Most DISTORTED Guitar Tone Possible?! 

*Smash like for more fun metal things*

You almost reached the perfect djent tone

I feel like the out of focus camera really helped with the distortion experience 😂

I did this stacking different kinds of delay plugins when I was ~17, had a buddy over at the folks as a witness when mom called us for dinner. After that, we got within 20ft of my room and it already sounded like a Peterbilt was idling in my bedroom. Opening the door was like walking inside of a diesel engine, with the positive feedback making it increasingly louder until it became deafening.

At this moment Nick becomes an ultimate boss for Ichika and other Polyphias playing only clean

Gotta love when Mr Nocturnal posts in the middle of the day. Makes it entirely better.

"Money can't buy happiness but it can certainly buy sick tones!" -Kmac2021

You've almost reached the perfect Black Metal guitar tone. Just need to record through a headphone microphone.

That Unholy Confessions riff sounded like it was recorded on a brick phone in the early 2000s

3 - 4 maxed out metal zones actually sounds usable ngl, kinda gets this weird, over compressed type sound (espcially doing leads) that i kinda dig in a weird way.

honestly the slightly out of focus camera really added to the artistic experience

Not going to lie, I want to see this again but with a Boss HM2. The ultimate Swedish chainsaw

we have officially discovered what the inside of a black hole sounds like. thanks Dr. Nik

i feel like there should be a challange for nik to write a song that includes all of the weird noises he made (the ultra low tuned the ultra high and this one ). I could imagine a breakdown for each noise. Would be interesting to see what he comes up with

Can you turn this into a series? I want 12 wah wah pedals next😂

That tone was audibly bearable, just felt like an LSD trip 😂

Nik is absolutely killing it right now! I always look forward to his videos, much love from NC! 🤟🏼

Some Swedish black metal band called, they want that tone 😂

i always forget what a amazing guitar player nik is

The MetalZone sound transports me back to being 15 and in my buddy's room jamming and talking about life. I lowkey love hearing it nowadays

That wasn't camera focus, mate. That was distortion🤘

As an avid slam listener, I approve

Made it threw till the end, love your videos Nik your vids are getting me to pick up my 🎸 again 🖤

The black metal part killed me!😂😂😂!!! It's funny that around 8 made me think of trying to tune into a metal station when I lived in the middle of the desert...and the higher you went, the further into the desert I got...

The last one sounds like I’m listening to someone listening to metal in the other room.

Lmao i loved this way more than i should have. There was a meme of a pedalboard with nothing but Metal Zones and it being essentially a Gate To Hell. You made this meme a reality and im pretty sure the Apocalypse is upon us now!

7:18 that reminds me of the beginning of "Hooker with a penis" from TOOL XD

Yo that riff at 2:22 was sick! Does anyone know if thats a real song or if Nik just improvised it?

HEY Nik, just popped in to say I appreciate your content ❤ Keep up and stay hydrated 😊

Ola: Will it chug? 🤘 Nik: Will it explode? 💥

It slowly gets chunkier over time. Also, Harmonics are the only things that come through once more gain gets added.

Who wouldn't want a metal zone 2 into another metal zone 2?

"Bro, I paid for all the gain up to 10, so I'm going to use all the gain up to 10"

there will be a band doing it for REAL BECAUSE OF YOU

3:00 that riff was beautiful

Sacrificing his hearing for metal guitar science… what a djentleman

6:14 trve kvlt

I've lost it with the black metal impression. Lmao now I want a full version!! PD: lately your videos have pretty low volume, at least compared with before. Could u blast em up?

"What happens when I turn off the gate"... According to RU-vid; Heineken

I think the Metal Zone is a great distortion pedal. People who hate the Metal Zone are those who simply do not understand how the parametric midrange works.

0:13 *"It's one of those days..."*

So that's how you can play Deep Purple w/o copyright strikes. Good to know

still need 10 more metalzones

The first part of three metal zones is so beautiful it made Lisa simpson cry

Bro distorted it so much it almost went all the way back to just torted

It sounds like when you used to try and use the phone when someone else was on the internet.

“we’re gonna keep the gate on”

Local metalhead counts out 6 Metal Zones individually

eight and a half minute tutorial on how to get Dimebag's guitar tone (totally worth it)

Thank you Caleb for saving our ears… also, 12 MZs kinda sounds like the Insane setting on the Line 6 Spider amp with a wah in front of it

He don't miss (I'm still watching the preroll ads)

I had a friend in school growing up who was a bit a of an amp and guitar tweaker. he was about 15 he had an old am/fm radio with the cover off and he had found a place on the circuit board that would respond when you plug in a guitar. You can take apart an old battery powered radio and put your fingers on the circuit board and it will make funny noises this is how you find the location you want to plug into. He would just tape the bare wire from his guitar cable onto the board with some scotch tape. The tone was super distorted like fuzz but harmonically rich and textured. It was buttery and chewy it had so many great qualities and it was an original sound. His friend would come over and play songs off Blizzard of Ozz and it sounded amazing. I've been wanting to go find an old radio at a thrift store and make a radio amp and do some recording.

