DAN AGOSTO: Hi. Welcome to Gearwire.Com. We're taking a look at the Danelectro Hash Browns Flanger. It's one of their many pedals that's become pretty popular over the past few years. Let's take a look at it. It comes in a plastic box like this. Just take the pedal out in the back here.

On the back, you just got very minimal instructions, and there are a few few different settings that they recommend you try out, so you can try them out if you'd like. On the pedal, we see just standard 1/4" in and out and then the 9-volt DC in. It takes about 200 mA. You can also turn the pedal over, there's this little screw here, you could unscrew that with a finger or a coin and there's a battery already in there, and it comes with the pedal so you're all set to go. That's the Danelectro Hash Browns Flanger out of the box.

All right, we're back and we have the Danelectro Hash Browns pedal plugged in and ready to go. I'm playing with a Fender American Standard Telecaster that's going into the Marshall JCM2000 half stack which we have mic'ed up with a Shure SM57. So let's see what kind of sound we're getting with just the guitar, no effect.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS BYPASSED]

All right, let's bring the pedal in with all the knobs straight up at midnight.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED AT SPECIFIED SETTINGS]

So if you have ever heard a flanger effect before, you'd recognize that sort of sound. It's pretty slow actually for being straight up. We control that with the speed knob. If we want to go even slower, just turn that down.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED AT LOWEST SPEED SETTING]

It's a nice sort of way to change the sound over longer periods of time, and let's see how fast we can go with this speed knob.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED AT HIGHEST SPEED SETTING]

Almost gets sort of more a chorusy effect. Let's turn that down just a little bit and check out the next knob. This is the Regen knob or the regeneration knob. What it takes is it basically just takes the output of the effect and feeds it back into the input and this knob controls how much of that happens. So if we turn this down, we're going to get sort of less of a resonant effect. We'll still hear the sweep but we're not going to hear sort of that as much flanger-type sound.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED, REGEN KNOB AT LOWEST SETTING]

So that's getting to almost like a phaser pedal. So we turn this up and the resonance peaks are start happening a bit more.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED, REGEN KNOB AT HIGH SETTING]

That's a bit more like flanger-type sound. We turn this one down as well. The Width knob: Basically, that controls how much modulation is actually taking place inside of the pedal. If we turn this down, it's really not going to move that much. It'll be a slight -- You'll get a slight resonant effect, and you can actually control that using the Regen knob but let's see how that sounds with it turned down.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED, WIDTH KNOB AT LOWEST SETTING]

All right, let's try the width knob all the way up.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED, WIDTH KNOB AT HIGHEST SETTING]

All right, there's one more setting I'd like to check, and that's with the Width all the way up, the Regen all the way up, and the Speed knob all the way up. This is sort of a classic setting that you'll hear on various different albums. You may recognize it once you hear it. Just kind of what its -- how it sweeps through the sound of the guitar.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE DANELECTRO HASH BROWNS ENGAGED, ALL KNOBS AT HIGHEST SETTING]

So, it sort of gives you that jet taking off sort of sound. Well, that's the Danelectro Hash Browns Flanger Pedal. Thanks for checking it out at Gearwire.Com.