BOSS METALZONE - WORST DISTORTION PEDAL EVER?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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Trying out the Metalzone Boss pedal today... pedals are fun, soooo SUBSCRIBE!
Ola Englund
Burpla Englund. \m/
Anyways, how you doing, Ola? I'm hoping this will make it to one of your Q&A videos whenever you can, dude. Name a list of all your favourite guitar tunings!! :D
Pedals can be habit forming...
@Kamiya Tetsuya That pedal has the exact same problem!
You restored this pedal's reputation. You monster!
Now you need to make a song with this!
Worst pedal ever: Less than 2 minutes in and I want one.
That depends a lot of the amp.
@@homeboy9002 yup. I remember it sounded pretty good in my AC30, although the global tone was a bit messy and mellow, because AC30 has a very mellow tone, that's quite useful for something, but if you want to have a nice metal tone it isn't probably your best choice. However I played lots of concerts using an AC30 with an Iron Maiden Trubute band. And no one noticed the difference, and fellow guitarists always asked me "how can you get this amazing tone with a brit pop amplifier?" :D
My answer was making them listen Brian May's Resurrection and some Rory Gallagher stuff LOL
had this pedal way back in the day, sold it, aaaand now i want it back!!! 🤘🏻😂
Nah go with mxr fullbore it’s better then this
Same bro
I bet a lot of of the hype about this pedal sucking is rooted in kids buying this pedal and plugging it into a $30 First Act amp and then declaring it sucks.
That or a fender practice amp but you're not wrong
Back when the line 6 spider had the ideal metal tone
Forums are full of ‘those’ people.
@@brandonkeller478 LINE 6 is shit haaha wtf , it doesnt event support pedals because its sucks
Brandon Keller i actually have one of those. Its a fun amp. Good for at home. Not performances.
To those saying that the Metalzone sucks, it's not the pedal, it's you :)
skill is more than gear
Uffff press f
Exactly
@@aroundth3fur literally everyone says that
Unless you don't have an effects loop, then it will suck no matter how good you are lol
"Why does it have such a bad rep?" Because people who cannot dial in a pedal complain the most.
Exactly, take some time and you can find exactly what your looking for. I'm on my second one currently because of a BIG mistake I made a while back! (Sold-it).
Let’s also not forget that they most likely run it through the clean channel of line 6 spider amp 😂.
@@nellawell4976 that's definitely my story bro 🤘❤️
@@OLDGUYSK8R well there's an expression from where I come from, we say "szarból nem lehet várat építeni" - loosely translated as "can't build a castle out of shit" ;-)
If line6 is anyone's thing, the let it be, but some knowledge doesn't do harm.
Nofarewell I have an expression too! Line 6 sucks balls. 🇺🇸
I bought a used, barely used one at GC a few weeks ago for $50. I have been loving it! My set up is just an Orange Crush 35rt, but thru the clean channel I can't leave it alone. The mid adjustment inside dial was a critical setting for me. It sounds great with standard tuned 6 string, and 7s in A and G# standard tuning. I didn't know these were supposed to be bad 😂
Bought mine in 91 or 92... Found overpowering the pedal with a multipower adapter rather than 9v battery produced an even crunchier and more powerful chug. Would love to get one of these again. #yesitchugs
It just sounds like I’m at guitar center 😂😂😂
Yea, but when u come home it sound like shit ))
Haha
Never been to one cuz its nowhere near me...
Buying Strings at Guitar Center ASMR
Shane Golba my!! People!!!
I have been using a Metalzone for the past 20 years (since I started playing), never been disappointed.
Thorsbeard same! It does take a little bit of dialing in, but you can get some AMAZING distortion sounds with it. Glad to see it getting some good press for once because it’s always worked so well for me.
Agreed, The Mt-2 was amazing. People who hate on it just never utilized it correctly.
Yep agree.
@@jerryg1494 what do you want to be dialing in, even a little bit? It has exactly one parametric frequency band and that's all. All it takes is moderation and maybe taste, if you are desperately searching for a word to go after "a little bit of"!
I loved my mt2 pedal back in the 90s. I had that and a phaser that was all I needed when I was a kid. Can't believe people hate it so much
2:56 interesting harmonic.
Mario death sound lmao
it's was THE pedal to use if were starting a metal band with your friends in the 90s
Eye Opener. This works great with my RV 50 III.
Owned like 3 of them in the 90's...Best Bang for the Buck
I knew Cryptopsy's NSV was recorded with the pedal but never tried MT-2 myself because of the bad reputation. Nice vid thanks.
Digitech Distortion Factory version of the MZ is great! Also Behringer super metal (clone) is good. Idk, I mean for instant chug, why not.
I liked to use it on the power input, on the send. Regards from Brasil.
I come back here often, just for the “err, what?!” 1:30 moment 🤘
my first pedal ever. to some crazy distorted teen, it sounded awesome first try
I’ve heard you can mod these by taking the transistor out and it sounds way better
Just got here cause I scored one of these for $25 bucks, awesome demo! 🤘
This was literally the first pedal I ever bought about 15 years ago. Loved it then, would love to have a Waza Craft version, now. Think I'll get one just for the nostalgia.
