Metalzone: Worst pedal ever or is it really that bad?

Hasie

I found this on youtube by not looking for it. Very interesting.

V8

Ola knows his ****! Doesn't hurt by having it plugged into a his signature head either... ?

My chief objection was (still is?) the noise floor, it hisses like a bag full 'o cobra's. Which you don't hear in the video because he's running a noise suppressor - being a standard these days in high gain rigs it does makes a lot of difference. I say the biggest difference is informational - all the videos on pedal boards and how to use fx loops on youtube really does help to understand what this pedal can do.

Though I still think it modifies your rig's tone unlike the Boss Xtortion or 80's ProCo Rat which are literally tone(s) in a box.

But it was the pedal to make millions of speakers cry in mercy - I recall torturing speakers with the eq and gain knobs - much fun!

A fun history lesson on the MT-2 :
https://blog.zzounds.com/2016/01/06/25-years-in-the-metal-zone/

nick_D01

V8 thanks for a link to a blog post Meron. definitely will check that out. Also owned a Metal Zone a while back. they seem to get alot of flack, but i reckon they're ok units.

guidothepimmp

I had one of these for years.. got it when i was 14 and of course used it with gain on max and scooped for your typical chugga.. not pleasant. At the time i friggin loved it though. Over the years as my tastes changed.. i dialled the gain back significantly.. and started exploring the tonal range afforded by the eq. I have to say.. i found a setting which became my goto drive sound. Middy.. fat.. bloody gorgeous. Eventually sold it in my early 30s. I let everyones negative opinion of it get to me. And alas. It was gone.

It did of course help that at that time i used an amp with an epic drive sound.. so the pedal was seeing limited action admittedly.

These days if i am after more hair.. i use the boss stack pedal.. one trick pony.. but its a great trick