@@elikirkwood4580 That was my first amp, a Peavey Bandit 112, and my first guitar was a Yamaha Pacifica, and yes, I did have the Metal Zone as well. I'm getting the Waza version, very soon...
Got a similar rig. Og metal zone into a Peavy Butcher. Just upgraded my guitar after 24 years. My band and I used to joke that the Metal Zone produced a sound that would eat cars!!
I always hated the meme. There's a reason that it sells so much. There's just not many pedals that can get you an amazing tone for metal, assuming you use it correctly. I think people just like to hate on things and follow the shepherds who tell them things are bad. I admit I didn't like the pedal at first, but that was many many years ago when I was playing through a fender and diming the controls. Once someone showed me how to dial it in right and use the fx loop, my lowly HoT Rod Deluxe became a firebreather. And the closest I've ever gotten to a tone like Adam Jones in Lateralus, was an mt2 into a Marshall. It's spot on. Only the new vh4 pedal has as much punch and low mids. I fkin love Boss and love that the madmen actually did this just to say eff you and your memes!
@@ontheroad579 I know, I wish it were like 200 max. I had one for a little while but ended up selling it because it just took up too much space on my board and you had to use it in a loop to sound good. It's ok in front of the amp, but nowhere near as good as in the loop. Unfortunately, if you use it in the loop it has to be always on or used alone because you can't just bypass it and still use other pedals in the loop. It was a massive shortsight by Diezel. My band does a ton of covers of bands that use Diezels (tool, Metallica, etc) and honestly, the original mt2 (modded by analogman) into my JCM does it just as well or at least almost as well as the vh4 did. If this waza version is even a little bit better than my analogman, I will be extremely happy. Especially if the noise floor is lowered like I hear all the WAza pedals are with the "premium" components. I know that the SD1w is definitely quieter and does not suck tone as much as the original does, so I assume this one should be the same way.
Felix Blacksher yeah man! That’s the trick. Same thing for me years ago. Into the fx loop of a hot rod deluxe (btw the fx loop on that amp is excellent for preamp pedals, prob my favorite) and it was crazy sounding
@@justingarcia7722 totally agree. The HRD is a very good platform for pedals and has a very good clean tone to boot. I would call it underrated, but I think most venues I've played end up having them in house more than any other amp. They're just so flexible.
So glad they did this. I may have been one of the few people who actually thought the MT2 was really good. Most people probably didn't know how to use it. I know I didn't at first. But it has the most insane equalization, especially in the mids. It's really meant to be used as a preamp, either in the fx loop or in front of an already dirty amp with only as much gain as needed and nothing more. Usually this is like just a touch of gain with level volume up high. The mids EQ is where the magic really happens in the MT2. There are just not many pedals out there that can deliver such powerful lows and can get an exact mid-range frequency for metal. And it seems that this model's custom mode is much like the analogman modded mt2s, which nail a Diezel type of preamp tone (as close as you can get anyway outside of the vh4 pedal). Excellent stuff, Boss. Glad you guys keep on pushing the envelope and remaining among the best in the guitar business. I will definitely be buying one of these like tomorrow.
Good points, Felix. I found that the original MT2 could work quite well if you combined it with certain types of amps. For example, when I hooked it up to a JC-120, it sounded very good. Hooked up to a JCM800, too much high-end/noise. Hooked up to a Fender, not half bad...IF the high end was pulled back a little and the distortion/gain was kept 60% or lower. Hooked up to an H&K Attax, it sounded remarkably good. In general, I prefer amp gain over pedal gain...though the Boss SD-1 Waza beefs things up wonderfully.
Felix the main problem is actually Mt2 is very nasal dist. If we tweak nicely then the nasal element is gone.mine.i put booster pedal after mt2 at setting.vol middle.tone middle and gain 0.or maybe tone is 0.and that the result is we get a blasting strat like tone.