NOT ENOUGH

honestly coulda gone well with dopesmoker at around 7 or 8. anything after that sounded unusable.

Metalzone was one of my first pedals. I only had one though. I got the metal master from digitech not long after and have been using that once since but had a lot of fun with the metalzone

I have never used the Metal Zone. My pedal is the Death Metal. Which I have never maxed out the settings I'm honestly afraid it's going to blow my amps up if I do. I usually keep the settings on like a 6. I'll drop down to a 4 if I want a clearer tone. Otherwise, the feedback is just unwieldy. I like a little feedback in my tone. Do that whole Eyehategod thing where they use feedback as an effect in itself. But if I'm getting feedback while muting the strings, that's too much man.

I'm imagining the "stonks" meme with metal zones

Distortion added to the camera too, it's a nice touch

As a pedal designer, this woukd have been so muvh worse with actual metalzones. The circuits in a metalzone add electrical noise, which would make it inaudible after I imagine the 3rd or 4th pedal

Next up, most Mid-Scooped tone possible. What happens when you put a -240dB (or 12 times -20dB) Band-cut filter on your midrange? Only one way to find out.

You could probably write a song with up to 2 or 3 of these going as your "main" tone, and then get to the breakdown and blast the 12. Like. Riff, riff, riff, chorus, riff riff, chorus, clean ambient bridge, DISTORTION DESTRUCTION, chorus, outro. 3:32 of majesty. Can't wait for it.

At some point chugs started sounding like open chords and that scares me

The Metal Zone sounds great, most people just dont know how to use it.

These are the fun metal things we were promised? Deal.

Woah

It's so distorted, it's like Elden Ring's difficulty mixed with Dark Souls bosses and they had a Doom baby

Emily Hopkins did a video last year: The Heaviest Distortion Pedal. But you have taken it to the next level. Yes!! This is the tone I've been looking for. One that will cover for my every mistake playing guitar.

Nic didn’t forget to focus the Camera, the Metalzones were distorting the picture too.

Now make a 10 hour version for me to study to

Still better than most youtuber guitar covers that for some reason have no mids…

Third

you should've bypassed it all at the end to see the difference between clean and 12 metal zones :))

Can we get a full song for the 12 distortion pedal holy confessions?

this editing is top tier.

his guitar tone is so distorted, it distorted his video too.

I don't know why but 5MZ's sounded like Psychosocial bruh

Wtf loool

Best black Metal tone:

Average Necromorphic Despair guitar tone:

this reminds me of when eliminate does the OCTAGON aka 8 OTT compressors(he does EDM stuff)

Every metal guitarist need to watch this

6:58 Nick calling it stupid.. but also me thinking I could use it for a song intro

7:48 this must be how Fantano hears A7X's Life is But A Dream

swag

Chicken salad sandwich with milk 🍼😋

haha its almost unwatchable, I feel sick :D

My dogs have lost their minds thanks Nik really appreciate that one

I stick it out till the end on ALL of these ridiculous experiment videos. Let's not act like we haven't asked ourselves these questions on our own time.

Alternate title: Turning my guitar tone into static using an uncanny amount of distortion petals

Made it… hearings fine…… all I ever really want to do is overpush gain and saturation so tgis is exactly what I wanted to hear!!!!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💕💔💔💙💙🖤🖤🖤💟❣️💕💞💔❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹💟🍄🍭😳👍🏻🫵🏿👀🧛🏿🧌🙈🙉🌑🌔

12 metalzones = 1 death metal pedal. I know what they did now.

I'm excited to see what more metal science Nik creates 😂😂😂

I actually liked metal distortion 5 to 10. I’d probably be a big death metal fan if they didn’t make sacrifices to satan. Unholy confessions even sounded pretty decent. Ears didn’t hurt until the last note oddly and I had my phone full volume

Can you write a song with that tone?

can you show how you play for real, without plywood, phonograms, without pre-recorded tracks

Now do the most cleanest

Not as louder as Leper Messiah (1985, James' Riff Tapes)

But you merely adopted the Metal Zone; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the Axe FX until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!

i cant wait to be deaf.

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