Marshall SV-1 Supervibe Chorus

It's quite simple to use, you just have to dig between the 4 knobs

I'm usig it with a fender Stratocaster through a Marshall 50w one channel combo.
This pedal sucks. It's very very noisy, really I can't understand how at Marshall could come out with a product so noisy when used with Marshall amps! The Depth knob is a real pain. I have tried it with "clean" channels, and it works decent, but, believe me, you can't use it if you tun up a bit the gain of your amp. I'm very disappointed with this pedal.

I guess it's reliable

never dealt with the company

Really, a bad deal.
The price is high, the quality of sound is bad... too much gain and almost not usable with a high gain amp.

4 knobs - pretty versatile and easy to get a good sound out of.

Here's my story. I play in a bluesrock band, and wanted a good leslie type of sound, like SRV Cold Shot you know. Tried several pedals and bought Rocktrons Vertigo Vibe, which should emulate a leslie. However, I found it to be too "flangey or phasey" so its up for sale now. Tried Hughes and Kettner rotosphere, but found it too expensive. Tried JD Rotovibe and JD univibe, but wasn't really that impressed. Then I got a really good deal on this Marshall supervibe. And MAN what a pedal. It makes the best leslie emulation I have heard - almost as good as the Rotosphere. When I jugde a leslie emulating pedal, I listen to it while I imagine and picture the sound of a rotating speaker. I must say that this pedal really nails that sound. And to my ears it doesn't have that unnatural Phasey or Flangey sound. Sounds very natural and it is also possible to get a slight trebly shimmer to your tone (thanks to the cut/pass knob), which i think sounds much like SRV. Sounds good with or without overdrive after it. I have
speed=4 o'clock,
depth=10 o'clock,
fix/var= between 12 and 1 o'clock
cut/pass=fully clockwise.

The unit is true bypass, which is a plus as well. For what I'm using this pedal for I'll give it a 10. I wasn't really looking for a traditional chorus sound after all, so my mark is based on my opinion on qualities of this unit as a rotary speaker simulator. Very cheap as well.

Seems very reiliable

never dealt with them

Try it if your into rotary/leslie type of effects. This one is a keeper.

This pedal is very easy to use. if you can't use it you must have some serious cerebral damage going on inside your skull. The manual is good - in depth description and offers 4 different settings to get you started. Although I believe the whole idea of having an effect is to fuck with it to get the sound you want. Be daring and spend the time to explore the pedal.

The sound quality of the Supervibe is fucking brilliant considering the price. About half as expensive as the Boss pedals etc and in my opinion better sounding. The supervibe has a much better vintage sound than alot of choruses out there. Use it with a DD5, and Bf2 Flanger and Ibanez Mostortion pedals. I use a 1982 Custom Telecaster with a seymour Duncan pickup in the bridge through a laney TF320. BUT I must say it is a real BIG PAIN IN THE ASS about the HUM which this pedal gives off when engaged. Sure you can use a battery or a seperate adaptor but thats extra fucking around that you don't need when gigging. It fucks me off that I have to keep buying batteries for this pedal when all the others run sweet as through the single adaptor/daisy chain set up. so that is the ONLY problem with the pedal, pitty it's such an annoying one!

Definitely dependable, I have gigged it wothout backup - and tough as fuck. Sturdy as and solid - can take a beating even in a pub full of dumbass drunken redneck rugby heads.

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I play in an original band. The Supervibe is part of our sound. I am a big fan of funk style guitar playing (frusciante, nolan, prince etc) and the supervibe is great at getting that wicked "choppy chicken pickin" sound. If lost or stolen I would probably splash out and buy an expensive chorus that would be as solid as the supervibe, I only say that because of that fucking HUM! Pity coz it's such a sloid pedal.

Standard 4 knob chorus. Inverted phase stereo out, typical with stomp boxes. Bought it used no manual, but dont need it anyway

Use it in this order. One of 18 guitars> morley wah volume> Roland sustainer> Marshall Edwards compressor> Marshall Supervibe> One out to Marshall half stack with rack processors in its loop, The other out goes to a morley overdrive unit>to an old sun concert lead 200w with 2x10 cab. I use this unit last in my chain before the amps because it gives a bright sparkle here. When it is placed before other boxes it looses about 15% of its sound quality. I'm an electronic tech and Know uou must use a zero hum adaptor or the hum will be amplified by the pedal. The boss or dan electro 200 MA should surfice. I modified my adaptor with a choke coil to get rid of the hum in mine. Its unique to this pedal not theyre other boxes. As far as sound goes it can be adjusted for a littel or alot. Like with all effects if you use more than 50% effect depth you arent playing a guitar anymore. If a sound setup needs more than 50% effect you either suck as a musician and got to cover up you're crappy playing, have a crappy guitar and amp, or just don't appreciate the sound of a guitar anymore. Ask any professional and they'll tell you effects are like spices on food. If you cant hold a croud when you play, You cant cook. So many musicians these days want to be the whole band and think a pedal will do it, instead of learning theyre instrument and learning to get along with other musicians. This pedal does what its supposed to and does it well. I have 1000 dollar rack units that do the same but this one is mobile and easy to use. I have hundreds of digital effects in my studio I can add to a guitar once theyre recorded clean. Cant do anything with it if the sounds coverd up by too much effect to begin with.

