Boss MZ-2 Digital Metallizer

It is fairly easy to use, But very difficult to get a quailty sound from it. Not enough low end or high end. Makes a good book end or paperweight.

I use this with an Ibanez RG570 thru a Trace Elliot Tramp. I find it very difficult to get decent or even managable sound out of it, For a boss pedal with a list of $179.00 im dissapointed. The doubling effect is almost absent and the chourus effect sounds as if its sleeping. It does have a good overdrive and blusey feel to it though. The Metal Zone is by far the best and most affordable dist out there.

Ive used boss pedals to hold up amps with a roller whell missing and also used one to stop my van from rolling when i was changing a tire, and they still work like new. enough said.

Never had to deal with the company, none of the equipment ever had any probs.

As an overdrive or for a bluesy feel it is ok, but would not recommend buying this pedal. go for the METAL ZONE, it is cheaper and by far more dynamic, and controlable, put a equalizer in front or behind it and you have an incredible machine able to emulate tones from SRV to Slayer.

Crazy little pedal easy to use like all stomp boxes

again crazy little pedal
great if you like weird distortion sounds just weird weird weird and great in combination with my proco rat and 30's tube head

always works eats batteries though

wied baby weird

Pretty simple to use, how hard can a pedal be plug it in. And you are ready, it is hard to find certain tones on it.

Im using an American Fender Strat. It will get feedback from pretty much any setting. The distortion is powerful and blends noise together to bad at even the weakest setting. All the effects sound pretty much the same, chorus you can hardly catch it. The doubling is terrible.

Its a Boss so yes it is very reliable. I wouldnt use it at a gig just because i do not like the sound.

never dealt

I play old rock and roll. Does not fit the bill. It gets in the way of me producing better music.

Hhm.. it doesn't have many sounds to it, and none of them are particularly good. It's not a metal-zone (which I hate anyway). It's not an OD-1 or a Tube-Screamer or even a DS-1. It's got all sorts of crap like doubling and chorus . Level Tone and Drive and the "Mode" switch-a-roo. Whoopee.

Ok- this is the thing about this pedal. It doesn't have a good sound anywhere in here. That shit about the "hetfield" tone and all is wrong. I use it though in my rig. It sounds good for what **I** need it for, it sounds harsh, thin and fuzzy. Perfect contrast to my normal fat thick warm sound. It sounds like a power line coming down and that's what I need for exactly 30 seconds in one song. I love the tone for that, it just buzzes fuzzes and rocks forever, and for that, it gets a 10. If you're using this as a tone base- you're insane! BTW- my settings and rig: Settings: Level-9 o'clock, tone full up, drive full up, and I use the DoubIII setting, my amp is a Peavey 5150 full stack, and my guitars are ESP- M-II and Viper, all with Seymour Duncan JB pickups. What a great pickup, great amp, and gloriously shit pedal. Gotta love the lo-fi.

Sure, It's been around for years and crap. Gotta love it. 'specially for the price, eh?

I dunno.

I got it from my drummer for free. I have NO clue why he had it, oh well. I play some strange combination of music, quasi-hard rock-metal-industrial-sludge-melodic-soft-heavy-crunch shit. It's good, my band is called Zero 2 Zero and we play out a lot. Amazingly, this small piece-o-crap is an integral part of my rig. Insane!

The more you mess w/ the knobs and get familar w/ it, the easier it gets..it pretty much tells you what to do(if you can read the small print next to the knobs)

I actually use it for bass, and I have used it for guitar, and they both sound good...and it also varies in sound...if you're looking for that vintage distortion, or some off-the-wall Orgy type of deal, the Boss MZ-2 is a good buy

I've honestly never seen a broken Boss pedal in my life, so I really don't see it breaking anytime soon..

I've never dealt w/ the Boss people or anything

I think this is one of the best distortions out there today..it's good a great sound to it...for some bands out there that are only using one distortion, the MZ-2 is good, cause you can switch it up a bit, and throw some chorus on you're distortion, and make it sound different...like I said, I use it for bass(Ibanez ATK 5-string) and it sounds nice...with or without doubling or chorus..I would most likely buy this pedal again...

