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11-09-2010, 01:55 PM
| | | | Marshall the guv'nor
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I was wondering if anyone knew if this effect is suitable to use with bass without any mod's? i vaguely recall someone saying tim commie uses/d one.
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11-09-2010, 02:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | | Never tried that one, but I have the trem and phaser from the same line, they sound fantastic with bass.
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11-09-2010, 02:07 PM
| | | | Cheers electracoyote, i might just get it anyway if i have to mod it should only be some different pot values i'd imagine. |
11-09-2010, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkt_up  Cheers electracoyote, i might just get it anyway if i have to mod it should only be some different pot values i'd imagine. | It has a deep boost switch, that may get you where you want to be.
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11-09-2010, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | Pedals you won't live without.
Scroll down to Post #117, rhino333 seems to like his, you may want to PM him with questions.
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11-09-2010, 02:23 PM
| | | | Message sent thanks again mate |
11-09-2010, 02:41 PM
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11-09-2010, 02:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denmark | | | Isn't the original Guv'nor discontinued? |
11-09-2010, 03:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | Yeah, they have a cheaper model now. |
11-09-2010, 04:23 PM
| | | | thanks for all the input guys, im looking for something to give me a tim commie growl (and i cant afford an ampeg or a stingray..) has anyone ever A/B'd the reissue against the original? |
11-09-2010, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | I haven't, but from what I hear, the original is the one to get. According to Ebay's completed listings, it's the sought after of the two. Your experience could have different results, however. |
11-09-2010, 05:30 PM
| | | | Marshall guvnor is good overdrive for bass. Two are excellent to, one stacked into the other. Used them before I switched to multi effects many yrs ago.
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11-09-2010, 11:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belgium | | | I got a Guvnor2 a few weeks ago. Fits a hole between my sansamp prog bddi, mastotron and little big muff. Rather dark-ish distortion, quite 'barky'. In the studio I often use a send on a bass to a Marshall amp sim (Softube vintage amp room) for bite and this pedal gives me that sound.
Deep and bass are full out to not lose low end pressure on stage. I use it in series, not in parallel.
Guvnor into the BDDI on a mild setting gives a nice variation, my fuzzes (and bass and playing) are too gainy for any combination to work well.
The body is in plastic I think, but of the very sturdy kind. The switch is one of the smoothest ones I've got in a pedal. And the knobs are high and stiff enough (and well protected) so to not accidentally change settings while in the case or while tapdancing my fx.
..and I got it for €20/$27 on a blow-out
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11-10-2010, 12:21 AM
|  | closet rockstar | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Philippines | | | i read about tom morello saying timmy C used it during RATM's early years and he (tom) said that the "floor would start bouncing" once timmy steps on the 'guvnor |
11-10-2010, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK, Essex | | | I see mine as more of a distortion than overdrive. It's capable of getting quite smooth distortion with plenty of bit. However, on it's own you need to crank up the bass eq to compensate for lack of low end. It performs much better if blended with your clean signal.
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11-10-2010, 09:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denmark | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Insouciance Yeah, they have a cheaper model now. | Does it sound the same? |
11-10-2010, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | I have no idea. The only thing I can tell ya is I saw a boutique pedal website that accepts trades in exchange for credit for their pedals. On the "want," list was The Guv'nor, and it had to be the older, original one. It may be a case like the ProCo Rats with the LM308 chip, and the new ones that sound like Ray Romano. "Same" pedal, but different sounds due to a different, cheaper, circuit. |
11-10-2010, 04:04 PM
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