Danelectro FAB Echo & Distortion - Melody Maker - Pro Junior

[bluestudio67]

"For the price of a bad pizza..."  LMAO!!!! Seriously funny, and SO true. Plastic scares a lot of folks off, but the electronics of these little pedals are figgin' awesome. Record with them. That saved me money for a better preamp YAY! :D

[studio1087]

You are doing everything right. Are the cords all OK? Is the volume up on the guitar and pedal and amp? I hope that you got a working pedal. Check the cords by running each directly from the guitar to the amp. Check the volume knobs. Test the 9 volt battery in another electronic item like a radio.

[jordorockzman]

can u tell me how to connect it??? ive got a 9v battery in it.ive plugged in my lead from my guitar into the input jack in the fab echo and plugged in another lead from the output to the input jack of the amp.i on the amp and the fab echo yet theres stil no sound

[studio1087]

There is very little noise until you dial the gain to 80 percent or more. The pedal has s lot of gain and crunch. I never turn the gain up to the point where the noise bothers me. It has no more noise than my Maxon OD-9 and the Maxon cost over $100 USD. It's a nice little pedal.

[TuxedoDrum]

I want to know how's the noise on the dist. mate.

[studio1087]

I sold the Pro Junior when I bought a Blues Junior. I miss the Pro Junior. Great little amp. Thanks.

[daringbarons]

Nice video! It was really helpful, and I dug your playing. That Melody Maker through the Pro Junior sounds great.

[studio1087]

The amp is 15 wide and 14 tall. You would be ok on width but you're going to bump the tube chassis on the top. 12" won't fit.

Go to the Carvin website and look at the G212 cabinet in the SX amp section. $219 new - $150-$179 on ebay. I bought one of those 2 x 12 cabs on ebay and I unplug the speaker on my Pro Jr or Blues Jr and play through the 2 x 12 sometimes.

It's awesome. Find a used 2 x 12 on ebay and enjoy the small amp or the mini stack. A Pro Jr into a good 2 x 12 = joy.

[punkeratheart]

@studio1087 Best tone in the world is a cranked pro jr, driven by a mahogany body with a single GFS Mean-90 at the bridge, through a home-made pine cabinet (20" wide, 20" tall, 12" deep, small oval cut out of the back near the top) loaded with a ceramic 15" speaker. I have done it with an eminence big ben, a peavey black widow (bass driver) and even a JBL 15" woofer I pulled from a hifi console, and it absolutely Rrrrrocks!!! Oh, make sure there's a 1" layer of foam inside the bottom of the cab.

[musicfuse]

do you think a 12" speaker could fit in the Pro Jr at all?

[studio1087]

You have to buy a short cable.

[kpmurphy62]

Just got a FAB chorus

[aceofspade99]

mee tooo

[ayunana2103]

Very, very, very "expensive" pedals. Haha... But nice reviews man.  :)

[9inchsradius]

i think he said inexpensive

[Logan912]

he said inexpensive

[mrhosehose]

Holy super-expensive

[adio222]

ummm if $15 is expensive for you then yeah, SUPER EXPENSIVE!

[omgcancer]

you sir, or maam idk.. ayunana is girly so anyway.. you are deaf

[studio1087]

Lots of fun!

It's amazing how much fun you can have with that little delay and some crunch. BBE makes a pedal called the Two Timer....it's one delay pedal that allows the user to set a short delay and a longer delay and you can switch between the two delay times or have no delay at all. I bought one for my pedal board just because I love the short slap back of the FAB (and other times a longer delay). That simple classic slap back is great fun.

Enjoy the new toys!

John

[Shlotzkin]

I just ordered these 2 pedals, should be fun

[studio1087]

Wow. Thanks! Have a great week.

John

[punkiesdaddy]

I love this guys no BS approach, an excellent concise down to earth and informative demonstration of these two pedals. His Melody Maker and Fender Pro Junior amp sound sweet cranked without pedals. I'm looking for inexpensive but excellent pedals and my research tells me that Danelectro has a lot from which to choose and this video helped confirm that and this guys guitar playing is fun and enjoyable. Keep it up, I'm a fan. FAB.

