80s metal sound

[Death Animal]

I need recomendation for pedals. Never bought one before. First I`m looking for 80s metal sound. bands likeriest,Accept,loudness.
I have been thinking about metal zone or boss SD-1.
Somewhere in the future I may also want to try some Thrash metal and blues.

 

[waif]

Tube Screamer. One of the vintage ones if you can find it. But for an 80s metal guitar sound, I find plugging directly into a cranked-up Marshall does the trick nicely.

 

[vinta9e]

hi there,

i would say an 808. Please check out a little track i recorded using a custom made "808 on crack" box and a MIJ Jackson:

http://sites.google.com/site/heartqk/mp3/Heartquake_4.mp3?attredirects=0&d=1

other than that - you might need the right amp.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

I would suggest not buying an SD-1 or a Metal Zone. Their tone is subpar to say the least. A Tube Screamer would work nicely if you have an amp with decent on-board distortion in which case, you would run both at the same time. Since I keep my Tube Screamer's gain all of the way up with the tone at 3'0 clock I need to run a noise suppressor after mine.

I suggest that you get a Z-Vex Distortron or if you want more gain and a more "metal" tone then pick up a Z-Vex Box of Metal. The Distortron runs for $150 and the Box of Metal is $200. This sounds expensive but the sound is soooo much better. Check them out on zvex.com there's videos of the pedals that you can check out there.

 

[Death Animal]

Thanks for recommends. I look for tube screamers and something. At least the money is not the problem. I also could mention that I use (line6 spider2 30w) and my guitar is ibanez rg270.

 

[Sogg]

Hi.

As far as I'm concerned none of TS-family overdrive will do job with digital modeling amp.

their whole magick is, in fact, that they push tube preamp into saturation.

You may give it a try, but you'll be probably dissapointed with results.

 

[genome]

Fact: Use of the Boss Metal Zone and Metal Core pedals is actually illegal under several human rights and strategic weapons limitation treaties.

However, it does make a great paperweight.

 

[Metallogy]

metal - zone is great, nice thrash'y sound but some times i can be difficult to here what you are playing
this i recorded with boss metal zone but we did't a lot in the mix

http://www.myspace.com/themetallogy

 

[waif]

Actually, the metal zone is instrumental in getting the Sunlight Studios guitar sound, which is as true and metal a tone as you can get. But yeah, I have one and it seems to have a thousand ways to make your guitar sound like ass.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Avoid stomp boxes to be honest.
If you want a decent tone, get an amp with a reasonable preamp distortion.
If you're on a budget, the Roland Cube 30, 60 or 80 amps are a good choice, as is the current Line 6 Spider IV. Do avoid the previous versions of the Spider like the plague, they sound awful.

 

[Mack Addy]

You can't get that sound from your Line 6? Honestly, outside pedals don't work that well on modeling amps. Also, are you playing at home or in a band?

 

[ThePitt]

If you're talking glam then just crank that amp and get some a phaser or flanger effect in there. If not just do what I said just without the effects.

 

[MetalVixen]

Ibanez tube screamer all the way.

 

[ConnorFromHell]

DO NOT GET A METAL ZONE OR A METAL CORE! They suck balls.

If you want a really good, versatile metal tone get a Hardwire TL2. I got mine a week ago and it's absolutely incredible, does so many different metal tones. A Tube Screamer won't work with your amp, it's designed to push a valve amp and it'll sound crap with a modeller. Also, Tube Screamers don't have very much distortion at all on their own, you need to play it through a distorted amp to be able to use it for metal.

I used to use a Spider III and the Insane channel did the job for me. Why do you need an outside pedal?