All user reviews for the Danelectro Free Speech TalkBox

I bought this pedal off Musiciansfriend.com for $99, great deal for a talk box!!! I bought it because I wanted a talk box, but didn't want to buy a talk box that requires a separate mic amp for it, and what do you know, Danelectro has it covered!!!

You can't complain at all about this pedal, except for if you don't have one or bought another companys talk box where you need a separate mic amp, I laugh at you then!!! This pedal is soooo cool, you can really come up with the best songs or riffs or whatever with this pedal! You can really stand out on stage when you use this pedal! You will amaze everyone with this pedal when you use it!!! If you have heard this pedal has a low volume range, they are wrong, this thing can be as loud as you want it, just turn up the volume know and move the 2 mini mics closer to the end of the tube. This pedal also has a "growl" knob, which is for overdrive/distortion, the dist. actually sounds really good, trust me on that one! Peter Frampton at one time used this exact pedal! I use this pedal too much, it is so much fun and awesome!!!

I wish I bought it sooner, and it is soooo cheap, only $100!!!! And you don't need a separate mic amp!!! Great deal!!!

Built amazingly!!! Super sturdy and will last forever!!! This pedal sounds amazing, that is the main thing, the sound it produces, over the top, insanely great sounding effect pedal!

This pedal is an awesome pedal, I was sooo amazed by Danelectro, I never used any of their pedals, but this pedal totally blew me away!!! Don't say to yourself, "oh, it's a Danelectro pedal, they don't make good stuff" you're wrong!!! They do make some good pedals, and this is their best and better than most other pedals!!!I never tried the other talk boxes, the Dunlop one, the Rocktron, or the Framptone, but this one is probably as good or better than all of them except the Framptone talk box, because that is Peter Frampton's official talk box that costs $500!!! Frampton has his own effects company called Framptone, he has his own talk box, I want to try that one sooo bad, but it costs tooooo much!!! This one definitly takes the place of it for me!!!

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Talkbox effect pedals for children.

Works with a battery.

DA-2 power is optional 8.

Comes with a hose.

The two microphones embedded in the pipe are provided with.

UTILIZATION

Manuel pais as large and a sheet of paper toilet

There's two buttons that serve rglage nothing or almost.

SOUND QUALITY

This so-called "" "talkbox" "" escape.

c.. d: instead of the sound comes only through the hole is fixed o the hose, the sound comes out of everywhere, between Jack, food, small valve to put the battery ETC .. .. !!!!!

Imagine a faucet that leaks everywhere.

OVERALL OPINION

The indoor machine of free speech is dying of laughter (MDR), in the enclosure is no larger than a pice of cardboard and two, not so isolated from the instead of starting the AS through the hole in Danelectro bin, a fate all over (it is aptly named FreeSpeech mdr).

The sound comes over the pedals as the hole in the pipe, fun!

The person who created this home Danelectro talkbox has never used a true, otherwise it is not possible! He knows nothing.

I never imagined having the stuff like a, it's a shame. The pipe is hard as an electric sheath.

I wish you never to Get You Started with this thing and never buy one. J'espre that I think will serve you!

!!!!!!!!!!! Test 2 is on free speech !!!!!!!!
I want to thank Jacky for http://www.musik-service.de

He is the most analog pedal! No program, very easy to use!! Despite all the views of other mouvaises for owners, I find it simple and functionel.

UTILIZATION

The configuration depends on the fawn as it is connected I think ... D `first it will sound with feedback, but for a knob is the" volume "! It's pretty simple as the user manual: Plug and play! Knob and the "growl" function as the level of distortion, the controller also feddback.

SOUND QUALITY

I think the sound quality depends on the location of the connection. I use a BOSS M-8 and it gives me posibilit set the equalization and as to avoid feedback. Also, I think it is possible to obtain several sonns with: tayu insertion in the mouth, the movement of the mouth, the distance between the microphone and lvres and also can be the controller with tayeu teeth and get a feedback control. There are many posibilities and sonns!

OVERALL OPINION

I use despuis 2 months, I made electronic music with a group and it is super! I can do to beaucuup effects. El qualitprix the report is the best !!!!!

Dan electro's free speech is a talk box.
The principle is simple hose (included) out of the talk box he uses his left. He returned in the mouth of the musician. The mouth is then used as a sounding board and a well modulated by the shape of the mouth is picked up by a microphone placed in front and outgoing and a receiver.
I do not possde the pedals but the other guitarist in my band a possde.