Get the anniversary version, its $20 cheaper than Waza. Waza, Anniversary and OG Boss pedals all pretty much sounds the same. The difference is of course aesthetics. Anniversary only has different paint jobs. Waza only has additional text to it. Waza basically means "peniss" I mean if you want a peniss on your pedal then get the Waza lol
I think I remember a making off from At The Gates or The Haunted and they just turned it 'all' the way up to get their sound. It's been some years, so I might be thinking of the wrong band.
This was my first distortion pedal, because I wanted something with an EQ to play around with. Loads of fun, until I plugged the wrong power supply.
it would be a pretty cool pedal if the chug had some bass on it, but it sounds so empty when palm muting the open E power chord. its like you turned the tone nob all the way up on a DS1
I used that for my bass for years love it haha
I loved this pedal back when I started playing in 99 all they way through college into ‘08. Idk why people hate it. It was affordable and sounded good. You can’t plug it into a shitty 20 watt solid state beginner’s amp and expect to sound like Dave Mustaine.
It definitely sounds better for high gain Pantera style metal vs the very popular mxr distortion. God why do people like that shitty pedal
@@godzillasimpson8357 - I had a GF who was actually a shredder, she loved the MXR Metal Muff! It was not for me though, it’s not great for old school thrash metal, it’s more of a modern day death metal, downtuned, chug-a-lug sounding pedal, that or for people who like to play like Zakk Wylde and are constantly using pinch harmonics, bending, and whammy bar stuff. It seems to really sustain the pinch harmonics, but people over use them nowadays.
@@godzillasimpson8357 - You know I don’t think I’ve ever actually played the regular MXR Distortion, just the MXR Metal Muff, which wasn’t bad just not for me.
I think it sounds pretty good on my practice amp tbh.
@@ghost_type_gaming670 - sounded good on mine also. It was a good pedal for a younger player who didn’t have tons of gear like half-stacks and nice tube amps/heads.
3:02 The first person to drop his pick and find it
Lol
I FINALLY FOUND MY PICK AFTER 7 YEARS AND 2 HOUSE MOVES!
@@danhinchliffe7622 haha me too
yea... I call BS.... totally CGI...
Searched for this comment :D
I think when "Satan" is written on the amp you don't need a distortion pedal
of course you dont, but most of us dont have satan written on our amps so hello boss metal zone, or in my case, hello ehx metal muff.
underrated
Even Satan's amp has a "clean boost" in front though.
Realms Of Darkness yeah but this on is a Randall amp
Hahahha
And this children is what happens when you use pedals CORRECTLY!
this!! Couldn't agree more! Seasoned player have the skills and know how to make good tones (EQ ing, signal chain and stuff).
If you are a kid in the 90s you use the metal zone *because* you can't afford a valve amplifier with effects loop.
Can you really blame people for doing it that way though?
@@ChristianIce And that is why this pedal has the reputation it does and it gets parroted through the internet. People do not bother to figure if they did something wrong after moving on to better gear. Unless you use it as a boost DO NOT connect it into the front of the amplifier, that makes it sound like a can of bees and that is the sound people hate. Into a power amp through FX Return this pedal is really good for the money.
+MaaZeus
Into a power amp through FX Return of the Satan... I would use the Satan alone and that's that :)
Could be a nice toy for some industrial tone, though, but if we are here pretending that box competes with today's options, well... :D
This was the sound of late 90s metalcore and grindcore. Pairs well with Ibanez guitars and piccolo snares cranked up as tightly as possible.
yesss, he plugged in the front and started playing and I instantly thought of early metalcore / deathcore / grindcore, that really raw and sharp sound
It's like the trademark sound of Infectious Grooves on Groove Family Cyco.
acid bath too
Add a tube screamer in front and crank the bass, level it out and you have Messhugah level of gain
@@kacper531 And Crowbar. The Metal Zone is a sludge metal beast as well!
I wish my amp had "death and depression" knobs. :(
Create one!
You seem like you already have depression
Little pepper ikr same
he said presence
The Hound I do so I don’t need the knobs
I just watched a Viking shred for 11 minutes. It’s 3 am.
Nice pic dude
same same
Julian Urtz when will you learn... when will you learn... that your actions have consequences
I watched the same viking and it's 2:12 AM. Cheers.
I watched ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ) other kinds of things for 11 minutes and it's 3am
I imagine, some dude sitting at his desk, checking through things on his computer. He goes to take a sip of coffee, that he then drops to the ground in confusion. "My god." He says. "It can't be..." He gets up and runs to his boss's office. His boss then looks at him concerned. "What is it?" The dude catching his breath finally speaks out. "Sir... We just got 1,000 orders for Metalzone pedals.." And with a tear in his the boss stands up and says, "I knew it would one day rise to its true glory."
😄👍
LMFAO!!!!
The Boss boss' office?
Perfect comment.
Multiple imaginations
Ahh..the Metalzone a classic. Every guitar player must have one. Usually several..and eq sweep and controls are amazing. Boss gave us exactly what we wanted.
Have but dont use xD
Metalzone and metalcore my two fav ones
Still have my OG MT-2 from around '98 that I purchased through a Musician's Friend magazine....that's right people, MAGAZINE. Lol.
