So, where do we all stand on "metal" pedals.

[Jero]

http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3911
Old news.

Appreciate it. Not something I was looking for so to speak, but I figured if you bothered to trace it...might as well

[theavondon]

This week I played a Metal Muff (the smallest one) of a friend.. I didn't think it sounded like pure metal, it was more some kind of a 70's sound, which I like!

The dude from the Sword uses one, so, um, yeah!

[Mudfuzz]

This week I played a Metal Muff (the smallest one) of a friend.. I didn't think it sounded like pure metal, it was more some kind of a 70's sound, which I like!

Define "metal"

[Fuzzy Picklez]

I've run a metal muff through my friends old 70s Marshall Super Lead Mark II with great results.
It sounded FAR better than either of us were expecting. It's pretty good and pretty cheap.
I don't like how most "metal" pedals have the tendency to lack mids. Silly.
All and all though, the Wampler Triple Wreck is pretty insane.

[DarkAxel]

I remember me playing the Damage Control Solid Metal... that was like my closest approach to "metal" pedal... nonono, the very FIRST distortion i've owned was a Rocktron Zombie!

anyways - the DC SM didn't lack mids if you didn't want it to

it was cool, really massive sounding, but a)too big ... and b) to... metal for me?

but it looks like the metal pedals have their places... Thom York used one, as well as Robin Finck on the latest tours with NIN...

[Wizard]

Fuck the metal zone. I can get a rounder heavier fatter more metal tone out of my Vox AC100 cranked mids up than i can running that stupid piece of shit into anything. i haven't had a good experience with it ever, but to be honest i've never used it for shoegaze, and it's been said that Belinda used to run the HM-2 or MZ-2 i forget which, into a GE-7 and it probably sounded pretty baller.

When i was in 6th grade i bought a Guyatone Metal Monster, it was a super mid rangey distortion that made everything sound like thin trash. woof. I had it for years and never used it since Highschool ska band.

The entire thing about metal is the guitars always have the mids so cranked. heavy isn't in the lows, it's in the mids.

Currently i use a Wylde Overdrive for my leads. it probably qualifies for a metal pedal. it's a bit thin, but it has the capability for soaring leads. i don't fuxx with it fir riffage.

I watched some video on Children of Bodom recording when my brother was way into them a few years back and Alexi's amp had the mids maxxed the treble centered and the bass at like 3. It was a marshall. THey're metal enough i guess?

A downtuned guitar through a JCM800 mid-boosted cranked through a nice cab being slammed by some hot humbuckers is essentially the heaviest sound in the world. Just ask steve brooks, i haven't heard anything much heavier than Floor, and they don't even have a bass player.



Fuzzy metal is the best anyway. Just Ask Electric Wizard.

[Derelict78]

The entire thing about metal is the guitars always have the mids so cranked. heavy isn't in the lows, it's in the mids.

Dude I have been telling guitarists this for years
"dont worry about the lows I have the lows covered you just focus on the mids."

[ohsojayadeva]

As this thread has now reached 4 pages I feel a bit obligated to point out the video clip that inspired the whole thing...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XgsAMXly0[/youtube]

Now maybe it's just me, but that doesn't scream "Metal Zone," but a metal zone it is.

[bigchiefbc]

As this thread has now reached 4 pages I feel a bit obligated to point out the video clip that inspired the whole thing...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XgsAMXly0[/youtube]

Now maybe it's just me, but that doesn't scream "Metal Zone," but a metal zone it is.

I wasn't aware that he was using a metal zone there, interesting. It's a pretty damned good song, although Without You I'm Nothing is still my favorite album

[ohsojayadeva]

Yeah, apparently after WYIN he stopped using the big muff, switched to an OS2 and MT2, for low gain and high gain respectively, and then after "Sleeping..." they were switched out for an English Muff'n and a Hot Tubes- the one with tubes, not the old school CMOS chip version.

[Toonster]

This week I played a Metal Muff (the smallest one) of a friend.. I didn't think it sounded like pure metal, it was more some kind of a 70's sound, which I like!

Define "metal"

That's a good one
Well it didn't sound metal like I have in my collection

[Mudfuzz]

This week I played a Metal Muff (the smallest one) of a friend.. I didn't think it sounded like pure metal, it was more some kind of a 70's sound, which I like!

Define "metal"

That's a good one
Well it didn't sound metal like I have in my collection

I remember when I was really into metal tonez and every "metal" pedal I tried didn't have enough gain... Except one... which I have already mentioned

[mynar7]

if i need a really good "metal" sound ill slam a heavy ass fuzz with a overdrive pedal. that makes mesa boogie kids feel REALLY silly when your tone is 1000 times heavyer out of a tiny 1 channel combo

You, sir, have blown my mind. I was just earlier trying to tap with my arc flash/hoof, and was getting a little frustrated because the sound was so thin and tiny. So I pulled my fulltone OCD out and put it in front of the arc flash and then the hoof, and . I was getting ready to drop $100 on a barber dirty bomb, but holy crap I can get a metal tone out of my OD and fuzz. Tapping, pinch harmonics, heavy palm mutes, it's all butter OD > fuzz. So thank you sir.

PS: I still might get a Dirty Bomb, but I think I'm going to pick up a wolf computer (mini?) first.

[Mudfuzz]

Ah see and we as always come around back to it don't we? The day I got a fuzz was when I found true heavy For me it was a Sovtek muff, sicky heavy and big, run it into a marshall and you get the same amount of noisy gain as the FX86 but with out he cheese... really the FX86 falls more into distortion/fuzz then OD/distortion anyway Lately what I've really liked for that type of thing is to run a Mellowtone CC/DC into a muff type fuzz for supper heavyness.

[Derelict78]

I have just been slamming my dark boost into my amp. It is HUGE!
I have a 2 channel amp and I dont ever use my ovedrdrive channel. DB is by far my favorite metal pedal.