Marshall SV-1 Supervibe Chorus

took awhile to get a sound but it was worth the time it took. perfict for my setup. great slow leslie sound. thats what i use it for.

best chorus i have used for $100. the boss just sucked. the dano cool cat is pretty cool but the supervibe is better.can get a little noisey at times but that is not much of a problem. my setup goes like this. dunlop wah, marshall gov'nor plus, dano overdrive{for boost and lead}, eq pedal, and supervibe. just the sound i was looking for.

you just cant break this thing

if it were lost or stolen, i would go out and buy another one right away. just what i was looking for in a chorus.

Easy to use

What a horrid disappointment, I run 2 amps and its like ... where is the effect !!! No stereo effect at all ... I went back to my trusted and good sounding 1980s DOD.

I returned it as fast as I could.

using a single amp this unit did a fair job. How anyone could give it a 10 is beyond my comprehension.

This unit is very easy to use. Nothing to it. The problem is that there is literally nothing to it. No sound worth the trouble.

This is the worst chorus box I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. The effect is weak, and the sound is very unconvincing.

The other Marshall pedals are really fine, especially the Guv'nor. But this...pass it up.

Basically a pretty straight forward chorus unit. After a few minutes you'll get a feel for what the 4 knobs do. I found it very easy to use.

I've been playing guitar for over 20 years and playing out professionally for over 15 years. I use to be a die hard stomp box user but had stopped using them the past five years and have been using rack mount processors or all in one digital amps.
I recently purchased a Mesa Recto-verb head and found my rack mount
processor was killing my tone by running it into the effects loop.
I decided to bag the rack unit and go to a simpler stomp box set up.
The first thing I looked for was a chorus pedal .I could afford just about anything but I can't see spending 2 and 3 hundred dollars for a stomp box. So I was shopping in the $100 dollar price range. I tried all the basic chorus pedals like BOSS,IBANEZ,DANO, etc. and the Marshall was hands down the best bang for the buck . It was exactly what I was looking for. It's sound is very rich and lush and really complemented my amp perfectly.To me it almost sounds transparent,letting the natural sound of my amp come through. Plus the switch is a true hard wired bypass so when it's off, your amp is not effected.Very cool!

As I write this I have not gigged with it yet but it is built like a tank and is very heavy for a little stomp box. I imagine it will take a beating and be just fine . It feels a lot stronger than a BOSS stomp box and I've never had problems with them.

Never had to deal with Marshall.

As I said earlier, this is the best sounding chorus I've ever played in the $100 price range. It's perfect for my playing needs. If I had to be critical the only thing I would change would be the battery compartment. I would have prefered a snap instead of a screw to open and close it like the BOSS pedals.But for $86 dollars the Marshall Chorus is a perfect example of "Best bang for the buck".

The manual helps a bit, considering the sensitive controls, but if you have a good ear, you'll have no problems. The battery compartment is great, you can use a thick pick as a screw driver, if a proper one isn't available. Of course, if you don't screw it in all the way, you may simply use your fingers..

I use a G+L ASAT classic, and american standard strat (with fat 50's pickups) through a Fender deluxe reverb for clubs and a Music Man HD-130 for anything bigger. This pedal sounds simply wonderful for anything I play (everything.) You can get nice pseudo-leslie sounds (much better than the Boss chorus ensemble) and simple shimmers. It can be used to fatten up the sound of thin single coils well, too...

It's a tank. no problems here.

They responded to my question very fast, and were polite.

If you cannot buy a boutique chorus, or old CE-1, this is the best there is!

It takes a bit of reading the manual but anyone with an ear, will get the hang of it. This has 4 knobs - Speed, depth, wave and filter. All are useful. Wave is quite unique and I can get many sounds out of just turning the Wave knob. Filter is also good as I prefer a more subtle vintage sounding chorus effect. Turning the filter knob down keeps the chorus from becoming brittle and makes the tone more cool-sounding.

This is one of the best chorus pedals that I have heard in its price range. You can get both vintage flange-like and modern ensemble sounds. Previously I was using the Voodoo Labs Analog Chorus - that is the best actually, for a vintage sounding chorus. But I had to sell it off as it was too expensive and found myself in debt after buying it. If you have the budget, go for Voodoo Labs chorus. But people like me with low budget, get this Supervibe. After getting this pedal, I'm beginning to prefer the Marshall boxes to Boss and DOD's now.

It looks high class. And it's made of metal so I think won't be having any problems in the near future

For blues, whether playing clean or distorted, I can get a sound which is thick, deep, textured, yet not too metallic. Takes a bit of tweaking and patience though. It won't beat the Voodoo lab for vintage tones, but this is more flexible as you can even get Nirvana-like chorus with some distortion. Cheaper than Boss' Chorus Ensemble which I also tried but that one sounds a bit harsh and too modern. This is good value for money.

This SuperVibe Stereo Chorus effect is not hard to use despite having all the combinations of settings provided by 4 knobs. The manual is brief, but almost not necessary...just a few minutes of fiddling and you can get an extraordinary array of results.

