OVERDRIVE- DANELECTRO D1 FAB Distortion... after 19 years, still made & not a Clone?

DANELECTRO  D1 

FAB Distortion

$30.00 USD ?

Do to a lot of brilliant hindsight we all found many cheap Dano's when we used are ears instead of our eyes sound great. They were from the get go clones that were meant to be clones. Ideally not one bit worse or indeed better. The philosophy was it is not broke so don't fix it. This has proved to be both true on some pedals but to the point of a lawsuit on another.

A total cloning is not possible in this case, it is rumoured to start as a Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master but the treble and bass became a simple Tone control. According to Josh Scott it matches nothing. Is it an original? Is nothing sacred anymore?

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.

OTHER STUFF

The price even new can be as cheap as $25 or $30 or can be heading towards $60. I expect since Dano does not have them on their site they offer a license agreement to a distributor. Availability is inconsistent so it is probable that the licence keeps changing hands. The pedal has been around since 

2005 and just won't go away,😠...LOL.   

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CONCLUSION ___ 

Well the good news is it has a lot of character. It is more of 

a medium gain OD but with a raw sound. It has a nice tight 

aggressive sound great for rhythm playing. I expect it could 

be used stacked to add bite to another OD. A Fuzz stacked 

on it could be tightened up and have some bite added. 

 

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The owner of Danelectro is Steve Ridinger. He invented the Foxx Fuzz pedal. However he could not get his pedal company to fly he only could get small orders. He decided if he could buy the rights to a famous defunct gear company that he could sell enough to make a living. Danelectro was defunct and the company was non existent and so he bought the name cheap. He was right. His pedals sold out to stores in the hundreds. Big but, those same stores wanted the guitars. He new nothing about guitar building, lol. Yes as we all know he got that to fly. He recently designed the latest Dano pedal himself. 

The Nicholas 1966 Fuzz. 

Soooo did he design the D1 himself in 2015????