I simply do not understand why so many higher-end high-gain pedals do not have a mid sweep. It just adds so much tonal flexibility at the cost of ONE POT.
I’m looking at you, REVV. But, so many others are guilty of this, too.
I'm impressed how you found the pick after it fell. I dont know how to do it.
Hahah
xD xD
true story
That's how I knew this video is fake. The pic would never have been found in real life
there has to be a BLACKHOLE some where that is stuffed full of guitar picks and 10mm wrenches and sockets. lol
Is it just me or does this dude look exactly like a Russian Orthodox depiction of Jesus.
Lmfaooo
Iconic! Yeah
I was thinking this exact same thing... glad I'm not alone on that haha
oh my
and hes turning knobs of a S___
I’m convinced that Boss doesn’t make bad pedals. They make pedals that a lot of us don’t understand how to use them. The MZ sounds really good as a pre-amp for sure!! I used it in the 90’s and remembered liking it. Tried again a few years back. Different story. I’ll try it in the effects loop now. \m/
The hubris of some people to think that a Japanese guitar brand would make a sub-par product rather than admit to themselves it's their own fault.
My theory is that a lot of young 'uns buy 'em, crank every knob to the right - because METAL - and it sounds like arse, so that how they got the rep.
@hoilst265 that's literally why 😭 the eq spans hella frequencies and cranking it does that cuz it's meant to be dialed in
A lot of the misuse can be blamed on false advertising.
HM2 "Buzzsaw" made the fucking awesome tone of Left hand path.
Roland stock goes up 40%
Jake D that is if
You have an effects loop
@@BigBrandoGAMESwhat piece of shit amp do you have that doesn't have an effects loop ?
Theres several older amps that dont have effects loops
I dont remember which ones, as I sold them immediately
jeremy h practice amps like a Marshall dfx dumb dumb
Can I be your neighbor?
Lol, anytime Ola has a neighbor move, he should let his subscribers know so one of them can move in. Then again, nothing will change as far as people knocking on the door every time he starts playing. Only instead it'll be a sub asking to come in and watch.
Dude. I’ve spent so much time on your channel
metfan41 metfan41 I used to have one in my college days and having breakfast everyday while him playing random riffs is the best thing to fuel my day.
I seen this comment, when there was 666 likes.
Please won’t you be..my neighbor.
Lol when I used Metalzone I had absolutely no idea what an effects loop was... Keep in mind we had dial-up Internet back then :D
Real simple. Most of ur effects shld be in the fx loop so the preamp or anyth else of the amp doesnt colour the tone of the effects.
You only use effects infront of the amp if you want the effects tone to be altered OR if you want to colour the distortion of the amp eg. Tubescreamers
@@Melkor0410 Tell that to 14y/o myself :D
Ahahah me too! And I did not even have internet yet when I owned one...I guess that's why it has such a bad reputation, cause nobody knew how to use the fucking thing back in the days :D
Truth ! Effects loop ? Back in the day I was happy with the DS-1 added to the combo and I called it a day
ah dial-up how i dont miss you but i miss those times. your comment made me laugh btw lol
I used to Metal Zone for over 20 years. And no, it wasn't the crap pedal everyone always gave it grief over. It was and still is a beast of a pedal.
How do you run it? In the loop or in front? I just don't get why he only put it in the return. Where would reverb plug in to?
2:55 I thought I was about to hear Mario die. Actually wtf
wahhhhh
Lol im glad im not the only one to notice
Me too. And I also thought "wtf?"
Same here!
I thought the same
dudes plugging this into their squire practice amp and wondering why it sounds bad
Honestly, its what you would expect people would do though. I didn't know the FX loop was a thing when I started either
With their Argos bought Encore strat😂
@@adjo82 I feel attacked by this comment... 😅
Idk m8, kinda poor
I plug mi squier into v3 carvin acoustic cabinet and mt2 on the effects loops not poor man tone to me
People saying that pedal is shit are the people playing it through a peavey bandit 1×10 with a Squire strat.
112
1 2 .. Nothing wrong with Bandits or Squiers. If you can't get a good sound out of those, you need to rethink your playing.😋
Exactly.
Fucking metal heads were playing out of this 15 plus years ago. This pedal is legend
this.
You need to run it through a 90's Peavey or Crate amp in a garage or bedroom to hear it's full potential.
@@drscruffy6471 Same TD-70 It had one pre-amp tube lol
I had a Peavey Rage and Bandit. 😅
Stop calling me out like this lol
That was me in 1990. Epiphone Flying V-->Metalzone-->Crate solid state 50w 1x12 blasting the neighbors from my bedroom. Good times...lol
@KahvinSuodatin i always like those as a practice amp back in the 90's.
Boss Metal Zone was my main drive many years. When i jammed with other metal players they always got impressed with how great it sounded. Honestly i've never met any guitar players around me that hated that pedal or never heard anyone call it "the worst" then i start watching guitar players on youtube and everyone calls it "the worst shit" i think most people do it just to get views
its a charvel on ur pick?
Same. I always got compliments on my sound from guys in other bands we played with. Must have had it all dialed in just right lol. I didn't even buy the pedal. Some old cat gave it to me.
True
I remember wanting to get one in a Guitar Center in 2005, and the staff saying it was horrible and that I should get the orange one instead. So I think it might predate RUclips.
