Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

Can't beat boss stuff for ease of use. That's why they're the biggest in their field next to quality of course. The EQ adds a most necessary complication to setting up but it is SO worth the extra time and effort.

Does metal really well but also tones down to do some nice crunchy blues stuff. That said though, if you buy one of these your generally looking to play the more heavy stuff.

The extensive EQ adds a fantastic amount of flexibility and I would have to say the EQ is the heart of the MT-2's success imo.

I use a Hamer SATQ with a JB/Jazz setup through a Marshall TSL 602 on the clean channel. The MT-2 is a quiet pedal. To be fair, I can't really compare this with any other pedal because I've not extensively tried others but I can't imagine anything better to be honest.

Only had it a couple of months but judging by the experiences I've had with other Boss pedals this is never going to be an issue.

Not had to use them.

The only thing I could possibly knock this pedal on would be battery consumption. I did use rechargeable in all my pedals and the MT-2 used to get through 2 of these in a 3 hour gig.

I've done the right thing and bought a dedicated power supply now.

If it were lost or stolen I would try other pedals first such as the Metal Core but I suspect I would come back to the MT-2 pretty sharply.

the eq on this pedal is very easy to use whilst offering a wide range of sounds. also you can go from low gain to insane distortions with just 1 twist

i use this with a epiphone les paul classic a marshall mg amp and a dunlop wah-wah, and even tho the lp is not really a metal guitar i can get a real thick distorted sound out of the classic's pickups with this pedal. Good for most metal sounds it can go from a high gain overdrive to insane thrash and heavy metal distortion. my fav setting is bass-3 oclock treble-2 oclock mid- 11 0clock middle freq- 1 oclock and gain 3 oclock this is a good general metal setting good for lead and rhythm. only problem is feedback after incresing gain more that 4 oclock

its boss no more needed 2 be said. my old boss pedal i had for 1yr with no probs before getting the mt2 and no probs so far

never needed

great for metal and hard rock i luv this pedal especialy as my small marshall canot give my that really heavy distorted sound. well worth the money. i prefer this to every other boss distortion i hav used best feture is the eq. really helps sound like my fav artist especially metallica without havin to spend lots of money on guitars with emg pickups and big amps.works well with my epiphone les paul classic marshall mg15dfx and dunlop crybaby

Parametric EQ takes some getting used to. Manuals starting EQ settings are mildly useful

Epiphone V with Marshall MG head. Using 4x10 cab with emminence speakers.

I'm doing this review on the pedal I modded.

I just put an extra diode with a forward voltage of .1v in series with one of the clipping diodes. Since the stock diodes were back to back of the same type, this additional one should make the waveform slightly asymetrical and add a little more sweetness (which the pedal needs).

Generally speaking I only really use this pedal in drop tunings (usually just stantard drop D). It has a certain whine that doesn't really sound too appealing to me for standard tuning or melodic leads and such. After the mod the whine is a little more stylish and useable but its still something you have to play with before it sounds like music.

Since its not really a very chunky sound, I use the pedal for faster type of songs. Like speed chug stuff that is played with fast double-bass drums.

Theres some great screaming harmonics that are great when played on lower strings.

The biggest effect this mod did was make the chug-attack a little larger/realistic/3-dimensional (how do you really describe a sound in words). Its still the MT2 with a very slight amound of color to it. I was going to mod it more but after I checked my work on adding the diode I was pretty satisfied with it so I stopped where I was.

In my opinion its not very versatile but I think it covers its intended sound pretty good. Solos and leads can work great espescially if you spice them up with the pinch harmonics which come out great on it. You just have to watch your playing because the whine is unforgiving.

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Works great. Stock is definately ok but the mod gives it a little extra tonal edge to make the chug stand out.

Also, if you are a modder, this is a very configurable pedal, schematics are easy to find and easy to read. Plus there are many other people that mod this so there are a lot of suggestions you can find online.


Just ask me for sound clips and I'll send them. I have 1 song made pre-mod and I'm probably going to make a bunch of new clips now that I've done it.

if you put all the controls at 12 o clock you will get a pretty good sound to start with so thats easy .....

i would say in this position it's very middly kind of brian may and michael schenker ....so if you take that as your starting point .....you can boost the bass and go for a Sabbath sound or boost the trebles for a more 80's metal sound ......

i don't know if Boss meant to do it but they've voiced this pedal for a real Randy Rhoads sound....... a sort of rasping middle but with more bass or treble if you need it ...

usual boss very good

if i had to sum it up i'd say...... Randy Rhoads .......very heavy .....but with clarity....