Pretty straight forward. Knobs for Level, Distortion, Tone, and Chorus/Doubler.

I use a Washburn strat copy with a humbucker in the bridge. For amplification I use an old, but cool, Peavey Deuce (212, 120W). The Distortion on the pedal is awesome, but there is too much sustain when the gain is cranked to ten. Often, open chords sound "muddy", but barre and power chords sound excellent. The chorus isn't mind blowing, but does make for a fuller sound. The doubling effect gives a nice "klick", sounds kind of like a Marshall amp. I would suggest using a guitar with humbuckers to get the best sound out of this pedal. My washburn has 2 stock single coils which do not do it justice.

Very reliable, I have no problems with it. It is a batterty eating demon though, and you should get an adaptor for it.

Never needed their help.

The MZ-2 is a versitile distortion pedal. You can get any sound from light, bluesy over drive to Manson all out death fuzz. Harmonics come out very easily. This pedal kicks the shit out of fancy boy pedals like the Rocktron Black Jack. I wish the pedal had more tone control, I like to play with a scooped mid-range, and lucky for me my amp has three bands EQ. With the pedal alone, you get either highs or lows.

step-on. step-off.......not too compliated...the controls are pretty much self explanatory

its ok...its better than the overdrive channel on your amp, but its no way a tubescreamer or and od-1.

boss sh*t is bulit like tanks

never dealt with company

good if youre playing metallica, sabbath, etc.....but i mean dont plan to use it on a beatles song.....

Four knobs, settings for level, tone(useless), drive and mode (useless) It's your basic stomp box, minus the mode selector, which pretty much just fills space.

I put in a submission before, I must have been on crack at the time. I use an Ibanez RG-570 throught the metalizer (when I used it) to a Crate G-40C. The thing was noisy, trebly and fuzzy(bad fuzzy, not even good for hippie shit). I used to have this jaded idea that it sounded good, but it sucked. Basicly, you had crackly fuzz, muddy fuzz, lightly chorused crackly fuzz and just about any kind if undesirable kind of fuzz you could think of. It really took away the sound of the guitar too and it killed the sustain. It just sounded really digital, it didn't really distort, it sounded like a fish farting into a tin can. The closest this gets to any style of music is, well nothing, it just sucks.

I used to think, since it was a Boss it could take anything and keep going, whether that was desirable or not, but to my great surprise, it's dead. Yeah and the best thing is that since it's digital, fixing it myself is completely out of the question, I know somebody who could fix it, but it's not worth it. Its not like it was abused either, it just kind of sat on my bedroom floor.

never dealt with them

This thing sucks, I would never buy it. I ended up using my crate's distortion, it sucked too much, so I finally bought a Fab Tone, kicks the Metalizer in the ass! It's funny that a funky lookin' box with a name like Fab Tone would be more metal than a box called Metallizer! The one thing I liked about it was that it had two outputs, so I could use it with a stereo Y-split into headphones, but other than that it was useless. It was just way to digital sounding. By the end I never used it for anything except a headphone amp, so I don't mind if its dead, plus it ided when my friend borrowed it so I got some money for it, which is nice.

There is a choice of a few different chorus and doubling effects, but overall there's not much you can do with those effects. But overall, it's pretty easy to use.

Terrible sounding. Leads sound muddy and undefined. Any chords other than barre chords sound horrible.

Fine, I guess.

My old (1985, not newer) Arion SD-1 blows this away at a fraction of the (original) price.

i bought this pedal thinking it would be better than metalzone and hypermetal, but in reality it's one metal setting that you can alter either by having an echo on it (doubling) or a chorus effect.. so i realized that why should i bother owning this when i already have a dd-3 and a ce-2 (delay and chorus pedals). instead, i think i should have bought a metalzone, which lets you change the sound of the metal rather than just the tone/effect laced with it.
the pedal sounds way too harsh too.. (traded it in for a superphaser)