Re: [Harp-L] Review: Danelectro FAB Echo pedal

["steve warner" <10reedsbent@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're right about too many controls....that's for guitar players.  This Fab
Echo pedal is about like the older BLT Danecho at $19.99, which in my
opinion was much much better than that 90 dollar tone sucking Dan Echo, so
the price isn't always an indicator of how useful a delay pedal is.

 I must add, though, for those who can spend the money  the Lonewolf Pedal
is handsdown the best pedal I've ever used and it's built for harp players.
It has a  very minimal affect on tone in which a little tone control
knob turning won't cure, if it's even needed.

It's really amazing how any country could even build one of these and sell
it for 15 bucks.

On 8/15/08, Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> First of all, this pedal sells for $14.99, about a tenth what you would
> expect to pay for a decent delay pedal. That, and a smattering of positive
> reviews from guitar players got my attention.
>
> The Fab Echo is not long on features, of course. But it does one thing
> rather well… it has a nice warm slap-back that works well for harp.
>
> Harp players argue constantly about which delay pedal is best: Analog or
> digital? Maxxon, Ibanez, Boss, or Digitech? If you are a Chicago-style
> blues
> player – if you lust after Little Walter's tone – all those delay pedals
> have way more features than you will ever need. What sounds good for
> traditional amped blues harp is a touch of greasy slap-back echo. That's
> all.
>
> And that's where the Danelectro Fab Echo comes in. It has two controls,
> Repeat and Mix. The repeat knob controls the number of echos, with a single
> echo at the minimum position. That is what we want for harp. The other knob
> controls the output mix of dry and wet signals, from all clean to all echo.
> Essentially, this is s a one-knob pedal for harp players.
>
> What you pay all the extra money for in other delay pedals is the Delay
> Time
> control, which is conspicuously missing from the Dano Fab Echo. But if you
> only use one echo – a "slap-back" – then the lack of a Delay Time control
> is
> pretty much meaningless.
>
> I posted sound clips, photos, and more at the Blues Harp Amps Blog:
>
> http://bluesharpamps.blogspot.com/2008/08/review-danelectro-fab-echo-pedal.html
>
> -Rick Davis
> The Blues Harp Amps Blog
> http://bluesharpamps.blogspot.com/
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steve
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