UTILIZATION

The configuration is not simple because you have a mic attached to the pipe. In addition it is necessary to position the microphone reussire good distance to pick up a good sound.
Apart from this detail it is easy to use the hose is put on plays and is modulated by opening and closing the mouth.

SOUND QUALITY

The micro level that comes with re-enters the pedals and therefore falls on the guitar amp which is not great.
It is best to use it as a truth is said to bring out the sound with a microphone singing its song is connected to an amp the sound is much better.
Now I can not compare with the dunlop.

OVERALL OPINION

Its plus point is the report quality price.
The negative stuff it takes to get u good sound.

Talk in the field boxes, the choice is reduced. Basically, we find:
- The Heil Talk Box by Dunlop
- Banshee 1 or 2 in Rocktron
- The Danelectro Free Speech

At the top of the pyramid to its quality and "ease" (it's a big word ...) to use, we found the Rocktron, Dunlop then comes the closest to the original model. Finally, Danelectro, easiest to use (compared to the other 2, of course), the cheapest and ... see what she says.

The principle is simple: the signal from the guitar is handled by the Talk Box, which is actually a mini amp: amplification and mini HP, all in a closed format of a pedal. The sound emitted by the HP Mini is then redirected through the pipe to your mouth, which then acts as a mini cave whose volume is adjustable. Result: a bandpass effect which allows for Wah-Wah but also "voyelliser" sound! Then comes the most problematic: what's changed back. For this, a simple microphone singing enough. We must plan a mixer or an amp for the microphone singing.
In short the system is tedious and requires equipment.
The Dunlop connects between the guitar amplifier and a HP. The Banshee is plugged into the chain of effects. But both still require a microphone and something to get the microphone.

The Danelectro, she plugs in the chain of effects and requires no additional hardware. But how do they ??????
In fact, two small microphones are provided voice and hung on the pipe. They then connect directly to the pedal that is responsible for returning the signal in the chain of effects.

The construction seems serious, but I have not disassembled the pedal either ... Personally I find the finish-psychedelic peace and love-70 'nice. The hose seems good. Microphones, on the other hand ... we shall return.

For the rest, as a point of comparison, I'll refer to my Rocktron Banshee 2.

UTILIZATION

Installation and use are fairly simple.
Pedal in the effects chain, preferably at first, but you do what you want ...
The hose is supported by a foot microphone (not included, need to dream anyway ...)
An on / off switch, volume potentiometer and a "growl" to the distortion added.
Brief really not complicated ... for a talk box. No external microphone connection to a sound system ... a real plus.

Use of the talk box as a tool is obviously more difficult. To wah-wah, is rather simple and intuitive. For voyelliser and out of phrases to Daft Punk, it's much more complicated!
An effect that we must learn to use.

Overall, in addition to learning "instrument," this pedal is very easy to install ... for a talk box!

SOUND QUALITY

Well, we must put things in their place.
We amplified sound then sent through a pipe and modified by the oral cavity: the loss of quality is obvious!
Obviously, the sound "out" of the pedal. This is the operating principle of the Talk Box. The "leaks" are inevitable. My Banshee "leaks" and also is almost enough in itself to hear the result! Nothing abnormal.
The microphones are provided small and of poor quality, so we must force the volume to "hear" something out of the amp. Hence the feedback! Over a microphone connected to a chain of effects and then returned to a guitar amp, the result can not be exceptional problems of impedance and frequency! So with this integrated system, the final quality is very rough and frankly, not very good.

Now you are free to use another microphone. For my part I use my Shure SM 58. Not bad as a vocal microphone. And already the result is much better. Obviously not as good as the Banshee 2, since the recovery of his microphone is on the guitar amp, but quite satisfactory. If you now connect your SM 58 to an audio microphone, the result is very good.

So poor in the initial configuration. Then it gets better with a better microphone and a standard installation.
Therefore difficult to give an overall score.

OVERALL OPINION

So this is a talk box:
- Affordable in terms of price
- Easy to install and use
- Providing opportunities for multiple connections, from simple to complex
- Providing sound qualities in relation to the complexity of setting

A talk box that fits so many situations, from simple quick connection quick to laugh at the conventional assembly, rather tedious, to obtain a better result.
A talk box for not too expensive and that is sufficient unto itself (outside of one foot for micro ...)

All this considered, it is a good talk box.