All user reviews for the Danelectro CV-1 Vibe

Fuzz with three pots acute low volume gain + some internal trimpot to refine the sound



USE

Simple configuration, easy editing sounds. The manual is superfluous for one who has the habit of effects pedals.

SOUND QUALITY

As for sound, it's really a very good pedal fuzz compared to other boutique pedals. FYI I have other pedals in the same spirit (under foot stomp screamin panda, jmb experience, mono fx pompeii hand).

NOTICE GLOBAL

If you are looking for a fuzz pedal with a good value for money, well you found. The only flaw of this pedal is accessibility to sound adjustment pots (especially bass and acute) .but this is a minor fault if you do not have to change anything at a concert. this choice I would rather two Times that a pedal .This is my real favorite.

Not much to say, only one effect, a beautiful vibrato, a box to look special kind toad blue sky, not easy to put into a pedal board, but true bypass, battery excellent.2 access jacks in the wrong place that require angled cables touching the knobs, not a stomp of the foot more practical but that is the way.

UTILIZATION

3 knobs, speed, intensity and mix effect, which manages the amount of effect sent. the effect was a terrible noise marking each modulation. By opening the box, there is a small trim pot (mini knob), which manages the intensity of the effect. In fact, the varying sets this rumbling by reducing the light intensity of a flashing orange LED hidden under an aluminum cover. It does not reduce the intensity adjustment of the pedal, that is the intensity of the oscillator avoiding saturation. problem solved. In fact I thought it would trim pot to adjust the volume as tremolo pedal from the same brand. Well no! so we will be forced to bear a volume gain of about 10% after Inrush pedal. Not great even though it is better in this sense. Otherwise, the settings are effective, the sound is clear with a vintage button, a Start, it is a joy. After much testing, the best place is in the lead after the wah because it is a vibrato, so something that comes from the instrument. The tremolo is positioned after all the rest, just before the reverb because wants to give atmosphere. the vibe in the effects loop, it is despicable, especially with distortion, but distortion after it very well on this cool cat ...

SOUND QUALITY

Have fun on machine gun Hendrix, this is stunning! whatever the speed, the sound is clean but not clinical and frozen as the hardwire pedal. Here one is analog, vintage and that's fine. For the price, frankly nothing wrong, clean or overdrive, do not change. A curious point the effect starts a few seconds after the Inrush stomp. To believe that there is a lamp to heat up!

OVERALL OPINION

vibes, there are not bad but nothing really affordable. I'm tempted by this disarming the price and I was right, it sounds great. I'm glad to have been able to manage the problem of cyclic hum by the internal knob and I have exactly what I expected of a vibe on my strat. Is the volume and the delayed start but for me are minor problems.

Analog vibrato effect to Hendrix ...

UTILIZATION

Access to control buttons is not easy as they are on the front of the pedal and not on top you can not see what we do or where we are setting level. Fortunately our ears are made for this.

SOUND QUALITY

Well, the vibrato effect is and does what is expected wholesale this type of sound but it is still too rough ...
For starters, when the pedal locks, there is a raising of the level of sound that is unpleasant and the effect in itself triggers only 2 seconds after ... rather embarrassing, really lousy and rude!
Then, as soon as the pedal is pressed it difficult to mix other kinds fuzz pedals, distortion, delay, wha ... (Really all actually ...), it spits death, its sucks.

OVERALL OPINION

I have this effect for 2 to 3 years but I used very rarely seen its many disadvantages. It was already almost nine.
I recently pedal Moen Shaky Jimi purchased for the same bargain price (nearly new too) and the quality is incomparable ...
If I had the choice again, I would NEVER rephrase the Danelectro vibe is all there is more Cheap ... Really disappointing. I have done well to buy used, if I really was bummed to have thrown my money out the window.
Note that I have nothing against this brand I use, but this particular product is really good for simple troubleshooting and not for use in the long term ...

Features / Use:
my comments are valid for all models Cool Cat I detailed in the notice.

Good build quality, report quality / price ratio.
on the other hand, ergonomics is zero
the knob at the back of the pedal must be 4 feet to see what we do.
to adjust to and then not move.
it's a shame because some Cool Cat are really versatile.

UTILIZATION

see above

SOUND QUALITY

the best Cool Cat pedals
I am not a specialist of the Vibe, but this one I was very impressed.
Leslie used in simulation to redo the solo Let it Be: o)

OVERALL OPINION

great pedal!

The Danelectro Cool Cat Vibe is a simple tremolo pedal that is suitable with any electronic instrument but designed for electric guitar. The pedal has a standard make up consisting of 1/4" connections for your input and output and will run on either a nine volt power supply or battery. The pedal isn't rack mountable...


UTILIZATION

You don't need to have much experience in order to use the Danelectro . It's really simple that everyone should be able to catch on pretty quickly. Like most tremolo effect pedals out there, it's got parameters for depth and speed, but this one also has a hard/soft parameter for further adjusting the tone. It's easy enough to use that a manual shouldn't be needed.


SOUND QUALITY

The tone of the Danelectro is actually quite good. You wouldn't know it considering the price, but it's a pretty realistic sounding pedal that can get a good amount of differing tones in one place. It's definitely best for getting that vintage, old tube amp sort of tremolo, especially if you're using it with a real tube amp. I don't own this pedal since I have a '76 Fender Twin Reverb that has this effect built in, and while I wouldn't say that the Cool Cat Vibe is as good as the tremolo on this amp, it's still good in it's on right.


OVERALL OPINION

The Danelectro is definitely the cheapest way to get a good sounding tremolo pedal. I'm not a huge fan of most of these cheap Danelectro pedals in general, but this one I do like a great deal. It's definitely comparable to something like the Boss TR-2 tremolo which will cost almost double the price. Unless you're going to go crazy and get a really in depth tremolo, it's definitely worth it to save a few bucks with the Danelectro Tune Melt...

