MXR Prime Distortion Pedal Demo
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- A demonstration of the MXR Prime Distortion pedal.. Just a basic no frills distortion that can go from classic grit, to extreme fuzz!!
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Great demo!
Never heard “suck back” term for fuzz tones but fits perfectly.
Just bought one used from Guitar Center for $32.00, this thing is awesome, I get the running down a dream tone!
Thanks for the video, this is my first pedal. I found your review very helpful for all the settings, greatly appreciated!!
Kevin Lightner This pedal is pretty decent if you're going for the classic rock and roll sound. But I prefer my TC Electronic Metal Distortion. Has a more pure sound and less muffled crunch. So if you potentially want a crisp soloing distorted sound with some slight reverb, this may not be the pedal for that. Unless you're not a treble-heavy player (which I am).
appreciate it!
MarshallGTV Very welcome!
I run this in the fx loop of my Carvin MTS. The Output knob acts as a global master, allowing me to adjust the channel volumes to where they sound best while controlling the overall level. I keep the Distortion knob at minimum, so that it adds a touch of compression to my (already distorted) Lead channel without getting muddy.
Thanks for putting up this video, you nail a lot of classic rock tones, especially "Man On The Silver Mountain". I think this pedal bridges the gap very well between classic "old school" distortion and "ultra heavy metal" distortion, and you are definitely achieving both, demonstrating it's versatility. But being fair to your other gear, you are getting a lot of help with the hotter pickups you are using. But it's a good thing, the pedal can take higher output pickups, something that the Boss DS1 and pedals like it can't really do to get a decent tone. Also, to me, Mogami cables are the best you can buy, they are tone monsters themselves and "give it all to you", signal wise, they are worth their price and helping in your demo immensely. All this being said, I may just buy this and give it a good workout, because with it's versatility, it should work well with any guitar/amp combination.
Thanks for the kind words!
@@MarshallGTV My pleasure, and I look forward to seeing your other videos!
For Bass: Dime the distortion, between 9 and noon for tone, and dime output. Incredible sound. I tried it as a cheap pedal to buy for a friend and ended up buying another to put on my pedalboard
Thanks! Getting this pedal tomorrow and wondered how it would sound on my bass 👍
For $39 new from Guitar Center as of 11-12-16, its not a bad dirt box. Sounds great with a clean amp and adjust the distortion to taste and sounds great with an already driven amp and adjust the distortion to taste. It has a nice biting attack, great for bringing out those harmonics. Think of George Lynch during the Dokken days or Vivian Campbell during the early Dio days, yes great 80s metal lead shredding tone.
It's also great if you set it on a lower muddy gain setting and slap a tube screamer type boost in front of it.
There is one at Guitar Center today for $39. I'll stop by to pick one up. Thanks for posting.10.25.20 don't tell anyone.🙂
Thanks for demoing this with the gain and tone turned down. Some good tones there. I have this and the MXR Classic Distortion. Totally different. The Prime Distortion is MUCH brighter. With the tone turned up you can hear it get thin and extremely trebley.
The Prime Distortion gets that nice click on the attack of lead notes like you hear on some of Alex Lifeson's and Jimmy Page's solos on classic albums. I think it also is a bit reminiscent of the thin, bright but saturated tone on Van Halen I. Just a bit. The Prime Distortion can even be dialed in to get something like that buzzy lead tone Mike Rutherford got on some of the old Genesis records.
Output all the way up, Tone between 9-11 and distortion 12 to full gain its the perfect setting. The key here is not to bring Tone up higher than 11. Sound is way too thin, extremely bright and you loose your mid/lows which is the meat of your warm sound. Humble opinion. Great video.
Hi bud I have this one and a Superbadass but I cannot make that this one sounds at the same lavel than the superbadass (even having the prime distortion at full output) is it normal? Any recommendation?
Nice Thank You, I Just Got One Of These & Have Yet To Try It...
Definitely Excited 🤘🏼
Lol 9/11
I have this peddle why am I watching this
You wanna be sure you didn't get a bad pedal?
Do you like the pedal?