I have always loved the Metal Zone - it is the definition of chug!!! Pure awesomeness in a Boss box and I’ve had mine since 93 and it’s still going strong.
Ah, I see what happened here. BOSS had a new Metal Zone coming, so they came around and told the popular guitarists to make videos about the old Metal Zone. And here it is, a new Metal Zone in just one month after the hype, which the pedal itself have been worked on and prototypes given to them months ago as mentioned by Rabea himself. If it's true, I'd say that's a really great marketing strategy by BOSS. Not only did they proved that the pedal itself is great, they're showing that they're still one of the top and also one of the most affordable pedal manufacturers out there.
@Dadrock 80, I learned my lesson on that! Most people on the internet are knobs and talk shit for no reason. Case in point, I picked up a Behringer OD800 Tubescreamer knock-off, $20 new. Everyone said "sure a real TS is $80 more, it's $80 better"... Dude, I have compared this thing back to back to back to my TS808, TS9, TS5... It sounds so much better than the the others it's almost sad. The only TS I have that sounds better is the TS9DX and my Hardwire CM2.
Pillow Hugger, mine may be the only good Behringer pedal ever, but like I said, back to back, even blind, I pick the cheap TS clone every time. Better articulation and more clarity to my ears, without being shrill.
BOSS has been a really great manufacturer for a long long time. I have been using and buying their stuff since the early eighties and they are still coming out with even more great stuff.
I bought my first MT-2 in 1994 and I still have it. The most versatile metal pedal I ever played. I still use it from time to time even if it’s not on a daily basis and I’m sure I will never get rid of that DARK LORD 😉
To be fair, the Metal Zone was never a bad pedal. It just wasn't very plug and play. You kind of had to base your tone around it. The best luck I ever had with one (and I've totally gotten useful guitar tones out of them) required setting the amp knobs at noon, fiddling around with the pedal until I got close to what I wanted, and then using the amp eq to dial out what I didn't like. I will also admit that my metal zone tones worked better in a mix than they did on their own. I still have one around here somewhere. I might have to dig it out again and fool around.
I absolutely agree with your comment and i use mine daily for the past 10 years. Make everything neutral, tweak your MT-2 until you get the frequencies you want and then remove the unwanted ones through the amp. (in that sense i feel an EQ pedal would also work wonders, i have to try that out at some point)
My fly rig for a while now has been a modded MT-2, a Super Chorus and a tuner. The FX loop return has been the key. pop it in any amp with a fx loop and I'm golden! I love that they gave this thing the Waza treatment.
Metal Zone in the hands of a good guitarist who is sick at dialing in tone (i.e. Rabea) and it sounds sick, proof again this pedal is underrated, nice vid Rabea
I bought a Metal Zone years ago and meant to explore it, but it sat on my shelf for years. I broke it out today, and holy smokes it’s a GREAT pedal! Not sure why all the jokes about it abound, but I guess a million+ people already know it’s great.
they sold a million and No one bothered to learn how to use the parametric eq properly. They just turned it all the way down (SCOOP TEH MIDZ) and turned the bass/treble all the way up and plugged it into a crate SS amp.. and 999376 people made it sound like absolute shit that way.. the other 624 people used it properly and got some decent tones out of it
I think I'm hearing the fantastic detail and richness of the Victory amp tone more than the MT-2W, as it sounds better in Rabea's hands than any of the other videos I've watched by Ola Englund, CSGuitars and others.
Rabea: “Alright guys, let’s see if we can get a decent sound from this...” * Plugs into a toaster oven * Toaster oven: “Wooo whooo! Squeeeal! Chug chug chug chug...”
