What is it? Danelectro DJ-17 PB & J (peanut butter & jelly) Delay from mini series. Made in china around early 00’s. I thought i was getting a slightly used unit through ebay listing. Apparently not. It is in original blister packaking with only one of the corners slightly torn. Packaking indicates that this unit…
Category: Mini-series
Danelectro DJ-2 T-Bone Distortion
What is it? Danelectro DJ-2 T-Bone Distortion from Dano mini series in tiny plastic enclosure. Made in china around 2007 (dating based on a guess). As i got accustomed to praising the mini series boxes, i thought it was a nice deal to take this home from local music shop as a new unit. Price…
Danelectro DJ-3 BLT Slap Echo
What is it? Danelectro DJ-3 BLT Slap Echo from mini series, made in china. Most of the mini series effects are good and usable. This one is no exception. One can hear what the circuit is all about by just listening to it. It’s PT2399 delay with fixed delay time. Did this surprise you? Not…
Danelectro DJ9 Surf & Turf Compressor
What is it? Danelectro DJ-9 Surf & Turf compressor from Mini series. Finally. One of these that make the original look bad. Like i”ve pointed out on numerous occasions, to refine or rediesign existing design, the result should always be better than the original. Not much poin if it isn’t. Here we have your standard…
Danelectro DJ6 Pepperoni Phaser
What is it? Danelectro DJ-6 Pepperoni Phaser from the Dano Mini series. Standard mini plasticky box. Bought it for cheap and now that i have it – i can say that no-one should pay good money for this. Mine came in as horribly misbiased, so i needes to tweak it quite a bit to get…
Danelectro DJ1 Pastrami Mini Overdrive
What is it? Danelectro DJ-1 Pastrami Mini Overdrive. First in Dano’s mini boxes. Got this from a friend. Thanks Mr. Järvi! Not bad at all. Like many in this series, the soldering leaves me wanting more quality, but otherwise there’s not that much bad to say about this. The schematic can be found on FSB….
Danelectro DJ10 Grilled Cheese Distortion
What is it? Danelectro DJ-10 Grilled Cheese distorion. Had no information on the design whatsoever when i got this unit. Should probably have done some reading before paying 20€ for it. As distortions go, there is one sub-genre that i find no joy in playing with. This one sinks to that genre. Fixed wah distorion….
Danelectro DJ7 Milkshake Chorus
What is it? Danelectro DJ7 Milkshake chorus from Danelectro mini effects series. Not bad at all. The series is notorious for what it is – the cheapest possible way to come up with a guitar effect pedal. What Dirk Hendrik states on his site about plastic Soundtanks applies here too. I’ve never come across Dano…
Danelectro DJ22 Black Licorice Beyond Metal
What is it? Danelectro DJ-22 Black Licorice, Beyond Metal from Danelectro Mini effect series. While many designs in the notorious mini effects series are surprisingly good and most of the designs have some really nice tweaks or upgrades to some other, known classic circuits, this one disappoints in so many ways. If you didn’t know…
Danelectro DJ5 Tuna Melt Tremolo
What is it? Danelectro DJ5 Tuna Melt Tremolo from Dano’s mini effects series. This is one of those that should not be overlooked no matter what opinion you may have about the box/jacks/switch/whatever. Definitely one of the best and most desired boxes in the mini series in addition to Chicken Salad and a few other…