Made famous by Jonny Greenwood because he only had a Fender Eighty Five (red knob) and wanted a Marshall Stack sound. A young guy does what he can. I now have a Fender Eighty-Five sitting in the corner of my music room and plan on adding one of these to it. I use an Axe-Fx, but there's something fun about having the original gear that inspired me to pick up a guitar.
Johnny Greenwood is such a clever lead player probably any pedal would sound interesting. This pedal not in his hands sounds like hair metal distortion.
I used that pedal back in the day, favorite one. What people dont get these days, we didn't have Marshalls to plug them into in the 90's. We had glassy sounding transistor amps, often with HiFi tuned speakers. This pedal quite muddy sounding was the perfect match. If you tried DS1 or Rat into those amps, it would make your ears bleed. With SM you could use contour to get scooped sounds like Biohazard, Nirvana, Metallica or organic Marshall sounds. Plug Shredmaster into JC120 you'll know what i mean ;)
I appreciate this video a lot because I think you're helping to teach me about how to use the EQ on pedals or my amp. I'm about to build a clone of it and I'll keep coming back here for reference on using it. Great video
Great video! This one takes me back a ways. This pedal disappointed many a Bay Area metal guitarist back in the day hoping for face-melting shred coming from their ADA MP-1/Boogie 50/50/full stack set-ups. They all had a look like a kid that didn't get a bike for Christmas when the gain let them down. MK
I run the Marshall Shred Master with a BOSS DS-1 in front of it with 0 distortion, it's a great pedal combo the BOSS DS-1 acts like a treble booster! Thanks for posting.
Aside from the bass overload that second setting is the same I use. That aside - the magic of this pedal is how it responds as much as how it sounds. There are so many nuances to that which is part of what makes it special ... It's also pretty versatile ...
@@SteveSterlacci There pots are an issue with that whole line of pedals. I have a guvnor as well, same crackly issues. My shredmaster came from the shop with it. Of course it had been sitting around for 15-20 years, but it was still in original case and wrapping so only time could have done it. I have been testing it against a Purple Plexi for a while. Both are great, but the plexi is more scooped and a little treblier. Real world it doesn't quite stand up to the shredmaster which is raspier in a good way and stronger in the mids. For context I use it with a CS strat into a 71 silverface super reverb. Other setups may of course yield a different experience - but even with all the fenderism, I can still get a very decent AC/DC type marshall thump out of the shredmaster ... It's just dirty ... :)
A Nobels ODR-1 and a Marshall Shredmaster has been my drive/distortion setup since high school (I'm now nearly 40...) Other dirt boxes came and went on the pedal board but not those two... Gain a 3 o'clock, bass and contour at noon. Max the treble and volume as desired... Just add a Tele bridge pickup and you've got Jonny's The Bends era sound nailed.
@@SteveSterlacci fun fact - the truetone jekyll and hyde v3 is a shredmaster clone on the distortion side, and an ODR-1 on the overdrive side... I was listening to clips of it and I was like "aw, man, that overdrive sounds great, and that distortion sounds great, and ummm... rather familiar..." It all checks out with a bit of digging...
@@SteveSterlacci I've kinda pieced it together... this retailer claims the overdrive side of the jekyll and hyde v3 is based upon the old true tone "open road" overdrive: www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/guitar-pedals/overdrive-pedals/truetone-jekyll-hyde-v3-overdrive-and-distortion-pedal and from Truetone's own details of the v3 pedal: "And as for Dr. Jekyll (the Overdriven chap on the left side of this pedal), we’ll just say that he’s “Open” to experimentation" Which, I will argue is an ODR-1 clone based upon this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wbh2uB4DWWY.html As for the distortion side, I found comments on forums, etc, stating it's a shredmaster, however what convinced me was the copy on truetones own website on the v3 product page: "With this life-altering pedal in your arsenal, you shall be the “Master of Puppets“. Some may hear you and call you a “Creep“, but in the end they will be “Thunderstruck” and will be singing “Hail to the King“! " and "can deliver to you a rich gift of saturation reminiscent of bands a-la Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, AC-DC, Radiohead, and more. " The Creep reference... Radiohead... And then I found this video of the v2 distortion side being compared to a shredmaster: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KYH0dEAtMOc.html I'll leave you to make up your own mind!
