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Old 04-15-2008, 07:37 PM
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Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Description
The Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Effects Pedal offers precision control over tone. Dual-gain circuits scream with super-long sustain and seething distortion. A 3-band EQ includes High/Low shelving knobs plus a midband parametric EQ. The Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Effects Pedal has separate Level and Distortion knobs to put just the right amount of edge on your signal.
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Old 05-22-2008, 06:40 PM
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Quality: 1
I have a section in my book that says if the name of the product contains the instructions for using it, something is wrong. They are compensating for something and trying use supreme, divine law-of-the-land logic to make you think that this IS the standard.

I can't think of a better example of this than the Boss Metal Zone guitar pedal. When the Metal Zone was created, the designer was trying to make a sonar powered air conditioner or something. He made a mistake, heard this noise and let his friend at Boss hear it. The Boss guy said “What in the hell is that?”. The air conditioner designer said, “You don't think it sounds just a LITTLE like an electric guitar?”. The Boss guy said “No. Not really”. The long story short: The air conditioner guy said “Put the instructions in the title. You'll make a zillion dollars!”.

The Boss guy made a zillion dollars and the air conditioner designer went on to market products for Line6.

The Boss Metal Zone should be called Boss Cheap Black Metal sound. When I think of the various metal sounds that excite me, they have 0% correlation with the Boss Metal Zone. ZERO! Master of Puppets, Reign In Blood, In Flames (any album), Killswitch Engaged, etc etc you will simple NOT get that sound out of the Boss Metal Zone.

I consider the Boss Metal Zone to be the most toneless product in the world. There is no excitement. There is no balls. This product flat out sucks! The only thing it is good for is the fizzed out industrial stuff like NIN or something would use. That's something the Metal Zone can do and few great amps can do.

If you are a metal guy and using the Boss Metal Zone, look me up when you are frustrated with your fizzy, thin, boring tone. If you have a track that sounds good with the Boss Metal Zone, I'd love to be proven wrong!

Reliability: 10
It's a Boss. These things do not break.

Overall Rating: 1
If the Boss Marketing team would have called it “Industrial Fizz Zone”, I would give this a 10. Since they went for the big metal marketing demographic I have to give it a 0. If they would have called it “cheeseburger” and you bit into it you would have also given it a zero. The difference here is it takes time to figure out that this thing is useless for metal when you get started with guitar playing. It only takes about half a second to realize it's not a cheeseburger.
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Old 05-22-2008, 07:08 PM
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I had this pedal when I was 18 and I thought it was so cool sounding. I thought it was heavy and really good distortion.

Conclusion: I bet I would have liked the sound of bb's in a blender as long it was backed by a metal player. I was stupid when I was younger.
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Old 07-01-2008, 03:16 AM
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I have a heavy track somewhere that worked out well but I think I just used it a little bit and then sent it through a Crate am and I can't remember what mic but my producer rented a bunch of stuff and got a killer sound in the end. I was NOT supposed to use the pedal though but then later he asked why I didn't use it more. But alone, it is crap sure.
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Old 07-01-2008, 07:21 AM
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Default Re: Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Reviews

I cannot agree with you more, Brandon. This is probably THE crappiest distortion pedal availible on the market. Everything you say is absolutely 100% true.

However, if you are stuck with this damn thing do not despair. There is hope (if you are handy with a soldering iron, that is)! Monte Allums sells a mod-kit called the Sustainia Tri-Gain kit and it doesn't cost much. Many folks feel that it turns this pedal into something that rivals boutique pedals. This is the link: Monte Allums Mods - Individual Pedal Mods
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Old 07-01-2008, 03:39 PM
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OH that's cool. Wish I wouldn't have sold my pedal on eBay now Oh well.
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Someone gave me one of these a few years back. I used it once, and it has been sitting on the bottom shelf of my rack collecting dust ever since...What a piece of crap...Anyone wanna buy it ?
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I actually heard this thing sound good once - there was a guy I was recording in a broootal black/death metal band that fed two (yeah two!!!) MT2s together into a Mesa Dual Rectifier stack. I don't remember asking him what he did but I remember when I plugged in his chain it was amazing. I haven't heard the MT2 sound that good since and probably never will. The only setback was that it was feeding back like crazy but the guy didn't worry too much - after all it was death metal, what will it be without feedback
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I found a flaw in your review. I broke mine... Yeah. I broke my Boss Pedal. What good is a Boss pedal without a volume knob. It's always the small stuff that ruins products.

Anyways I agree. I used to think mine was awesome. Then I got a Metal Muff, thought it was awesome. Since using my Orange Rockerverb 50 and amp distortion (of any amp really) I couldn't imagine going back to it. It's like going from fillet Mignon to McDonald's greasy double cheesburgers off the dollar menu...
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Old 07-10-2009, 12:28 AM
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It's like going from fillet Mignon to McDonald's greasy double cheesburgers off the dollar menu...
Yeah, but if you are hungry a McDonald's burger is pretty good. I'd say the metal zone is more like eating dog shit.

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