History of Fuzz

[fcknoise]

Yeah it is now like half an hour left until lunch break for me so here are some things i found out about our fav $22 object

Metal Zone

Because of so much hate this pedal has received, it is only a matter of time until it became an overpriced classic that makes your face go like this



According to my calculations, it is about to happen. Boss might have slowed down the curve by releasing a waza craft version, but the inevitable can only be held back so long. Apparently, running the thing in the fx-loop of your amp makes the mt-2 chug and sound good. But whatever, that is totally uninteresting compared to all of these uses:

Check out this japanese guy who plays a microbrute with the metal zone
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I also enjoyed this interaction in the comments


also these sounds are unimpeachable? (skip to 1:30 to just listen to the thing)
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History of fcknoise history with the metal zone
It is a very short history. I played one gig in middle school with my band that had the name Zleipner (Like odins horse but with a Z - very cool - and also later I found out some people thought we were a white power band, despite being 13 years old). My only pedal that night was the behringer clone of the metal zone, the UM300. Everyone in the crowd made the Good Tone Face the entire night.

Later I found that for non-synth/non-metal purposes it is super decent to use as a boost and an EQ. The EQ has a lot of power and it can make your weak single coils sound like they went to the gym.

Aaand that is 12 o clock i am heading on my lunch break

EDIT: Also the BossMann73 in my sig is the source of the $22 meme, isn't he?

[Zork]

I read your post and went to the local classifieds to buy a Metal Zone until common sense stopped me.

[fcknoise]

Sounds like common sense did you dirty this time, bro

[friendship]

Check out this japanese guy who plays a microbrute with the metal zone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kCWM6s7Fps[/youtube]

I also enjoyed this interaction in the comments

[D.o.S.]

also later I found out some people thought we were a white power band, despite being 13 years old)

As I get less hair and more tattoos this is a concern I have some times.

At least Nazis don't like baseball hats.

[goroth]

I read your post and went to the local classifieds to buy a Metal Zone until common sense stopped me.

Metal Zones are the fucking best.

1. In stock form they slay. Gain on zero. Volume max. Then use it as a semi-paremetric dirty boost.
This into a Randall head is the entirety of Crowbar's tone.

2. If you control the treble and play it into a good clean amp it sounds fucking awesome live.

3. this pedal is totally ILF.
It is cheap and you can dial in an insane variety of both standard and weird ass tones. It has Line 6 Spider Insane Channel levels of gain.

4. It's easy to mod.

It is the fucking best.

[fcknoise]

I read your post and went to the local classifieds to buy a Metal Zone until common sense stopped me.

Metal Zones are the fucking best.

1. In stock form they slay. Gain on zero. Volume max. Then use it as a semi-paremetric dirty boost.
This into a Randall head is the entirety of Crowbar's tone.

2. If you control the treble and play it into a good clean amp it sounds fucking awesome live.

3. this pedal is totally ILF.
It is cheap and you can dial in an insane variety of both standard and weird ass tones. It has Line 6 Spider Insane Channel levels of gain.

4. It's easy to mod.

It is the fucking best.

There are very few reasons not to own a metal zone. If it only had a second output to run into itself. I guess that can be achieved with a splitter cable

[manymanyhaha]

METAPOST TO OP:
I told my friend that this thread was a brilliant project & potentially as cool as Pete Frame's 'Rock Family Trees'.
She said: 'Pete who?'
This made me feel old.
Here is a Pete Frame Rock Family Tree from the days when dinosaurs stalked the earth.
Your fuzz tree could look like this!
http://eaglesfans.squarespace.com/stora ... /index.htm

I was needing to feel normally obsessed, thank you

[retinal orbita]

I've felt this coming on too, the mt-2 as well as the DOD death metal will soon be as hyped and hard to find cheap as the hm-2.

This has quietly been happening for a couple years now with the FX86 and exploded with the Jason Lamb episode of the JHS show.

I have been stockpiling them for years and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to pick them up used, even the 86B. I think at this point a MIT HM-2 is easier to buy on reverb.....

Metal Zone is a damn good pedal with lots of EQ options. I don’t buy the hate. I love it on bass.

Definitely those Yamaha distortions look really cool and I’ve been eyeballing a few used ones.

[qersty]

Back before I couldnt afford pedals my favourite sound in guitar rig 4 was two micro synths and two metal zones in parallel with some delay and lfo on the mid frequency. I blew my interface doing no-input mixing with that

[coldbrightsunlight]

That sounds very cool actually

More digital fuzz!

[fcknoise]

That sounds very cool actually

More digital fuzz!

wait who the f is this now

[coldbrightsunlight]

????

John Malkovich obviously

[Thylacine Dream]

I want a second BitQuest so I can actually use the dirty side, that's some tasty digital nasty. I only wish the bass trimpot were an external knob :/ I dream of a custom BQ with that knobby and another footswitch or two.

[qersty]

I want a second BitQuest so I can actually use the dirty side, that's some tasty digital nasty. I only wish the bass trimpot were an external knob :/ I dream of a custom BQ with that knobby and another footswitch or two.

wait, wait! there is a bass trim pot? I never realized that