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What are some good-sounding distortion pedals for lowend, high-gain stuff? I want a bassier pedal for my rig and my girlfriend wants some high-gain metal recto-y sound for her little Frontman 15 combo...so what would be a good pedal for either situation?

Also what are some good chorus pedals? And reverb?
 
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hm, anything with 'metal' in the name?

you're gonna hafta do some modding to get a recto sound tho
 
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haha yeah, I was thinkin of just getting her any old Boss distortion...metalzone, whatever.

I think I want a Big Muff tho...

-X
 
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a big muff mixed with a ds-1 or a zakk wylde pedal may get you really close to recto tones

that's just a theory i have, i haven't tested it
 
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Simple... Marshall Guvnor will give you some amazing JCM800 tones. The ShredMaster is another choice, more brutal.

In this price range... you can go wrong. The MetalZone would be my last choice... I'd have to be very desesperate...
 
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A MT-2 (Boss Metal Zone) will definately get your girlfriend there. But don't use it with a tube amp. This pedal sounds great (or bad depending on your settings) through a SS amp but has a very thin tone through a tube amp.

I have an old clip here where I use an Ibanez RG ('59/JB)trough the MT-2 into a Randall RG100SC (SS). The settings were dialed in for the JB to sound fat so the '59 sounds quite muddy.
 
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nightburst hit it perfectly... through my solid state fender roc pro 100 it is godly sounding. through my modded dsl100 it is sooo thin i wanna throw it out the window.

that's what some people :rolleyes: have to understand that differen't pedals sound completely differen't with differen't types of amps. My last choice is a ds-1 yet i wish i kept it to try with my dsl because i bet it would really kick the distortion channel to another level. Ya live ya learn... or hopefully
 
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Nightburst said:
I'm curious, why is that?
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Nightburst said:
A MT-2 (Boss Metal Zone) will definately get your girlfriend there. But don't use it with a tube amp. This pedal sounds great (or bad depending on your settings) through a SS amp but has a very thin tone through a tube amp.
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:rolleyes: answered your own question

before you even asked it, at that
 
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Nightburst said:
A MT-2 (Boss Metal Zone) will definately get your girlfriend there. But don't use it with a tube amp. This pedal sounds great (or bad depending on your settings) through a SS amp but has a very thin tone through a tube amp.

I have an old clip here where I use an Ibanez RG ('59/JB)trough the MT-2 into a Randall RG100SC (SS). The settings were dialed in for the JB to sound fat so the '59 sounds quite muddy.
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are those my settings :wink: maybe not mine are a little more high end
 
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Chi3f said:
are those my settings :wink: maybe not mine are a little more high end
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Yup those are your settings ;)

What's up with the bad temper in this thread people?
If you are going to make a statement at least back it up with some information instead of saying something just sucks.
 
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Nightburst said:
Yup those are your settings ;)

What's up with the bad temper in this thread people?
If you are going to make a statement at least back it up with some information instead of saying something just sucks.
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+1
 
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what about "the weapon" from digitech? u get like 7 or 8 sounds and it got pretty good reveiws from all the guitar mags. also, go to the web sites-- they mostly all have sound clips-- line 6 has got some new single pedals that look interesting
 
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i've toyed around with the digitech metal master, and it was just horrible, thin, weak, buzzy, basically everything a metal pedal SHOULDN'T be
 
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john5959 said:
what about "the weapon" from digitech? u get like 7 or 8 sounds and it got pretty good reveiws from all the guitar mags. also, go to the web sites-- they mostly all have sound clips-- line 6 has got some new single pedals that look interesting
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Just out of morbid curiosity I plugged the Weapon into a JCM2000 and a princeton reverb (SS) to see what the fuss was about. That pedal is a marketing technique used to promote Digitech and Disturbed. While there is nothing wrong with Distrubed, Digitech is hit and miss. The weapon is a Metla Master-based pedal with other effects to get tones from specific Disturbed songs. I kinda like Dan Donegan's suggestion.... You can throw it and use it as a weapon!!!!
 
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drew_half_empty said:
i've toyed around with the digitech metal master, and it was just horrible, thin, weak, buzzy, basically everything a metal pedal SHOULDN'T be
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I was about to say that about the Boss Metal Zone :)

The Best Metal distortion pedal i've tried was the Digitech Metal master and the Boss Digital Metalizer. Choose the Digitech if you want a more modern metal sound and also for heavier styles like Black metal, the first thing i did was to dial in the guitar tone from Burzum's album "Filosofem" :32:

The Metalizer is no longer avaible new from Boss but to my ears it sounds better then the new Metal Zone, less controls but better sounding. More fat, low tones then the zone's weak bass and middy tone IMO
 
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