In this video, Sam takes a look at the brand new MXR EVH 5150 Chorus pedal, check it out here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/mxr-evh-5150-chorus-limited-edition-pedal
The EVH 5150 chorus is the latest addition to MXR’s Van Halen signature pedal range, and it’s been designed in conjunction with Eddie to recreate that lush chorus effect that can be heard on a lot of his recordings from the early 1980s, sounding just as good on both clean and overdriven tones.
It’s fairly straightforward to use, with just the 3 control knobs, but these controls are slightly more unusual than what you’d commonly expect to find on a chorus pedal. Instead of controls for rate and depth, there’s just the one knob labelled intensity, so the chorus sounds like its got more of fixed speed, with that intensity knob adjusting how pronounced and extreme the effect is. Turned right down it offers a subtle kinda doubling effect, up to about 12 o’clock you get a lovely rich chorus with a nice smooth sweep, but start to turning that knob right up, and the pitch modulation starts to get deeper and much more intense, with quite an unique, kinda steppy sweep to it. Next to the intensity knob is a tone control, with the EQ getting quite a bit brighter as you turn it up, and finally there’s a volume knob to set the overall output level.
The pedal also features handy input an output attenuator switches, making it easy to perfectly balance the pedal for unity gain. With a normal guitar and amp, you probably want to start off with the input set to -35db and the output at -20, but these can be easily adjusted depending on the how hot your guitar’s pickups are or whether you’re connecting the pedal into either the front end of an amp or it’s effects loop. Other than that, there’s connections for mono or stereo use, a 9v power supply input, an easy access battery compartment, and the bypass switch can be set to either True or Buffered bypass by flicking an internal switch.
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