Marshall RG-1

Very easy to get a sound out of this pedal. Again, as many people have mentioned, there is a problem seeing the settings on the pedal as they're only lightly indented with a lot of shiny metal, so it's hard to see the settings. Find your own fix using a red piece of tape or something! It seems to be something Marshall have done stylistically, perhaps not too sensibly!

Sound quality is great. I have no tone suck at all, with this pedal sitting near the end of the pedal signal chain (after Marshall's excellent delay). Again, my pedal seems to add volume to the overall sound, no matter what setting it's on - as some people have found via reviews across the web. I have no other complaints about the pedal. Having 2 choruses is great and both give a different sound. The phaser and flanger aren't too bad. Have used the Vibe option a couple times too.

Very dependable and very well built metal and solid. I'd use in a gig, though use very sparingly.

Never dealt with.

For something this inexpensive, you get a lot of bang for your buck. It isn't the platinum standard of chorus, but it's more than good enough for most of us semi-pro or amateurs playing in churches or bars etc. Other than the shiny knobs and the volume boost, I'd recommend to someone wanting this kind of pedal. It was a close call between this and the Vibratrem or Supervibe. I probably chose well due to the varied nature of the effects. Just be aware the expression pedal input is exactly that and not any kind of tap tempo.

Very easy to use. Just play with the knobs.

No tone sucking at all. Very cool chorus, and flange effects. Step phaser is the most interesting. I plan to use it experimentally. Great Univibe swash too - stereo outputs. Marshall has a winner here.

We shall see.

No problems.

Very easy to use, aside from not being able to read the knobs, but with some paint, that's an easy fix.

Fisrt of all this is dead silent when off. No hiss and no tone suck. I placed it in a bypass loop to test that. And only minimal noise when engaged, which you can expect with mod effects. the different effects themselves sound great and, except for the step phase, are all very musical. I don't know why something more useful was not included instead of the step phase. Maybe a tremolo? Still, having 5 effects in a such a tiny package is great.

Well built, seems every bit as tough as Boss. MXR, etc.

These are discontinued but new ones go for about 70 bucks on the bay and for that price, it's a steal. I love being able to go from chorus to phase to flange without having to lay a bunch of pedals out on the floor. I just whip out the Regenerator, dial up and effect and see where that takes me. To me, that makes this pedal almost as useful and inspiring as a loop station in helping to create musical ideas

Very easy to use, no need to read the manual. Four knobs: one to select the type of mod effect and three to get the tone (speed,depth and regen).

Depending on each effect, regen (dry/wet signal) should be adjusted because some effects soud stronger than others.

I use Gibson SG, Gibson Les Paul studio, Dean vendetta 4 FR guitars and George Dennis the blue amp (like Marshall TSL but better sounding) and Park g25r prectice amp. I also use a lot of pedals: Nady TD-1,Morley wha,Marshall shred master,George dennis tremolo, Marshall echohead delay and sometimes i also use Sansamp GT2 and MXR smart gate.

It can be used through the input or the effect loop of the amp, souds good anyway.
Not noisy, maybe a little bit. Produces a volume boost when is engaged which i don??t like very much. About tone sucking, i can??t tell because i normally use a double looper so sound is not running through the pedal when is not working.

Vintage chorus is GREAT! good sounding and soft effect. I like soft modulation effects, not extreme at all.
Modern chorus is not bad, maybe a bit extreme, but i always use vintage one.
Flanger is crap. Useless. Doesn??t actually sound like a flanger. Too weak.
Phaser is good. standart phaser sound. Goes from soft to extreme, depending on the amount of depth. I love the low speed settings.Good for Van Halen.
Step Phaser is an alien effect. Almost usless for me. Sounds quite digital and is a little noisy, but is decent.
Uni-v is beautiful. Playing Hendrix with it is great.

Tree quite good effect, one decent and one horrible for a few money.

I have used it for 6 month without a problem

I have been playing 15 years. i play everything from jazz to metal, but mostly rock and metal. I think itis a good match, i have a good chorus, a good phaser and a good uni-v for 70 ???. Don??t need more.I have had a Boss ME-50 multieffects unit and its modulations were worse than the Marshall. I also had Boss chorus, which sounded very well, but Marshall Regenerator doesn??t sound worse. I have tried many guitars, amps and pedals and i own several gear. I know that the analog devices sound better, like MXR Phase 90 or Electro-Harmonix chorus and flanger, but this Marshall sounds good and it is cheap. Great for players like me who don??t use effcts too much.
If were stolen i would buy a new one if i haven??t enough money for a Line 6 MM6 or a TC Nova Modulator. Both of them have many digital modulation effects as the Marshall but probably sound better and have more options and sounds.

Easy to use in a bedroom - four knobs and a stomp switch. A bugger to use on stage if you're planning on using more than one effect. Even more difficult if you change the settings quite a lot (I subscribe to the Robert Smith philosophy on effects pedals - set it at 9.00, 12.00, 3.00 or full - anything else is just arsing about). I might grapple with it more except that I'm the lead singer in the band as well as the only guitarist - continuity during a show goes to pot if I start fiddling with my pedals so I tend to use the vintage chorus setting in one position and leave it at that. I have used the flanger but then have to remember to switch it back again!