Lots of EQ options with para-mid boost & cut and bass/treb boost & cut. Gain-wise it's just about insane if that's what you like. Took me all of 10 minutes to find 3 settings that I'll use.
Well built, ac adapter at the top end-where they belong on ALL pedals. EZ battery changes, rubber bottom. Cool controls. Easy to dial in. Easy to use.

Les paul into MT-2 into Fender Blues Deluxe RI.
I dime the gain, dial in the mid freq to 2K and cut it down to near zero. Bass is set at 1-2 o'clock. Treb is at 12 o'clock. I run my LP at 2 on the volume pots and 7 on the tone pots. MT-2 volume is at 8 or 9 o'clock. At these settings the MT-2 is not noisy.

Perfect, thick bluesy overdrive-distortion with nice sustain and harmonic feedback. If I need more gain I move the LP pots up to 4 or 5.

The solo tone using the LP 490 R neck pickup is very dark, thick and bluesy. I'm Using the 498 T bridge pickup for the heavier rock tones with the MT-2. Monster rock tone that sings and sustains. The middle position sounds well balanced through this pedal for crunch rhythms.

I play in a classic rock & blues band so I need crunch, heavy distortion and solo power that cuts but doesn't overpower or sound stupid. The MT-2 is perfect for this.

I realize this is the quintessential METAL pedal but I like it for its versatile and wide ranging sonic potential. People are surprised when they see a Metal Zone on my board. I guess they think its reputation as a chug-chug pedal marks me as a Metallica wannabe. But when I open up the LP neck pickup for some Clapton/Cream solos or Page solos, all of that metal stuff goes out the window. The big secret to this pedal is relying on the instrument's volume and tone pots to feed a perfect signal into it so it can do the magic for me. It's a cheap, easy to use pedal for my blues / rock playing.

Okay, so when we're goofing off, noodling and chugging along with the really heavy stuff, I raise the mids to 12 o'clock and it's "chain saw city"-LOL. Finally, with the gain at near zero and the volume up, it does a nice gritty boost for thin blues solos. It almost sounds "strat-like" with the LP on 2, using the 490-R pickup.

Great Blues & Rock pedal besides all that metal stuff that it does so well. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Ha ha. It's plenty versatile for what I do.

BOSS ...stupidly well built. Been using BOSS stuff since the early 80s. Never, ever had a piece of BOSS gear fail on me. Impossibly well constructed.

C'mon...who ever sends a pedal in to BOSS TO GET IT FIXED?

I have owned lots of BOSS & Roland gear over the years. I currently own a TR-2, MT-2, ME-5, CE-2 and a Roland Blues Cube (outstanding amp, by the way.) BOSS Roland makes top notch stuff in my opinion. My ME-5 pedals (I have two) are late 80's devices and they still crank just as well as the day they were bought.
The MT-2 is a classic-for sure. It's not JUST a metal headbanger tool. Since it has so much potential I have to say that it will serve up some nice blues and rock tones for players who give it a try.

When I run out the door to a jam with my Blues Junior or my Roland Blues Cube 30, I usually grab my MT-2 and my TR-2 pedals. With just these two I can go from surf to hard, butt-kicking rock and everything in between. Versatile, versatile, versatile.

i thought it was very easy to get the sound u wanted, if u are into a heavier sound, i went off the manual then adjusted to my likings.

i am using a crate head and behringer cab alond with a gothic v that has emg 81/85 set up, when the lvl is up loud its kinda noisey.

i have had mine for years and i never had a problem yet, i do suggest getting an adapter though

overall i think its a great pedal for fans of creed to metallica to dying fetus. if u are looking for an ac/dc feel i wouldnt reccomend it. if i lost it or it were stolen idk how much i would play till i got another one.

The metal zone is a very simple and easy pedal that has 6 control knobs,level,equalizers(high,low,middle,mid freq)and dist.And there is output and input.And is easy to turn on just by pressing on a footswitch.And there is a manual its simple and easy to read.The metal zone has not been upgraded yet.