@@DaleKamp it does. I remember getting it in like 1998 ish
In late 90's i was like 14 and have a nirvana cover band. I played a $50 fake strat, transistor amp and metal zone. Man that sounded like shit.
A 14 year old nirvana cover band in late 90's
That already sounds like a disaster lol
I too was in a NIRVANA tribute band in late 90s called marrow gold
Cool! Our band was "ain't over". Was bad.
Fabio Grimaldi actually, very spot on to the live Nirvana guitar tone
Kurt use boss overdrive/distortion at the time
the metal zone isn't a bad pedal, people just don't know how to use it
How do you use it properly??
Totally agree with you. Mine sound just like his on this video. They just not tunning it right.
The real problem is that there’s too many haters in the rock community,... they hate , hate, hate on everything from, bands, equipment, and clothing etc.
Well that’s the metal scene for you.
The wrong t shirt can get you booted from a band.
That’s everywhere in every thing humans do! It’s actually a mental disorder!
Because that's what most people do.
Holy shit yes. Made me step away from guitars all together for years. I have just recently started finding my love for it again. I'm glad the community, or at least some people in it are seeing this, and actively trying to not be that way.
Facts. I went to a metal show with my little cousin and he caught was wearing a five finger death punch shirt and we had a closed casket funeral for him the next week
It's because people only hear this pedal through a 13 year olds walmart practice amp trying to play metallica.
Hahaha! Thats me, 18 years ago 😂
that was me a few years ago
Absolutely correct I was that kid ! Teamed a lot of years later with some good gear. Plus an ear and some experience under the belt . I would not be without it
Preach
If I'm correct though Metallica doesn't use that much distortion in their music. Specialty not that much crunch to it.
Ola: *turns on metal zone*
Mids: aight imma head out
Good, mid range makes it sound like it's coming out of a tin can.
Too much mids makes it sound tinny
Mids help you stand out in a mix
@@leumasperron yes but too much makes you sound like shit....fine line I usually keep mine somewhere between 3 and 6
Imma head out 🤣🤣🤣
and here i go digging through my closet for my metal zone i bought when i was 15
I was around 15 when I bought my MZ, and didn't understand why everyone laughed at them, now almost 20 years has passed, I still have mine, and still don't understand what's the big fuss :)
Aaron Acosta it Chugs! I’m a buy one next time.
I never tried it through the FX loop.
Godamn that’s so true. 😂
@@dantrag2890 Nobody did. And those who did, kept it secret through centuries.
Maybe you guys won't believe this, but I use this pedal as distortion for my BASS. Never liked bass distortions on market, so when I tested a MZ... Instant crush.
Makes sense, it's a very tight distortion. I'm gonna try it on bass now. Tnx.
i'll try it too
Same
I've also used it with my bass back in the day. 😃
it sounds cool but it being a guitar pedal it takes away the bass frequencies. I do not recommend it.
"Let's try it in front of the amp..."
*Invasion of bees commences*
A 14 year old kid calls from the basement, *mom, can my friends come over?*
I like to use it in front of my laney gh100L. And recently use it in front of jcm900. Never had that bees sound, but maybe cause i'm down tuning to drop B which may lays on different freq. But i like it to return, the distortion just very well saturated, fits my need.
@@yohanesdevin3618 dude, it is world around payed defamation of this pedal, like many other devices and themes, that make some fat rich idiots to loose their excess profits. Understand? Yes, it is world wide conspiracy. But this thing is not so complex, if you are just few guys with big bank accounts. Not really too hard to make hidden financial cartel (collusion) to make real conspiratorial organization around all the world. It is easy and it is used all the time by humanity. Build secret hidden organisation to get dirty profits. Simple like egg.
@@ВячеславДадада Whatever you're smoking man, take half of it.
@@ironlemon666 In Russia drugs take you
I've had on for years, a little tricky to get used to all the things you can control but once you figure it out you can create absolutely soaking wet distorted sounds. I've tried plenty of others and never felt compelled to buy another distortion, this one has such range.
All three things? 😊
BOSS right now: oh yeah, I can smell the money
Lol it sucks. I remember when they used to be like 24 dollars and now they're like 140
@@pepsizilla1734
A hard true
they don’t make them anymore lmao
They have brought out a Waza version of the Metalzone. It's really good.
@@greyape3905 Well I’ve found 7 different places you can buy them so they’re not gone.
Boss after this video: S T O N K S
Rofl
BOSS after seeing this video.. "now that's how we intended it to sound. We should've informed purchasers and on our video's put the MT-2 through your effects loop stage of the amp for best results".
@@LFC-Star Like if there were hundreds of ways to use a distortion pedal on an amp.
They’re laughing all the way to the bank with this one.
Well done, Ola. You just single handedly doubled the suggested second hand market price of this pedal...
Haha
Considering its $100 new (though you can find it as low as $85 around Christmas), and the second hand price (in my area, craig's list) is around about $30... even doubled the second hand price is still a bargain.
bought it for 50 euro's which is like 60 $, now thanks to Ola, they are finally worth at least double ! YEAHHHHHHHHHH
P.s.: it's a reply to an Ola video. So don't forget to read the sarcasm and dry humour between the lines 😇
i paid 25 for mine off ebay
I picked up a used Metal Zone pedal years ago and only found out recently that there's a ton of people who don't like this thing and have never understood why. I've always used a very clean sound from the amp (like in the video) and the pedal produces a great sound!
