Thank you but I have to say That song was not my taste (sorry) :( . This girl will stick to other Death Metal bands and Symponic Metal. I like the way this guy plays that tune. He is much better
A lot of these pedals just nail a perfect gritty metal tone, but most people who review here on youtube start playing shitty blues and what not with em... In essence thank you for playing something within context.
Joe Thompson We're not playing Hendrix with our metal pedals. We're likely playing extreme metal, punk, or metallic hardcore where blues is a bit farther away musically.
Good job, man. Thank you for playing the same thing for each one. It made it easier to hear the difference. I was surprised. I went in thinking I liked the Metal Zone, but I think I found LIne 6 had that thrash crunch that I like the best.
Neste video eu gostei mais de Metal Core e Fullbore. fiquei muito surpreendido com a combinacao entre Vigier Excalibur Supra e Fender Blues Deluxe. Amazing punch and cruch!
I bought an MXR Fullbore Metal pedal the other day used from guitar center. I love it more than any boss, digitech, or Ibanez tube king pedal that I have owned. Nice to hear the carcass and dismember riffs testing the pedals out. That's the kind of music I like to play.
I truly dig the MXR Fullbore Metal - it has enough low-end to keep the riffs tight, but not an *overwhelming* amount that would take away Bassists like me from being audible in the mix playing either Clean, adding SVT-type Overdrive or Darkglass-style full-on Bass Distortion to *my* sound. 👍🏼
Been a little while since I first saw this video, I only had the Metal Zone then, but I have since collected all the others except the Metal Core, which ironically sounds the best here with the settings on this video. I must say that I have heard all the other pedals sound much better with different settings, but they surely must sound different live in the room at the time of recording. Good video 🤘
I watched all your vids maybe half a year back and decided I liked the mxr the best. Its a pretty good pedal. It's really awesome for lead. 8:04 sounds great.
Great vid! For me in order of best: MXR fullbore metal (Blows them all out the water), Line 6 uber metal, Digitech Death metal, boss metal zone, boss metalcore. Think I'll be adding the MXR to my shopping list haha
+Joshua mejia It used to be my least favorite but if you got a nice 100 watt screaming tube amp its the best. Those others are cool but very noisey at really high performance volume
I just looked up "Vigier Excalibur Supra" wow that's an expensive guitar! Great demo. I vote for the MXR. Very nice bottom end and smooth gain sound to it. Metal Core sounds nice too. Thanks for the comparison!
I have an MXR distortion + which is an old MXR pedal, it is great for classic rock but not metal. I also have an Danelectro FAB distortion pedal which is surprisingly good for the low price.
I use a death metal pedal but I stack it with a boss overdrive/distortion pedal to take out some of that soupy sound and it gives it more of a bite on the mid and treble end when doing pinch harmonics and squeals and it sounds kick ass
Great demo. I'm wondering if you'd consider doing a video on "pick noise" and how to avoid it. The dreadful screeching sound most noticeable on tremolo picking.
If you noticed, the Digitech Death Metal has noise that the other's don't have. I would say the best pedal for DEFINITIVE chug in alternate picking is the Line 6 Uber Metal. The MXR M116 has some NICE bottom for palm muting. The Metal core has a balance of some chug and nice leads. Plugged into a Mesa clean from a rectifier...from what I heard in another youtube video...it sounds like a Mesa Boogie Mark 2 C+ I'd say get the MXR Fullbore, Boss Metal Core ML-2, and the Line 6 Uber Metal. The Death Metal has nice leads but it has noise when it is simply turned on with the settings in the video.
I find with the boss distortion pedals you have to set the distortion dials to 2-4 O-clock to get an actual tone out of, anything lower and the sound just breaks up and becomes trash. Just to note if anyone has trouble dialing them in.
An Uber Metal player for 10 years it's the best I've found. 1. Uber Metal 2. Metal Core 3. Death Metal 4. Fullbore 5. Metal Zone Both the Uber & Fullbore get extra points for having their own gates.
I find them all to have a very scooped sound however it could be the settings, I have the Metal Zone, you can play with the tone quite a bit but I find most heavy distortion pedals to be a bit "piercing" when at higher volumes. I'm still looking for that special distortion pedal for a secondary rig but had to break down and buy an EVH 5150iii 50w head to get my main sound. (i'm glad I bought the head, it sounds amazing just plugging straight in)
Had em all. Liked the line 6 best then the mxr . Now I have a 25$ Behringer ultra metal and it spanks them all. Except I wished I would’ve kept my line 6. It was pretty filthy.
Fucking rights man! Same. My opinion for the best live sound, keep the High down (6-7 o'clock), an Mid up (9-1 o'clock) and turn the "treble" down (same as the High nob) on the preamp, an up the mids, put the 'Low' end whatever you prefer. with a BOSS NS-2, it sounds amazingly heavy. people love my sound!
You get the tightest most desirable sound from that mxr. Then the mid scoop switch gives you much more variety. Great for thrash and industrial rythm sections. I don't like any distortion pedals for lead. They seem to kill sustain.
I have the Dunlop's MXR Fullbore Metal distortion and I think that this could give me a lot of adjustments and different kinds of metal distortion if I ecualize them well, also if I tunning down my guitar It could give me like a Death/Grindcore distortion as well, nice pedals and nice review man, I'd expect you to have equalized them all as equal in order to be able to compare them better, but told me, what's your favorite one? Regards 🤟🏼!
I have all these pedals...and i dont know why but the only that i still use is the fullbore to play on live and for the recordings i always use the boss mt-2...fullbore sucks in recording, anyway, i prefer to use my amp distortion (bugera 333xl)
They are all good and all have their niche, however im a FULL BORE guy. tweak it and your amp and BOOM both the MT and MC are bad ass also. MT hair metal MC more for new stuff. but i like them all.
Mxr has nice articulation, followed by Line 6 and Digitech, more rounding on the Metal Core, and the Metal Zone sounds like it's filled with angry bees.
The ML-2 sounds best to me, followed by the Death Metal. I have an ML-2 and it's a great pedal for playing high-gain stuff at home with a small solid state amp like my Marshal MG-15. However, my Peavey 6505+ makes the ML-2 redundant, that amp is a Metal beast on its own
i have tried so many distortion pedals,i'm looking for serious pick attack,but these just don't have it,i play through a crate gfx 30,with the boss metal core,so far it's has the best pick attack of the pedals i have tried.but every amp handles pedals differently.
From what I’ve heard here, the Metal Zone and the Metal Core are the 2 best pedals in the line up!!! I’ve have/ had both of them and that line 6 Uber Metal, which I traded back in for a Metal Core!! That pedal just sucked!!! I just got the Fullbore Metal and I love that pedal, the MT2 has taken a back seat for the time being...!
Hey bud. A very informative video and you certainly have skill; thank you for posting as I own an MT-2, and wanted to see the potential of it. One little question; sorry if you covered this one. What guitar are you using?
All those pedals to me give more of an old school metal tone and for more modern metal tones I might get something like the precision drive or the precision drive.
I've always preferred the Boss DS 1, the plain orange ones that simply have "Distortion" written on them, into a mahogany, EMG loaded guitar. IMO, that gives a better sound (I play death/black metal) than really super high gain pedals.