I brought a standard Mt-2 for nostalgic reasons when I was getting back into guitar and quickly ran into the swarm of wasps issues which was a bit of a downer then I saw Ola’s video and discovered that It’s an effects loop pedal. I’ve now stopped running into the front and the loop filters out the wasps and it much easier to dial in a chunky sound this way and I still have ALL THE GAIN. I do recommend still using a a noise gate or noise reduction to keep it tight.😎
Same with me. I lost mine many years ago after moving house. Back in the 90s until I kinda stop playing around 2000, I only use this thing and another boss wah padle for jamming.
a great demo and historical intro. displaying the various nuances of the HM2w deftly .your demos are always a treat, the explanations and backgrounds are greatly appreciated because of my fascination with devices over the decades , thanks good work sire.
Dude your face when you hear sounds that make you happy...!!! It's what makes you one of the more translucent reviewers out there and that is appreciated.
I’ve been using these since the 80s! Awesome then! Still awesome now! Some amps it would sound better through the effects loop, others would sound better straight into the front of the amp! Been doin it for years 🤘🤘
Seeing as how the effects loop was the only way I was ever able to make the original Metal Zone sound any good, I am curious as to how the new Metal Zone would sound in the effects loop.
I used to own the original and honestly have been missing it and thought a couple weeks ago I would buy one once again... Then this came out just in time... Perfect!
Hi Rabea, the riff you played at around the 14:24 is seriously awesome. I f*cking love that stuff you do. Please write a song like that, I love it so much. You probably already have. Love you man.
Picked up a second hand original version about 11 yrs ago for £40, just as a backup. Now it runs in front of my Marshall 6100 ( I know - most people say it needs to go I the FX loop but that just did not cut it for me) & it is absolutely indispensable. Had to do a lot of tweaking of the settings but hell, it does the damned job & does it so so well...!!!
Absolutely sick tones, i was not expecting this much. You should have tried putting it in the return of an amp like Ola did, he got some seriously good tones like that
As jhs said... boss is the best, boss are pedals! I know there will be a boutique pedal that is better in a particular tone but boss are the only plug and play pedals, makes life much easer. The concept, the colors.
when i first had the oportunity to play with one...i did my best dial but it still sucked...Ola Englund then made a video connecting it to the FX loop and i was totally blown away...and this new Metalzone...oh my gosh...I NEED IT NOW
But overall, I think that’s it sounds great, a lot more refined than the previous metal zone.... and that chord definition o.o. Also that bea baritone sounds amazing!
I was sort of expecting that Mastodon riff coming in later! Cool, pretty catchy, innit? You made this pedal sounding incredibly good, thanks. And - this signature Chappers axe
Love how you got Nuno’s tone, a thrash metal sound and a progressive metal tone out of it, definitely some sounds to my taste in there, I appreciate how you demoed it with the rag as I have one in my PRS...intriguing indeed, awesome playing as always. I’d love to see you write a song with this pedal or do a play through of one of your songs with this as a preamp with your board into 2 amps to see how well it’d work in a professional/band context pretty please! Cheers man, see you next month in Manchester!
The original MT-2 was mostly abused than used wisely :) but in this case, the right player with the right guitar can make almost any pedal sounds good!
Definitely sounds better than the old one. Not that I had many complaints about it. I started playing guitar in 91 and it's not like there were great choices for high gain pedals at the time. The eq totally pushed it ahead of the pack. I would definitely like to see a shootout with the old one, but what you should really do is play it through a sterile solid state cheapo amp as that is definitely how most people back in the day had to employ it. Cheap tube amps weren't as easy to come by and it was the day of pristine clean to heavy distortion verse to chorus. In retrospect, playing it into a slightly overdriven tube amp would have obviously improved the sound significantly.
*You know I tell you, the Metal Zone seem as if they made it as a take on all the SOLDANO PRE-AMP RACKS. when you put the Metal Zone into a Tube Power amp, it really is voiced similar.*
You make it look so easy! I got a rush of this one. Lol easily my fav guitarist hands down!! Love the channel man keep it up. I think it’s time to upgrade from my ML-2
Eric Clapton sang "It's in the way that you use it...". I think that applies to the Metal Zone pedal. Cool new version. Brian Wampler has a couple videos that show you how to mod the originals into either an overdrive or EQ/Boost.