Im using a Epiphone limited edition custome made molson canadian guitar with seymour duncon pickups with heavy bottom slinkys and a Rhoads flying V jackson and fender heavy picks with a practice amp.The metal zone is loud as hell just with all knobs at 12 o,clock.The Metal Zone is a powerful crushing grinding sound.And as you use it the sound still sounds great.I use this pedal for Metalica, Slayer ,Rage against the machine and Cannibal corpse and death metal and thrash and grunge.Using this pedal every soud you can get out of it is pretty good.

The pedal is very reliable I had battery in it for 1 year ad the pedal still sounded awesome.And I would totally use this in a gig.

Customer support was good and very freindly.You dot need t upgrade this pedal and you can get this pedal repaired

I play death metal,thrash,grunge,hard rock and this pedal can do all that.Ive been playing for 2 years,I own a crybaby and a me-20.If this were stolen I would replace it.I love the dark and heavy pounding sound but i hate that when youturn the dist or level al the way up you get a loud fuzz and the sound turns to muddy.My favourute feature are the eq's.I chose this one because its cheap and cool looking and good reveiws and the sound of the pedal.I wish thispedal had more low end.This pedal helps me make music because the sound has lots of aggresion.I recommend this pedal to metal heads!!!!!

This pedal is great but it takes sometime to get a good sound of it. Its not hard to figure out at all, especially if you read the manual because in it, it includes some really good presets that i have tried out. The fuzz, hard rock, and heavy metal presets sound the best, in my opinion. If you take the time to play around with the knobs it sounds great

It sounds good, not the greatest, but better than most pedals. It doesnt work well as and overdrive or medium distortion. It really shines when you cut the mid frequency and boost the mids. When you turn the distortion past 3 it sounds to muddy for me. Id keep it around 12 or 1

Its a BOSS... enough said

never had to never will

It works great in any genre. This is a very flexible pedal.

I bought this on eBay a few weeks ago and it took me around 15 minutes to get the sound I was looking for from it.
The controls are set out well with dual-pot tone controls so it's not too cluttered.
The knobs are very sensitive too so you don't need to crank them too far to get quite a radical change in tone.

I'm running this pedal through a Roland Cube30 and an Ibanez RG321 with standard INF3/4 pickups, the sound quality from the guitar/amp itself is pretty good but this pedal really picks it up a notch. clear highs and crisp mids, gritty punchy lows... Perfect!

My previous pedal was a Danelectro Black Paisley and I loved the sound of that, but playing with this MT-2 is just on another level. That was quite muddy and lost some clarity but this is fantastic!

I play a lot of styles megadeth/disturbed/john petrucci/neil zaza and this pedal can be tweaked to suit almost any tone you want... with the gain turned right down it's still driving pretty hard but with any amount of gain wind back the volume on the guitar and it cleans up nicely for short melow phrases where you don't want the drive to be noticably 'gone' with the pedal off...

What can I say? It's a BOSS! It's built to withstand getting driven over by a Challenger Tank... All BOSS pedals are virtually indestructible and this is no different. Foot switch feels smooth but firm, jacks and power socket feel tight and solid... Even though this was second hand when I bought it, you wouldn't know it by the feel of it.

I've not had to deal with BOSS for this pedal, but with my old flanger I had to get the footswitch/battery cover replaced and they were happy to supply me with a new cover/screw :)

Quite a pleasure to deal with to be honest.

I've used many overdrive/distortion pedals over my 18 years of playing... Marshall Guv'nor (Mk1), various BOSS overdrive/super overdrive pedals, Danelectro Daddy-O, Danelectro Fab Tone, the Danelectro Black Paisley I mentioned before... and in my oppinion and for my style of playing the MT-2 p***es all over the lot of them!

It has enough gain range to play anything from Gary Moore to Disturbed, enough tonal variation to do anything you would want with it at all.

Being called the Metal Zone leads you to think that this is ONLY for metal, but believe me, it can be used for any style at all! This is a VERY versatile pedal indeed!!

I would recommend one of these to anybody!!!

I've had one of these for years ...like since it came out .I have 2 now one stock and one I modded I like the tones of both for doing cover band work . The modded one sounds relitavely EVH but not quite but close after a bit of dialing in... depends on the room your in too .