Had it for 2 years now without a glitch of any kind. True bypass, solid construction. Knobs are hard to read in the dark, Black on silver, but I use basically one setting anyway.

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Its a chorus that interacts well with other boxes. If its placed in the chain before the echo/amp (where its supposed to be)it functions best for me. Been playing for 38 years, 20 professional. God has it been that long. Ive owned or do own most of the competitor products out there. Some suck and some don't this one enhances my sound. Of corse I dont want to sound like everyone else. I gave up my copycat days many years ago. Its too boaring. This littel brick has enough to get a great sounding chorus. Thats why I bought it. If you need something heavier than this try a flanger or get a guitar synth or something. I prefer to have some of my guitars original signal ending up coming out of my cabnet an not coverd a wall of effects.

Very simple stompbox type arrangement with 4 rotary knobs for chorus shaping (ultimately depth/warble control). User friendly!

Considering the relatively cheap price of this unit, the overall sound quality is really quite good. When I was shopping around for a chorus I tried it side by side with the Boss CE and really preferred the tone of the SV, coupled with its more transparent signal path. The chorus is quite nice, bright but still smooth and "rounded" the way a good chorus should be. Adds that perfect "shimmer" and fullness to the sound without being overbearing or overly ice-picky. You can modify the tone from off to subtle to totally overboard effect which is reassuring for those more experimental moments. I've used it in conjunction with a few rigs; Framus Cobra through Mesa 4x12 and DIY open back 2x12, Mesa Nomad through the same cabs, Fender SF Twin, Fender Stage 160, old SS roland amp. The results are pleasing for each application either in effects loops or in front of the amp as the situation demands. I do agree with the problems of other reviewers - there is a loud hum with an incorrect power supply that is way too offensive to ignore but with batteries and the correct supply (I think the standard boss unit) you'll be fine. I like the construction of the pedal; its a lot heavier than it looks and remains stable on even spongy carpeted floors. Another factor I touched on above was the transparency of the signal which I found to be excellent. With most of my pedals, I try to avoid looking at whether thay are "true bypass" or "buffered" etc and just judge the sound with my ears. I have experienced some apparently "true bypass" pedals which colour/strip the tone too much and vica versa. Even true bypass will colour your tone as there is at least another circuit and guitar lead for your signal to pass through. I also have pedals which are exclusively for studio use so true bypass is not an issue. I am reluctant to use pedals of any sort which strip tone too much but will happily include this one in my live rig. So overall you're getting pretty nice chorus sounds with a good degree of tonal variation in a tonally transparent package. What more could you want? A 55 tweed deluxe? well apart from that... A well deserved "8".

Solid construction has not faulted thus far. Also I really like the switching action of these pedals - feel solid when you step on them and the action here is smooth and instant. Have a Marshall Jackhammer which is the same construction but the switch is not as smooth - maybe I just got lucky with this one.

Have a good relationship with my local dealer. Can't see anything going majorly wrong without getting it sorted

Good solid pedal with versatile and musical tones and suprisingly good signal transparency. What's not to love? Buy one if you're looking for a chorus that's more versatile and less noisy than a small clone and more transparent/better sounding that the boss version. You'd probably have to knotch up more than one price range to find better.

If you are into Vibratos and chorus pedals then this is a good pedal. It is easy to use without a book. It has four settings. The Speed knob is how fast the effect is. The Depth is basically how loud you want your effect to be, the Wave is what turns the effect from a chorus sound to a vibrato sound, and the filter is like a tone knob in a way. It may take some time to get it to sound like you want but good sounds ARE possible to achieve.

Some people on this site said that this pedal was noisy when powered by an adapter and quiet when you use a 9volt battery. This is true sorry to say. It makes a loud humm when you power this pedal with an adapter. Not sure why it does that. But, this is not a big problem if you get a noise reducer pedal. Boss has a good noise reducer pedal. But if you don't wanna spend your money on a noise adapter just buy a 9 volt battery. It is quiet as a mouse when you use one of these. Other than that little defect the pedal sounds great. You can get it to sound like a Jim Dunlop Rotovibe if you play with it. The Supervibe is a good Leslie sounding pedal too.

This is built like a tank like everyone says. Stomp the mess out of it. 9 times out of ten you won't break it. I dont play gigs so I wouldn't need a backup. Even if I did gig I bet anything that this would last a VERY Long time. As far a using it I would definetly not use it for recording an entire song because the vibrato sound can get irritating if you try to make an entire song using the vibrato. The vibrato is good only on spicing up solos and background effects like Jimi Hendrix had in some of his songs.