"I am not a metal guitar player"
-Rabea Massaad ,2018
i think he is right, he is not the "tradional" type of metal player, traditional is the word.
Rudraksh & Nishil's “per se...”
*is literally in a progressive metal band*
Aaron Ceravolo listen to their album Ode to The Author . Straight up prog metal except Ilumo maybe
Then what the fuck are you?! Your playing seems metal to me. Say hi to Leo for me.
OG Metal Zone, Peavy Bandit amp, Cheap guitar and a case of beer. I'm good until the beer runs out. metal rules!
well ive got two out of those 4, and im looking at an og metal zone now. gonna really piss off the neighbors with that setup
@@elikirkwood4580 That was my first amp, a Peavey Bandit 112, and my first guitar was a Yamaha Pacifica, and yes, I did have the Metal Zone as well. I'm getting the Waza version, very soon...
I still do this!
@@monstercadaver me too! i have upgraded my guitar though. :)
Got a similar rig. Og metal zone into a Peavy Butcher. Just upgraded my guitar after 24 years. My band and I used to joke that the Metal Zone produced a sound that would eat cars!!
THE MEME IS OFFICIALLY DEAD NOW. THIS SOUNDS KILLER .
I always hated the meme. There's a reason that it sells so much. There's just not many pedals that can get you an amazing tone for metal, assuming you use it correctly. I think people just like to hate on things and follow the shepherds who tell them things are bad. I admit I didn't like the pedal at first, but that was many many years ago when I was playing through a fender and diming the controls. Once someone showed me how to dial it in right and use the fx loop, my lowly HoT Rod Deluxe became a firebreather. And the closest I've ever gotten to a tone like Adam Jones in Lateralus, was an mt2 into a Marshall. It's spot on. Only the new vh4 pedal has as much punch and low mids. I fkin love Boss and love that the madmen actually did this just to say eff you and your memes!
The VH4 is great. Pretty expensive though.
@@ontheroad579 I know, I wish it were like 200 max. I had one for a little while but ended up selling it because it just took up too much space on my board and you had to use it in a loop to sound good. It's ok in front of the amp, but nowhere near as good as in the loop. Unfortunately, if you use it in the loop it has to be always on or used alone because you can't just bypass it and still use other pedals in the loop. It was a massive shortsight by Diezel. My band does a ton of covers of bands that use Diezels (tool, Metallica, etc) and honestly, the original mt2 (modded by analogman) into my JCM does it just as well or at least almost as well as the vh4 did. If this waza version is even a little bit better than my analogman, I will be extremely happy. Especially if the noise floor is lowered like I hear all the WAza pedals are with the "premium" components. I know that the SD1w is definitely quieter and does not suck tone as much as the original does, so I assume this one should be the same way.
Felix Blacksher yeah man! That’s the trick. Same thing for me years ago. Into the fx loop of a hot rod deluxe (btw the fx loop on that amp is excellent for preamp pedals, prob my favorite) and it was crazy sounding
@@justingarcia7722 totally agree. The HRD is a very good platform for pedals and has a very good clean tone to boot. I would call it underrated, but I think most venues I've played end up having them in house more than any other amp. They're just so flexible.
Problem with Rabea is he makes everything sound good....now I need a metal zone!
Nope, that is Ola.
Thats why he his him and we are us.
Thats slash.
No, that's Patrick.
The custom mode in the Waza is much more usable than the stock metal zone.
ALL THE MIDS
NO GAIN
SLEIGHER
wait
Must be haired in the mix
Peck
ALL THE GAAAAAAIIIIIIIN
NO MIDS
MORE GAAAIIIN
because who needs to be haired
@@viperstriker101 mex*
Drum and bass acts with a scooped guitarist miming along
Because you need to be haired
I finally feel old now that they’re releasing a reissue of my first pedal
I hear you man lol.. I had one of these back in the 90's when I saw in high school.