Sounds pretty good to me too!
//Andy
Probably got a bad rep because some don't know what they're doing and Ola does.
Agreed
Yeah I've got one I use on my 700watt guitar rig when I crank that shit up and jam it sounds like a fucking PANTERA concert in my house! That and I use a JOYO JF-17 also both really good pedals the reason people don't like them is cause most people are used to shitty blues and low distortion pedals!
It's a boss pedal. Every boss pedal is awesome. They've never made a bad pedal and will never do so. I dunno what all the hate is about.
Should be labeled advertisement...
I just watched a viking shred on an axe for 11 minutes. I don't know how I got here but I like it.
shred? no. Shredding is soloing lmfao, this was riffing.
ROTFL!!!!!
skol!!!!!
@@sloanguitar4862 Non-guitarists obviously wouldn't commonly know this. Don't be a dick.
With Satan, no less
@PsycheGaming Yep and I know he was being a douche about it, just like you. Whatever makes you feel good about yourself I suppose.
30 years later and a random Swede discovers what we’ve been doing wrong the whole time.
random BURPING Swede! In crazy world we live :D
I like this comment :/
He didn't discover it lol it's been a long kept secret that has recently made it to RUclips this year.
"That's the wrong hole, baby".
Jake Swider not just a Swede, the chosen one...
..... the chosen Swede.
Boss pedals have three great qualities . They are affordable , road worthy and they actually sound bad ass if you know what you are doing with them .
Pff... road worthy. They're INDESTRUCTIBLE. Probably made of depleted plutonium.
@@pearljaime2 Yes I agree , they are indestructible . There are certain pieces of musical equipment that could probably be thrown from a moving van and survive and these pedals are among those .
Most gear is solid. It really comes down to the musicians and how creative they are in getting those sounds.
Ursamynor Carol Lyon krause i’ve been a professional player for 45 years now I have never ever seen a broken Boss pedal!
@@atlharp1 I agree 110% ❤️
The correct way to use a metal zone is using two of them combined, with all the knobs all the way up
What??
José Islanio I like where your head is at.
The world ceases to be in that event
Shmicah I really must get a second one, and a 500w transistor amplifier
no mids
As a kid I always needed more gain that what amps or pedals were giving me, the MetalZone was such a BIG deal to me because I was finally able to explore the ridiculous end of distorted tone, and contour it quite a bit. I loved it so much. Fuck the haters!!
Back: death metal, heavy metal, thrash metal
Front: black metal
What back and front is there on the pedal im curious?
@@chiefmangas2367 hes talking about the pedal being plugged in to the front (clean input) and back (effects input) of the amp
Black metal is the dupstep of rock genres
@Odell Mateo No, it is eternally the worst subgenre of guitar based music regardless of sexual preference.
@@kenny6920 It's just meant to be more atmospheric than riff based. Black metal is definitely mixed like shit though, but that is a part of the sound for whatever reason.
00’s Metal Heads: “metal zone sucks”
Classic 90’s Death Metal: ......😢..
i literally get all of my Metallica Tones on that plus an Equalizer
Cannibal Corpse blasted the MZ through Crate Amps and had a destructive tone.
90's death metal that was good used a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal from the 80's. You actually expected death metal bands to afford anything new? Yeah right!
@@Metal-Possum I played in death metal bands and had new equipment. Also, cannibal corpse and other bands used the metalzone. Black Metal and Melodeath bands overseas used the HM2.
@@7James77 Swedish death metal in general used the HM-2, the melodeath bands were a little bit later than the original Stockholm scene. Not sure about black metal bands, I've heard of all kinds of equipment being used in those early years, but maybe the Finnish death metal scene used the HM-2 too.
After listening to this video I had to go out and get this pedal..I've always plugged in in the front of my amp,and I've only just started using the effects loop..I scratched my head thinking why the hell haven't I been using this all along..Ola I watch your stuff daily and I have to say I've learned so much as a struggling guitarist learning to play..You have helped so many guitar players out here and really dont even know it..This pedal with my katana mk2 100 with the peavey 5150 cab sounds like a different world plugged in . Keep up the lessons for us losers out here brother 😂
5:55 he was gonna play aerials but didn’t want to get striked
Amon amarth?
@@carlosvonbismarck1217 I feel like I'm biting into a bait, but you do realise that the amon amarth aerials is a cover of system of a down, right?
Noticed that one too!!! Lol
Haha thought the same thing 😂
@@creeper25gaming didn't know that. im not a big fan of soad. haven't heard much of their music
Jesus playng an Randall Satan ? WTF
Satan is the head of Entertainment
@@Antonjlavey yer no kiddin 😉
Jesus told us to love our enemies.
Don't forget to tell your mom SATAN
@@getulioprates yeah i got that right now
For a fair review it should probably be played on a squire with a crate.
And if you knew what you were doing, it would still sound awesome.
Pretty sure squires don’t have an FX Loop and crates that do would sound just fine
Lmao. That was my exact setup for my first guitar!