[studio1087]

Huge Bollocks!

That made me smile. I've always been a John Lydon fan.

Never Mind The Bollocks; here's the Boss SD-1.

(-:

TS-9's have never had enough bite for me.  My favorite distortion pedal is a BBE Green Screamer which is a TS-9 clone (with bigger bollocks).

John

[studio1087]

LP's are thick and beefy, the MM is sharper. I love single coild pickups and I've never played a single coil that sounds like a MM. The MM is like a P-90 guitar on steroids and it is light and fun to hold. Why in the world did Gibson discontinue the two pickup MM? It could have been a stepping stone Gibson that would have made players buy the more expensive models. I have Tele's and a P-90 guitar and a Gretsch with TV Jones pickups; none sound like a MM. Love it. Brings out the kid in me.

[ahdarshram]

i think the melody maker is better than the lp. Cheaper, lighter, usa made

[evanescence345]

i have a gibson lp dc in yellow.

[studio1087]

Try a Digitech Bad Monkey ($39-$49 USD) and try a Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive (the yellow pedal; not the orange DS-1 - $39-$49 USD).

Both are great at less than 50 bucks. J&R Music is selling the SD-1 for $39 right now; that's a deal.

John

[lagman50]

In the summer i was tryin' out pedals and plugged into three tubescreamers and found heaven. i then tried the sd-1. which sounded like a TS9 on steroids but stil had huge bollocks. I bought it of course

[fantacist]

wow, there's no way it's that good that cheap. im looking for a good distortion pedal on the cheap, and i have a little more to spend (40 bucks). any recomendations?

[johnnylawrason]

lol i dig the lights

hahhaha they are pretty cool lights actually

[tony93666]

cool!

[abartas]

I am wanting a Gibson Melody maker aswell, but in Australia they barely import them, and if they have them their price is around $1100USD, the same with Mexican strats...;/ I am thinking about somehow importing one from the US.

Great Video, Great Equipment, Great Sound.

[JimmyPage968]

really in america they are only 400u.s. dollars

[kelstrophic]

make a freind in the U S and have them send u one and u put money in there paypal or somthin

[studio1087]

Your English is great!

I also have a 70's Silverface Champ. I had $440 USD in pocket to buy a Blues Junior and I tried the Pro Junior when I went to buy the Blues Junior. The Pro Junior was so much warmer and more harmonic sounding that I didn't buy the Blues Junior despite the reverb and pregain on the Blues Junior. The Pro Junior is a great little amp. The Blues Junior had extreme mid-range tone; I was dissapointed. Buy a Pro Junior and a Reverb pedal.

Have a great week.

John

[thestops]

Thanks for saying my english is good!

I was saying I wanted a lp junior guitar, not the amp... a VOS or historic reissue of lp junior guitar worth 2000 euros in France (like 3200 USD).

Thanks for the advice: I couldn't decide between the blues and the pro junior.

Have a great week too.

Thierry

[thestops]

I understand. I'm also a tele/strat guy and I also have 1 MM (the white one, single pup).

I play it trough a little fender champ silverface and a champion 600 (I'm in love with this kind of little tube amps). Cranked up with the MM the sound is great ( very like my strat's bridge pup, maybe a bit warmer).

I'd like to buy a lp junior but the price is too high.

You made me want a pro or blues junior!

...sorry for my english, I'm french.

regards

[alvaritooooooooo]

Hi! Could you make a review with your MM into the 600 Champ, please?. I'm thinking in buy this guitar-amp combination and it would be great to hear it.

Greetings from another non-speaking english guy :D

[studio1087]

It's the two pickup Melody Maker. I'm using the bridge pickup for most of the video and both pickups on the clean travis picking part.

I'm a Tele/Strat guy and the Melody Maker sounds more like a P-90 guitar; it's unique. The intonation is perfect and the pickups do not make any noise.

I'm in my 40's and it brings out the kid in me. The Melody Maker weighs nothing and sounds great clean or dirty. It's a keeper. The neck is every bit as nice as my Gibson SG.

John

[thestops]

Hey! very nice!

It's the dual pups MM model, right?

Which one are you using on this demo?