No shit man
It was my first pedal too!
Watching that led strip light shine through bea's hair is mesmerising
Wow
It is not a led strip..it is the daylight going through the venetian shade
The one pedal to rule them all! I'm gonna stack 3 into my orange at full gain...10/10 tone
Call me. i want to be there for this.
that nasum sound
Noooo
I swear, Bea could play a sauce pot with a paring knife and it would still sound ridiculous
*would still sound like st. Anger
Alan Solano bro I’m dying
I play a custom made guitar into a real bassman...trust me it is mostly the fingers...and not mine LOL!
When he was tweaking the pedal, I thought he had a huge gash on the back of his hand
It is the string from his bracelet. Had me fooled too.
I still think that.
I thought he had cut his back hand too. I have done that on my strings where I cut it off at the tuners at rehearsal. The blood was flowing.
Yes!
Moar mettel
I swear to god that mastodon riff is the new smoke on the water
If that Mastodon riff was the first thing I learned on guitar, instead of Smoke on the Water, I would be proud.
Haha yeah and half of the people play it wayyy too fast but Blood and Thunder was one of the first real metal riffs I learned.
Hell yeah man I love that riff.
@@spaguettinoddles9184 I swear to GOD you better shut it lol
So glad they did this. I may have been one of the few people who actually thought the MT2 was really good. Most people probably didn't know how to use it. I know I didn't at first. But it has the most insane equalization, especially in the mids. It's really meant to be used as a preamp, either in the fx loop or in front of an already dirty amp with only as much gain as needed and nothing more. Usually this is like just a touch of gain with level volume up high. The mids EQ is where the magic really happens in the MT2.
There are just not many pedals out there that can deliver such powerful lows and can get an exact mid-range frequency for metal. And it seems that this model's custom mode is much like the analogman modded mt2s, which nail a Diezel type of preamp tone (as close as you can get anyway outside of the vh4 pedal).
Excellent stuff, Boss. Glad you guys keep on pushing the envelope and remaining among the best in the guitar business. I will definitely be buying one of these like tomorrow.
Good points, Felix. I found that the original MT2 could work quite well if you combined it with certain types of amps. For example, when I hooked it up to a JC-120, it sounded very good. Hooked up to a JCM800, too much high-end/noise. Hooked up to a Fender, not half bad...IF the high end was pulled back a little and the distortion/gain was kept 60% or lower. Hooked up to an H&K Attax, it sounded remarkably good. In general, I prefer amp gain over pedal gain...though the Boss SD-1 Waza beefs things up wonderfully.
Felix the main problem is actually
Mt2 is very nasal dist. If we tweak nicely then the nasal element is gone.mine.i put booster pedal after mt2 at setting.vol middle.tone middle and gain 0.or maybe tone is 0.and that the result is we get a blasting strat like tone.
And dist.0
I have always loved the Metal Zone - it is the definition of chug!!!
Pure awesomeness in a Boss box and I’ve had mine since 93 and it’s still going strong.
Ah, I see what happened here. BOSS had a new Metal Zone coming, so they came around and told the popular guitarists to make videos about the old Metal Zone. And here it is, a new Metal Zone in just one month after the hype, which the pedal itself have been worked on and prototypes given to them months ago as mentioned by Rabea himself. If it's true, I'd say that's a really great marketing strategy by BOSS. Not only did they proved that the pedal itself is great, they're showing that they're still one of the top and also one of the most affordable pedal manufacturers out there.
Exactly. Always use your ears with gear who cares who's using it and never listen to any negativity about it.
@Dadrock 80, I learned my lesson on that! Most people on the internet are knobs and talk shit for no reason. Case in point, I picked up a Behringer OD800 Tubescreamer knock-off, $20 new. Everyone said "sure a real TS is $80 more, it's $80 better"... Dude, I have compared this thing back to back to back to my TS808, TS9, TS5... It sounds so much better than the the others it's almost sad. The only TS I have that sounds better is the TS9DX and my Hardwire CM2.
