Monte Allums Boss MT-2 Mod

This is the MT-2 Sustainiac Mod. Depends on your experience with soldering. If you have soldering experience it?s a no brainer. If not, it can be a little tricky. Instructions that Monte sends are very detailed and clear. Pics are labeled with detailed instructions explaining what each change does. If you take your time and check after each component change you won?t have any problems.

Wow, where to start. Man, this pedal is just amazing after this mod. In fact, I will go as far as to say that this is the most amazing overdrive/distortion I have ever heard in my 30 plus years of playing. I?ve played Keeley, Analogman, and just about every other boutique pedal ever made I will say, without a doubt, this kicks the crap out of them all, HANDS DOWN! I have guys coming up to me after a set asking how I get my tone and when I show them the MT-2 they are stunned. One guy offered me $200 on the spot for it. I don?t know who Monte Allums is but he may have created the best mod for any pedal ever with the Sustainiac. I may start modding them and selling them at my gigs. With the mod the pedal takes on this heavenly thick crunchy driving gain that is just unbelievable. Feedback just sings with violin type tone. And the most amazing part is the pedal sound great with my tube amps and my solid state amps. With the diode option you can choose clean boost to overdrive or with the two germanium diodes you can opt for gain. I chose to install the two 1N34As. Move over Keeley, there?s a new king of mods in town. This guy has it going on!

It?s a Boss, need I say more.

Monte has a great reputation for customer support. With the great instructions providing and the support he offers at his site I had no issues with the mod.

I absolutely could not be happier with the mod. It turned a very nasal harsh sounding crappy pedal into a boutique killer. Let?s put it this way, if I had happened across this pedal in a store I would willingly pay 2 bills for it, really, this mod smokes anything on the market for a MT-2 or any other pedal for that mater. I?ve heard Monte?s CS3 and SD1 mods are the best on the planet. I?d be happy if they were only half as good as this mod. I?ll be trying the SD-808 next and probably a few others as well. Oh, BTW, I heard about Monte from another player who did the H2O mod to his Keeley Phat modded BD-2. He was so impressed buy the mp3 at Monte?s site he decided to undo the Keeley mod and do the H2O. In his words the H2O took the Keeley mod to the next level tone-wise. I?d say that?s a pretty good compliment to just how incredible these mods are.

Depends on your experience with soldering. If you have soldering experience it?s a no brainer. If not, it can be a little tricky. Instructions that Monte sends are very detailed and clear. Pics are labeled with detailed instructions explaining what each change does. If you take your time and check after each component change you won?t have any problems.

Wow, where to start. Man, this pedal is just amazing after this mod. In fact, I will go as far as to say that this is the most amazing overdrive/distortion I have ever heard in my 30 plus years of playing. I?ve played Keeley, Analogman, and just about every other boutique pedal ever made I will say, without a doubt, this kicks the crap out of them all, HANDS DOWN! I have guys coming up to me after a set asking how I get my tone and when I show them the MT-2 they are stunned. One guy offered me $200 on the spot for it. I don?t know who Monte Allums is but he may have created the best mod for any pedal ever with the Sustainiac. I may start modding them and selling them at my gigs. With the mod the pedal takes on this heavenly thick crunchy driving gain that is just unbelievable. Feedback just sings with violin type tone. And the most amazing part is the pedal sound great with my tube amps and my solid state amps. With the diode option you can choose clean boost to overdrive or with the two germanium diodes you can opt for gain. I chose to install the two 1N34As. Move over Keeley, there?s a new king of mods in town. This guy has it going on!

It?s a Boss, need I say more.

Monte has a great reputation for customer support. With the great instructions providing and the support he offers at his site I had no issues with the mod.

I absolutely could not be happier with the mod. It turned a very nasal harsh sounding crappy pedal into a boutique killer. Let?s put it this way, if I had happened across this pedal in a store I would willingly pay 2 bills for it, really, this mod smokes anything on the market for a MT-2 or any other pedal for that mater. I?ve heard Monte?s CS3 and SD1 mods are the best on the planet. I?d be happy if they were only half as good as this mod. I?ll be trying the SD-808 next and probably a few others as well. Oh, BTW, I heard about Monte from another player who did the H2O mod to his Keeley Phat modded BD-2. He was so impressed buy the mp3 at Monte?s site he decided to undo the Keeley mod and do the H2O. In his words the H2O took the Keeley mod to the next level tone-wise. I?d say that?s a pretty good compliment to just how incredible these mods are.

Fitting the mod was dead simple, take your time & you will have no troubles at all

It is such an improvement over the stock MT-2!

What this mod does is take away that annoying mid nasal sound, smooths out the gain, takes away the shrillness & basically sounds more like a hotrodded amp.