Yep. That's why I'm getting rid of my squire. Squires are not made for Metal. Get rid!
I actually do that when im too lazy to to hook up..grab the squire off the stand and it makes it sound like humbuckers .Not too bad actually
The most underrated, overrated, underrated pedal ever.
Metal Zone prices on Reverb just went through the roof.
This
I bought one for 35 dollars
My dad gave me his for free cause he knows that I wouldn't get one cheap
The problem is that you didn’t use a butterscotch tele
And he didn't use a fender practice amp either
Toan
Butterscotch tele actually sounds good with the metal zone
boss katana ok
B P. boss kaTOANa
All I had for the first 12 years of playing guitar was a MetalZone and keyboard amp my friend stole from a church because I was too poor for anything else. If you spend enough time with that pedal, you figure out how to make it sound good. It gets way too much undeserved hate, probably from people who have never really used it. Its a meme pedal, but I have a spot in my heart for it.
Post a video. I'll send you my metalzone if you need it lol
You know he's a good friend if he steals from a church
Church theft? Praise Satan!
yeah, I gigged for several years with this pedal into a Fender twin. srv, to metallica, one box. I will say though, I would chop hands if anyone even approached my pedal board because the knobs are hyper sensitive.
yeah the knobs on metal zone is not just a eq knobs on the pedal, those are likely to be blending in with the amp. I left marks where the knobs should be pointing, but still I need tiny adjustments. When you try to use different guitars with metal zone then good luck. haha
As always and as with all the gear it's all about how you set it. The more "skill" you have and experiance and knowledge of the tone you want to set, it doesn't really matter what gear you use.
Ola presents it perfectly in all his videos/reviews.
Still matter but less and less.
Bullshit. The only reason people say effects sound bad is because most metalheads are utterly retarded and don't know that the effects are meant to be plugged into the FX loop. When I was a kid and was learning how to play this little pedal was sounding just badass and it still sounds like that because back then I bothered to fucking read the instruction to my amp.
@@SkinnyBlackout Ok
_cyanogen_ _synthesis_ not every effect needs to go through the FX loop, although I will admit most guitarists are really stupid and don’t research shit and have no idea how to set a good tone that works in a mix
@@beardeddragon7973 I don't think most people who play/played guitar can play well.
Very nice! The Electro Harmonix Metal Muff really surprises a lot too.
Once at a band practice I plugged one (Metal Muff) into the Effect Loop (too) of a Fender Head, and it really sounded very powerful.
In the room there was another very purist musician and before playing, he only saw the Metal Muff with disagreement, I told him that I was going to use only the Fender, but really all the distortion I got with the Metal Muff. At the end of the practice I asked him: how is the sound today? and he told me: "oh yes! so brutal bro! very nice!" and that's when I told him what signal chain I had used that day. He was very surprised and said nothing more about it!
I agree bro, the Metal Muff is such an underrated distortion pedal. I have the mini one myself and it will always be my go-to when I need my metal tone. Absolutely rips faces off in my opinion
This guy is Viking Jerry Cantrell
Couldn't agree more! Well Jerry's grandfather was from Norway, so yeah.
Jerry Cantrell looks like the dude that got blood eagled in Vikings
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No, Jerry Cantrell is Viking Jerry Cantrell.
@@hinjurock70 Wow Jerry Cantrell is a recursive function too !
Use the metal zone with the boss equalizer. Prepare to have your mind blown!!
jethrojohansen1 or mxr eq
With the Kerry King signature 10 band EQ it's sick asf!!!!! 🤘😈
Been doing that for 15 years lol
Before or after?
Boss equalizer very underrated!!
100$ guitar, playmobil pickups, 5$ amazon strings, 30$ amp
The pedal sounds like shit.
Färt Blu $1500 amp $1200 guitar, Seymour Duncan Pickups, $20 Ernie Balls
Pedal is gud
Edit: not hating at all it sounds good I was just making a joke
@@krispayy6076 you have no idea how many people think that their cheap ass equipment will sound like high end gear :D
Why would someone with a 100 dollar rig buy a 200 dollar pedal...
Hahaha Playmobil
So basically "I" shouldn't buy this.
The Metal Zone pedal is great. Been out of the music scene for 10 years now, but my last guitarist absolutely swore by it. And it sounded great then, like it does now.
same boat, i used to use this pedal before youtube even existed and so i’m surprised to see people don’t like it. maybe i just sounded terrible back then and just never knew 😂
I'm really disappointed that the shirts are "Chug Is Life" rather than "CHUG LIFE".😩😭
What is Your Sound Setup on the MT2?
@@alexanderklein9433 metal knob going full and zone knob staying half way
Sure it sounds great when it goes thru a full tube power amp . In the 90's many people that bought this pedal used it with shitty amps because that was all they can afford .
I still have my MetalZone and I will never sell it.
Laurence TD YUP!
Laurence TD the first Metalzone you heard was mine, I salute you, my friend ! :)
Yeah, people think it sucks because they plugged it into their fucking plastic bodied battery amp that came in a catalog guitar kit. Lol
@@klauswhitedreamer I was lucky to have you as teacher so I didn't wasted money on bad gear.
