BOSS MT-2 –Metal Zone Effects Pedal for Guitar and Bass. Legendary High-Gain Distortion Pedal with over 1 Million Sold. BOSS 5-Year Warranty.

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There's no release date yet for the album as of yet, though in a 2021 interview with Metal Kaoz, Gaster said it would arrive in early 2022. He also spoke of trialing new material in front of a crowd before putting it to record. Ultimately, the best advice we can give is to forget the memes and experiment: the Metal Zone is a hugely powerful pedal, and taking the time to carefully tweak the EQ can – with a bit of patience – yield formidable results with just about any guitar rig. At the time of its release, it was the first pedal to feature dual-concentric pots. This means that one dial is split into two different parts, meaning you can adjust two different settings, without taking up too much space on the pedal. The MT-2 has two dual-concentric pots within its EQ section, with one control for High/Low gain and the other for Middle gain/Mid frequency. The MT-2 has been such an important pedal that Boss has released a few variations of this timeless classic.

Part of the reason for the MT-2’s infamy is its sound out of the box. We’ve all been there; the confusion when you first plug it in and wonder how you could have made such a decision. But have patience – all it takes is a little tweaking. So how do you get a good sound out of a Metal Zone? Used judiciously, the Metal Zone can tighten up your amp’s sound. Some amplifiers just need a little guidance, a physical presence to tighten them up and make them seaworthy. The Metal Zone does that. This was how Weaver found the rhythm guitar tone on Two Hunters –an album that should be required study for anyone interested in extreme metal guitar. Don’t scoop the mids! While there’s no harm in jamming some classic Metallica or Pantera riffs, the days of mid-scooping are over. You have to learn to let go. If you want to find your own sound with the Metal Zone, embrace the mids. You’ll find that it suddenly plays nice with other pedals, and sounds way better in a mix – either recorded or live. Also of note Tim Sult's use of a Firebird-style electric guitar in the music video, despite being more commonly associated with Gibson Les Pauls and SGs.

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You can trust Guitar World Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing guitar products so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Ibanez build lots of different Tube Screamer overdrive pedals, but there are loads of pedal companies out there that have cloned the circuit and offer tweaked versions of it — from affordable to high-end. Trust us, a Tube Screamer style overdrive pedal is a must for a metal guitar pedalboard! Max Bowman of Olympia, Washington death metal band Mortiferum was another. He might have graduated to going straight through a dimed Orange amp to find the appropriate texture of gain for Mortiferum’s über-doomy riffs, but the Metal Zone helped open the gates to that world. This cookie stores user-like settings for the chat system provider, which are required for our online chat service. Trusted Shops

This is why using the mids control to tame problem frequencies makes sense. Although it's listed as 'Mid freq' on the front panel, it has a very wide range, going from 200Hz all the way to 5kHz. As a result, it's better to think of it simply as a single active EQ control, and disregard the idea it's only for shaping mids. Treat it carefully, as it dictates the entire sound of the distortion. If you had a big enough amp, it’d put some muscle on those riffs; if going through an eight-inch practice amp speaker it’d at least make those harmonics bounce off the fingerboard and give you something searing to work with. For many players, certainly in the early '90s, the preference was to cut. Today’s Metal Zone users, particularly its professional fraternity, use it quite differently.As simple as an EQ pedal may initially appear, it’s a must-have for any pedalboard, large or small. Learn to use this essential effect. Read more… Five Creative Ways to Use a Distortion Pedal for Guitar The MT-2 is more than a million-selling mainstay of bedroom players. Learn how Biffy Clyro, Kurt Ballou, and others harness its extreme tone. Read more… What’s the Difference Between Overdrive and Distortion? Clutch are currently working on their yet-to-be-revealed 13th studio album, the followup to 2018's Book of Bad Decisions.

The Boss MT-2 is famously used by a wide array of artists, including Biffy Clyro, Korn, Prince, Dave Mustaine, Daft Punk, Tom DeLonge, Jared Dines and many more. Distortion pedals can be wild beasts. Understanding how to tailor them to your setup is integral to getting the most out of the effect. Read more… Pedal Partners: Combining Distortion with Other EffectsIn terms of the second row of mini-pedals - those Mooers are the nearest equivalents to the above Boss pedals - in fact the Blues Mood and Ultra Drive MKII are both specifically modelled on the actual Keeley-modded Boss pedals. And my first ever ’Blues Driver’ type pedal for quite a while was indeed the Mooer Blues Mood - which I still retain and love, although it does not really quite reach the lofty heights of the Freak Fuzz edition - it does not have those amazing sparkly harmonics, yet does capture a lot of the same character and core tonality. That said, it was brought into this world for high-gain tones, its semi-parametric three-band EQ allowing you to set the mids anywhere between 200 Hz and 5 kHz and then apply up to +15 dB boost or cut. Dialing down the mids can work gangbusters for high-gain metal tones – particularly if you were the only guitar player in the band. The Metal Zone is almost always a key ingredient to the mix. The reason we’ve used it so often in the studio is because it just sounds so evil. And it’s very flexible Nathan Weaver, Wolves in the Throne Room The Metal Zone is almost always a key ingredient to the mix,” says Weaver. “The reason we’ve used the Metal Zone so often in the studio is because it just sounds so evil. And it’s very flexible. One might call the Metal Zone sound ‘cheap’, but I’d describe its brutal, necro soundas ‘perfect.’For me, its sound evokes Barrow-wights in a graveyard, and dusty old bones in an ancient crypt.