Danelectro footpedals are too delicious

http://www.danelectro.com/Effects/effects3-Sitar2.jpg

You could certainly put maple syrup on their French Toast pedal - I personally would also put it on the Bacon and Eggs pedal.

I am considering unleashing my Roger Troutman impressions with the Free Speech Talk Box. Who's got one? is it crap?

http://www.analogman.com/

http://www.analogman.com/lalfx.htm

http://www.zvex.com/

http://www.frostwave.com/index.html

I really really love the PB&J echo pedal, it sounds so crispy and, uh, ploinky, especially for having been $25 (US). I wanna get one of their new tape-echo-simulators in a bad way.

I've also used one of the Pastrami overdrives off and on throughout the years...I like running through that one for light overdrive and then through my (russian) Big Muff Pi for the big forever-sustained fuzzes.

It sucks though that I've been playing bass lately, cuz Danny pedals don't transfer well the lowest registers of a 5-string, but I love the tone the pedals get. Sometimes that sounds cool though, the thinned-out bass-pluck, like when you smack a metal fence-wire with a stick or something. Rawk.

its one big problem is that it eats batteries like i eat donuts.

Oh, and it's a pretty color too.

'oh andy... you make techno with a black coffee... '

I now plan to get a Bacon and Eggs and a French Toast - the full breakfast.

is there a thread on how to get that josef k sound to yr guitars? (the jangly guitar thread i just revived? no, they're not so jangly.)

i guess i wish there were a thread where you could request someone to help you replicate the sound of certain songs or bands without having to go out into the rest of the (scary!) internet. haha: every thread, i guess.

what am i talking about?

http://www.josefk.net/

It's been a while since the site was updated but they have a contact emial addy there - and they say they'll get back to you quickly.

what are danelectro guitars like then?

I was actually going to ask a bit about old Silvertones, but weren't they manufactured by Danelectro or something?

My only strong audio reference point for Silvertones is Mark Robinson with Unrest and Flin Flon, and that's actually a favorite guitar tone of mine -- I've only ever seen a single-pickup one at a workable price, though, and that seems like it'd be super-limited in terms of tone. But Robinson has some really warm and smooth-sounding recordings, so maybe these aren't as limited to thin and snappy sounds as I'm imagining?

Hahaha I am asking this in case anyone's response saves me like a 10-minute walk to go play one I saw for sale somewhere

(I just assumed this was on I Make Music, but evidently it predates it!)

I have a silvertone. Manufactured by Danelectro for Sears. Mine has a hollow body and was made sometime around '68. Sounds great to me sometimes, I even use the bottom string for bass tones because it has a rubbery tone I can't get on my Fender jazz bass. You can hear it on some recordings I made a few years ago here:

http://www.myspace.com/laninnananna

Silvertones are 100% hit or miss - the great ones sound really cool, but when you miss they are kind of stage prop only material.

for full on guitar geekery correction - Silvertones were made by, well, pretty much everybody over the course of their existence. The earliest ones were all Kays, the mid 50's were Danelectros, and by '65 lots of them (although I don't think all) were Teisco built.

Ah ok. This is the one I have, done by Danelectro. Has a sparkly case too:

http://www.myrareguitars.com/silvertonerare.html

oh yeah those are cool - unmistakably danelectroish too.

man i love (non big name) guitars of that era - so much cool stuff going on.

The first electric I ever had was a Teisco Del-Ray I more or less, umm, found; at the time I was under the impression it was extremely old, weird, and junky, and eventually, umm, put it back where I found it. I so wish I'd held on to it -- even if it didn't have value to any collectors, it'd be such an interesting guitar to have at this point.

my Silvertone story- a friend is at a pawnshop and calls me on the phone "I found a Silvertone guitar here, should I inquire about it for you?"

"yes!" *falls off chair*

"40 dollars"

"hmm ask him to take 30"

"he accepted 30. also there's a case that comes with it- has a little amp in"

me *drops dead*

I sold about ten years later- it was a fun guitar

here it is

http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/05/sears_1963_ad.jpg

That's precisely the one I'm asking about here, actually! Have any particular annoyances with it? Was the single pickup super-limiting? (I ask since there's a similar model two pickups.)

(Sadly, the one I saw around has lost its amp/case)

I thought it was limiting- i don't think the body was even made of wood so the tone was very thin. But if you like that sound then well there it is. It never gave me trouble in terms of reliability.

I thought it did "brittle" ok.

Yeah, I think they're plywood in the middle and layered/composite wood on the surface

"Brittle" is a bit daunting -- I guess that's why they matched them with those lipstick pickups

the sound of young scotland is due for a revival any day soon

woo this is finally happening btw