Top 10 Greatest CHEAP Metal Distortion Pedals EVER!
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Biyang Metal-End Pro: amzn.to/3SunLR8
Biyang Metal-End King: amzn.to/4bsWYNA
TC Electronic Fangs Metal: amzn.to/3HRwecc
Ibanez Super Metal Mini: ebay.us/VUW9Rv
Ibanez TM5 Thrash Metal: ebay.us/BPJwE0
EX-GEAR Krush Overdrive: amzn.to/48aWRU9
EX-GEAR Max Metal Distortion: amzn.to/2yQJUnW
ProCo RAT2: amzn.to/482SWc0
ProCo Lil' RAT: amzn.to/4bvEPi6
Joyo Dark Flame Distortion: amzn.to/3HPlcUH
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone: amzn.to/3OEAEqz
Boss MT-2w Waza Craft Metal Zone: amzn.to/3uptCiB
Digitech TL-2 Metal Distortion: ebay.us/ioApGq
Blackstar HT-DISTX Distortion: ebay.us/mTNKrz
Blackstar HT-METAL Distortion: ebay.us/JJ7fVM
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The metal end pro also comes with a free decorative layer of dust.
Fr, it’s so annoying how quickly and how much dust and stuff gathers on your pedals
Expertly applied!
@@kingtaco4064 a cheap compressor (the one that compresses air, not a pedal😂) does wonders! Your pedals, the body of your guitar under the strings, your suitcase. Also useful for stuff like keyboards and printers!
Because they break. The king is the better quality
Pedals saved my bacon when I didn't have my amp with me on many occasions. Back in the mid 80s, my junior high days, when I'd take my guitar to school with me (luckily, we had tall lockers that could fit my ax in a soft case), my friends would set up impromptu jam sessions after school and we'd head to the drummer's house. The drummer had a couple run of the mill amps but my pedals would make them sound metal. It was through these sessions that my first band formed.
Been watching your videos every day. Commenting and liking. Let's get this channel grown!!
Always enjoy these and they definitely help sway me when buying gear.
Thanks man!
Very Cool, Thankyou. Awesome Top 10 List. Recently got my First Rat Pedal. WOW, So Amazing. I am also a Fan of The Smaller Series Marshall Pedals, The JH-1 'JackHammer' OD/Distortion is awesome too. All the Best. Cheers
That Biyang Metal End is a great pedal for the money, why I was running Danzig's "Twist of Cain" through it the other night! A lot of tones in it for sure!
Only 3 to go, Robert. All others i own (mostly bought them all new). Love also Digitech Hardwire Metal Distortion (have 2 of them) and BOSS Metal Zone (own 2 regular ones and 1 WAZA). Love the Blackstar DistX and Dual. They are awesome. Thank you for the video 😉
I dunno, but using the right Metal pedal and the right guitar "pulls you in" and your guitar becomes a part of you, like just knowing where the bends, pinches and notes go next - music from the soul. There a lot of steals and deals great older, used and abused pedals out there and I am still trying to check all of them out, of course after liberally cleaning the pots and switches with contact cleaner spray. Like digging in the mud and finding gold.
thank you for the vid
My pleasure. Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Robert, I would love it if you do a video about what your favorite distortion and overdrive pedal that are great to stack.
Great video.....now the hunt is on
I just bought a Revv G4 distortion pedal a month of so ago and am so disappointed with it Ill probably sell it. I still like my Digitech Distortion Factory the best so Ill probably buy another one since my on/off switch is dying in mine.
TCE has been taking over my board. I just got the Magus Pro to represent the Rat circuit; it’s got a classic, Turbo, and Fat switch. I love the 3-in-1 options.
I second the Hardwire TL-2. My favorite metal pedal.
And I love the Joyo Revolution series. Good choices!!
I'm probably gonna get flamed for this but I have an MT-2, the much maligned Metal Zone, and I LOVE IT.
I think most people hate it because they're not using it properly. Yes, it's hard to make it sound good for anything other then Norwegian Black Metal if you're using it as your only source of gain over a clean channel and you dial the gain way up. That's where it earns its rep as a jar of angry bees.