@@TheOfficialCaseMade , for sure I own a Behringer vintage delay and WOW what a steal. 👍
Pillow Hugger, mine may be the only good Behringer pedal ever, but like I said, back to back, even blind, I pick the cheap TS clone every time. Better articulation and more clarity to my ears, without being shrill.
BOSS has been a really great manufacturer for a long long time. I have been using and buying their stuff since the early eighties and they are still coming out with even more great stuff.
I bought my first MT-2 in 1994 and I still have it. The most versatile metal pedal I ever played. I still use it from time to time even if it’s not on a daily basis and I’m sure I will never get rid of that DARK LORD 😉
I bought the og in 91. Sold it years later. Gonna pick up the waza. Thanks for your review and nice jams!
To be fair, the Metal Zone was never a bad pedal. It just wasn't very plug and play. You kind of had to base your tone around it. The best luck I ever had with one (and I've totally gotten useful guitar tones out of them) required setting the amp knobs at noon, fiddling around with the pedal until I got close to what I wanted, and then using the amp eq to dial out what I didn't like.
I will also admit that my metal zone tones worked better in a mix than they did on their own.
I still have one around here somewhere. I might have to dig it out again and fool around.
I absolutely agree with your comment and i use mine daily for the past 10 years.
Make everything neutral, tweak your MT-2 until you get the frequencies you want and then remove the unwanted ones through the amp. (in that sense i feel an EQ pedal would also work wonders, i have to try that out at some point)
My fly rig for a while now has been a modded MT-2, a Super Chorus and a tuner. The FX loop return has been the key. pop it in any amp with a fx loop and I'm golden! I love that they gave this thing the Waza treatment.
Mine sounds better in front. I find there is less gain in the loop
Metal Zone in the hands of a good guitarist who is sick at dialing in tone (i.e. Rabea) and it sounds sick, proof again this pedal is underrated, nice vid Rabea
I bought a Metal Zone years ago and meant to explore it, but it sat on my shelf for years. I broke it out today, and holy smokes it’s a GREAT pedal! Not sure why all the jokes about it abound, but I guess a million+ people already know it’s great.
they sold a million and No one bothered to learn how to use the parametric eq properly. They just turned it all the way down (SCOOP TEH MIDZ) and turned the bass/treble all the way up and plugged it into a crate SS amp.. and 999376 people made it sound like absolute shit that way.. the other 624 people used it properly and got some decent tones out of it
13:57 whatever all of that was. so good.
I think I'm hearing the fantastic detail and richness of the Victory amp tone more than the MT-2W, as it sounds better in Rabea's hands than any of the other videos I've watched by Ola Englund, CSGuitars and others.
16:37 THAT WAS EXACTLY MY EXPRESSION! Man, that sounds ballsy.
I use to run a MT-2 with a GE-7 after it and that made for one versatile set up. You could get every sound imaginable with that.
sus4b9 I just put with cheap eq.after it.its good
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"I'm not really a metal guitar player.." at 12:00 he slays riffs & shreds my ears off. ❤️🐑 Bea! Rawk!
Rabea it's always really kool just seeing you spontaneously play tunes. Metal Zone Waza is on my Christmas list. Peace!
Rabea: “Alright guys, let’s see if we can get a decent sound from this...”
* Plugs into a toaster oven *
Toaster oven: “Wooo whooo! Squeeeal! Chug chug chug chug...”
I brought a standard Mt-2 for nostalgic reasons when I was getting back into guitar and quickly ran into the swarm of wasps issues which was a bit of a downer then I saw Ola’s video and discovered that It’s an effects loop pedal. I’ve now stopped running into the front and the loop filters out the wasps and it much easier to dial in a chunky sound this way and I still have ALL THE GAIN. I do recommend still using a a noise gate or noise reduction to keep it tight.😎
Same with me. I lost mine many years ago after moving house. Back in the 90s until I kinda stop playing around 2000, I only use this thing and another boss wah padle for jamming.
