Danelectro Chorus breaking?

whorner

I bought a danelectro chorus pedal just because its super cheap, and kind of wanted a chorus. I used with a small fender frontman amp and 2 of the custom shop cables. It worked fine for a couple days then just stops working, I assumed it was just a faulty pedal and moved on. My brother then buys one a few weeks later and the exact same happens within a couple days. Anyone know why or had a similar situation? Pretty new to pedals so maybe I'm doing something wrong? 

UnclePsychosis

Are you running it off a battery? If so, have you tried changing the battery? If you leave it plugged in when you're not using it the battery will drain. 

steer

Have you tried soaking it in a bucket of water? That will get rid of the dust.

ICBM

Danelectros are not exactly known for their reliability - although they're not the worst I can think of - but if anything, they're better than Fender Custom Shop cables... are you sure it isn't a cable problem?

57Deluxe

Maybe the cables?? Just try a few  different cable combos and gently ease back the jack on the cable and it may connect - there can be jack profile mismatches with some pedals/cables.

On reliability - my 3 have been fine for 5 years...

whorner

UnclePsychosis said:

Are you running it off a battery? If so, have you tried changing the battery? If you leave it plugged in when you're not using it the battery will drain. 

I did try changing the battery, but no luck unfortunately

whorner

ICBM said:

Danelectros are not exactly known for their reliability - although they're not the worst I can think of - but if anything, they're better than Fender Custom Shop cables... are you sure it isn't a cable problem?

Was also thinking it could be the cables, one them recently just stopped working so Im not sure ill be using them again to be honest

Sassafras

Fender cables seem to use the worst, most fragile jack-plugs I've ever come across.

ICBM

Sassafras said:

Fender cables seem to use the worst, most fragile jack-plugs I've ever come across.

Yes, they're complete crap - but the cable itself is nice... although it's quite thick, so getting it into proper Neutrik plugs can be a challenge!

ESBlonde

I had a Cool Cat chorus that I liked the sound of and it was cheap. It stopped working so I bought another online ready for the weekend gig as I didn't have time to risk fiddling and not having the tool. The new one was swapped into the pedal board. Some time later I looked inside the 'broken' one to discover a multipin plug was undone. Reconnected it and it's fine. It became the basis of my second/rehearsal pedal set and both units continue to function some 2 years on. Might be worth taking the base off and having a poke, you've nothing to lose.