Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

If you know what frequencys do then it will just take a a little bit to dial in how much of whatever you want. But the person who buys this is usually a new guitar player playing their $200 ibanez threw a marshall mg, its a hard pedal cuz thers alot of bad sounds in this pedal.

This pedal is what its made for, metal. So can't really complain i cant get classic rock sounds or blues overdrives now can I? But if you want to play Hardcore music, Everytime i Die, Fear Before the March of flames, this pedal doesn't work. You can get alot of bottom end and bass with this pedal real fat. great for Metallica kill em all type of stuff. You can set the highs pretty well, and get good metal solo stuff, but you have to scoop the mids. If you push the "Middle" it sounds like (what someone already posted) White noise, so you cant get ne mids out of this pedal what so ever. Im playing out of my jackson with an emg 81 and i still cant get ne mids. So its alright for metal, not great but it gets the job done but nothing compared to a decent 500 or up good distortion on an amp. played it out of my Randall Titan, 68 bassman silverface, peavy keyboard amp, (sounds best out of the keyboard amp for some reason)

Its a boss, i could throw this thing out of a window and i wouldnt have to double check it i know it would still work.

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alright for metal, thats it, no mids what so ever, so if you want to play some metal, id look around look at the mega distortion boss pedal, or some mxr pedals, or save a little money and get a fulltone, this pedal isnt bad for a beginner but if you need some tone, theres really not ne here

Mine's a 'Humphreyaudio Mods' SLO-DIEZEL refurb which I bought off his eBay store.
Can't be beat. Thanks to his mod this will do lower drive tone as well as sheer over the top CRUSH!!!
I had a stock one for 2 months and couldn't stand the thing. I sold it.
Had a Keeley one next, not my cup of tea at all.
I took a chance on the Humphrey one, This one is night and day.
Very easy to get pleasing tone from thanks to Humphrey Audio.

I play 7 string JEMs through two KRANK heads and four 4x12 cabs.
This pedal has become the absolute center of my hard rock and Nu-Metal tones. No noise and the drive is perfect for low endy grind.

Don't see a problem, and Mark Humphrey backs his stuff up.

Emailed him about rig and tone questions I had, and he gave me some ideas which totally made my rig come to life.
Also collected some guitar tips from him too.
The guy's a pro.
He answered all the many emails I sent in a timely manner.

Original music ala Korn, Bizkit, Zombie, Metalica to Nickelback, Theory of DM, Switchfoot, etc.
Been a pro player for 7 years now, and heard about Humphrey Audio stuff from producer/guitarrist Lydale Macnamara who has a load of their pedals.

I plan to explore more Humphrey Audio pedals in the near future.
The price is unbelievably right, the service is pristine, and my tone is just SICK!!!

Six controls - level (output volume), bass, treble, mid and mid frequency, gain.

On the surface this looks easy enough, but it's actually quite hard to tweak the eq right. One way that works for me is to set the bass and treble at 12 O'Clock, turn the mid up full then tweak the mid frequency control until it sounds it's worst, then cut at that frequency. All the controls are very sensitive.

Rig is guitar (strat, tele, LP Junior, Yamaha SG2000)-Jen Crybaby-MT2-MXR Dist+-small stone-Boss CE2-Boss DD-20-Deluxe Reverb Reissue.

I've had the Metal Zone a few years, and keep coming back to it despite never being entirely happy with it.

It has an overall cold, harsh sound of the kind some people say sounds "digital" (the MT-2 is analog, at least, mine is). All Boss pedals have a distinctive tone - kind of clinical, and the MT-2 is no exception.

The eq gives a very wide tonescape, able to go from a bright fuzz sound to some seriously bass-heavy thump. The range of distortion available is pretty wide, but the pedal rapidly adds gain as you raise the distortion and to avoid the pedal walloping your volume up means keeping the level control pretty low (I use clean sounds that are as loud as the hi-gain so I don't welcome huge volume boosts). On the other hand there's huge amounts of extra volume there if you want it.

One problem is that the controls are very sensitive. The slightest twitch of the level or gain pots alters your sound and volume drastically. A second problem is that it takes over your guitar tone. The strat's bridge and neck p/us sound almost identical, as do the Tele's bridge and the SG2000's neck humbucker. Whatever you set the MT-2 up to do that's pretty much the only sound you'll get when it's on.

What I do find it good for are cascading into the MXR Dist+ to shove it over the edge when I do want more volume. It's also good for giving the boost needed to make tapped harmonics easy and loud. It also serves to buffer the rest of the effect chan to avoid tone sucking (the Crybaby is wired full bypass, the rest of the stuff is unmodded). It also makes getting feedback simple.

I've had Boss pedals die of old age, but it's rare.

Its just try and try, until you get the right sound for your tastes...

Great sound...I really like the pedal...

Very good...It combines with other pedals really well..

Its Boss....Boss is Boss!

Its pefect for hard rock, overdrive, metal....One of the best single pedals...

Getting a good sound on this thing is quite easy but you can also get the perfect eq with this thing. I'ts worth the money

WIth this I can get all kind of sounds like mudvayne or mettalica and pennywise. the 3 frequecy eq is incredible. I use this on a backstage peavey 15 watts and I can get almost the same sound level than my friend who have a danville 80 watts. I'll keep that all my life.

