New mxr Evh overdrive

[jinch0]

https://youtu.be/lAERKvlhYXs
I think it sounds like the blue channel

 

[shreder75]

Sounds really good with the carbon copy in the chain

 

[jinch0]

Sounds really good with the carbon copy in the chain

Sounds really good... I think with all those pedals in the market trying to emulate the evh sound I'm surprise it took a long time to build one with his name on it

 

[EVHpickdust]

When I watch Anderton's videos I wish I were blind and deaf.

 

[Bloodrock]

Sounds just as shitty as the mxr "Dimebag" distortion pedal they made years ago. That one was awful! Reminds me of the old Digitech "grunge" pedal... Lol

 

[shreder75]

Sounds really good with the carbon copy in the chain

Sounds really good... I think with all those pedals in the market trying to emulate the evh sound I'm surprise it took a long time to build one with his name on it

Ditto! I'd also heard peavey had built him a lunch box amp back in the day, but evh was too fucky to give them the go ahead to release it. So not all this stuff coming from his camp is exactly new. Still, this is a feature rich pedal I'd happily consider buying. ..if I didn't already have my 50 watt

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

When I watch Anderton's videos I wish I were blind and deaf.

Agree. These days there is way too much chatter and not enough attention to actually making the gear sound good when they do actually play it. In this demo, the pedal sounds like a typical pedal. Fizzy and narrow. Maybe the ticket is to put it through an effects loop or use it with simulated power cab and cab impulse in Torpedo WOS but i am seeing none of that here. What i am seeing, is VH putting his name on just about anything/everything again because he is now a brand. I guess a bit more $ is better than none at all!

 

[shreder75]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

 

[H_Squire]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

Some serious truth to this. His tone just fit the bill for the music they were playing. I am not sure it is something I would want to listen to by itself for hours on end...while I could listen to some slightly overdriven blues guitar for a long time without growing bored...and that is coming from an "EVH fan boy"

Just listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0LAE-Fel8

 

[geetarmikey]

That Victory amp sounded bad to start with anyway!

 

[H_Squire]

I just watched that video in full... ow. Painful.

Especially the end when he is playing running with the devil

 

[shreder75]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

Some serious truth to this. His tone just fit the bill for the music they were playing. I am not sure it is something I would want to listen to by itself for hours on end...while I could listen to some slightly overdriven blues guitar for a long time without growing bored...and that is coming from an "EVH fan boy"

Just listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0LAE-Fel8

Yep. They're all like that! Lol

 

[Mesa\Kramer]

FIFY

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

Some serious truth to this. His tone just fit the bill for the music they were playing. I am not sure it is something I would want to listen to by itself for hours on end...while I could listen to some slightly overdriven blues guitar for a long time without growing bored...and that is coming from an "EVH fan boy"

Just listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0LAE-Fel8

Yep. They're all like that! Lol

Sounds f_cking great to my ear. Yes there is fizz, but there is also a lot of cut and note definition which you don't hear from that pedal. The pedals always fail to sound as full as an amp and are always bass heavy with lousy top end.

 

[shreder75]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

Some serious truth to this. His tone just fit the bill for the music they were playing. I am not sure it is something I would want to listen to by itself for hours on end...while I could listen to some slightly overdriven blues guitar for a long time without growing bored...and that is coming from an "EVH fan boy"

Just listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0LAE-Fel8

Yep. They're all like that! Lol

Sounds f_cking great to my ear. Yes there is fizz, but there is also a lot of cut and note definition which you don't hear from that pedal. The pedals always fail to sound as full as an amp and are always bass heavy with lousy top end.

Opinions will vary. I love the finished product on these early albums, but the iso tracks sound fizzy and ratty enough to give me ear fatigue. Then again, they do that si they'll cut in the mix and compliment what's going on around it.

Vh and many other recordings were done with the app at ear splitting levels, which is another thing people ignore when trying to cop evh and a lot of other tones.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Is that guy Bamm from Jackass?

 

[HilltopExplosion]

How do you think the Wampler Pinnacle or Sovereign would compare?

 

[AndyK]

All these pedals are made for clean amps - who out there ONLY has clean amps?

PS--The pedal sounds more like Nuno's tone to me!

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

Some serious truth to this. His tone just fit the bill for the music they were playing. I am not sure it is something I would want to listen to by itself for hours on end...while I could listen to some slightly overdriven blues guitar for a long time without growing bored...and that is coming from an "EVH fan boy"

Just listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0LAE-Fel8

Yep. They're all like that! Lol

Sounds f_cking great to my ear. Yes there is fizz, but there is also a lot of cut and note definition which you don't hear from that pedal. The pedals always fail to sound as full as an amp and are always bass heavy with lousy top end.

Opinions will vary. I love the finished product on these early albums, but the iso tracks sound fizzy and ratty enough to give me ear fatigue. Then again, they do that si they'll cut in the mix and compliment what's going on around it.

Vh and many other recordings were done with the app at ear splitting levels, which is another thing people ignore when trying to cop evh and a lot of other tones.

That i can agree with. It definitely is not a polished tone on those recordings. Very raw and sizzling which really did pop in a mix but agree, sounds out of control all be it very tastefully out of control! I think most of those old recordings show how bad some of the guitars sounded when recorded. Yet, they sat wonderfully in the mix. Back to the pedal though, for what it is trying to do, i just don't see it achieving the sound i hear out of demos of the 5153 amps.

 

[shreder75]

This is one thing that's always killed me with the whole evh tone debate/search/whatever. People dig it on the recordings and live, but listen to the iso tracks. They're raw, ratty, and fizzy as fuck. Nothing you'd likely want to sound playing sans accompaniment. Slap some script 90 in front of this and get a guy who can actually play like evh (another thing people overlook) and I bet this pedal would fit the classic vh bill.

Some serious truth to this. His tone just fit the bill for the music they were playing. I am not sure it is something I would want to listen to by itself for hours on end...while I could listen to some slightly overdriven blues guitar for a long time without growing bored...and that is coming from an "EVH fan boy"

Just listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0LAE-Fel8

Yep. They're all like that! Lol

Sounds f_cking great to my ear. Yes there is fizz, but there is also a lot of cut and note definition which you don't hear from that pedal. The pedals always fail to sound as full as an amp and are always bass heavy with lousy top end.

Opinions will vary. I love the finished product on these early albums, but the iso tracks sound fizzy and ratty enough to give me ear fatigue. Then again, they do that si they'll cut in the mix and compliment what's going on around it.

Vh and many other recordings were done with the app at ear splitting levels, which is another thing people ignore when trying to cop evh and a lot of other tones.

That i can agree with. It definitely is not a polished tone on those recordings. Very raw and sizzling which really did pop in a mix but agree, sounds out of control all be it very tastefully out of control! I think most of those old recordings show how bad some of the guitars sounded when recorded. Yet, they sat wonderfully in the mix. Back to the pedal though, for what it is trying to do, i just don't see it achieving the sound i hear out of demos of the 5153 amps.

I wouldn't replace my evh with it for sure lol but I think it could be dialed in to sound pretty groovy. I dunno much about the victory amp. Maybe cranking the thing would have helped, not to mention a guy who can play vh on a guitar that's tuned to Eb