Any pedals you would suggest? Influences are Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom and Opeth...I like those kind of sounds.

I've had this pedal for a while and loved it but now that I put it through another amp (Usually use a Marshall MG30DFX, now running through a Carlsbro Cobra 1100) it sounds more like it should be an annoying buzz pedal than a distortion pedal. Now, on clean everything sounds beautiful so I know there's nothing wrong with my guitar or the amp. Is there any sort of modification I can make to this pedal so my guitar sounds like something more than just different frequencies of white noise? This pedal is disgracing my Seymours!! >

Edit: VX-2X

Sorry about that.

Been oohing over this guitar lately.

I'm not usually a fan of non-traditionally shaped bodies but for some reason I've come to like the look of this guitar. The body is an interpretation a Gibson Explorer. Another thing that caught my eye were the 22 frets, I've always been a player of 24 fret guitars and want to get myself a "Grown up's guitar." The thing that bothers me about it is...why is it so cheap? Am I missing something other than the agathis body? I've only ever heard good things about EMGs but I'm still a committed Seymour Duncan fan. ?

Please help me make the right decision here fellow guitarists, I'm looking at it more like a collectors item than anything else but I'd still like to pick it up every once in a while.

From one newbie who lists their Seymour Duncan Cort at the top of the list to another, welcome.

Haha, I can only hope that somewhere there exists a confused soul with a brand new MT-2...or perhaps an old one he wants to fiddle with again looking for some help. As he sits down at his computer desk with the look of frustration in his eyes, he opens Firefox and in the Google search bar he types "Barely Legal 18" "Boss MT-2 settings." After the minutes that seem to go on like days of searching, he finds a post under the welcome board of a South African guitar forum. Misplaced information is appreciated a lot more when it's found in a place you didn't expect to find it and because of that one guitarist who's name I will never know that I may have helped, I will sleep well tonight.

Hey are there any South African philosophy boards out there? ?

I think the MT-2 is a greatly misunderstood pedal. The 6 band EQ can be confusing to some and you have to calibrate yourself to the pedal before you can calibrate the pedal to suit your taste. For the first year or so I had it, it was on this horrible setting that Boss recommended in the manual for a "Fat metal" sound. In reality it's more like a whiny screamo sound. The trick that worked for me was taking it easy on the tops, it's a very toppy pedal. Secondly, don't let either the tops or lows higher than 12 o'clock. You just have to fiddle with the Mids and Mid Freq until you get that sound you're looking for.

It would be nice to have a better amp because when you put this one louder than what you need for a bedroom it looses it's magic. When I get a bigger amp I can just see I'm going to end up micing up the MG30DFX to it.


Hope that wasn't too bad. xD

Just found this site and joined it today.

My name is Andrew Kroeger..uhh...I'm 16 years old and..whoo, jeez...I've been playing guitar for 6 years now. (Walks away sobbing quietly to himself while other members of Guitar Obsessives Anonymous drone the words "Welcome Andrew.")

Anyway, I play the guitar in my sig and it's a real beauty. I've got it running through a Boss Metal Zone (MT-2) into a Marshall MG30DFX, which I have just the smallest amount of delay on for a bit of presence. My musical styles and influences are mostly classical, punk, ska and \m/ METAL \m/.

I am a bit (very) biased when it comes to gear, admittedly. You might find that the words "fanboy" and "stubborn" come to mind when reading my advice on gear. For instance...

Seymour Duncan makes the best pickups in the world, no exceptions.
Cort makes the best guitars in the world, no exceptions.
D'addario makes the best strings in the world, no exceptions.
I recommend a fixed bridge to anyone and everyone.
Inlays are overrated.
Floyd Rose tremolos are overrated.
Funny shaped guitars (V, X etc.) are overrated.
My guitar is just better than yours, no exceptions.

Seriously though, I give my downright, honest opinion wherever I can. Some may mistake it for trolling, but it's not. I promise.

Thanks for reading. Love you all.