What are your thoughts on the Metal Zone

What are your thoughts on the Metal Zone

  • I think it is pretty good

    Votes: 5 62.5%
  • I don't like it because I don't use cheap Boss pedals (Pride)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't like it because I have a more expensive pedal that does the same thing but better (Greed)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't like it because I'm always swapping out my gain pedals when I get a new one (Lust)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't like it because none of the guitar players I try to emulate use it (Envy)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't like it because I already have too many stomp boxes on my board (Gluttony)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't like it because I derive my gain from my amp (Wrath)

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • I don't like it because I haven't taken the time to find any good settings (Sloth)

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • Total voters
    8

Chistopher

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I like mine. It's a great platforming for modding, but you have to know quite a bit about circuit to tweak it exactly how you want.
 
I haven't owned a Metal Zone for at least a couple decades and was never able to get what I considered to be a good sound out of it, so I chose the last option.
 
I actually like it. It's good for what it is good for, which is by far not most things. But it does what it does well.
 
I had one for a while and couldn't really make it work for the stuff I like to play. There are a few sounds in there that I'd call decent, but the controls were so finicky that it was near impossible to get exactly to what I liked at a later date. I could see how it might be great for a very particular kind of guitarist.
 
It's best used into a super clean amp, possibly as a pre-amp strait into the power section. And the eq for the midrange has a pretty wide range of settings. Set it with your ears, not your eyes.
 
It was the bomb when I bought it at age 15 or something. Along with my Crybaby it turned my solid state amp into a sick metal meltdown machine.

Or at least that what it sounded like to my ears at the time. In reality my tone was probably just as grating as my parents perceived it.
 
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