Very quiet effect and some great sounds. The vintage chorus is my fave and the reason I bought it - much better than many boutique and expensive chorus pedals and far superior to the Boss one in my opinion. The Boss chorus always sounds like Boss chorus whereas this is warmer and responds better to using different guitars. With the Boss one I used to have the guitar I was playing didn't seem to make any difference to the sound. The modern chorus is too digital for my tastes so I don't use it. The flanger is great for those Cure moments but the real sonic sweeps are best achieved using a boutique pedal I think. The phaser's cool and I use that when depping for rock bands. Like many reviewers, I quite like the step phaser without ever figuring out how the hell to use it in a song. The vibe is not something I use - if I did I'd use tremelo and thought with the regen knob turned down you can get near that sound you can't actually get it - so in my book that means don't bother. I don't have an issue with volume jump or popping like some reviewers below - lucky I guess.

I use a tele and a les paul through an Orange Rocker 30. The only things in my pedal chain are a Boss tuner, the RGO and a micro POG (EHX) - use the amp's overdrive though don't use any regeneration effect when the dirty channel's activated - doesn't sound bad but I just don't use them together.

Oh yes! Done over 200 shows with it and never a hint of a problem.

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Really great pedal. By far the best chorus I have come across for a long time (doesn't sound like you're stuck in a wine bar in 1983). It has lots of features which I don't use but so what? When I play mandolin I have it on all night with every setting at 12.00 - fills out the sound beautifully (and then I do use it with overdrive!) I wouldn't be without this pedal now. I've had it over a year and it's become an integral part of my set-up.

4 knobs = very easy to use. The manual is clear, but you really don't need one.

Awesome sound. The two Chorus settings are great, and they actually sound very different from each other so you can get a wide range of chorus effects. The flange, phase and vibe modes sound great too, but I rarely use them - I bought this as a chorus pedal.

I think this sounds better than the other chorus pedals I tried from Boss, Digitech (X series)and Line 6. Digitech's "Hardwire" series Chorus pedal was very nice too, but I went with the Marshall because was cheaper (closeout sale), it had the other modulations effects and it works with the BOSS adapters I already have.

At first, I thought the Step Phaser was kind of a useless effect - but it's actually really cool if you use it while fingerpicking on your clean channel - it kind of sounds like a delay pedal.

So far so good, but time will tell.

I wish this had an EQ knob or low/high filter knobs like the Boss Chorus pedals do. Other than that, there is nothing I would change. I think it sounds much better than the Boss pedals though. I would buy this again if something happened to it.

You can get nice subtle effects without changing your tone, I felt the other pedal brands changed the tone more and sounded unnatural like something from a sci-fi movie.

In spite of having a bunch of different modulation efx, this pedal is pretty easy to be handled, way easier than a multi-effect floor processor (I hate anything with more buttons than my TV remote)

Last night a tested this baby using nothing but my guitar, a DiCastelli's Custom (Brazilian hand made guitar) loaded with a pair of EMG pick ups (81 bridge/85 neck) and my JCM 800... the result was absolutelly superb! All the efx sounded pretty natural and warm. The vintage chorus was my favorite one, it doesn't sound digital at all and does it's job really well, although I still prefer my CE-2! The modern chorus is also good, but it didn't surprise me that much, it's just good. With the Flanger you can get that jet plane sound without any problems, it's not as intense as a MXR or a Boss but it's good, I got some pretty nice Van Halen sounds out of it. The Phaser is my second favorite effect here, it doens't have that flangy kinda sound (which is great, cause if I want a flangy sound, I'm gonna use a Flanger, right?!)... it sounds more like a vintage 70??s Phaser. You can get a nice Gilmour or Triumph sound using this effect. The Step Phaser is probably the most useless effect I've ever heard after the GT-8 Auto Riff,lol... you'll probably use it only in your bedroom to create sci-fi sounds and scare your little brother. Now, let's talk about the Vibrato... well, I've never really been into Vibratos, so my opinion here doesn't count very much. If you want vibration I'm sure it won't let you down. I prefer to use it emulating a tremolo rather than a vibrato. My friends who like vibratos and tremolos really digged it, but all of them said that it's not as good as a Uni-Vibe or a Deja Vibe. The only problem I found in the pedal is that when you activate it, it boosts the volume a little bit and sometimes it bugs me, but that's ok, I can live with that! Anyway... it's a great stomp box!

It's a Marshall... it's shell seems to be stronger than a Panzer. Besides, I've never heard stories of Marshall stomp boxes breaking down... "In Marshall We Trust", lol

Never needed any support...

It sounds absolutelly great and the price is affordable for everything it does... making a long story short, the RG-1 kicks ***!!!