Unbelievable sound. Within 5 minutes I was playing Little Wing along with the Hendrix CD and had the Leslie Rotating speaker effect *nailed*. No noise noticed when adding in this unit. Chorus alone (without the rotating effect) is quite sufficient, but you won't get extreme chorus with this unit. I use this effect with a Fender Am Std Strat, Princeton 65 or Blues Jr Amp, Budda-wah, TS-9 tubescreamer. I used the effects inline with the main amp input on the Princeton, not in the effect loop.

Built like a tank. I don't gig, so backups are irrelevant.

Unknown at this point

I play 60s, 70s oldies, Hendrix, SRV, Clapton. Been playing off and on since 1965. I love the sounds this pedal delivers and would certainly buy it again if necessary. This was by far the best buy for a combo chorus and vibe/rotating effect. Try this pedal if you're in the market for a chorus and are interested in the Leslie Rotating Speaker effect. Superb.

This pedal is very easy to use and offers alot of control for a pedal chorus. 4 knobs offer control over speed, depth, wave & filter your able to get everything from a lush wide chorus to a very cool rotary speaker effect. the manual is very basic and offers just enough info to get you going

Im running this effect straight into a Fender 59 Bassman RI and a 1966 Fender Tremolux on top of a 2 X 12 Marshall cab. Before the chorus is a Vox Wah a Full Drive 2 and a TS 9 Tube screamer. I use Pauls and strats and thats it.
the Supervibe is a great pedal for getting a rotary speaker effect ala SRV, thats what I use it for. It was the only chorus that gave me enough speed and wave control to emulate the rotary effect the wave control lets you dial in just the right effect. I've even tried this pedal next to a Mesa Boogie rotary speaker and must say the Supervibe really holds water next to the boogie and alot of people gatherd around and could not belive how well this litter sucker sounded. it also does your standard chorus sounds and its just that standard nothing we havent all heard before. You just cant beat an old analog chorus but this pedal does a nice job. Marshall needs to realize what they have as a rotary speaker effect and come out with a deticated rotary effect pedal with a speed select switch for a fast or slow spinning effect I wish I had the green backs to finance such an effect but I guess thats left for the people who know what they are doing But any way for a standard chorus I give it an 8 for rotary effects I give it a 10. YO MARSHALL WAKE UP AND TAKE MY SUGGESTION PLEASE

Its built pretty tough the case and knobs are all metal it seems like it could take a beating I just got it so I really dont know how much torcher it can take yet

Never had to deal with Marshall

I play mostly blues and a bit of rock and must say this is the first pedal style chorus I've come across in a long time that I was pleased with. and I've played for 15 yrs. but I use this gem for one effect only and really wont use it any othe way. I compared all the other chorus pedals and some were better and some just sucked but this was the only one to to rotary effects at a cheap price I even tried the so called rotary speaker effects and they all did not cut it. the only speaker effect I found that was better was the RotoSphere by Hughes & Kettner but it ran a mighty $400 and the thing was huge!!! to big for my pedal board, but its a great effect if you can flit the bill. I highly suggest you try one out. but if your looking for a cheap way out to get the SRV rotary effect this is the best option I really dig this gem I just wish I had control over the speed control on the fly to slow down the spinning effect. Mabey some day

Found the unit easy to use. Only 4 knobs. Just turn them until you get a sound you like. Only thing I had a problem with is getting cables into the jacks. They're a little on the tight side. Guess better that than having them flop around in there.

Found the sound quality to be very good overall. If the filter knob is turn to pass more treble it can get noisy, but they might have been from something before it and it was just passing it on. From what I'm reading it is wired for hard-bypass which is one of the reasons I considered purchasing it. It won't give you really wild chorus sounds , but very basic very clean chorusing.

Can't say how reliable it is but it feels as if it were built to Mil-Spec. For a little pedal it weighs a ton. Reminds me of the Danelectro pedals. Mechanically it seems like it'll resist everything but a direct hit from a nuke. No problems with loose knobs. Battery compartment on mine only has one screw. Battery was out in a couple seconds.

Haven't had it long enough to worry about it.

I play just about anything from blues, classic rock, alternative, whatever. I think it can handle just about anything one would need except someone requiring really wild sounds.

I give this a 3, not because it is has the average 4 knobs, but it takes 15 minutes to get the battery cover off. It is held by a large, long plastic screw, and takes forever to get off.

This pedal sounds very cheap, and not like a chorus. It sounds like a DOD Flanger with a low battery, and I tried 3 different fresh batteries to make sure it was the pedal and not the power source.

The knobs fell off of as soon as I took it out of the box. They were not secure at all, just sitting on the pots. I couldn't believe it.The footswitch was also very cheap and didn't seem to respond sometimes.

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I may have just gotten a lemon, but it was enough for me to swear off the new Marshall line of effects. The best effect I have purchased of late is the Ibanez TS9DX, which is marvelous. I think I will stick with Ibanez and try their new Tone Lok Effects.