It never fell me (and I don't see why it should)The only thing is that if I leave my cable in the input jack it suck my battery but it's like every other pedal

I'm playing a lot of punk with this and the only itch is that my amp restricts me for the clarity of the sound.

3-band EQ with adjustable freq. mids. You don't see that on many distortion pedals. If you understand how frequencies affect your sound, you'll do fine. If not, stay away.

Personally, I love this pedal. I tried a Big Muff, Rat, Tube Screamer, Blues Driver, and a couple others, and this just roared above all of them. I play doom metal, blues, post-rock, and plenty of other genres, and this pedal can handle them all. Versatility is the key! It delivers warm tone like nothing else, and with minimal effort on my part. Soaring mids, fantastic highs, creamy lows, or snarling, gnashing distortion that would make Satan cringe. Seriously, if you know how to tweak EQ, you can get basically any sound you want out of this beast. Oh yeah, and it helps to have a decent rig to run through. Currently my setup is this through a Music Man 130HD, and a Marshall 1960A 412 cab. It simply sounds beautiful.

Boss is the boss. It will never die.

Will never have to deal with them! Yes!!!!!!

I love this pedal. Plus it was about $100 cheaper than most of the alternatives. Tone and value in one package? Rare. I'd give it a 395, but 10 is just as good.

i didn't rate this category because i could not get a decent sound out of this pedal. if good sounds actually came out of it i would give it a 9 because its not that hard to use.

i play a prs santana se loaded with tremonti pickups into my board (morley wah, boss mt-2, ds-1, bd-2, and tu-2 tuner) into a fender hotrod deville 212. this pedal sounded pretty good when i played it in my room. i had a good scooped tone similar to metallica. but when i brought it to band practice i realized how little mids this thing was capable of putting out. my sound was lost as soon as the drummer started playing. even with the mids all the way up it still didnt cut through and sounded way too digital.

its a boss

i guess if youre a metalhead it is good for ya. i expected to get a kinda creed/alter bridge-ish tone with this but its way too digital sounding and definately lacks mids. don't buy this pedal expecting to have a full, overdriven marshall or mesa sound. if you want that save up and buy the amps. you cant bottle a good sounding amp into a pedal. bottom line. if your looking for a great sounding and extremely versatile pedal (from blues to hard rock) pick up the boss bd-2 blues driver. best descision i ever made. puts the ds-1 to shame as well.

I can take a while to figure out how to get a thick tone without it being muddy, but when you do it is AWESOME!
I play a Jackson DXMGT with EMG humbuckers thru a 1961 solid state amp (priceless). I can get most any tone out of it that I want. I can get classic British metal to razor sharp, ear shattering distortion (without boosting mids). You can do most everything with this pedal.

I play a Jackson DXMGT with EMG humbuckers thru a 1961 solid state amp (priceless). I can get most of my bands like Metallica (old), Mudvayne and Disturbed. It isn't too noisy.

I believe that I could depend on it for a long time. I wouldn't use a backup.
I'm pretty sure that I could throw it at a wall and it would work like nothing happened.

Never needed to have support.

I play music from Bon Jovi up to Metallica and Disturbed.
I've been playing for about a year. I also have a Danelectro FAB Distortion and a Danelectro Black Coffee.
If it was stolen or lost I would either get it again or get a Landmine LD-1.
I love the versatility of it. The only thing i don't like is that it can't get smooth low distortion tones very well, or like a smooth overdrive. My favorite feature is the semi-parametic mids.
I compared this to all other BOSS and Digitech pedals. All BOSS distortion pedals rule! I compared it closely to the Digitech Death Metal pedal. The Death Metal pedal hat watery sounding mids. So I chose the MT-2.

I wish that BOSS would make this pedal larger and have everything semi-parametic.

Very easy to use. The piece knobs for equalization disturb a little.

This pedal lacks bottom end (like the SD-1). You gotta adjust bass to the maximum from amplifier side to get heavy sounds out of this one. And the sounds it produces are mostly annoying. I could'nt get decent sounds for my purposes out of this, just some horrible screeching which slightly resembles bad 80's metal.

This is a Boss stomp box after all. Very durable I would say.

Well, this is not probably a bad pedal. It was just not suitable for my purposes. The lacking bottom end is a big problem anyways. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody.

You should start with the suggested settings for the kind of distortion you want, then adjust it according to your amp and guitar. The settings are very good as they are shown, but you will still need to make some minor adjustments.

I have used LPs, Strats, single coils, humbuckers, everything you can possibly imagine with this pedal. There are really only two good sounds from it. If you want a Mesa scooped sound, you got it. If you want a good hard Pantera sound, you got it. The harmonics scream from your guitar. The bottom end chunk is awesome. However, it really lacks in the mild overdrive rock sound. It is NOT a Tube Screamer for sure. As long as you are using a good tube amp and good quality pickups, you will love your heavy metal sound. That is why it is called what it is, because it is truly a heavy metal distortion. Nothing else.

BOSS = Quality
Everyone who has ever owned any BOSS product knows.

One purpose for this pedal. Plug in any guitar with humbuckers, active or passive, plug into a good tube amp on the CLEAN channel, (do not go into the overdrive channel, too noisy), turn on the pedal with the right settings and you will have a fantastic METAL sound.
Period.