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MXR EVH 5150 owners? Anyone out there?

Rawmouth

Rawmouth

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Jun 21, 2017
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Hi All,

After spending a few weeks with my new (second hand) hartke lh500 and Hydrive 410 cab and really enjoying a couple of jam sessions we have had, my next mission is to find a good distortion pedal to add to my my signal chain of Warwick Streamer LX, MXR M76, delay and looper.

Now I know everyone is going to blurt out darkglass and I can see why. I am a huge fan of Karnivool and Jon Stockman and I see today that they have just released a smaller version of the Alpha Omega called the Alpha Omicron. This is an interesting proposition, but I can't help but feel that these pedals including the B7/3k, as good as they are, are just becoming too common.

I found a video of a guy using an MXR EVH 5150 ( )and I was super intrigued due to the price but also it seemed to sound genuinely good. I was thinking of using this along with a blend pedal to allow more flexibility for the tone.

I know nolly uses an Axe FX version of the 5150 and gets a good tone, but who knows what other trickery is going on in digital land.

Here in Australia the price of the standard AO is about 500 bucks and like I said, great gear, but everyone and their cousin has one and pretty pricey.

So I guess my question is, who has the MXR 5150, how is the bass response and also how does it sound to you?
 
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I really liked what I have heard online with the use of the MXR 5150 on bass signal paths. I think that with the release of the V2 versions of the Sansamp stuff and Darkglass stuff taking off like it has, there are less and less people willing to drop the coin to experiment with guitar oriented pedals to see if they'll do something good for bass tones. Personally I'd still like to give the 5150 a try, but won't be any time soon.
 
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bassbrad said:
You will have to rock it and see if it sticks, I for one seem to prefer guitar style drives over more bass oriented units.
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Rickter said:
I really liked what I have heard online with the use of the MXR 5150 on bass signal paths. I think that with the release of the V2 versions of the Sansamp stuff and Darkglass stuff taking off like it has, there are less and less people willing to drop the coin to experiment with guitar oriented pedals to see if they'll do something good for bass tones. Personally I'd still like to give the 5150 a try, but won't be any time soon.
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I know there have been a few trades/sales of these pedals so there must be some users willing to comment. I doubt there will be many but I'm hoping to come across a seasoned user at some point.
 
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