember reading a bit long rant by Pete Cornish or similar as to why true bypass on all your pedals is a bad idea, and a lot of the builders I know seem to agree.
I think it's probably best to have a mix of true bypass(for dirt pedals) and good buffers, though I'm not sure.
Yup, I'll try and give a brief, non techy explaination.
When two pieces of conductor are close together they contain capacitance.
Capacitors are built like this, two bits of metal close together.
As we know they are used in amps and pedals to control the frequencies which pass and which are filtered out.
Unfortunatley your guitar cable is made with two piece of wires close together.
So your cable has capacitance. Longer cables have more capacitance.*****
This capacitance acts to filter the higher frequencies.
A "buffer" is designed to add current to your signal which can charge this capacitance and allow the high frequencies to pass unaffected (there's a bit more involved but that's roughly it).
A good buffer produces and exact replica of your signal but makes it immune to high freqency roll off.
In a normal stage set up you can usually have a shorter cable to your FX. True by-pass is fine for the first couple of pedals.
Normally you need a longer cable to run back to your amp.
To maintain your tone I'd recommend have a good quality buffered pedal as the last one before the amp in order to drive the cable capacitance.
In an FX loop the send is buffered and so the first few pedal can be true by-pass even with a longer cable. Due to the longer cable back to the FX return I'd recommend having a good quality buffered pedal last in the chain before the amp.
The Boss pedals have poor buffers and they run from a 9Vdc battery but Boss are more concerned about battery life than tone, and so the buffer doesn't add much current. They're not particularily linear buffers with any kind of headroom but anyway....
The worst buffer I've ever heard was in the DigiTech Whammy. They artificially add highs to compensate for the poor buffer and it sounds gack. It light and day with the true by-pass mod on one of these. Pedals like these and what supports the true by-pass craze.
The best buffer I've heard is the MXR 10 band graphic, absolutley no tone change whatsoever. You have to run it from a 18Vdc power supply though!!
****Part of what you're paying for when buying good quality guitar cable is that it has less capacitance than cheap cable.0 -
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Yup, I'll try and give a brief, non techy explaination.
When two pieces of conductor are close together they contain capacitance.
Capacitors are built like this, two bits of metal close together.
As we know they are used in amps and pedals to control the frequencies which pass and which are filtered out.
Unfortunatley your guitar cable is made with two piece of wires close together.
So your cable has capacitance. Longer cables have more capacitance.*****
This capacitance acts to filter the higher frequencies.
A "buffer" is designed to add current to your signal which can charge this capacitance and allow the high frequencies to pass unaffected (there's a bit more involved but that's roughly it).
A good buffer produces and exact replica of your signal but makes it immune to high freqency roll off.
In a normal stage set up you can usually have a shorter cable to your FX. True by-pass is fine for the first couple of pedals.
Normally you need a longer cable to run back to your amp.
To maintain your tone I'd recommend have a good quality buffered pedal as the last one before the amp in order to drive the cable capacitance.
In an FX loop the send is buffered and so the first few pedal can be true by-pass even with a longer cable. Due to the longer cable back to the FX return I'd recommend having a good quality buffered pedal last in the chain before the amp.
The Boss pedals have poor buffers and they run from a 9Vdc battery but Boss are more concerned about battery life than tone, and so the buffer doesn't add much current. They're not particularily linear buffers with any kind of headroom but anyway....
The worst buffer I've ever heard was in the DigiTech Whammy. They artificially add highs to compensate for the poor buffer and it sounds gack. It light and day with the true by-pass mod on one of these. Pedals like these and what supports the true by-pass craze.
The best buffer I've heard is the MXR 10 band graphic, absolutley no tone change whatsoever. You have to run it from a 18Vdc power supply though!!
****Part of what you're paying for when buying good quality guitar cable is that it has less capacitance than cheap cable.
So basically it's kind of like how signals for example along telephone lines, and I think fibreoptics have to be "Boosted" every so often to make up for degraded signal loss.
I imagine for this reason it would be best to have a mix of the two; having a buffer every so often to maintain/boost the signal, but too many might end up colouring your tone.
Anything that resists the signal seems to take off high end... a bit like how sound going through walls is mostly bass.0 -
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All this looping and stuff reminds me of Transport Tycoon.
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