Laurence TD be blessed, my friend 😘
I think people are too obsessed with tone and they forget to make music. It’s always gear gear gear gear
So sick of hearing about gear
Make music and write songs already
The Boss Metalzone sounds just fine in the hands of the right player
Visceral Abomination The same. Waiting for good songs, because the most of new compositions sound pretty the same good ... but without a soul.
Exactly. I see so many internet metal players and bands who have absolutely incredible gear, and unprecedented access to studio tools thanks to modern technology, and their music is so uninspiring. I mean Varg recorded his shit with the worst gear imaginable, and the quality is so incredibly bad that it became part of the asthetic. I would rather listen to that than any of the gear nerds who hate on everything that is not the most quintessential metal gear according to some anons who have probably never played live who shitpost on forums. Some of the best music ever made was done on "bad" gear. If it's genuinely shit, one should always try to figure out if there is one usable sound that can be made with it, rather than discard it. There are whole genres that revolve around esoteric gear that nobody else wanted until some bright spark found a way to do something cool with it. The reality is most people are sheep, who will never create anything unique, and most of us enjoy the music of that tiny minority of musicians who were able to break the mold.
No, tone is an important part of making music, it’s the way you sound, the way others hear you. Different tones express different feelings. If you care about the way you sound (in time, in tune, etc) you have to care about your tone. Sure plugging straight into the amp sounds great, but caring about your tone can bring you to another level.
Y’all would be amazed at how anal classical musicians are about their tone when most folks can’t tell the difference (just like with guitar tones and wine tasting for example), and we’re really not talking about the same budget haha
You have to find your voice to play music, cheers my dudes
Agree. That's why metal is dead
The Fuzz Channel hey I can agree with that. Tone is important.
I jammed with a dud that had some solid state Marshall amp that sounded like cat piss hitting the wall my a hydrogen powered bladder. Couldn’t hear a damn note, more like a spoon hitting tin foil. I get you, man.
But then there’s the point where you found a good tone... and that’s where my opinion comes in. Enough is enough, you know?
5:53 Who else thought he was about to play Aerials By: System of a Down?
Jeremy Cox meee
Yuuup
was waiting for the rest :)
Meee xdxx
What’s up boys. What genre would you classify SOAD? They’re my all time favorite band.
1:20 POV: You're Olas wife coming to tell him the child isnt his as he is jamming
hahaha "... Wow. ..." *continues metaling
"Wow... that sounds badass to me, honestly..." *Continues sick riffing*
Who else heard "Aerials" at 5:53?
joey kimble That exact same thought went through my head as I watched lol
It's also a bit reminds a beginning of Sounds of A Playground Fading by In Flames
Definitely! That song is awesome to play. I can’t help but play it every time I pick up a guitar lol
Steinn Bjorn I love that song
I did @1:10
I loved my metal zone. Anyone who thinks they suck simply don't know how to use them.
It's all about dialing it in, just like he said in the video, right? Like he touched on, the treble knob is pretty touchy and can change the sound a lot, making it too harsh and abrasive, or boxy sounding. I freakin' love my metal zone pedal, and I've had it for forever, maybe about 20 years.
Metalzone was my first distortion pedal. It sounds like 100 angry killer bees if you cant dial it in. I swapped a few opamps in a mod kit and it really opened up. Vastly underrated pedal.
Mike G The Metal Zone sounds awesome when you’re playing alone in your bedroom. It can also be recorded and sound great when mixed properly. However if you try to run it through an amp at live volumes and play along with a bass and drums, the MZ’s limitations quickly reveal themselves. Thin and tinny.
@@ultrahighgain412 not in the effects loop. I would use it live back in the day as a cheap backup plan. I had a nice loud cab.
People that call it shit don't understand how a parametric eq works.
Usually noobs.
Any guitarist who thinks the Metal Zone sucks obviously just doesn't know how to set the EQ and other controls on their distortion pedals correctly. I've used it since 1994 to approximate that Metallica/Pantera-type clean crunch (which is heavy distortion that still has clarity and note definition as opposed to fuzzy muddy distortion), and it does a great job of that, especially for such an affordable pedal. Hey, the company isn't called "Boss" for no reason ;)
Where do you have the knobs?
@@alexandershaer1079 I usually set the bass between 6 and 8, the mids around 3 or 4, the treble at 4 or 5 (I don't like too much treble or mids, but I also don't like the totally scooped sound), the gain at 4 or 5 (for a clean crunch) and the level at 10.
Remembering buying this pedal back in the early 90's and like you said probably didn't know how to use it lol. Realized I was a better Bass player anyways not long after and traded it in with my guitar towards my bass which is still hanging on my wall for easy access.
I’m just learning to play. Bought it from a second hand store cheap and I like it so far. Thanks for the control setting you use 🤙🏼.
@@patrickdavis6954
No problem, brotha. Play around with the EQ and gain until you get the tone you like - it's a pretty versatile pedal.
Haha, I recorded three albums with it plugged into the front. 😂 Ah well, live and learn twenty years later.
it sounds fine. He sabotaged this "experiment" by turning the volume down before he started testing it. 6:00
I just found this out as well. It doesn't sound bad in the front, but it does have more of that shattered glass sound. Plugged in the back it sounds a bit more classic with my guitar.
