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I may be alone here, but I've wanted a black Marshall Guv'nor for a long time. I mainly wanted it because one of the guys in The Fucking Champs used them in conjunction with their Marshall amps. This christmas, I got one for $150 on eBay (only paid $80 for it, the rest was paid for in eBay gift cards), and it RIPS. I love this thing.

I took it over to theavondon's house and we played with it for a while, made his Orange Tiny Terror(?) sound like a JCM-800. It makes my Peavey Rage practice amp sound really good, and I never have to use their overdrive channel again. Someday I will buy a real amp.



Good thing I jumped on this when I did, because another one (in better shape than mine) went for $360 on eBay a few days ago.

Yep.

I have a well made Guv'nor clone in a nice gold sparkly enclosure that I never, ever use. I should try it on bass.

...and they stack really good!

Used to be my trusted dirt/distortion in the bass board, from the 90's til 2007 or something like that. A few were stolen, one broke on me and I always bought a new one.

Hell yeah. I didn't expect to like this pedal. But I do.

Are the originals significantly different from the new GV-2's? I had one of those and didn't care for it, but if the old ones get along well with the Orange I might need to acquire a clone...

the_carl wrote:Are the originals significantly different from the new GV-2's? I had one of those and didn't care for it, but if the old ones get along well with the Orange I might need to acquire a clone...

Oh they are different. I mean, sure they both can do what You can describe as the Marshall sound, but though the tone stacks start from the same point... The original unit sounds pretty much what You're supposed to get out of an JCM-900 amp tone stack. The V-2 tone stack is more low end heavy, I believe they have wanted to add more modern metal low end to the spectrum to get new customers. Also, the V-2 overdrive can get more saturated distortion, the original units were not quite as hairy.

I've always wanted a vintage (non-reissue) Shredmaster

mathias wrote:I've always wanted a vintage (non-reissue) Shredmaster

In case you were misinformed into this desire, Guitargeek's rig chart is wrong. Kevin used the Guv'nor, not the Shredmaster, back in the old MBV day. Wish I could get a Guv'nor for HM-2 prices . . .

I think the BBE Crusher is the one that's a pretty direct copy of the first Guv'nor. The BBE AM-64, built as an exclusive for Guitar Center and blown out cheap as chips, is the same dirt circuit but without the TMB eq. I'd hold out for the full eq, personally.

Gone Fission wrote:

mathias wrote:I've always wanted a vintage (non-reissue) Shredmaster

In case you were misinformed into this desire, Guitargeek's rig chart is wrong. Kevin used the Guv'nor, not the Shredmaster, back in the old MBV day. Wish I could get a Guv'nor for HM-2 prices . . .

I think the BBE Crusher is the one that's a pretty direct copy of the first Guv'nor. The BBE AM-64, built as an exclusive for Guitar Center and blown out cheap as chips, is the same dirt circuit but without the TMB eq. I'd hold out for the full eq, personally.

I'm not after the Kevin Shields sound. I really do like the Shredmaster?

mathias wrote:I'm not after the Kevin Shields sound. I really do like the Shredmaster?

Not that there's anything wrong with that. The persistence of the rumor is so strong that it's worth pointing out, though, especially since a lot of people around here are at least sort of after MBV sounds.

I really dig the high gain solo sound:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqVpCRr1GkA[/youtube]

Shredmaster was my first pedal and was my only distortion for a long time. I don't think I've seen it in at least 10 years, but I don't remember getting rid of it. Maybe I should look around for it next time I'm at my parents' house.