But if you use it as a boost over your amp's gain with the gain on the MT-2 set at 0 or *just above* 0, (NO MORE) it's amazing. It tightens up the amp's gain and gives it a bit more teeth.
You can often get them used for well under $100.
Robert. I had a lot of cheap pedals and love them all.How many guitar players does it take to ? All of them.
I bought a used Digitech Metal Distortion a few years ago after watching a review video you did on it. I paid about $60 CAD for it. Just before Christmas I bought the Digitech SP7 Stereo Phaser and it cost me over $200 CAD (mint condition), and it was still $75-$150 cheaper than many other listings of the same pedal (some definitely not mint). You're right, the Hardwire series has definitely gotten a great name for itself recently. The guy I bought from was a semi-pro musician and he said he has the Reverb pedal as well (same one you mentioned here) and he'll never sell it. He believes it's the best Reverb pedal out there. And they are now priced that way too, unfortunatley!
Yes! Metal Zone rules! And the Fangs will kick your @$$!
Video quality looks excellent.
Thank you! New camera and some new background lighting seems to have paid off for me. :)
DOD FX56 American Metal is a good one. Your thoughts?
Heya, Robert.
The Darkglass B3K is a kickbutt bass drive which sounds freakin WILD on guitars with humbuckers, especially. You can score a close-ish Joyo clone @ around $50ish. They call it the Double Thruster. Worth a look, maybe.
I'm noticing that Caline has a pretty big range of clones around that same neighbourhood, if you're really on a budget.
A fender blues deluxe, Metal Muff Pedal and a gibson Flying V were my main distortion sounds. Cheap distortion pedals and a decent amp can get you so damn far.
Formally dreadhead but the gun slingers in the mail lol. Wanted to learn the trigun intro thought it would be an awesome pedal for that
Like the Hardwire and my Rat is the second best off distortion pedals
I'd love to try one of those Hardwire pedals. I guess Ill have to buy one and if I dont like it just sell it like Im doing with the Revv G4.
Im just learning guitar so i dont really know what is going on here... But i already have a guitar and amp (without any effects) does this pedal make it sound from a normal to metal? Or do i need something else?
Nope. The pedal, a couple of cables, and an amp with a clean channel are all you need!
Just bought the byang crazy badass looking for the price,,,had my eye on it for awhile now.
Good video Robert. What’s your thought on those Marshall pedals GC sold back around 2000ish? I sold mine but I thought it would be a contender. Also my DOD Supra distortion holds its own too.
Which ones? Like the Jackhammer and the Governor 2?
@@RobertWJackson jackhammer, I should’ve kept it.
Long live the MT-2!!
I finally sold my revv g3 for $110 after it sitting on marketplace for a couple months.
Nice video! It would be awesome to see you do a roundup of Crate amps, and how to get a good tone out of them. Unless you don't want the price to go up higher on them, LOL!!!
I’ll see what I can come up with. Unfortunately, the only Crate amps I currently own are the Blue Voodoo, the Stealth (both of those are tube amps), and the Power Block, which isn’t really the same category as their solid-state heads.
@@RobertWJackson Right on. I think you could insert your Marshall JCM 900/Crate GFX-1200H footage if possible
Rat pedals make a great preamp if you boost it with something like a Joyo Argos Drive or Uzi as long as you keep the filter above zero and no higher than noon. IMO Turbo Rat pedals work best for that particular application, due to the increased volume potential and resulting headroom. Turbo Rats also work better as a boost for the same reason. Red LED's FTW.
I have a what I like to call "well-worn" Metal Zone. Guy was selling it used for like $20 locally. I met him at a Five Guys in Norfolk, VA, and my lunch cost as much as the pedal. :D
Now THAT’S a great deal! LOL 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
My Randall RD40C isn't great at low-to medium gain - high gain? Oh, YES! Clean? Splendid cleans, and with a spring reverb too. But trying to attain sounds between these two extremes? No dice...
After purchasing a Blackstar HT-Dual I no longer need any kind of drive pedals, it does exactly what I want.
But why I am watching this video?
Well, I will gladly hear what Robert has to say - and I like his "no bullshit" style of presentation.
Never change, Robert!
