Hello everyone, I'm Ola Englund and today I'm trying out the Digitech Death Metal and Metal Master distortion
You've probably already seen my Boss Metalzone video
And at the time during the 90s when the Boss Metalzone was, you know, the king of distortion pedals...
These were the alternatives, at least the Digitech Death Metal is the one that I remember the most
I saw it in the cupboard in the guitar store and was like: 'Whoa, Death Metal, that's where it is, shit'
This pedal was actually paid for by my awesome members of my youtube channel, thank you so much.
And this distortion pedal was actually gifted to me by Johan Engström
Thank you so much for being so awesome and helping me out with this
So yeah, I'm very excited to try this out, I'm playing my Solar A2.6.
into the Death Metal here at first, then we have the Metal Master
then I'm using a ZUUL noise gate over here into my Randall Satan 50's FX Return Loop
So, none of these knobs over here will work
that's the preamp, but I'm just using the FX loop of the amplifier.
And before you say like 'Oh Ola, you f***face, you're always using your Randall Satan'
You know, it's my video, I do whatever I want.
So it's just the power amp section of the amplifier that I'm using, so calm your tits a little bit, okay?
So, there it is and alright, let's try it out... Okay.
That's heavy as f***, alright, so let's turn it on
Think we could turn it up a little bit... is it...?
So if we take a quick look on the layouts of both pedals here
You quickly kind of discover that there's no gain knob anywhere
Which is basically like a big f*** you from Digitech
to whatever other distortion pedal company that is out there just to say like: 'hey...'
'You know what?'
'F*** you'
You're always going to use the distortion on max.
So they just skipped out on that, that's awesome, I like to see that
That's a ballsy move, to be honest
Alright, let's...
Shit that's a lot of low bass, huh?
That's '...And justice for all' right there
Shit, okay, so...
I noticed that the knobs are really sensitive. That's a big f***ing boost right there.
Shit okay, I can't even play that high, that's insane.
That hurts my ears, not good.
Alright, so that's the awesomeness of the Death Metal pedal, let's try it with some Death Metal.
Yeah Death Metal definitely works, that's awesome.
You can't really do much more with that pedal, it says death metal on it, that's what you get: it's death metal
Okay, so let's try out the Metal Master heavy metal distortion and... all the knobs to noon there.
So on this pedal you have a low and a high and not a middle, like on the Death Metal.
So... but you have a Morph, kind of broken off a little, knob here, I guess it's a...
X-series Morph, so let's try that.
Lovely sound, I wonder what you need that for. Other way around then...
I must say the Metal Master sounds to me a lot better than the Death Metal pedal.
Oh, I'm just spitting all over my face.
It's just something playing in standard E tuning, I love that.
Okay, that was cool I like this pedal.
All of you are wondering like: 'Okay, Ola you piece of shit'
'Just engage both pedals at the same time' Okay.
Okay, okay.
Okay that didn't really work, but
If you've been paying attention, you might have seen that there are 2 outputs in there
and on the other one It says 'out 2/ to a mixer'
Is this like the prehistoric version of an IR or an impulse response into a mixing desk?
Well, I'm just about to see, so I'm gonna plug this in, this goes straight into my 'mixer', my audio interface...
Like that.
Yeah, it's still Death Metal, huh, let's try the Metal Master.
Metal Master.
Plug you in your ass.
Metal Ass Master.
Ooh, lovely.
Oh, it's still on. Turn it- please.
Oh, wow, excellent
That's an excellent sound
So, you know when everyone tells you to... 'oh don't scoop the mids, you know, use some mids'
You just pull this little knob like this and you're back.
So you're definitely gonna be heard in the mix with this sound.
Ok good, so there you go. That's it, that's the awesome Digitech Metal Master and Death Metal for you.
Thank you so much for watching and see you next time
This has been a great great great video, I like this.
If there's a pedal you want me to see in this type of video...
Suggest in the comments section. Thank you so much for watching and see you next time.
Yeah, bye.