The pedal quickly gained popularity among guitarists who wanted to achieve a heavy, aggressive tone without having to carry around multiple full stacks, as well as for those who lacked a ferocious Marshall amp. A Les Paul Zebra humbucker bridge pickup into a Marshall ShredMaster. The ShredMaster was designed to replicate the sound of a fully cranked Marshall amplifier in a compact pedal format. The Marshall Guv’nor had success as a “realistic valve/tube drive sound” and something a bit more hairy was now needed for modern music. It was introduced the early 1990s as a response to the growing demand for high-gain distortion tones in heavy metal music. Marshall’s Shredmaster was the British behemoth’s first high-gain distortion pedal. Now that you don’t have to hunt down these rare distorted gems, let’s take a closer look at the DriveMaster and ShredMaster from Marshall. Today, Marshall has reissued their line of distortion pedals from that era. Each of these pedals carried the Marshall name and history, but served the modern musicians of the time with something not only sought after, but needed. Within this original lineup, two pedals in particular - the DriveMaster and ShredMaster - built upon the Marshall tone foundation, while expanding its reach to new heights. Enter the Mark 1 series of Marshall distortion pedals. But in the late ’80s, music was changing, and the need for a dimed-out Marshall distortion tone was higher than ever.
Marshall’s history of designing guitar pedals dates back to the late 1960s.
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