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MXR Wylde Overdrive Pedal

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May 11, 2008 5:19 p.m. MacStevenXIII:

Has anyone used one of these?

I just picked one of these up on a suggestion from a friend and boy is it a great overdrive pedal. I've been using it with my Fender Ultimate Chorus 2x12. Using it in front of the amp on clean you can get some really great warm overdrive. I have the drive channel set up for light overdrive as well and when its in front of that channel its great for psychobilly distortion. Its very transparent as well, I used it next to a Boss BD-2, BOSS OS-2, and a Boss-SD1 and IMO the Wylde sounded the warmest and most...organic? Its MXR so its built to withstand a nuclear fallout.

My buddy says that it sounds even better pushing a tube amp.
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May 12, 2008 6:33 a.m. Pappy:

I remember when it first came out and there was a bunch of Zakk Wylde fans who were rushing out to get them but a voice of reason shot through the madness and said that Wylde wasn't using it (yet, anyway) and still using his usual MXR which was cheaper and what this one was modeled after so why spend more to get a copy when you can get the real thing?

Made sense to me.

I'd like to try out one and one of those coffin shaped ones too. I probably wouldn't buy either, I'm not much of a pedal guy, but you never know.
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May 12, 2008 10:43 p.m. greg:

I heard it being demo'd and it sounded sweet but the player would have made a rooty ca-zooty guitar sound boutique though.Thats the frustrating part of pedals....you still have to be a good player for them to sound good.God damn it!
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May 13, 2008 1:57 p.m. Gretschmaster:

I tried this pedal along side a bunch of other MXR overdrives and it sounded the best so I ended up buying it. It sounds great through my Champion 600 amp. I'm not a huge Zakk Wylde fan but this pedal is awesome. It can do light overdrive, insanely heavy overdrive, and anything in between.
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May 13, 2008 2:22 p.m. Proteus:

I won't buy a pedal with a ridiculous Zakky target graphic on it, much less the blackletter typeface.

No G-brands, no forkéd headstocks, no camouflage, no targets.

His signature looks classy though. Maybe he should be a graphic artist instead of a guitarist?
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May 13, 2008 2:47 p.m. Ray Sputnik:

It is funny that this pedal would come up in this context. I was actually pleasantly surprised when I tried one out. Not that I think Zak Wylde is a horrible player, just his name and great tone don't often come up in the same sentence.

I really wonder what the story is with this pedal. I really don't see it being all that popular with fans of that type of music.
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May 15, 2008 6:31 a.m. Ratrod:

I've heard many good things about it. It doesn't have loads of overdrive on it's own. It's designed to push an already overdriven tube amp.

In front of a cranked JCM800 it's a monster.
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May 15, 2008 2:03 p.m. Gretschmaster:

Yeah the cheesy signature and bullseye graphic made me hesitant about buying it. Once I heard it though... like Ratrod said, it's a monster.

According to the Dunlop website Buddy Guy uses one.

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