Metal Zone

[hbucker]

I'm curious what everyone's take on this pedal is. My understanding is that there are good tones to be had but it requires a lot of tweaking. Otherwise it's just an angry beehive.

Is this correct? Incorrect? What are your thoughts?

Thanks

 

[deadringer]

I'm curious what everyone's take on this pedal is. My understanding is that there are good tones to be had but it requires a lot of tweaking. Otherwise it's just an angry beehive.

Is this correct? Incorrect? What are your thoughts?

Thanks

I think it depends greatly on the application. What are your plans with it?

 

[hbucker]

I was thinking of a slightly overdriven, warm, SRV type of tone...

I don't use high gain much. I'd use it about 5% of the time to get the high gain metal tones my PV Classic won't cover.

I made the leap in assuming TS-9 guys wouldn't weigh in on this but Metal Heads would. Clearly the latter would have a more user friendly opinion about them. Honeslty, I don't care what the TS-9 guys think since I know they wouldn't like it to begin with.

 

[deadringer]

To be honest I've never really cared for the Metal Zone. I'm into metal but the amps I've owned always had tons of gain. I know the Peavey Classic stuff well and it might work real well to push the front end. On it's own (added to the clean tone) you may be disappointed.

 

[Jimi D]

I picked one up in a trade deal once, and played with it for a couple hours before selling it... I thought it had the interesting property of making all my guitars sound exactly alike - which was like a Metal Zone, of course...

 

[koogie2k]

I actually got one the other day. Now, I only use it to get that really heavy "thrash" type of sound. With that said, that is really the only thing I like about it. I only go that route once in a while as I like to play all types of music. I use my Marshall's distortion and other pedals for the tone I like and use most often.

Depends on your application. SRV? No....not in my opinion. Slayer...sure. You might be able to tone it down, I have experimented, but it really is an aggressive pedal and I like it for what it does. Metal...really heavy metal.

 

[hbucker]

Thanks guys.

p.s. I was only joking about getting the SRV tone...

 

[Dee M]

The Metal Zones are awesome as far as that sound goes. I belive the first 2 machine head albums were made using the metal zone for virtually all distortion duties. I sold mine a while back but only because it wasnt needed anymore with a model of it being in the vetta.
The MZ gets a definate thumbs up though for the metal

 

[lock-ny]

I had the pedal for years and maybe used it once in the studio and probably re-recorded over it anyway, so theres my take on it, the sans amp stuff will give you a better metal tone, the metal zone is really buzzy and mushy, but im sure you can dial in a decent tone in there somewhere, there is some good in everything, I just prefer the sans amp stuff for my metal needs -

 

[Dodgeball]

I tried the Metal Zone a few times and agree with the previous posting that it makes everything running through it sound the same - kinda like two wasps gettin jiggy in a jam jar

My choice would be the visual sound Route 66 for TS9 type applications, it has a bass boost too if you need it and is paired with a compressor for great solo boosts.

If you wanna stick with Boss pedals or prefer a smoother overdrive then the SD-1 (think it's the sd-1...yellow pedal, 3 dials??) gets my vote everytime.

C

 

[ned911]

Haven't used the Boss pedal but use a Ibanez MS10 Metal Charger frequently. I usually run a TS9 in front of it to warm the sound up just a bit.

Ned