The socity Nathan Daniels, Danelectro was cre in 1947. It proposed guitars, basses and amplifiers under his own name but also in various other signatures, Silvertone. Cheap products for beginners and whose charm RSID in years 50-60 trs original design and single-coil pickups, known as "lipstick", sounding trs "surf music". But in 1969, the socity farm. It was not until 1998 that the Company reborn from its ashes. If the guitar and bass come out in dribs and drabs and in small quantities, proposed by Danelectro against many effects pedals cheap in design and quality sound rtro Hon.
This is a vibrato pedals. A true vibrato. Indeed, many manufacturers are misusing the term "vibrato" for a dsign "trmolo". The vibrato is a variation of the pitch of a note. The trmolo is a variation of the volume of a note. It's not quite the same thing!

Casing mtallique, switch on / off, a slecteur for speed, depth and the amount of the effect, entrsortie a guitar, a jack for AC power, a trap for the 9V battery .

The construction quality seems good trs. Rtro design is superb and this vintage is perfect. The buttons are a bit "cheap" but that does not shock on such a 50's inspired pedals.

In short the whole is more than adequate and trs original. Especially true vibrato is an effect on the market rarely and usually available in the TRS premium prices stratosphriques!

UTILIZATION

Operation is simple, empty. The slecteurs rpondent perfectly and are sensitive enough for rglages that you want.
Black Point, the potentiomtres are quite close and very accessible (the rear of the pedals to avoid any unwanted d-rglage upon activation of the effect). So difficult to change the rglages flies.

Little quirk: when the switch triggers the actual effect beginners with a delay of 1-2 seconds? To stop, for against, it is IMMEDIATE.

SOUND QUALITY

Effect pedals for quality in this price range.
The sounds are oriented "vintage" with a discreet vibrato but it is possible to achieve more dramatic effects, and the modern EXAGRES rglages.
In short trs versatile and quality for this price range.

OVERALL OPINION

Cheap but quality versatile and original in its prsentation, its only default ACCS is difficult to potentiomtres.

But its strength is mainly to exist Premire: indeed the vibrato effect is rare. In this price range and with the quality of treatment, impossible not to enjoy it!

Like it says on the box, this is a vibe pedal. Amazing wobbly tones can be had from it. It is different than most vibe pedals and I think it is a simulation of an actual vibe but it sure sounds great.

Speed and intensity controls are typical for vibe pedals, the mix control certainly isn't and this is what I really like about this pedal. Great work Danelectro!!

When you switch it on, it actually takes a bit of time before it actually is on. This does not bother me because I have it in a looper so it's always on, I just switch on/off the loop.

UTILIZATION

There are a lot of cool vibe pedals out there and I own(ed) a bunch of them. There's a lot of discussion going on on the internet about vibe pedals but in the end, the sound is what matters.

Setting this one up is easy, set your speed and intensity with the mix all the way up. BTW, I think that unlike trems and delays, the speed on a vibe should NEVER match the tempo of the song. When you have the speed and intensity dialed in, dial back the mix control a bit. You will notice that the wobble won't stand out as much so turn the intensity up a notch. Why would you do this? Well, it will make the vibe work better in the mix. A lot of people like dark sounding vibes because they sound great when playing alone but when you are playing with a band, the wobble might get lost in the mix. The mix control allows you to dial back some dry tone and turn up the intensity which lets your vibe just work better.

SOUND QUALITY

The vibe sounds fantastic, in fact, it replaced one from a well-known boutique builder because it just sounds so good in the mix. I'm not using it all the time obviously but when I do, it's hard to stop using it. I can get a great vintage vibe tone out of it, think Hendrix, Trower but you can easily get a more phaser-like, more modern tone from it.

Thanks to the mix control, I also find that the vibe works really well with humbuckers without getting to muddy. The mix control gives you clarity and that's what you need, clarity and fat tone!

OVERALL OPINION

I know that it is far from being vintage correct and some of the pedal snobs won't even look at it but bottom-line is the sound and that is pretty darn fantastic.

This is a very affordable vibrato pedal that I recently tried for a few days. It has analog technology and only has the simple 1/4" input and output. There are no MIDI or Computer editing capabilities. It's a foot pedal and is therefore not rackable.

UTILIZATION

The editing of this effect is quite easy. Danelectro pedals really have the back-to-basics approach nailed. There three knobs. The first is mix, which is basically the mix between dry signal and wet (wet meaning with the vibrato effect). The other two knobs are for speed and intensity. The manual isn't really necessary at all but it will explain these things well.

SOUND QUALITY

I don't know if I'm simply dissatisfied with this pedal, or if I'm just expecting too much out of it. I was expecting something along the lines of a Univibe, which is a classic sound. I feel as though they tried to emulate that tone and almost succeeded, but not quite. The main beef I have with the pedal is that it sounds thin. When I up the mix knob, I notice that my intonation is too far out for my liking, and that I lose the signal in muddiness. I think that for once, this pedal's effect is too light for me. It does actually color the sound a bit too much for my liking as well. I think that in general, I'd be better off with the real deal (a Univibe) or another, better replication of that sound. This is mainly because I have played some that aren't nearly as limiting.

OVERALL OPINION

I would say that I'm not too happy with this pedal in general. I think that Danelectro is sort of hit or miss, which is to be expected of a company that charges so little for their pedals. While an interesting idea, this pedal simply falls short of the kind of sound I want. However, I won't say that nobody would like this pedal, I'm sure some people would find much to like here. It just didn't work for me personally.