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  • Oh how I have coveted this pedal.........NPD...MXR fullbore metal.

This pedal won't do much for about 99% of the forum. But for that 1%, you need this in your stash.



I have wanted this pedal for about the last 2 years and have came close to buying new (Almost R1500), but held out that hopefully someone had a second hand one lying around. No joy. Now the story of buying this was not without the drama that I always seem to have with buying and selling stuff through junktree.

I hit up an ad that was almost 9 months old on junkmail and got a reply a few weeks later that they guy still had it and that he was local..........Benoni.

To and fro-ed for a while and we made a plan to meet up last weekend. I drive through to Benoni and low and behold 2 blocks from the meeting spot the guy calls me and says that he's just been arrested by the cops. I pretty much begged the dude to ask the cops to hang around and let me get the pedal and they can then take him away, no go. So I turn around after driving for an hour and go back home thinking to myself that this is total BS.

He whatsapp'd me later and said that they were trying to shake him down for money and I'm not really believing anything, but I pretty much forgot about the pedal and started my search elsewhere.

He dropped me a line and said that he'd come through to me to drop off the pedal. Low and behold...he pitched. Nice guy, friendly and he hands me this box......I plug her in and straight away I noticed that it's mean as s**t. So much balls and so much bite, I just had to plug in my drop tuned warlock.

I'm in love, I have been through pretty much all the metal pedals/ OD pedals and distortion pedals and always end up feeling a bit let down unless they're being played through a halfstack.

Not with this one, this is one pedal that lives up to the hype and IMHO exceeds it. Yeah it's got 6 knobs, but it's so damn easy to use and getting the sound that you want is so easy. Then you also have the noise gate and scoop switch as well.

I think that it's safe to say that my Metal Muff with topboost and my MT-2 are now probably going to be sold. I thought that my Metal Muff was king........yeah not anymore.
    Congrats on the pedal... and the tide shift regarding junktree... maybe things have turned a corner with the bad luck.
      Nice one man. Glad to hear you a a deal work out for a change (not without some drama though - arrested as you arrive; jeez!). Sounds like a badass pedal though - I remember looking at them on the interwebs when I was more into metal tones. Enjoy :goodtimes:
        I had a chance to play this pedal a while back. Pretty cool, shockingly wide tonal range actually and I found that to be a bit of a double edged sword. At the time I didn't know much about brütal tones and I couldn't really get it sounding as good as it could. Thinking back, if I had set it up right and tweaked my amp for it, it'd have been epic!

        HNPD!
          5 days later
          Very wicked!!! I'm jealous!

          I want that Metal Muff - Baaadddd!!!
            @flatfourfan: Would you perhaps know how it compares to the MXR Dime Distortion?
              Slayer wrote: Very wicked!!! I'm jealous!

              I want that Metal Muff - Baaadddd!!!
              message sent.
                ftcl wrote: @flatfourfan: Would you perhaps know how it compares to the MXR Dime Distortion?
                Well I've never owned the dime so I can't comment on that one.

                But here's a good vid that I found a while ago comparing the muff, fullbore and the Dime. The sound has been trebled a bit on the MM and fullbore, so I assume that they've juiced it up with the Dime as well.

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                  Thanks for the vid!

                  Been considering the Fullbore Metal, as it requires less space than the Dime.
                    Good info, I'm interested ?

                    But, I'm not sure of the purpose of a metal pedal. Don't you get gain from your amp, and just need a slight boost (Tubescreamer being the classic for this) to tighten it up, for heavy palm mutes and such?

                    Take the guy in that video. He has some hellacious Bogner amp. Surely that can supply ample gain. Why the distortion pedal? To colour the tone in a different way?

                    Do you set your amp to clean then? Seems like a waste of good tubes...
                      Yeah man.. assuming of course a tube amp is being used 8)
                        guidothepimmp wrote: Yeah man.. assuming of course a tube amp is being used 8)
                        IINM, the amp in the vid is a Bogner Alchemist (40w/20w, 3 x 12AX7 + 1 x 12AX7 for the FX loop + 1 x 12AX7 PI + 2 x 6L6s) and has plenty of gain on tap.
                          Cool story! ?
                          It sounds like an awesome pedal, having built in noise gate etc.

                          I suppose there are 2 qualities to look out for: Does the pedal compliment the overdrive on a tube amp (eg TS-9) or does it sound good for metal as a stand-alone distortion before a clean (probably solid-state) amp (eg MT-2)?
                            BMU wrote: Good info, I'm interested ?

                            But, I'm not sure of the purpose of a metal pedal. Don't you get gain from your amp, and just need a slight boost (Tubescreamer being the classic for this) to tighten it up, for heavy palm mutes and such?

                            Take the guy in that video. He has some hellacious Bogner amp. Surely that can supply ample gain. Why the distortion pedal? To colour the tone in a different way?

                            Do you set your amp to clean then? Seems like a waste of good tubes...
                            I mostly play through my Blues jnr and my custom Craig amp (stereo setup). Unfortunately, I cannot have the Blues jnr loud enough to get breakup, and the other amp does not breakup much either. So for me, the solution is a really clean amp with a metal pedal. Can't comment on the Fullbore, but one of the ones I use is the Dime. Gives me usable tone at lower volume.
                              Julian Emdon (LooneyAtTheGate) wrote: Cool story! ?
                              It sounds like an awesome pedal, having built in noise gate etc.
                              Yes! Great feature for a distortion pedal.
                              I suppose there are 2 qualities to look out for: Does the pedal compliment the overdrive on a tube amp (eg TS-9) or does it sound good for metal as a stand-alone distortion before a clean (probably solid-state) amp (eg MT-2)?
                              Yep makes sense.
                              ftcl wrote: I mostly play through my Blues jnr and my custom Craig amp (stereo setup). Unfortunately, I cannot have the Blues jnr loud enough to get breakup, and the other amp does not breakup much either. So for me, the solution is a really clean amp with a metal pedal. Can't comment on the Fullbore, but one of the ones I use is the Dime. Gives me usable tone at lower volume.
                              Yeah so with a low gain amp it makes sense if you want to play metal.

                              One wouldn't need a pedal like this if your amp were a Dual Rectifier, let's say. But you'd still need the TS-9 type pedal for tight sounds.
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