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Fireguy8402 « Lives up to it's name... AND the hype! »
Published on 11/19/11 at 13:17The Danelectro Transparent Overdrive (TOD) is a gain pedal with just enough of the good stuff to fill a particular niche. Unlike the “Food” series of pedals from Danelectro this pedal has a metal housing, metal input and output jacks and is true bypass. These are great upgrades without putting the price through the roof. The TOD runs off of 9 volt battery power or a power adapter. Also these pedals have a new look and the design is much more professional looking. Mono input and mono output, a knob to adjust the gain, volume and a two level knob that works as a two band EQ. Simple overdrive layout, but the two band EQ is a nice touch.
UTILIZATION
This pedal goes great in front of a clean amp, or an already overdriven amp as a boost. The two band EQ allows you to tailor the sound to your liking, though the stacked tone knob may be harder to adjust than a two knob version would have been. The jacks are located on the top of the pedal as opposed to the sides like most pedals, which makes it a tight squeeze getting the power plug in when using a One Spot with right angle plugs. Having all this at the top of the pedal is no big deal to me because I find it’s more of a set it and forget it pedal.
SOUND QUALITY
The first version of this pedal is no longer available due to the fact that it was a close clone of another more expensive overdrive. This shows in the sound department because it sounds very, very good. It works great as a solo boost, but I love it for that slightly overdriven tube amp on the verge of breaking up type of sound. You can get some rocking tones out of it with the gain maxed, but it sounds so good at low gain levels. This pedal lives up to its name because it is very transparent. It’s like taking the tone of your guitar and instead of covering it with distortion; it’s like just turning up the gain on a nice tube amp. It’s what I’ve always looked for in an overdrive, what you put in is what you get out only with more gain.
OVERALL OPINION
This pedal just rocks in everything that it’s meant to do. No it doesn’t do metal or fuzz, but its warm overdrive, slight tube sounding breakup, or a versatile boost is just plain great. Would I buy this again? In a heartbeat. These pedals are great at three times the price, but getting one at this price point is just awesome. I haven’t had any issues with the pedal whatsoever and the tones are great and all within a gigging musician’s budget. Great job Dano!
UTILIZATION
This pedal goes great in front of a clean amp, or an already overdriven amp as a boost. The two band EQ allows you to tailor the sound to your liking, though the stacked tone knob may be harder to adjust than a two knob version would have been. The jacks are located on the top of the pedal as opposed to the sides like most pedals, which makes it a tight squeeze getting the power plug in when using a One Spot with right angle plugs. Having all this at the top of the pedal is no big deal to me because I find it’s more of a set it and forget it pedal.
SOUND QUALITY
The first version of this pedal is no longer available due to the fact that it was a close clone of another more expensive overdrive. This shows in the sound department because it sounds very, very good. It works great as a solo boost, but I love it for that slightly overdriven tube amp on the verge of breaking up type of sound. You can get some rocking tones out of it with the gain maxed, but it sounds so good at low gain levels. This pedal lives up to its name because it is very transparent. It’s like taking the tone of your guitar and instead of covering it with distortion; it’s like just turning up the gain on a nice tube amp. It’s what I’ve always looked for in an overdrive, what you put in is what you get out only with more gain.
OVERALL OPINION
This pedal just rocks in everything that it’s meant to do. No it doesn’t do metal or fuzz, but its warm overdrive, slight tube sounding breakup, or a versatile boost is just plain great. Would I buy this again? In a heartbeat. These pedals are great at three times the price, but getting one at this price point is just awesome. I haven’t had any issues with the pedal whatsoever and the tones are great and all within a gigging musician’s budget. Great job Dano!