MXR EVH 5150 Pedal Demo 

For those who don’t understand the M&M bit, Van Halen were known for having the venues they were playing at have a bowl of M&Ms with no brown ones to make sure that they actually cared about the band

I just found out the craziest thing about this pedal. I had it in my room which I don’t usually do and I was just about to sleep and had the lights off and realized that the knobs on the pedal have glow in the dark paint on them. I guess so you can see the knobs on a dark stage

Peter is really getting into these demo's! loving his enthousiasm!

Haha, quick cool story about the BROWN M&M LEGEND: Lee Roth recently put out a video explaining that the reason they added that clause in the rider was because their show was so extravagantly involved that they needed every concert venue to be very careful and precise in their industrial setup of the arena/stadium or else serious injury might occur to all kinds of people from electrical to structural failure. A lot of venue teams weren't following every detail, so they included the tiny "brown m&m" clause as a reveal so they would know immediately whether or not the crews had read the entire thing. They let the legend live on with them as prima donnas for a laugh and more publicity. I thought that was pretty badass.

The sound it made actually really actually blew my mind I think I'll buy one

4:20 is where the rambling ends and demo actually begins.

as great a guitar player evh was, this pedal is an example of how good he was in creating awesome gear

Set the dials to low on 6 and a half, mid at 2,and high at 5. It’s what evh had his amp set on and it sounds killer. These demos always have guys putting the mids at like 5 or higher

You get the EVH III sound for 160$ basically. That OD sounds nothing less than absolutely awesome. Nice playing by the way from Peter Van Halen. I subscribed because you guys seem very cool (and smart). Thanks for the Video

you cracked me with the brown m&m!!! GENIUS!!!

With Chappers on a small Mediterranean rock, Peter is doing fabulous on these demos! I hope you'll bring him in for more!

so Leonardo DiCaprio can play guitar?

YES!!!!!!!! I've been waiting for this for YEARS! its strange though that i don't even really like eddies playing. i just love his tone and everything he puts his name on is extraordinary and seems to last forever.

Peter is great-love his playing and attitude-he is a keeper-this was a very enjoyable demo-hope to see much more of him

YOU DIDNT GO OVER THE ISO BRICK IN WHAT IMPORTANTS IT PLAYS IN THIS. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME. GR8 VIDEO! I HAVE TO WATCH THIS EVERY NOW AND AGAIN...NICE GUITAR PLAYING!

omg! i love your playing mr di caprio and may I say u had an outstanding performance in The Revenant and Wolf of wallstreet movies! 😁

Man, I LOVE MXR pedals!

You guys rock so hard!!! No one plays like that anymore!!! I'm so hard to impress and you guys rock :D

Your channel and Rob' s channel are some of my favorites! Keep it up

this pedal is a fizz machine. Owned for a week and will be moving it on

maybe that pedal would sound better through a different amp. that victory amp does not sound good at all.

The MXR 5150 overdrive is the same price as the Wampler Pinnacle overdrive. Here in the U.S. Both of them are made to give you the brown sound. Both cost 199 USD. I'd love to see you do a comparison video of the two to see who gets the closest to the brown sound.

How come the Boost not being footswitchable? Major design flaw IMO

I don't doubt that this pedal captures the sound, but I'm actually really not digging the sound of the V40 at all. I haven't like the tone you're getting out of it since you moved to this new room. Idk.

EVH painted the original Frankenstrat black, then added a few strips of masking tape and painted it white. After switching to the bumble bee for the second album and not being happy with it he went back to the Frankenstrat but first added a red paint layer.

I like this Peter guy !!!

It sounds MUCH better without the carbon copy added. Imagine the guitar part in a mix as opposed to solo and you can see how much that added brightness could really get in the way.

Finally "sounding like EVH with a budget gear" becomes easier

Another great demo video! You guys got me buying something else again......

Great video. They really should've brought in the EVH phase and flange though. Used the phase for lead parts, the flange for copping that Unchained tone, and really put that 5150 overdrive through it's paces. Still good otherwise though.

still nothing better than a good tube amp and good cab for overdrive. I don't think it sounds like vintage EVH. if you listen to the isolated guitar tracks from VH1, Eddies sound is not that distorted. He loved a lot of overdrive and volume, but liked to keep the tone fairly clean. Not to mention a lot of his tone comes from his fingers and technique. Most overdrive pedals sound like thrash metal distortion and that just isn't the brown sound. Not a bad pedal, but the best VH sound I ever got was from a Peavey 5150 block amp paired with the Marshall 1960 Cab with the 25 watt greenbacks.

it's eddie van halens original paint job with a mixture of ductape and paint, you can see from their earlier material that it was originally white and that the red was added later as far as i'm aware being a massive EVH fan. pedal looks awesome btw

I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants a review and demo of the CAE OD/boost pedal from the Andertons team!