Your spelling of "PeDdLe" makes me sick
@@2010georgian1 pebble lmfao
Giorgi Ostatishvili my stepmom spells it that way 🤮
I find anywhere from the 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock position on the tone is best, I keep distortion at about 3 o'clock and use an od behind it, with minimal gain and half volume, to get a more modern tone a la mastodon. Really good pedal if you want Marshall tones on the cheap and spend the time with your settings on it and your amp.
it is definitely worth the price of admission!
One of the best reviews and demonstrations i've found on this pedal. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words!
middle position on your guitar sounds very very nice
Appreciate it!
Do this review over with the output turned down!
Would have been more informative if you would have said what amp you are running through and the settings. Good demo though 👍
Maybe the output can make more differences
nice review, but at the end of the video, dial in what you believe to be the sweet spot between the tone and the distortion
Excellent review thnx.
Thanks for watching!
Ty for a good, straight to the point review.
So, from pedal direct to soundcard?
I use it with cab sim and a booster got better sound, sold my other distortions but this one stays
Great demo !!!! Thx !!!
thank you Becky, I appreciate it!
Is this pedal got a Marshall influence then?
The juvenile in me lead me to buy it!!!!
Hi bro nice video. Sorry for the duplicated question: How can I make this pedal reach the same output volumen than his big brother the superbadass? I have both (the prime before the superbadass) and although I love this plexi distortion sound, the superbadass eat this one in volumen
I’m not sure there’s a mod for it, however you could possibly run a compressor or an eq pedal after the prime to boost its volume. Cheers!
@@MarshallGTV thanks I will try
Nice Demo.....
I'm the Man on the Silver Mountain
yup.. nothing like classic Rainbow.
MarshallGTV I'm the double rainbow guy.
Sounds like crunch box from m.i audio.
Tone dial shouldn't go past 12 on that thing.
I hate that sound.
But when at 9-12 it sounds good!
Demo of the MXR Prime Distortion.. Cheap dirt!!
Great review video!
Thanks!
Skipping through the video, I didn't notice as much difference as I would have expected from the distortion setting as you started going through its range, start around 5:14. Is the pedal really like that in person? Since you had the output at 100% the whole time, I was wondering if the pedal wasn't overdriving your amp to the point that the differences in the distortion setting weren't getting lost in an already saturated signal. There are other demos that seem to show a little more range.
I have this pedal and this demo is not that great because changing the output also changes the type of distortion you get and the tone slightly. He never does so this is not very accurate.
You would notice if you had the pedal.
You lost me at 🎶 I'm a wheel I'm a wheel I can move I can run, you can't stop me turning 🎶
I disagree with full blast being unity! what kind of pickups are you using?
I mention it at the beginning. Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge, Dimarzio air Norton s in the neck.
I agree with Nick. You have the distortion setting all the way down, and it is way too distorted. If you roll back the output to 12:00 (or less), you get better range. I have this pedal, and is more versatile than your demo illustrates because of the high output setting.
And another thing; With the output just CRANKED, all we're REALLY hearing is YOUR AMP being overdriven... Which would be fine, IF you were reviewing the amp, but with pedal reviews, I THINK people want to hear what the PEDAL sounds like... So, you'd have to turn the output down a little... I heard what you said about "Unity Gain Potentiometers", but I've been playin for almost 30 years, and I don't guess I've ever heard of those...
The amp I’m using is a clean profile on a Kemper. Regarding the output, it is set slightly over unity gain, which means the volume is just slightly above the volume when the pedal is off. This part tolerance is not exact. It was the first run when I got it so perhaps the quality is not great. Thanks for your comment!
WHAT NOISE GATE ARE YOU USING?
I’m not sure I was using a gate for this video. It was a long time ago. Likely at the end I cut off the tail of the guitar in the recording software.
I have no idea why people like a fuzz tone. Distortion is distorted enough without adding a fuzzy bottom end. Distortion should be tight with good articulation and a cranked powerful sound. With fuzz, It winds up just sounding like mush.
I have fuzz boxes. The Prime Distortion does not sound like a fuzz.
@@sanehumanbeing7019 Are you deaf?
Thanks preacher. The choir loved the sermon.
i guess thats why comfortably numb is consider the best solo of all time. Because fuzz sounds bad. There is also a thing called subjectivity. Personally there is only one song i like , i listen to it all the time every thing else is so bad . Been listening to it for 30 year on repeat because everything else sound bad. There is billion of people on the planet living in different context , different influence, different attitude but lets listen to only one song please! THE ONE THAT SOUND GOOD.... but in the end i agree with you i sold my big muff because it sound mushy, i prefer my mxr PrYme! I guess its just the shape of my ear!
