What with the current noise about the original Marshall Guv'nor, Drivemaster, Shredmaster etc being made by Marshall again I thought I should have one more try at a Guv'nor. An original Guv'nor was the first drive pedal I ever used at a gig way back when they were first released. I always liked the Guv'nor but felt it lack a bit of balls and the high end was a tad strangled. So with my new Guv'nor I thought I'd try and fix that.
So I changed R3 to 1K and C3 to 330nF. And as I have done in the past I just left C12 off entirely. I also swapped the clipping LEDs for two pairs of diodes but that's more just because I don't like the sound of LEDs as clipping diodes.
And that's it. Simple. And for me it has really worked - my Strat now sounds muscular and chunky on the stock single coil bridge pickup. The 335 sounds like I could play Foo Fighters riffs all night long through my small tweed amp! It's the kind of sound I was hoping to get from a Friedman pedal or Angry Charlie but never did. For an OD with 3-band EQ it has a surprisingly small parts count. Probably about 10% of the Friedman! And the simple mods have made it a much more useful pedal for me.
Anyone else got fave mods for a Guv'nor?
So I changed R3 to 1K and C3 to 330nF. And as I have done in the past I just left C12 off entirely. I also swapped the clipping LEDs for two pairs of diodes but that's more just because I don't like the sound of LEDs as clipping diodes.
And that's it. Simple. And for me it has really worked - my Strat now sounds muscular and chunky on the stock single coil bridge pickup. The 335 sounds like I could play Foo Fighters riffs all night long through my small tweed amp! It's the kind of sound I was hoping to get from a Friedman pedal or Angry Charlie but never did. For an OD with 3-band EQ it has a surprisingly small parts count. Probably about 10% of the Friedman! And the simple mods have made it a much more useful pedal for me.
Anyone else got fave mods for a Guv'nor?