These were expensive when they were new. I wanted one because I had a solid state Peavey and wanted that Marshall stack sound. I never got one because of the price and by the time I could afford one I wasn’t into Marshalls anymore.
@@SteveSterlacci Cool. They never really caught on, I guess. I certainly never followed them back then. There was a point in the 80s where I went to a rack mounted setup for ease of setup etc. Now I'm back to pedals... vicious (and expensive) cycle 🤣
@@SteveSterlacci I'm looking at a board with an HX Effects on it. I'll have the drives external and use the HX as a switcher and the other effects stuff.
I saved my lunch money for weeks to get this pedal. I was 13, "the black album" just came out and I became more serious about guitar by joining a band. Bought it, plugged it in and thought it wasn't very shreddy. I used it for a while and traded it (with a heap of other stuff) towards a guitar at the local Daddy's Junkie Music. Wish I had it back now...had them all back.
I think the "Hyde" side of the Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde overdrive is either the Shredmaster or the Guvnor, one or the other, not sure. I think that pedal had more users, the left side was a TS-808 and the right side was the Marshall pedal. I think it's the Shredmaster, the countour knob is just called "EQ" on the J&H.
When you have all knobs up, and strum and A. I can def hear the sound of Radioheads The Bends and OK Computer. They used this a lot on those two albums. The Bends more accessible and melodic. OK computer this was the pedal for those crazy solos with phase on them for Paranoid Android. You can here that when you do the bends from top to bottom. However I’ve owned some Marshall’s and you could get close with a jcm 2000 or earlier. I loved Marshall’s as a kid. But as I got older started to like Roland JC, and Fender Amps more. Nothing like getting to gigs as a teen with a huge $1800 half stack. Only to see volume is on 2-3 and it’s mic anyway. I sold my half stack a bit after, as it was just a loud beast that I didn’t really need. I’d rather have the Marshall sound in a pedal with a clean amp that can take it.
I own one. Had a pedal maker remake the jacks, for that size and orientation, they only make plastic threaded inputs. If you keep in on a pedal board plugged up, your fine.
I bought a Joyo High Gain Distortion which is said to be a clone of this and you helped me see its potential. I also thought it was a dud with all knobs at 12 lol. Thanks homie
Ever had a piece of gear that you look back on and go "Why did I ever get rid of this?" for me, this is it. I had one of these running into a red knob Fender Super 210 and I could out-loud and out grind half stacks. 100% could go from Brown Sound to JCM 800. It and my old Ibanez Soundtank delay would be all I'd need.
Bought mine around 1993, still have it. It was my main distortion sound all throughout the 90s (and I am not a Radiohead fan). It can do the Gary Moore thing.
Never played the Shred Master, probably because of the name. Always enjoyed the Bluesbreaker though. is the Shred Master "quiet" like a BB? Not a huge amount of output.
Reactivated mine yesterday after ignoring it for years because I never liked it very much. Yes, in the 90s I was young and didn´t wanna take the time to get the best of it but now I have the patience and,... BÄÄÄMMM!
Sorry, have to say, I played kind of death metal / thrash metal sound by using this pedal in front of my Marshall JMP MK II 100 Watts (EL34) head + 4x12 Greenback Vintage box. It was nothing like you showed, it was pure evil. And the countur could have brought you to a Swedish Grindcore tone with the right guitar tuning
@@SteveSterlacci Should just be for the good old Shreddy, that it can do really well and different, the right gear connected :) So nothing about bad or good, just adding another experience 🤘
