Wow, what a great pedal. I just got it today, and it sounds so clean and crisp, I absolutely love it. I have a teeny tiny Peavy 8" amp for my dorm room, and it even made it sound great. Best 90 bucks I ever spent.
BOSS Metal Zone
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Nate The Great
What would Nathan do?
Agreed. I just bought a Zoom PS02. It's a little all-in-one studio, drum machine, effects. It's the best $199 I ever spent.
Manes
Stained Glass Music
ShaneBarnes1982
Metal Maniac
Eh.. a metal zone is good.. not great.. I like my sound.. but I only like it because it's the best sound I know I can get from it.
xenophobe
Active Member
The MT-2 is a great band-aid fix for an amp that can't get metal tone on it's own.
Any good tube amp should be able to get Brutal Metal Crunch without a pedal.
Any good tube amp should be able to get Brutal Metal Crunch without a pedal.
Nate The Great
What would Nathan do?
I used to use a Metal Zone pedal in conjunction with a Sovtek Mig 50 head and a Carvin 2X12 cabinet. It was a very cheap set up, but for the money I can't imagine getting a better sound. That Sovtek head could be cranked for a very warm tube tone. Then when you kicked in the Metal Zone pedal, all kinds of thick distortion tones came from that puppy. I have a marshall 1X12 combo now. I don't have a band, so don't make fun of my set up. But Xenophobe is right, any good amp (tube or solid state) can give great distortion tones.
I'm not crazy about my metal zone. I got a decent sound from it, but that's after the EQ. But I agree with guy above me, for the money it's a good choice
JesterRace
Member
Yeah the metal zone is a great addition to a small setup.. I bought mine a while ago and it really gives my crate 80 watt practice amp that "liquid" distortion sound I was looking for. Provided that you don't crank the level on the pedal too high, then you run into some problems. I think its a great pedal, but as was said earlier, when you get a good tube amp that will punch out good metal distortion, you won't want to use the pedal anymore.
- Put through the clean channel of a powerful tube amp (i.e. mesa boogie dual rec) the sound is thin........
- Put through the distorted channel " ", you get way too much feedback, unless you use the EQ's on the pedal to tone it down a bit.
- Put through the clean channel of a powerful tube amp (i.e. mesa boogie dual rec) the sound is thin........
- Put through the distorted channel " ", you get way too much feedback, unless you use the EQ's on the pedal to tone it down a bit.
xenophobe
Active Member
That's actually a pretty sweet inexpensive (under $500 complete) setup... Those Sovtek MIG heads don't have much distortion in them alone, but get a MT2, OD1 or DS1 and push a hot signal into the front end and you have a nice, warm and chunky tone for a good price.
Much better sounding than a POD, any day...
JMO
