Danelectro Cool Cat Fuzz vs. Univox Superfuzz

[Dew Knot Hump]

These Cool Cat pedals are kind of neat, 29 bucks for the fuzz and it's got quality metal jacks, a metal housing and true bypass:

Fuzzy Fight Club:

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[Mark Wein]

Thats actually pretty good sounding for $29.

I can never get fuzz to work for my sounds, though...

[Dew Knot Hump]

Thats actually pretty good sounding for $29.

I can never get fuzz to work for my sounds, though...

It's got a lot of usable tones in it.

[Mark Wein]

Something to try next time I'm at GC I guess...

[Dew Knot Hump]

Something to try next time I'm at GC I guess...

Supposedly the new line are clones of boutique pedals, the fuzz is supposed to be a clone of a Frantone Peach Fuzz, the OD is a clone of something called a Timmy and the distortion is supposed to be an OCD.

I like that Superfuzz a lot but I may sell it, they are going for about $350 on ebay these days.

[Mark Wein]

Help!I'marock! got me turned onto the Stonebender and I was thinking of eventually trying one of those out...

[Dew Knot Hump]

Help!I'marock! got me turned onto the Stonebender and I was thinking of eventually trying one of those out...

Is that the one that cops the Early Page sound? I would love to have that tone but I just can't justify spending 300 bucks on a fuzz.

I've heard the Guyatone Fuzz does what my Super Fuzz does and it only costs 70 bucks. I want to try it and see and if it does I will sell the Super Fuzz.

The thing about fuzz for me these days is I love the tone but it's probably not going to be anything I'm going to use live. One of my dreams is to set up a fuzz for that "Spirit In The Sky" tone and use it for some kind of psychedelic freak at a gig.

[Mark Wein]

Actually they're $189....still at the top of what I think a drive pedal should cost...





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[Aahzz]

I love my Cool Cat Fuzz....just had to throw that in :)

[Denverdave]

I love my Cool Cat Fuzz....just had to throw that in :)


I must have bad luck with Danelectro pedals. I have owned two of them, and Surf & Turf Compressor and the French Fries AutoWah (which I won in a raffle on the EG forum).

The S&T compressor was far and away the worst pedal I have ever owned. It is very noisy and picked up AM radio stations. Plus when it did work it was decent at best at compression. The AutoWah is ok, but seems to be a tone killer. I'll probably trade it in at Music-Go-Round soon.

I have friends here who are very good players that love their Dano pedals. One of the best blues guys I know uses his Cool Cat pedal all the time. I must get all the ones that QC misses....

:-\

[warren0728]

i have an old 18volt cool cat chorus pedal that i really like....haven't tried any of their newer pedals....

[Aahzz]

I must have bad luck with Danelectro pedals. I have owned two of them, and Surf & Turf Compressor and the French Fries AutoWah (which I won in a raffle on the EG forum).

The S&T compressor was far and away the worst pedal I have ever owned. It is very noisy and picked up AM radio stations. Plus when it did work it was decent at best at compression. The AutoWah is ok, but seems to be a tone killer. I'll probably trade it in at Music-Go-Round soon.

I have friends here who are very good players that love their Dano pedals. One of the best blues guys I know uses his Cool Cat pedal all the time. I must get all the ones that QC misses....

:-\

Well, the ones you owned were the older "mini" pedals, in plastic housings...I'm not sure the quality was as high on those. The new Cool Cat series are in metal cases, with metal jacks, and true bypass switching - they seem built like tanks.