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Tried/ bought this pedal? What are your opinions? Please share
MXR: EVH 5150 overdrive
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Tried/ bought this pedal? What are your opinions? Please share
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Watched this & others countless times. Looking for personal responses.
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I bought one a few days ago off eBay and should receive it later this month. will share my thots then.
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How much cheaper is it @ Ebay?
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Godspeed recovery.
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The MXR 5150 pedal arrived this week.
Realistically, I can only provide an initial impression given its recent arrival.
Whilst Pete Thorn's demo brought the pedal to my attention, it was the great experience I had with a Peavey 5150 amp which I owned over 20 years ago, that pushed me to buying the pedal.
As we all know, a pedal can vary dramatically into different guitar/amp/cabinet combinations, so lets establish my baseline. I used a Strat into the pedal in front of a Divided by 13 with a Portcity closed-back cab housing a V30 speaker. The baseline tone is a more forward/aggressive-sounding Deluxe Reverb clean sound.
I was happy to find the pedal come close to the 5150 sound I remember. Good sustain, more gain than you would ever need and a useful inbuilt noise gate. It even replicated the high end fizz that the Peavey 5150 amp had as well.
If you are a player that relies on an amp's preamp gain you will notice the loss of "feeling/interaction" that you get going direct to amp. Just saying - it's not a deal breaker but you can feel that it's a pedal in the chain.
Tone controls were useful and handy in dialing in the tone. The only control I would have liked is a Resonance/Air control to control the cabinet response.
Youtube offers enough videos to give a good sense of what the pedal offers. If I had to add my 2 cents, I'd point out that the pedal cleans up very nicely if you roll off the guitar volume. I set the pedal for a 80s distortion tone and turned down to 7.5 for a crunch tone and 6 for a cleaner overdriven tone with nice sustain. The point to remember is that you will need to set the noise gate lower, if not, when turning down for clean tones, the gate will start to choke the signal.
Pricing wise, the pedal is more in the ballpark of boutique pedals, as compared to the MXR pricing for its other non-artist OD/Distortion pedal range. Not a big point and personally not a factor for me, but its something to be aware of.
Realistically, I can only provide an initial impression given its recent arrival.
Whilst Pete Thorn's demo brought the pedal to my attention, it was the great experience I had with a Peavey 5150 amp which I owned over 20 years ago, that pushed me to buying the pedal.
As we all know, a pedal can vary dramatically into different guitar/amp/cabinet combinations, so lets establish my baseline. I used a Strat into the pedal in front of a Divided by 13 with a Portcity closed-back cab housing a V30 speaker. The baseline tone is a more forward/aggressive-sounding Deluxe Reverb clean sound.
I was happy to find the pedal come close to the 5150 sound I remember. Good sustain, more gain than you would ever need and a useful inbuilt noise gate. It even replicated the high end fizz that the Peavey 5150 amp had as well.
If you are a player that relies on an amp's preamp gain you will notice the loss of "feeling/interaction" that you get going direct to amp. Just saying - it's not a deal breaker but you can feel that it's a pedal in the chain.
Tone controls were useful and handy in dialing in the tone. The only control I would have liked is a Resonance/Air control to control the cabinet response.
Youtube offers enough videos to give a good sense of what the pedal offers. If I had to add my 2 cents, I'd point out that the pedal cleans up very nicely if you roll off the guitar volume. I set the pedal for a 80s distortion tone and turned down to 7.5 for a crunch tone and 6 for a cleaner overdriven tone with nice sustain. The point to remember is that you will need to set the noise gate lower, if not, when turning down for clean tones, the gate will start to choke the signal.
Pricing wise, the pedal is more in the ballpark of boutique pedals, as compared to the MXR pricing for its other non-artist OD/Distortion pedal range. Not a big point and personally not a factor for me, but its something to be aware of.
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