EDIT: Before I bought the Randall RD40C, and I was using a Fender solid-state amp, the Palmer "Solid Metal" (PESM) pedal was my choice for high-gain sounds. Although I don't anything like this any more, I still look fondly upon the Palmer as a great piece of equipment, and would advise anyone who spots one in the wild to snap it, as they are now discontinued.
Excellent video idea, Robert. I also have to agree with you on those Ibanez pedals. I watched ao many people turn their nose up at them because they were plastic. I plugged in one day and was shocked.
How about a top 10 pieces of gear that you instantly had buyers remorse on?
That would likely be a pretty short video. Working in M.I., I’ve always been able to do my homework on just about everything I’ve ever bought. I really don’t recall too many things that I’ve bought and wished I could get my money back. Unless of course it was a used piece that arrived damaged or not working for whatever reason. In those cases I DID get my money back, but that’s not because I didn’t like the piece, that’s because UPS didn’t do their damn job. LOL
@RobertWJackson Hahahaha! That makes perfect sense.
BOSS, BOSS, and more BOSS 😊
Have you checked out any of the MXR distortion pedals?
Yes, I own several.
@@RobertWJackson ok cause I just don’t remember if you’ve ever demoed any on the channel. You might have & I just don’t recall seeing it.
Yes! What a great morning to wake up to with plans for the guitar store today! I’m trading in my AMT R2, Hotone Binary amp with the worst Rectifier sim ever heard and a Nano Looper. So I need a Rect o Box obviously! Any suggestions! Thank You Robert You Rock Brother!
Ibanez Smash Box
On it! Holy shit sound tank pedals ! the punkifier (now turned slam punk by Ibanez) was the first pedal I ever had that eventually within the next 10 years I owned a Mesa Triple Rectifier with matching slant cab. I’ve owned the Fang, Metal End is amazing especially for value, must pick up the Krush! It looks like a precision drive! I took Your advice and did pick up the Blackstar Ht Metal tube pedal over the dual! It sounds better than the HT1 Metal Tube head I used to Have. Anyways Robert, I know You have more than enough gear to demo but if You would like to demo this AMT R2 or tell Me what I’m doing wrong I’d appreciate it as well as the Hotone Binary Preamp pedal that has Engl Mesa Diezel Soldano 5150 Friedman and Jcm 800! Many sound great I’m literally just but hurt about the sterile Rectifier setting, which the 2IIc sim on it sounds more like a true rectifier. I’m Looking for a Used Dark Flame because My Uzi sounds better than the AMT and all the sims in the Hotone imho, which give Me a chance to stock up on these crush pedals and pick up a Hardluck Kings Bossman. So My recommendations are MORE JOYO especially the R series and I don’t know if You covered the Preamp house, Rigel, or Chopper Z. They have a special on the avallon noise and the great multi circuit drives pedal around 35 bucks! These pedals are Incredible! I said to much! Shout out of You like to demo any of these before I trade up!
@hailmaryrecordings8255 is correct. The Ibanez Smash Box is the correct answer. It’s not a Sound Tank pedal, though. It was out of their Tone-Lok series, also known as their 7 series. NU-X also has their Recto pedal, and Joyo also has one in their Ironman series, and both of those are pretty good.
Interesting list. Too bad the Jackhammer is missing from it. I had one of those Soundtank Thrash Metal pedals, which was nice but I sold it to a former bass player.
The Digitech TL-2 is one that I am actually looking for but they're rare in Europe. One seems to be for sale on a German site but that shows errors in the payment section, so I'm skipping that one.
have you ever done a top 10 strings?
Nope.
The Metal Zone, when placed into the effects loop of a BOSS GT-1000 processor, is better than any of the internal high gain amp models.
My favorite cheap Metal Distortion pedal is the Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion because it's an absolute beast of a pedal in mode 2 you a ton of gain, in mode 1 you have a classic Distortion sound almost like the classic Boss DS-1 Distortion circket was added to it
Yep, the DS-2 is awesome! I don’t know why that pedal doesn’t get more love than it does.
can't forget Donner pedals. super inexpensive but still good.
