Bomb-proof Marshall-in-a-box

My go-to for medium gain sounds, the Guv'nor excels at giving humbuckers a big, warm rock n' roll tone.

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All the gain you need to always get good sounds its rigth here: Guv'Nor 2+

This was the first stopmbox I acquired, I just liked its sound from then until now. If you do not like the stock version, you should know that this pedal greatly improves all its sound properties by replacing the diodes involved in generating the distortion effect. The ones that it brings installed from the factory are not bad, but those of Germanium give it a more spectacular sound, and I honestly believe that this is the real propuse of any stompbox: define our best sound.

This pedal is something that I always carry in my pedalboard, I like this pedal because its price is accessible, its quality is good, its sound qualities are positive, but especially: because in almost any amplifier it usually sounds pretty good. There is no incompatibility with other pedals.

In my chain of effects, I used the Guv'nor 2+ just as if I had a "mid gain" Overdrive, but I know that if I need to get a plus/extra drive there is a little more, there is still some levels to keep pushing on the gain knob.

I occasionally add an EQ or some other pedal that serves as a "Booster", without being a "Booster" as it could be according to the musical context: a "Fuzz" with the attenuated drive, another more aggressive distortion, a compressor to rescue the lost signals and generate the illusion of greater volume, a fixed "Wah Wah" Jimmy Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Slash, Zakk Wilde, Kirk Hammett, Jimmy Page, or just a very subtle "Phaser" Van Halen's style.

Adds some classic Marshall tone

Brilliant pedal, delivers wonderful Marshall tone. Highly recommended addition to anyone's pedal collection.

Very versatile hard-clipper

Despite it is a hard-clipper you can get very smooth overdrive sounds from it, also try it on rather much gain and then dial back the volume of your guitar. Also sounds great when hit by another low gain OD like a Bluesbreaker 2 or an Boss SD 1, or by another distortion (DS-1 for example). It takes some time to dial in a good sound, but when you have it you don't want anything else.

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True amp in a box - true marshall on a pedal. Warm soft and aggressive compressed sound

It is a very versatile pedal. from a clean / clean boost through an overdrive to a distortion. is one of the pedals that most comply with the concept of an amplifier on a pedal, and is true to the Marshall sound. the only bad thing that you find in this pedal is that it lacks brightness it would be good if the treble control had more range

Sound of classic rock in a box with great tone shaping

I don't own a Marshall stack so can't claim that this emulates the tone of one. However when I play my Les Paul through it it makes me want to play Thin Lizzy. Great tone shaping options and built like a tank. Would look at this before some of those small cheap Chinese pedals for value for money unless space is at a premium on your board.

My secondary distortion.

This one I got from Ilija, Brigand bassist, as a gift somewhere in 2011. It`s pretty good for semi gain, and for microphonia noise(which I use frequently) with primary distortion turned on, but on full gain is very muted on higher freq and dull sounding.

Nice Marshall Tones

Gives really good marshall tones. Heaps of variety, bass nob needs to stay low as it muddies the tone, little bit of it sounds good, deep nob is awesome, treble isn't harsh, though I would like it to go abit higher. 10/10!!!

SUPER pedal for Marshall tones without breaking the bank.

If you're a Marshall fan, this is the pedal to get. You can get most Marshall tones you'd want from this little guy and nobody will notice it's just a pedal. Shhh. It's out secret Keep it!

Nice cheap good quality pedal

Wouldn't say this is iconic, although it is, it has a nice warm overdriven tone for leads, but i always needed to setup controls in some kind of way, and the controls aren't very price, but it does the job,

my problem with it is it is hard to get a good overdriven tone for lead and rhythm together; when playing rhythm, especially using full or open chords, this pedal sounds a bit on the muddy side. but for leads, you can always hear a saurian-ish tone to it.