This right here is a Metalzone
When I posted a picture on my Instagram, people, like, making puke faces and you know ...
Talking about how shit this pedal is and I know it has a weird kind of reputation of being a shitty ass pedal
You know, it's been a while since I tried out this pedal, so I figured I would hook it up and just see how it sounds
And see if it's worth the bad rep that everyone's giving it
So, I'm hooking up the pedal in the FX loop of my Randall Satan
Randall Satan 50
Yeah, I tried this pedal back in the 90s, but at that time it ... yeah
It sounded like a shitty 90s distortion pedal
because basically all the distortion pedals sounded like shit back in the day
I'm hooking it up straight into the FX loop of the Randall Satan
We'll just gonna see, or hear, how it sounds
I'm using a Fortin ZUUL noise gate as well
Other than that, I mean since it's connected to the loop, it acts like a preamp
So none of these knobs on the front here makes any difference, except the depth
Except the depth and the presence knobs of the master section, or the power amp section of the amplifier. Okay.
This is the FX loop of the Satan, no metalzone engaged
Wow
Ehm ... what?
That sounds badass to me, I must say
What?
Wow, it sounds good
That's a little too much, maybe, on the lows there
Wow, shit. It's actually ...
It's actually so good I dropped my pick in surprise
Alright, I have to try another ...
I don't ... I have try another-
Try another-
I have to try another guitar, this has the Duncan Solar pickups and it sounds fucking killer to be honest.
So I'm just gonna grab another one
Is this further enhancing ...
... The opinion that whatever I play through sounds exactly the same?
It's kind of scary actually
This has an EMG 81 pickup in it, by the way
What the f***?
I think the reason why the pedal has a bad rep is that people are using it in front of the amplifier
Which is probably gonna sound like shit, so let's try that, because that's why I'm here
So, there you go, okay.
I think the EMG active pickup did not work as well as the passive pickup in this
So let's switch back to this guitar
Alright, this is ... this is scary. Okay, so now ...
I'm using it in front of the amplifier, on a clean Channel
And I think this is the reason why it has a bad rep
Because people hooked it up to a bad clean channel or whatever
So it's probably gonna sound like ass, let's see ... gain. Let's turn it off first, so we don't kill ourselves
Okay, beautiful clean-
Oh, let's turn on the ...
Yeah, doesn't sound that hot
Just makes me wonder if this pedal was actually made to sound like a or act like a preamp
Because now it sounds broken
Yeah, now it sounds weird, but let's just try it with the distortion and see how that works. Oh.
Okay, so without the Metalzone
I've set up the Satan to sound a little bit dull
If you want a tight sound, you can do it like this, you set the girth at 12 or something like that, the grind at 1
But for overdrives I like to pull down the grind and pull up the girth
basically making it sound less modern
And then ...
You have to be really careful with the high knob here, because it really destroys the setting
I mean it's usable as an overdrive into an amplifier as well
And I know a lot of bands do it like this
You know, Cannibal Corpse did back in the day, old At The Gates, old Swedish Death Metal
They used the Metalzone, and the Heavy Metal of course
But yeah ... To be honest, I think it sounds really good
I mean, when I put it in the FX loop ... let's try that again.
Like, why does it have such a bad rep, I have no f***ing idea
To me it sounds chunky
What?
I did not expect this, I don't know what say, I think it sounds pretty good
Are we shifting the trend here? Is Metalzone gonna be the new go-to preamp pedal?
I have no idea
You can probably get these for like nothing basically today. There's so many of them being made and ...
Yeah shit, I think it sounds pretty good
Of course I have to listen back to the recording, maybe it doesn't sound as good recorded
But who knows? I'm gonna listen to it ...
What did you think?
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