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The MXR design team has collaborated with Eddie Van Halen to deliver a full range of powerful saturation and hyper-driven tones right at your feet. The resulting EVH 5150 Overdrive joins hand-adjusted multi-stage MOSFETs with a f...
when it's plugged into a PA – hell, it sounds good when it's plugged into my studio reference monitors
It sounds amazing when it's plugged into a practice amp, it sounds
It DOESN'T sound good when plugged in DI, though, because – since it's essentially an amp head – it really needs SOME kind of speaker cabinet; but this can be basically ANY cabinet, as far as I can tell; and can be remedied in-the-box by running the DI signal through a convolution amp modeler like ReCabinet, convolution reverb and cabinet Impulse Response, or if you use a piece of amp simulation software like Guitar Rig – but just using the cabinet without the head
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to literally any and every piece of software I could get my hands on (NI Guitar Rig is my favorite; IK Multimedia AmpliTube is great for clean or overdriven guitars, but falls short on thick metal rhythm; and Peavey's own Revalver just doesn't cut it, surprisingly).I wasn't able to be fully satisfied, that is, until I tried this pedal
Eddie doesn't use this, he only puts his name on it (he's my favorite guitar player of all time, but it's disappointing that he puts his name on products he would never use
I wanted to write this review for all the guitar players who love Eddie's sound
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it's distortion, but a very nice one, sustain, life, it has everything, even the low gain is nice, and the noise gate love it
The gate works fine when you're either playing with low-gain settings or not playing anything at all; but when the gain and outputs start to get above about 50% each, very loud buzzing noise begins creeping in the moment the guitar's sustain starts to drop
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Also, since I'm using the Decimator G string through my FX loop, the pairing of the two gates make for super tight and heavy rhythm playing without killing your tone too much
I use it with a Roland JC-120 and a 335...incredible tone
No, those tones were not identical to the aforementioned bands, but getting really great metal tones with this pedal is not difficult
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The MXR design team has collaborated with Eddie Van Halen to deliver a full range of powerful saturation and hyper-driven tones right at your feet
The resulting EVH 5150 Overdrive joins hand-adjusted multi-stage MOSFETs with a full complement of controls to deliver overdriven tube-like tones and exceptional sonic flexibility through a wide variety of amps and speaker cabinets
Whether on stage or in the studio, the EVH 5150 Overdrive’s controls dial up the whole spectrum-from Eddie’s groundbreaking early classic tones to the high gain, super-articulate sound he uses today
Output and Gain controls set your volume and distortion levels, while the 3-band passive tone stack EQ section shapes your sound to taste
The Boost switch kicks the 5150 Overdrive into high gear with extra gain and compression, and the Gate control-powered by the Smart Gate circuit-tames unwanted noise
The EVH 5150 Overdrive features true bypass switching and comes in a road-worthy housing emblazoned with custom EVH artwork.
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