First note that resembles a demo at 3:29 for those wanting to see how the pedal works. Spoiler alert: 3:29 is just the sound of the amp without any pedals. And to be fair, 4:28 (out of a 9 minute video) is where you get to hear the absolute FIRST sound of this pedal.

Didn't know Leonardo dicaprio played guitar! So cool! Big fan!!

Video and audio quality on this one is just so incomparably superior to the videos with Chapman that the latter is starting to look like a parody. Whatever you're doing or changing, keep at it.

It pains me to say this a bit, but I very much enjoy Peter and Lee now more than Rob now. Old rob and lee were great but peter is just a better demo guy IMO. Sorry Rob :P LOVED THE SWITCHAROO FOR AINT TALKIN BOUT LOVE HAHAHAHAHA

Liked JUST for the brown M&M jib. Brilliant!

wow.......wasn't expecting that. With the carbon copy it sounded epic.

Your friend Peter VH is a pretty good player.........Bravo!

Its hard to trust Peter "Van Halen" after the Mesa Boogie Cab Clone disaster!

3:35 for discussion about the setup, 4:24 for start of actual demo

: / Hey, that bit with the M&Ms was funny! I wanted to shed some light on the history of Eddies personal stripe design. ( From the mouth of Eddie himself! ) HE said that he first got the stripe idea by accident. One day he had his ALL WHITE strat body and wanted to give it a more exciting look, something that made it HIS OWN, ( just like his playing ) I added that by the way, he did say that last part about just like his playing.. But he did say he wanted to create something that was his and made the guitar stand out. All he had to work with at the time, was canned bicycle paint ( a can of red, and a can of black ) So he put masking tape ( not duct tape ) all around the guitar, and then sprayed it black! He said he took the tape off and it looked good, ( it was now black with white stripes! ) Then he re taped the guitar and painted it white again! ( this was his very first striped guitar, the white and black one ) Then later, he taped it up again, and painted the guitar red! And that was the main guitar he kept and used. It was red with black and white stripes! ( Im sure most people who know about Eddie, also know he did the same thing with another strat body, using black with yellow stripes ( i personally dont like that one ) My favorite is the white with black stripes look. ( but i also really like the blue and black stripe colors on Wolfie's bass guitar! if you havent seen that one? check it out. Its really nice, and its like Wolfie's "own" version of the "Van halen stripe design" ...... So yeahh, that is the story of How the van halen stripe design came about.. Just like all the other inventions and modifications Eddie came up with! HE JUST WENT FOR IT! : ) I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU EDDIE! I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU SOMEDAY IN HEAVEN! ( and ofcourse jamming with you too! ) OH AND PS! I ALSO WANT TO SAY TO THE CAPTAIN... WHY DONT YOU EVER PLAY GUITAR ON YOUR DEMO VIDEOS????? I HAVE HEARD YOU PLAY AND YOU CAN PLAY! YOU PLAY VERY WELL! YOU JUST HAVE TO STOP THINKING ABOUT IT, AND JUST FEEL IT AND LET OUT WHAT YOU ARE FEELING! THAT IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT! INDIVIDUAL SELF EXPRESSION! THIS IS WHAT EDDIE WAS ALL ABOUT! HE JUST PLAYED THE WAY HE FELT, AND TRIED TO GET THE SOUNDS HE HEARD IN HIS HEAD AND WANTED TO HEAR FROM HIS GUITAR! HE WAS JUST BEING HIMSELF!!!!! WE ALL NEED TO DO THE SAME WITH WHATEVER INSTRUMENT WE PLAY! AND YOU CAN TOO CAPTAIN!

at first i thought the whole brown mnm thing was a bit of an off joke. then i realised why it fit soooo well

I would love to see you guys compare the MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive to the MXR Wylde Overdrive and maybe compare those two to other popular overdrives to see the difference in sound for overdrives.

I'm looking for a overdrive pedal that lets me control the overdrive using just the volume knob on my guitar. When turned down to 3-4 and it sounds clean with a little dirt and as I turn up the volume I'd like a proportional overdriven sound without a huge boost in volume or change of tone , this is what made the classic Vox, Fender & Marshall all tube amps so great. I would also like to retain the picked or plucked percussive dynamics come through even when the overdrive is cranked.