That Bari... what tone ! Thanks Bea
a great demo and historical intro. displaying the various nuances of the HM2w deftly .your demos are always a treat, the explanations and backgrounds are greatly appreciated because of my fascination with devices over the decades , thanks good work sire.
Dude your face when you hear sounds that make you happy...!!! It's what makes you one of the more translucent reviewers out there and that is appreciated.
I've never watch 20+ minutes youtube video that didn't make me boring, until this. What a guitar player
what a spectacular rhythm guitarist. this will make me buy that pedal
I’ve been using these since the 80s! Awesome then! Still awesome now! Some amps it would sound better through the effects loop, others would sound better straight into the front of the amp! Been doin it for years 🤘🤘
7:13 three seconds of the best guitar sound ever
Seeing as how the effects loop was the only way I was ever able to make the original Metal Zone sound any good, I am curious as to how the new Metal Zone would sound in the effects loop.
I used to own the original and honestly have been missing it and thought a couple weeks ago I would buy one once again... Then this came out just in time... Perfect!
Am I the only one who's completely blown away by the tone definition, punchiness of the ragnarok on the barintone? Switching my 81s with these!
Bea's playing melts my face every time!
The Metal Zone sounds great! - something I never thought I'd say.
Original Metal Zone is a Killer. Only stupid kids can't make it sound huge.
Exactly. 🤘
16:30 just precious
Hi Rabea, the riff you played at around the 14:24 is seriously awesome. I f*cking love that stuff you do. Please write a song like that, I love it so much. You probably already have. Love you man.
Lad Lad yeah I agree , I think I’ve heard that riff somewhere before but. I can’t place it .
Nathan Mcneil such awesome riffage!
Couldn't think of anyone better to demo this pedal.
Sounds cool to me! 🤘
You can tell by Rabea's face how much he digs the custom mode with his barytone when he turns it ON
That playing with the baritone killed me once again !! Love it
lol @ 16:38! Another great vid Rabea, sounds killer! Wonder how this one would sound on a bass!
OH. MY. GOD. Great sound. Mostly because of Rabea himself, but the pedal sound was a surprise.
Didn't expected to sound good. Nice surprise (Liked the standard mode better). That being said, Bea could make an electric potato sound good.
Getting one for my 6-string electric cello, thanks for a killer demo!
Picked up a second hand original version about 11 yrs ago for £40, just as a backup. Now it runs in front of my Marshall 6100 ( I know - most people say it needs to go I the FX loop but that just did not cut it for me) & it is absolutely indispensable. Had to do a lot of tweaking of the settings but hell, it does the damned job & does it so so well...!!!
Whaaaaat
Those riffs! Lord! Awesome!
On the baritone
CAN. WE. TALK. ABOUT. THIS. RIFF 14:25
is it from anywhere?
Yeah, I was thinking pretty much the same :v
1:54 The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BaaaAAAaaaaaAaand
Pretty good playing thanks.
Ola seems to have the best hands and ears for this type of work.
The settings that you settled on first with the n4 is very similar to the settings on my Metal Zone. (not modified) 🤘👍
Pedal sounds fantastic - as does your killer guitar playing!!!
Oh hell ya!!
His paw block the tweaking completely. Lol love this video😜
I like Metal Zone, and I like Rabea. I clicked thumbs up before the video even played.
