Metal zone = LW?

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Tol

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Hey SD forum dudes!

I hear the metal zone has a big fat mid spike and tons of output and distortion. Isn't that basically the live wire metal pickup by SD? Just wondering if anyone has experience with both.

Tol
 
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Well....the metal zone is a distortion pedal, where as the livewire heavy metal is an active guitar pickup...comparing the two is kinda like apples and oranges.

I had a metal zone, hated it. Too much sizzling steak distortion for me.

It can be dialed in to sound all right...but its a pretty sterile sound, I'd much rather just krank my KRANK ;)

Never tried the livewire heavy metal though...
 
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Boss distortion pedals aren't liquidy enough, they're just pure distortion, no liquid here, not even water and it's FREE!!
 
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Cool thanks for the replies. I know they aren't the same, but they seem to have similar characteristics and are targeted to the same audience. Mids, Distortion, Metal

Sean
 
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well as you said the boss´s distortions dont have enough liquidity in them, but i guess that the Mega distortion seem to me that its a new kind of pedal... what do you think of it? and the live wire pup seem to me that they would work fine with a tube amp.
JJ
 
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I think the MD-2 is great, it gives me that bone-crushing tone I want sometimes. It's really good at that, and not much else. I mean...you can turn off the "gain boost" knob and it's essentially a DS-1 with a better tone knob and a bass control but I haven't directly compared the two.
 
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D-EJ915 said:
I think the MD-2 is great, it gives me that bone-crushing tone I want sometimes. It's really good at that, and not much else. I mean...you can turn off the "gain boost" knob and it's essentially a DS-1 with a better tone knob and a bass control but I haven't directly compared the two.
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I used to use my Metal Zone all the time. A friend brought over a Mega Distortion and I thought it sounded like garbage... I don't know what it was, it was just muddy, way too bass heavy, buzzy... just ew...
 
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If you crank up the bass knob then all you can hear is the bass, that's probably why it sounded so bad. Otherwise it's just a souped-up ds1 for the most part.
 
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used to own a metal zone in the early 90s. It was my first distortion pedal, but after getting an ART xtreme effects, its sounded too over-ly metal for me. So I sold it off and intend to invest in a MXR double shot
 
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