Great video as always Captain

Cool, I'm definitely going to have to get the trio of his effects pedals, that sounds awesome.

man that evh pedal sounds great!!!

i love the brown m&m joke. 😆

Looking forward to trying one of these!!!

That 'clean' amp was not in any way clean. It's not that hard to find a clean sound and that was not it.

The EVH striped guitar is decorated as such because that confusing pattern is much the way Eddie's mind works.

They need to make the boost footswitchable.

RiP Eddie

put a gt-od and a ts9 (with both gain turned down) in front of the 5150 an it sounds AWESOME!

Im so glad to see Lee back in videos. Did him and Rob stop making them together?

Forgive me for my nerdery - the original stripe pattern was a Boogie Bodies reject that was sprayed black, patterned with masking tape, sprayed white, then had the masking tape removed. Et voila: the first Frankenstrat.

seems like it would be cool for versatility if you tracked say dirty tracks with a 5150 and clean with a fender in the studio like a LOT of people do. But it's not really as ballsy as a 5150. Probably a decent compromise for live use though is you want to bring a fender tube combo and use this for you high gain tone.

Love the Brown M&M reference! Nice review as always.

I use one with a fender 68’ Deluxe reverb reissue, and it sounds awesome

Hey, could you do another distortion pedal shootout? Your last one was in 2012, so obviously many more have come onto the market since then. Thanks for all the videos and keep them coming.

They find a new Rob, awsome!

Nice review. Hard to beat the actual amp with a pedal but the cost alone seems worthy.

That OD button is vestigial. And with no light to tell if it's on or not you can't even trick your brain into thinking it's doing something. But this pedal has a very generous amount of distortion.

Seems muffled. Like it was played in a foam covered shoe box. Not sure how to describe it better.

I bet right when Lee gave his salute he wanted to say "GREEEEEEEETINGS"

Sounds great

RIP Eddie

The Captain looks more and more like a Meer-cat every time I see him.

Awsome! Much better than chappers.

I don't generally seek out EVH tone but that pedal sounds awesome!

so what happens when i put the 5150 in front of my 5150 ???? will i survive ???

woow,they should extract the "bright" and bring it out as a booster....great with the 5150!!!

Would be nice if we could of gotten a video with the Carbon Copy vs the Bright to see the differences

Excellent Pete.

um clean tone first still sounded muddy love the pedal and playing tho awesome captain you are cewl

It sounds awesome with the bright carbon copy, but by itself it's way too dark. This might be the amp though, it sounds like the high end is breaking up on clean. Might sound difference through a Deluxe or SL, something where the bass breaks up before the treble?

Wow peter has a sense of humour, cool!

I thought he pulled out a green M&M before he went off lol, Van Halen used to put "No Green M&M's" in their ryders to make sure they were paying attention. If not the stage rigging was presumed to be questionable as well.

Please acoustically treat that space. The previous "black room" sounded great.

Why do they have to use the amp that I'm desperate to buy... it pains me

The guitar was one he made completely scratch made from a strat body Then he had Kramers

Hahaha. The brown m&m contract joke. Hahaha. Nice one mate

Pete you seem petty cool love to meet ya come too amerika!

love peter! funny dude!!! great vid!!

How about a blindfold test MXR 5150 Pedal vs. EVH 5150III 50 watt vs. EVH LBX 15 wat lunch box??? In other words if I only have $200 can I get away with the pedal to get the Edward approved tone, or do I really need to save up for one of the amps?

I'm surprised Eddie putting out an overdrive pedal as he has always said, as he has never used them, all you need is a good sounding amp with lots of gain.

The brown M&Ms! Hahahaha well played!

Who's hiding under the hat at 7:20?

Sounds like a box of rocks with that amp

Sounds good to me

need to see Glenn demo this!

Is it just me or does the pedal sound better than the actual 5150 iii?

Eddies famous strat is the same one he use originally, he just kept painting it :) oh and obviously the Humbucker lol

nice touch on the m&ms :D

Knew this was gonna be a good demo when they did the M&M gag. Pissed myself laughing at that.

Let me show you how Brilliant Eddie was...Who puts a Gate 🤔on a Gain pedal...BRILLIANT 💯

My question is does the noise gate works when connected to other pedals? Or do i need to buy a separate NG MXR pedal?

Very cool