You actually piss me off the way you can get everything to sound good....
XD
Lol.... true
To be honest this does not even take Ola's skill. Just connect the damn pedal into the port it should be connected and there, it sounds decent with everything north.
Yeah. One of the secrets, beside years of experience, is a decent amp. Now we have the small tube amps from Joyo and Celestion cabinets from HB at a similar price with a tranzistor 15w Marshall or a shitty Line6 . That was not common when this pedal came out .
A great guitar cab makes a massive difference. I remember back when I was starting out my friend had a Crate 4x12, one of those cheap little ones. He upgraded to a Marshall cab and it was like he bought a whole new rig, it was that intense of a difference.
Worst pedal ever: less then 2 mins i want one, less then 30min later ive bought one :D
Awesome dude
How are you finding it?
Frank Rottenberg you can get them cheap anywhere
@@wrathpsp finally had a tone that i love and my band likes it, too! metalzone as a preamp is damn nice!
but the pedal knobs need precision surgery. even a slight knob change alters your sound drastical.
so yeah you can deal in a great tone but all possible bad tones, too :D
I purchased 2 mins after watchimg haha
Video is Fake ! Nobody finds their pic , lol. Nice review buddy. Cheers from Saskatchewan
Lmao 🤣
The fuckin odds I would see you here Dennis!
Dennis Empey he just found another one he lost before. Must have like 30 pics on the floor. ✌🏼🤣
Hey found someone from Saskatchewan too! How’s it going man!
*plectrum
That sounds pretty good actually
1:32 Warner music co is gonna block this video because you were playing every Slayer song ever
nah he wasn’t trem picking
You clearly dont listen to a lot of Slayer
Around 4:40 Slayerish
War ensemble would sound killer
That song you here around 4:40 is 99 knives by The Haunted
Phillip McKnight & Ola made a video about the Metal Zone.
250% sales boost on the next day! :)
@@MK-oz2lf 😂😂😂
In Phillip's video, all of his pedal sound fizzy though...
Yeah, the parametric EQ destroyed them all! :)
@@Oilid I saw that. I always wondered about the Boss PQ-4. I love the Analogman modded Boss Eq-6 with my rig. Maybe with amp distortion or in a loop it be ok. But the Pq-4 is expensive nowadays since it is discontinued.
@@MK-oz2lf lmao
Back in the days we didn't had access to Heads or FX Loops, it was all Shitty Combos ( that we could barely afford) and everything went in front of it ;)
Exactly :)
Or you didn't know that combos had fx loops as well...
+HeadbangoO
He said shitty combos, and no, they didn't.
Let him think in late 80s and early 90s we all had access to everything like they have today, especially if you didnt live in US or UK :D
Oh you were one of those... ok, nevermind.
Had a couple of those back in the day, as did most of my friends. And there was all sorts of things that caused shitty sound, and in hindsight it wasnt the pedal.
1. we were broke teens with shitty instruments, mostly half wacked in setup, intonation and that sort of thing.
2. We did not have the faintest clue as to how to set the pedal for a reasonable sound, so we tended to just set most of the settings high.
3. They was used for bloody everything. Metal, industrial music, garage rock, punk, anything that needed fuzz got that damn pedal. And in hindsight, it should have been used for what it's good for.
4. We didnt know how to set amps either. We mostly tried to gradually set everything higher and higher to be heard thru the sound of friend a:s sound of Squire thru metalzone into peavey set to elevenmillion.
5. We didnt use hearing protection and rehearsed like mad. I played in three bands at the same time, had constant tinnitus and muffled sound.
In short, we were idiots in the 90s. I even ran vocals thru one of those at one point.
I got sick of and hated this pedal solely because of #3 above. Everyone and their grandmother was using this pedal. Now combine that with multiple guitarists on the same bill using similar guitar/amp setups and you can see why people came to despise the thing.
I have this pedal and thought it was crap and then realized it was my technique and sloppy playing that was crap....I thought like many people that distortion and heavy gain would hide my shitty technique when it actually highlighted it.
But, it's made me a much better player.
the metal zone makes a killer bass distortion too
unfortunately my bandmates don't believe that
at the same time it'd be cool for bass if there was a blend knob
DENTI I imagine someone has come up with a way to mod that into the pedal, you could probably find a schematic online for it
The pedal did find it's way into more bassists hands, after all the guitar players were over it.
Is this for real??? Never thought this would even slightly work. 🤔
It does work, but like you'd expect with a guitar distortion pedal, you lose all the low frequencies. But with a second effect loop with no disto on it, it sounds great !
Hating this pedal is a meme. It has its place
was gonna like this comment but it already has 69 likes
Yeah but the average consumer thats seeks for a distortion pedal is to give a good distortion in a solid state shity combo amp that usually does not have an effect loop to replace the shity amp distortion. That's why it has a bad rep, for me for example I tried it in a marshall mg50 and it sounded like crap, went to the hardwire metal distortion.
@@Alonsofr94 if your amp has shitty distortion then you need a better amp
Must be why people still review this pedal, and why those reviews still get tens of thousands of views. What hasn't already been said about the MZ?? We get it, it's sucktitude is legendary!