F’n A my brother... we are all thankful for your glorious tones... man killer just killer
BTW my BEA is my #1 axe next is that baritone
Absolutely sick tones, i was not expecting this much. You should have tried putting it in the return of an amp like Ola did, he got some seriously good tones like that
As jhs said... boss is the best, boss are pedals! I know there will be a boutique pedal that is better in a particular tone but boss are the only plug and play pedals, makes life much easer. The concept, the colors.
when i first had the oportunity to play with one...i did my best dial but it still sucked...Ola Englund then made a video connecting it to the FX loop and i was totally blown away...and this new Metalzone...oh my gosh...I NEED IT NOW
14:17 DJENT
18:20 DJENT
But overall, I think that’s it sounds great, a lot more refined than the previous metal zone.... and that chord definition o.o. Also that bea baritone sounds amazing!
Demon tube screamer
I was sort of expecting that Mastodon riff coming in later! Cool, pretty catchy, innit? You made this pedal sounding incredibly good, thanks. And - this signature Chappers axe
The purr of a half palm mute is my favorite sound
Yep! It sounds good in Wichita, Kansas
16:35 : the moment the memes dies.
Makes me feel weird to say it but the metal zone sounds killer 😂
best pedal ever!! with a eq it's even better.
Start at 16:30 for the lead in to THAT LOOK at 16:37. Priceless.
You made it sound amazing. Really impressed
Love how you got Nuno’s tone, a thrash metal sound and a progressive metal tone out of it, definitely some sounds to my taste in there, I appreciate how you demoed it with the rag as I have one in my PRS...intriguing indeed, awesome playing as always. I’d love to see you write a song with this pedal or do a play through of one of your songs with this as a preamp with your board into 2 amps to see how well it’d work in a professional/band context pretty please! Cheers man, see you next month in Manchester!
The original MT-2 was mostly abused than used wisely :) but in this case, the right player with the right guitar can make almost any pedal sounds good!
Definitely sounds better than the old one. Not that I had many complaints about it. I started playing guitar in 91 and it's not like there were great choices for high gain pedals at the time. The eq totally pushed it ahead of the pack. I would definitely like to see a shootout with the old one, but what you should really do is play it through a sterile solid state cheapo amp as that is definitely how most people back in the day had to employ it. Cheap tube amps weren't as easy to come by and it was the day of pristine clean to heavy distortion verse to chorus. In retrospect, playing it into a slightly overdriven tube amp would have obviously improved the sound significantly.
I get a great 70s Brian May sound out of my MT-2. Just thought I'd share that. :p
19:21 .. that lick was so cri$$$p
16:38 Duuuude...! :D
This is amazing!
Just wish we could’ve seen your settings from 18:20 on and the awesome one before that.
The pedal sounds crazy good. What to comment about Bea's playing.. Killer as always
Sound awesome!! Very organic IMO
16:37 that "Holy shit!" moment.
At first I thought his hand was bleeding (about 7:08). I thought, man he's going hard core with this metal thing. Then I realized it was his bracelet.
Rabea's face at 14:55 was so worth watching this entire video \m/
I'm so glad I bought this instead of rebuying the original MT-2 !
It's a monster that do EVERYTHING
I remember reading in a guitar mag that even Prince had one on his pedalboard in the early 1990's 😮😃
sounds amazing now!
A lot of great music was played during this demo.
I bought mine from a member of BARDO POND....they can't be all bad. He did mark it on the pedal where it sounded good.
*You know I tell you, the Metal Zone seem as if they made it as a take on all the SOLDANO PRE-AMP RACKS. when you put the Metal Zone into a Tube Power amp, it really is voiced similar.*
I still have the original hardly used,I like this new pedal
Sound good . thanks.
Raining blood, from the lacerated sky!
unbelievably good sounding
Well I'll be absolutely damned it sounds fkin great
You make it look so easy! I got a rush of this one. Lol easily my fav guitarist hands down!! Love the channel man keep it up. I think it’s time to upgrade from my ML-2
The Metal Zone:
a pedal many beginners would buy but is the last pedal beginners should buy
Eric Clapton sang "It's in the way that you use it...". I think that applies to the Metal Zone pedal. Cool new version. Brian Wampler has a couple videos that show you how to mod the originals into either an overdrive or EQ/Boost.