Very user friendly. Mode knob on the left dictates chorus, flange, etc. Has a depth control, speed, and regeneration control also. Set the mode, adjust the controls for the sound you want and presto, you're rockin'. One drawback is that you'll need to stoop down to change modes (what multi-function pedal is different). The only other complaint I have regarding the RG-1 is that the control knobs are so shiney I cannot see what setting it is on. I'm going to look into getting black control knobs instead of the chrome.

This masterpiece sounds great. Vintage chorus is exquisite; very nice, even creamy sounds for slowing things down. Flange is absolutely awesome. Back off the depth, slow the speed down, set your amp so that it's on the verge of feedback, and this baby will bring it in for some awesome dynamic strength in your solos. I have never used a very strong flange effect for anything I've ever played in my thirty nine years of guitar exploration. I've found that the step phaser is extremely useful if you are having trouble with the band keeping time starting a song to get the tempo moving...other than that, I haven't found it very useful...but it does sound cool.

I've also found it can get noisy when the battery starts to drink up.

GET A POWER SUPPLY!!! She's great but she will take you to the bank and keep you buying batteries avery time you start a new gig.

Durability you ask...she's built like Fort freakin' Knox and she'll take everything you can give her and tell you I love you when it's over. I use it every night I play and I have never wondered whether it'll make it thru the night.

All of the info regarding this unit is on the Marshall website including manual and downloadable clips. Check out MF and GC sites for their clips also. Other than that, I've never had to deal with anything Marshall.

I play alot of Christian rock and have been playing for almost forty years. I use Epi LP w/DiMarzio pickups and Carvin DC135 guitars thru all Carvin amps. I have always wanted a pedal that had a group of great sounding effects and Marshall did it. This baby is great for live gigs if you don't mind stooping down to switch modes. I have never heard one of those multi-function emulating floor boards that has not altered the sound of a guitar, and to be fair, this one alters the sound somewhat but not if it's idle.

Some folks claim the RG-1 is too noisy. Go to the Marshall website, check out the soundclips and decide for yourself if it is noisy.
I don't think so...and those clips were "recorded" somewhere.

You simply set it to which sound you want - Vintage Chorus, Modern Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Step Phaser, or Vintage Vibe, and then you have three controls to shape the sound - Speed, Depth, Regeneration.

Vintage Chorus - 10/10 A great chorus effect, I would say it is a better chorus than the Boss CH-1 and the Ibanez CS-9 that I used to own.
Modern Chorus - 8/10 I don't use this one much, I prefer the vintage chorus setting.
Flanger - 7/10 A decent flanger, but not as good as the MXR Flanger and the Ibanez FL-9 that I used to own. Still sounds cool with distortion though.
Phaser - 10/10 A great phaser effect, better than the MXR Phaser 90 and the Electro Harmonix Small Stone that I used to own. I use this effect and the vintage chorus the most.
Step phaser - No opinion. I don't see any way to use this effect. It sounds funny, but I don't know how to use it in a song.
Vintage Vibe - 9/10 Very cool uni-vibe effect. I find I have to turn the depth and regeneration knobs all the way up for it to sound good. On fast settings it is almost like a tremolo.
Note that I used to own some other pedals, and have sold them all when I bought the Regenerator.

This pedal definitely earned a spot on my Boss BCB-60 Pedal Board. The pedal board has six pedals, and on it I have: Boss TU-2 Tuner, Boss OC-2 Octave Pedal, Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, Boss AW-3 Auto Wah, Marshall Regenerator, Marshall Echohead. I love my two Marshall pedals, they are really great. Highly recommended.

This is a typical stomp box pedal that runs on 9v battery or ac power. There are 6 different modulation styles. Vintage Chorus, Modern Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Step Phaser and V-Vibe. 4 controls for mode, speed, depth and regen. 2 inputs including one for an expression pedal and stereo out jacks. My only complaint for this unit is the same as the previous reviewer which is that the control knobs are hard to read when on stage. Otherwise this is an excellent pedal and very easy to operate.

The sound quality is the reason I purchased this unit. The Vintage Chorus and the V-Vibe settings are my personal favourites but the Phaser and Modern Chorus are also very useful as well. I am not a fan of Flange and the Step Phaser is a bit much for my taste. The sound is very transparent and linear as it only adds the selected modulation as needed. It is also very quiet and does not seem to suck tone away, as some of the more popular modulation pedals do. There are plenty of variations for each setting so one can find the right speed, depth and regeneration factor for whatever particular style one requires.

The RG-1 is housed in a very strong one piece metal casing and the on/off foot switch has a very sure feel to it. The pedal controls are recessed below the top point of the pedal where the foot switch is so one can not step on them and change the settings, or break the knobs either. In short, it is a rugged, durable, reliable pedal that is very gig worthy.

Haven't needed it.

This is an excellent pedal made by a company which is noted for their line of powerful hi-octane amplifiers. It has more to offer than the industry standard modulation pedals offered by companies such as Boss, Electro-Harmonix, etc. at the same price point. It is every bit as tough as a Boss pedal (which I own several of, so I can make that direct comparison) and will likely last as long as any other piece of gear one uses. A great pedal to add to the chain, in any rig.