Well i put the mod in so it would be my fault if something went wrong

I've never had any dramas soldering & made a challenge to myself whilst putting the mod in to do the soldering as cleanly as possible. I was happy with the results

Monte's service is fantastic, i recieved my mod in the mail in only a few days (This is to Australia) and emailed to let me know what was happening

For a few bucks you can transform your pedal into something heaps better! Definitely would consider buying more mods from this guy

The pedal is as easy to use as any Boss pedal. OK, so there is some extra EQ settings that you can do on this that you can't with say a DS-1, but come on, I know you can work this. Doing the mod is as easy as using the pedal. With a little bit of soldering background and you will be able to do a wonderful job on your pedal.

Hopefully you will read my review, but if you can't get through it then just buy the mod and enjoy your Metal Zone like you never did before. This is one of the best mods for any pedal that I've come across - period. I've always had a MT-2 around, but only used it when absolutely necessary to get enough drive out of a lame amp. Well now this pedal can be used with any amp and for damn near anything. I love this mod. It takes out all of the crappy nasally mids and introduces TONE! What I think is the coolest thing is that you can leave the eq settings all at 12:00 and set your output and distortion levels to taste and get the coolest, heavy yet singing tones I have ever heard come from any pedal. Match this pedal up with a clean tube amp and have the perfect clean and then the perfect lead/rock tones around. It holds together nicely in that if you play minor, 7th, 9th, diminished chords they actually ring true and don't get all torn up by the distortion. There is a nice string to string balance and it is smoooooooth without robbing your guitar or amp of their inherent tone. Sometimes people look at me like I am nuts using a Metal Zone, ("that's for kids practicing in the bedroom") but this thing sounds great now. I have a guitar playing friend that is a die hard humbucker into the Marshall head only kind of guy and when he heard this he loved it and grabbed my guitar from me so he could play with it and didn't stop for quite some time. This is really the optimal mod for getting that Marshall/Mesa kind of tone without the noise, buzzy high end or farty low end that you can sometimes get with those amps. Not to mention the money you'll save. Try it, you'll love it.

As good as any Boss pedal as long as you do a good soldering job.

Monte is always there for you. His advice and support are top notch. More business people on the internet should learn from Monte and his honest approach and great ear for mods. He is a one of a kind great guy who really does care about saving the world from bad tone.

I like to play anything I can figure out, but my love is rock and metal. My main influence is Rush, but generally love anything that is considered "Dinosaur Rock". Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, UFO, Led Zeppelin, etc. I've been playing for thirty years and have never grown up and thanks to Monte, this pedal will help me stay young even longer. I have five different amps, Marshall JCM-800, Mesa Boogie Nomad 55, Laney GH50L, Sunn Sentura II and a Peavey Classic 50 4x10 and this pedal works well with every one of them. I always have one in my truck just in case I need one in a pinch - at least I know there will always be good tone with me if I don't happen to have all my gear with me. If I had my way I would mod every Metal Zone on the planet so we wouldn't have to listen to all those mid heavy, nasally young rockers out there. Buy this mod and move up to sonic heaven!

This is difficult to rate. I had no prior soldering experience and was able to successfully complete the modification in a couple of hours working very slowly and carefully. I actually enjoyed the process.

I run an American Standard Strat and a Class 5 Les Paul into a THD Univalve with a Celestion-loaded 2-12 cabinet. Effects include a 535Q wah, Big Muff, Keeley DS-1 Ultra, Katana Boost, Keeley CE-2 and DD-3. I really like the tones I get with the Muff and DS-1, but I wanted a metallic capability. I did not want to spend very much because I am not a metal player, and when I came across Monte's site I took chance. I bought a mint condition MT-2 on ebay for $40 and spent $20 on the mod kit. I'm glad I did, because this pedal has some excellent tones in it. When I use it with my Strat, Katana Boost and wah-wah pedal it has monster tone. Can't beat the tone for the price.

Well, since I did the work on this, I can only blame myself if it fails.

I didn't find it necessary to contact Monte, but he certainly has a good reputation for customer support.

Like I said, I'm not a metal player but we do some hard rock and I'll definitely use this pedal to get some triumphant, punishing tones. I love the pedal's sound and doing the modification myself was informative and rewarding. Very cool experience.

It's just like any of his mod kit. Very clear instruction and not hard to install.
It took me only an hour to have everything install.

After I compare it against Keeley's mod, I decide to try this one.

It really has a very unbelievable improvement. It makes the pedal less noisy, and improve the sound definition in many ways.
First of all, it improves the sustain. Now your mt2 can have very long sustain with very low noise.
The high frequency becomes tight, and quite punch for bass. Yay, no more muddy bass.
The dynamic is better. It can be easily played with any of crybaby wah.
The biggest difference is mid-frequency. The original MT2 has a weird and nasal mid-frequency. Monte Allums' mt2 mod kit solves this problem. It reduces this bad characteristic, and your mt2 can still sound fat and full.

After many weeks, it still sounds good and work goods. No problem at all. But just be careful and please pay a lot attention when you install it.

Good customer support. He always replies my email in the same day.

Just pay 20 dollars + shipping and you can make your MT2 sing. What an amazing job done by Monte Allums.

This one is very good for power chord and fill in.
For solo part, you need to change the setting. After that, it sounds awesome.