OVERDRIVE-DANELECTRO FAB D-2 OD ...is this a King of Tone clone ???

 WELL LETS SETTLE THIS SILLY STATEMENT RIGHT AWAY ...lol   

 DANELECTRO FAB D-2 OD 

$20.00 USD

These have been around since 2005. Technically I suspect they have been discontinued but there are lots of new ones around and plenty of used ones. A good condition used one should be cheaper than a meal at McDonalds. lol

Yes they are plastic boxes! They do however stand up well and on a pedal board could last indefinitely! The nice thing about Dano is they have no problem borrowing great schematics. They take a $325.00 pedal use the kind of parts in a $150.00 pedal and you get it new for $50.00.
So now for $15 or $20 you get a $325 sound :-) 
No sh@t they really do!!! My tech friends bare me out on the parts. Even against the King of Tone the damn thing did not sound like a toy ...but a pro pedal!

The Fab OD has a nice chunky, thick and aggressive sound with great little honk dead center between the lower & upper mids. 
It can work great as a low gain pedal to warm up and fatten up your sound. On a Fender tube amp playing a Tele or Strat with the gain backed off for a lot of blues or music with an Americana vibe they can act as an always on pedal. 
You could stack it on a another drive that has killer upper mids highs and sustain & it will punch up all the lower mids for a total wall of sound.
It is no King of Tone OD (though after the  video I am not so sure ...LOL LOL LOL) ...but it can do the some of the job  that many guys use their KOT for.
In short on it's own as a very full mid range sound that can be tweaked into a punchy chunk to beat out a rhythm or stacked it can be a real problem solver.
Best of all it is a damn lot of fun for a few bucks!










CONCLUSION
BOUGHT ONE
Well it arrived today. The tone control is adequate and there is reasonable amount of gain. The sustain was far better then I expected. There is plenty of level. The harmonics are much richer than the kind of pedal that is in the $150.00 USD range. I think it is at it's best with the highs cut back and the gain set mid way back. You have to tweak it there foe thesweet spot but it has one. It is very close to the sound it gets set to on the KOT vs. the FAB OD but without a bit of mud I hear on the vid.
Perfect for a tune I wrote with complex rhythms where I keep the drummer playing a straight rock beat in 4's then I keep playing a string of odd tome signatures using rests to bring me back to the downbeat at the start of a phrase.
Plastic or not it seems very well made ...nothing flimsy even the knobs and pots move very smooth but very firm. If I got the same guts in Hammond B style pedal for $150.00 USD 
I would think I had scored a good deal!
Get one ..you got nothing to loose you can sell for what you paid for it.