M.V. Electronics SHREDHEAD - 6100-in-a-box

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:04 pm

MAN this is a great sounding pedal. Awesome sweep on the tone and presence controls, good amounts of volume and even more gain. The only thing i didn't like was its low to lower mid gain levels, it sounds good, but the DLS holds that place in my heart. It also doesn't seem to clean up as well with the volume knob. One thing i immediately noticed was that this pedal has a LOT of gain on tap, way more than a dirty little secret. Very nice sounding pedal.
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the isaac eaton · Post by **the isaac eaton** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:10 pm

I already know where my knobs would be on this thing, tone 3, presc 5, gain 5.

Post by **Doog** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:12 pm

Nice indeed, I like the sheer amount of nice sounding gain on tap.

SpaceFace · Post by **SpaceFace** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:00 am

That is a really nice sounding pedal. I love all the videos this guy does as well, him and his daughter always seem to have a genuine good time doing them. Pretty refreshing what with the 982342345 youtube demos of really serious ones.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:37 am

Looks great.

greenweenie · Post by **greenweenie** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:16 am

Filipino builders represent!

Burgs · Post by **Burgs** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:48 am

I really like it. I think this one is going on the board. Next to the Providence Stampede OD. Should be a fun weekend.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:30 pm

that SOV-2 is another great pedal. Sounds fantastic with the neck pickup, takes single coils better than most too i'd say.

Burgs · Post by **Burgs** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:17 am

Haze wrote:that SOV-2 is another great pedal. Sounds fantastic with the neck pickup, takes single coils better than most too i'd say.

Yeah. It has a real 'something' going on; something different and way cool. I really like that one. I believe their DLY-83 is the duck's nuts, too.

greenweenie · Post by **greenweenie** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:00 am

Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:07 am

Its a steal even at a $100, why don't i have this already

Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:10 am

greenweenie wrote:Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.

$99 is an incredible price for a handmade pedal that sounds this good. I find it hard to imagine he isn't making a loss at $60.

Incidentally the Marshall 6100 is my main amp, I think it always will be.

greenweenie · Post by **greenweenie** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:51 am

Mike wrote:
greenweenie wrote:Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.
$99 is an incredible price for a handmade pedal that sounds this good. I find it hard to imagine he isn't making a loss at $60.

Incidentally the Marshall 6100 is my main amp, I think it always will be.

Exchange rate. Parts here are cheap. But I must admit, it is a great sounding pedal. I had one before.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:04 am

Parts aren't all that much cheaper. Cases, 3PDTs, Jacks, DC jacks, and finishing the case are all pretty much fixed expenses regardless of where you live. People also have to pay shipping when they order parts.
Parts are only half the story. You are not paying for parts alone, you're paying for his labour in putting them together and his design effort in tuning the pedal in the first place, which he seems to have done a fantastic job on.

$99 is Â£65. This is cheaper than a raft of mass produced dirt pedals from Boss for example. Pedals that don't have half the versatility this thing does.

Incidentally, this is the demo I made of my 6100

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and it back to back with my JCM800
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greenweenie · Post by **greenweenie** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:35 pm

Mike wrote:Parts aren't all that much cheaper. Cases, 3PDTs, Jacks, DC jacks, and finishing the case are all pretty much fixed expenses regardless of where you live. People also have to pay shipping when they order parts.
Parts are only half the story. You are not paying for parts alone, you're paying for his labour in putting them together and his design effort in tuning the pedal in the first place, which he seems to have done a fantastic job on.

$99 is Â£65. This is cheaper than a raft of mass produced dirt pedals from Boss for example. Pedals that don't have half the versatility this thing does.

Agreed.

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 20, 2010 11:00 am

Amusingly this pedal which had everyone including me fooled got reverse engineered and turned out to be a Crunch Box which the presence control on the outside, it even uses PCB artwork ripped off a decent bloke who makes projects for DIYers (not commercial pedals).

It has nothing in common with the 6100 in terms of circuit topology (it's not an amp emulation with FETs in place of tubes like the OLC/Catalinbread etc al designs), so basically that's just marketing hype unfortunately. A bit of a shame really.

Still sounds good.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu May 20, 2010 3:39 pm

Mike wrote: Still sounds good.

its there, for sure. I still love the crunch box but the presence control makes things sweeter

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 20, 2010 4:08 pm

The MI Audio Crunch Box has a presence control, it's just inside the pedal.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu May 20, 2010 5:07 pm

i suppose i've only heard it wth the factory set presence control its a great sounding pedal all around, the presence control really opens up a of sounds that i haven't heard and makes me appreciate the circuit a bit more

Post by **dots** » Thu May 20, 2010 7:58 pm

Mike wrote:
greenweenie wrote:Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.
$99 is an incredible price for a handmade pedal that sounds this good. I find it hard to imagine he isn't making a loss at $60.

Incidentally the Marshall 6100 is my main amp, I think it always will be.

does the pedal do it real justice? i'm always curious about a pedal that claims to ape a tube amp reliably, and you're our resident 6100 guy.