Did Kevin Shields use a Marshall Guv'nor or Shredmaster?

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:19 pm

http://mybloodyvalentine2.tripod.com/ also is pretty interesting reading about kevin shields
and these magazine scans are pretty cool too, the pages are in backwards order, however.

Jaded · Post by **Jaded** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:22 am

It could quite easily be the Drivemaster, same case as the Shredmaster but the circuit is essentially a Guv'nor minus the effects loop. So it wouldn't be so strange for him to have used a Drivemaster mid-tour if the by then discontinued Guv'nor buggered up.

...but yeah, in that photo it's definitely not a Guv'nor.

Ro S · Post by **Ro S** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:10 am

Jaded wrote:It could quite easily be the Drivemaster, same case as the Shredmaster but the circuit is essentially a Guv'nor minus the effects loop.

Interesting, I didn't know that. I'd always presumed them to me entirely different overdrive/drive type pedals.

71Smallbox · Post by **71Smallbox** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:48 pm

Ro S wrote:
Jaded wrote:It could quite easily be the Drivemaster, same case as the Shredmaster but the circuit is essentially a Guv'nor minus the effects loop.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I'd always presumed them to me entirely different overdrive/drive type pedals.

They both use the same op-amp driving a pair of clipping LED's to create distortion. From a quick glance at the schematics, they appear to be really really similar.

Jaded · Post by **Jaded** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:58 pm

71Smallbox wrote:
Ro S wrote:
Jaded wrote:It could quite easily be the Drivemaster, same case as the Shredmaster but the circuit is essentially a Guv'nor minus the effects loop.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I'd always presumed them to me entirely different overdrive/drive type pedals.
They both use the same op-amp driving a pair of clipping LED's to create distortion. From a quick glance at the schematics, they appear to be really really similar.

I was told that they're pretty much the pre-amp from the solid state JCM800's (the Lead 12's or something like that). I had both at one point and they sound neigh on identical, the Drivemaster was a little brighter but they both nail that Isn't Anything tone.