Never had to mess with them....

I play R&B, soul, a little rock. I basically like to try to immitate my favorite guitarist (Ernie Isley from the Isley brothers). I heard he is currently using a Jim Dunlop rotovibe but I didn't have enough $$$ to get one so a bought a Marshall supervibe which does the same thing but sounds slightly different.

Very easy to use. A classical analogic chorus. You can turn the wave form knob to go from the modern chorus to leslie effect.

I use a Fender Standard Strat, put it into SuperVibe and then to my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Tube Amp, and it sound very good. I like this pedal first of all because it's an analogic effect; second, it has a real passive bypass, so no alteration on original sound when turn off, and a real respect of level sound when turned off.
I used many kinds of chourus, from Boss Super Chorus to Boss Chorus Ensemble, but i prefer SuperVibe cause it's hotter and more vintage.
It's simply to use and you can obtain any kind of sound, even if you play vintage music or modern music.

The box is resistant and affidable.

I don't know about this.

I play any kind of rock music, from classic rock (Hendrix, Police, and 70's) to hard rock music (Van Halen, Ozzy, ecc.); but sometimes i also play blues or country or jazz, but fondamently i am a rock guitarist; don't be afraid to use this pedal for many kinds of music.

The SV-1 is of easy operation, the manual has examples of parameters, being easy thus its use in diverse musical styles, the pedal is original of plant.

I have used the SV-1, with several setups of guitar and amplifiers, notice that with guitars to stratocaster its sound it is more natural and similar as one chorus must sound, in guitars as gibson sounds a little distorted, binding in the Loop of the amplifier its sound is weakker and extinguished, to put as the sound of this pedal with guitars said is fantastic to stratocaster and amplifiers Fender or marshall, and Warm Music(Brazilian Amp)

The pedal is trustworthy, never had problems with it, the casting metal box is very resistant.

I ordered an email for helpdesk of the Marshall in Brazil (country where I live) I was answered in the same day, the reply was clear and objective excellent

I play diverse musical styles, Rock, Pop Rock, Funk, DiscoMusic, Brazilian Music(mpb)and Bossa-Nova. always use the SV-1 that I play Funk, Bossa-Nova and Pop Rock, I chose this Marshall because I find chorus more complete of the market, already I had other pedals of chorus, to put the SV-1 I am special, mainly to play Bossa-Nova.

To get the sound you would like out of this pedal is pretty easy control wise. The manual is a definate to look at if your not entirely sure what each dial does but sometimes its better just to fool around with things untill you find a sound that you prefer.

Effect wise the sounds possible to get out of this a good but what i get with mine is terrible. Every time i strum a note it adds some type of distortion or overdrive, no matter how soft i strum, how mellow the settings are, what pick up i use, what guitar i use it always sounds crap due to the overlay of distortion. It didnt do this in the shop but i presume that something may be broken. Battery or adapter doesnt change this although the battery does make it worse. I run this through a marshall mg50 with a ehx big muff and an ibanez rg320 so its not like im running it through cheap equipment.

I would never depend on this pedal or any marshall pedal from now on after owning one of these. I definately wouldnt gig with one, I dont even use it now it just sits in my draw.

Dont know of anyone who could fix this and im sure the waranty would be over by now if it even had one that is.

Overall this pedal would be good IF IT WORKED! If this were lost or stolen i would never consider getting another one I would go into a boss ce1 or ce2 depending on availability, as i have played on a ce2 and loved it, no distortion added nice beautifil sound.
I may have given this thing a bad rap but others seem to like it, sounds like mine could be a dud, and for that reason i plan to steer clear of any marshall pedals in the future, their amps are fantastic but the pedals..

This pedal rocks ass. Very easy to use, just toy w/ it for a couple minutes to get the sound you want out of it. Just 4 knobs, not rocket science.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A REGULATED, 200 MA, ZERO NOISE 9V ADAPTOR!! When I first hooked up this pedal, i was powering it through my old ibanez 300 ma 9v adaptor, and whoa!! horrible buzzing noise!! i was like wtf, it worked fine in the store w/ the batterey, so i read into it, and this pedal just reacted much worse than any of my other pedals to my old cheapo transformer. Anyway, I got a danelectro zero noise adaptor, and sure enough, it's totally silent. This is the best chorus i've heard, and I have tried every Boss chorus there is, and a couple ibanez. very clean, not over the top, perfect w/ clean tones or distortion.

it's Marshall, full steel construction, it'll survive. but nothing's indestructable.

I play rock/metal and this chorus is perfect for laying over the top of distortion to make a section stand out, or for playing w/ a clean tone in a melodic part of a song. i'd definately get another one if it disappeared. these new Marshall pedal are awesome!!