Does this pedal use a plug or batteries?
you can use it with 9w batteries
Yes.
Mine is stuck in bypass
From 39$ in 2016 to 59 $ in 2020
Hey i think when you say "suck back" wat yer referring to is "sag"
Julia Speer yes and no. I believe sag refers to lowered voltage across the plates of the power tubes of a valve amp. I’m speaking to the similar phenomenon of this, added to the characteristics of a pushed power transformer and a way too hot signal hitting preamp tubes causing an extreme compression effect. Since this is a pedal and I’m not using a tube amp, I use the phrase ‘suck back’. Also I like ring of it :). Thanks for your comment!
so you never used the tone knob except with the distortion on 0 or 10 ? what weren't you thinking?
@trentwalker9223 holy crap, you're right. no wonder it sounds all blown out. I own one of these pedals and it's actually quite decent.
That "clean" bridge tone is rough, lol... I never have liked Seymore Duncan cause they're so STUPID expensive, but I honestly can't believe they cost THAT much AND sound horrible, lol... But hey, we all like different stuff!
Nice demo!!!
Thanks!
I bought one yesterday, sounded great at guitar center, sounds like shit at home. I'm so pissed
rjacamargo you more than likely had different equipment you knob
Dude, same! I play a fender tele with a rosewood fret board and have a fender amp. Crunchy as hell at home. No matter what I did, it sucked.
I play this through a Peavey Classic 1x12, keeley compression, my go to. The attack is fucking excellent. I love this pedal over my fender pugilist, mxr super badass and mxr '78 custom even my steel panther pussy melter. This pedal is great.
@@vinceibarra4553 hi bud, I have this and also the superbadass however I feel this one sounds lower than the badass in terms of output volumen. What do you suggest to make it equivalent?
with the tone up high, it sounds more like an AM radio than a fuzz box to me... no way would i call this fuzz... it is distortion which is a much smoother waveform than fuzz... I own no distortion boxes, only fuzz & overdrive... I just use the tubes for distortion, but this pretty good distortion sound though...not sure what I'd use if for though, when I have an amplifier that sounds great.
Hey mate, I find this pedal excellent to push an already dirty amp. Just keep volume up and Distortion down and you have an amazing dirty booster.
Thanks. But this is for those who dabble. I’ll stick with my MXR fullbore Metal 🤘🏻
Is Mande in the USA?
2 min before we hear it! Play before talking should a law.
Ok, I’ll do better next time.. this video is 3 years old. Thanks for the feedback.
Pinging the output, you're just overdriving your amp... this doesn't show off any bit of how the pedal itself sounds as it's just your amp's overdriven tone and just muddying up everything. I wish you knew how things worked before you decided to show everyone else that you didn't.
Memetic Socrates turning up the output all the way up was only a little higher than unity gain. Wasn't overdriving the amp. The amp is digital. Thank you for your criticism. I'll do better in the next one.
When he said "Really brings out the harmonics" What he meant to say was It's noisy. Too noisy for a boss noise gate which is what i (try) to use with this pedal.
Hmmmmm...I'm using a Boss NS-2 noise suppressor and it tames noise.... Are you using the loop (send and return) on the NS-2?
Yea. I got my suppressor used so I'm thinking it's defective.
clockWorks10 You need to adjust the sensitivity and threshold at a higher level.
I loose volume with this pedal, any suggestions?
Hola hoy lleve al mio a que lo modificaran...le van a colocar un booster de señal transparente. Vamos a ver como queda
Is 75$ "cheap"????
It was only $40 when I bought it. $75 is not cheap.
It sounded good in the store, i took it home, it sounds like shit
It sounds really bad if you have a really crystalline clean tone. The tone knob on the pedal introduces a lot of high end. This is the weirdness that I encountered.
Stop talking explaining just do it
i have one, i cant use it for metal it sounds sh**.....only for rock
Put this in front of a dirty amp and tell me it doesn't chug.
Pair it with overdrive or booster, i can get heavy tones with it. But yeah you cant do pantera with it
talk less!!
ok