I had a friend with a TL-2. Into the front of a slightly overdriven or completely clean amp, it sounds amazing, better than the Metal Zone in the same application. Unfortunately, it sounds like shit when used as a boost in front of a mid gain amp, which the MT-2 will work amazing for. A Metal Zone can be used as a boost in front of a Plexi, Windsor, or JCM800, etc, and will make it sound more modern. It will take tubby amps and with the gain below 9 o'clock on the pedal, will tighten it up and make it more aggressive sounding. Also, a Metal Zone takes a boost or overdrive pedal into it's input a lot better, in general, without becoming oversaturated, overcompressed, or altogether woolly and unruly. TL-2 for stand alone distortion; MT-2 for everything else.
I use a Fangs as my metal distortion and it rocks. Cheap too at £30 (about $40 I guess?) but I have to disagree about the Scoop setting for one reason: it’s the sound of late 80s Metallica (give Shortest Straw a try)
As an “honorary mention”, I’d also suggest the Digitech Grunge; don’t be fooled, it is NOT a pedal for grunge despite the name (unless you think metal and grunge sound the same!), but produces a tight, EQ-able high gain tone…probably also quite cheap second hand.
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If you like the BOSS Metal Zone, you will love the new EHX Hell Melter. Although it does not fall under the category of cheap ones.
Give it a chance!
I’ve been wanting to try that one since it came out, actually. Hopefully I’ll be able to get one on the channel one of these days.
Damn, I was at least expecting to hear what these pedals sound like.
Moist.
Is the TC quiet?
Yeah, relatively. As quiet as any other high gain pedal is going to be, anyway.
the Metal Zone reminds me of Nickelback. The cool thing to do was to hate on both of these things. Yet they sell gazillions. Someone is lying lol
After buying hundreds of pedals here are my favourite metal pedals.
Biyang Metal End King
ENO METALISTIC
Caline Tigershark with noise gate
Forget the boss HM2 these pedals are better and a faith the price.
Im more overdrive than harsh clip
Got a Joyo Dark Flame but I prefer Joyo UZI (Friedman BeOD clone)
MXR M75
The arions
I just screamed over the mic at the telemarketer answerin the phone.
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU NEED.
LEVE ME THE FUCK ALONE.
too bad I didnt have a guitar around my neck cranked to mix
DOD American Metal
I love these episodes, but the ones I like best are the ones about how gullible guitar players are. I also like sending you off the wall comments about them. Keep fighting the good fight.
I saw a boss turbo distortion on ebay rhe other day for 40 dollars.....and didnt have 40 dollars. Not saying it has anything to do eith this video. Just wish i had 40 dollars, thats all. Lol
Me too!
you forgot one Rob the DOD Thrashmaster. That thing was hardcore even though it was bright pink. Otherwise i love the list!
Who the fuck is Rob?
How about dusting off the pedals before showing them? No biggie tho.
Nah. Gotta give people SOMETHING to whine about, ya know? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There’s too many pedals!
I’ve been playing guitar for almost 30 years, but took sort of a 10 year break to focus on playing drums; got back into guitar during Covid. I used to think I was nuts about pedals but the industry really took off while I was drumming and the number of brands that make distortion and overdrive pedals is overwhelming. How does anyone know about all these pedals I’ve never heard of!?
ive been gawking at classifieds and got me one of them giant multieffect pedals with an expression pedal for 80ish dollars.
10/10 would recommend zoom g7.1 solid enough to fend off the bass player and his boyfriend with
Main thing is' don't buy pedals from GC.
Moist.
Metal Zone still sucks, no matter how much you push it. Just because a bunch of 13-year-old bought it doesn't make it good. The Metal Core is a much better sound.
The Metal Core is great. If you don’t like midrange frequencies or cutting through the mix, anyway. LOL
I've been trying to warm up to the Metal Core but it seems too noisy, hoping to pair it with some kind of noise gate to see if that helps (maybe an ISP Decimator? My Behringer Noise Reducer isn't cutting it.) Would like to do a side by side comparison with a Boss HM2 and a Metalizer someday.
I use a Donner Noise Killer with mine. Not sure why Robert thinks it doesn't cut through a mix. I haven't had that problem. He probably needs to play with the settings a bit more. @@fredmerrill4002
I’ve owned that pedal since it came out. It doesn’t have enough midrange in it. Period.
I think sound demos would have been good for this video.
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