SV-1 Supervibe Chorus

I run either an American Strat or an Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul into my pedal chain of Dunlop ZW45 Zakk Wylde Wah, Dunlop MXR ZW44 Zakk Wylde Overdrive, Boss OC-3 Super Octave, Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, Boss GE-7 Equalizer, Maxon Phase Tone and then the Marshall SV-1 Supervibe. This all runs direct into the front of my Fender M-80 Head and 2 x 300 watt quads. It is not the most audible sound on a clean amp but with my L.P on the front pickup and full treble it really brightens up my sound then on the Bridge pickup with half treble and the Metal Zone on it gets some nice fat Tone to it. It works great for splitting sound to 2 amps and really fattens the tone. I Love Zakk Wlyde and his overall tone so realistically this is prob not the best pedal for me to achieve those goals but im quite happy with its flexability. My only complaint if any would be that when using it with my distortion I am actually after 2 tones. 1 thick and fat for rhythm, Thus the filter would towards the CUT side of the dial but then for lead i like a crispy almost doubled sound which requires the filter to be dialed toward PASS. Oh well we cant always have our cake and eat it too.

I love the shape and design of the pedal. Being a Zakk Wylde fan I wear Combat boots built big enough to decimate an entire Legion of ***holes with a single kick and the angled face with the switch on it is BRILLIANT!! The MXR and Maxon pedals are flat and its hard to stomp the switch button accurately. Unfortunately this pedal has not gigged yet so I cant comment but I can say I would be confident enough to use it without a backup. Im pretty anal about caring for my gear and while i stomp on it when using the pedals they are kept covered and protected when not. All my pedals are mounted to a board via the 4 screws in each corner being removed then a Bicycle chain link being screwed in place then the other end of the link screwed down to the pedal board, so I dont really have worries about pedals flying about.

To be honest I didnt fully read the instructions. Was too keen to get the pedal plugged in and play. So didnt fully understand the operation of the filter. But other than that its very straight forward.

Havent had to deal with them

I play all things from Metal to Blues to a bit of Stoner rock to some clean channel stuff and i think the pedal suits well to all of these. If it needed to be replaced I would prob get another one or possibly a Boss CE-5 As I stated before I love the idea ofthe Angled face and switch mounting. The only desing feature i dont quite like is the chrome knobs. They look absolutely awesome in theory and cosmoetic appeal but in practicality they make it a bit hard to see where you are actually dialing them in at. If i had to name or state anything I wish it had all I could say is maybe a little more intensity on the chorus efect as in some clean use it is a little weak

Hmmm this is the reason I'm writing the review at all. I was highly dissapointed with the lack of effect. I could hardly tell when it was on at all unless I had the speed up to vibrato levels. Also a slight amount of distortion was noticable. I'm playing an Ibanez SZ520 with EMG pickups through a Marshall JCM800. I was hoping to have chorus as a separate pedal from my Korg multi effects but it's just a waste of power in my opinion with this pedal

Well I couldn't really hear what it was doing, wouldn't bother using it

Easy enough to use. I could get the vibrato sound out of it ok, manual is helpful

I haven't used enough to break it

I like to play mostly hard rock sorts of stuff. I like an effect that is very noticable which you can tone down. I find that the Korg1500g multi effects chorus blows this away. I thought that a dedicated unit would be better - maybe mine's broken??