Rocktron Metal Planet

This pedal is so easy to use you would have to be cognatively disabled to have problems. Seriously this thing has low lowmid hi and himid. It has a distortion and level knob also.

I used a Jackson DXMG on this little black box, through a crate blue voodoo. WEll this pile sounds as scratchy a breakbeat song. I have every setting it ranges from harsh,if you could play your guitar through sand paper and a death metal from dod then you would have the hi's. The lows are cold and muffled so scooped really really lacks any sort of good tone. So basically if asshole was a tone the metal planet would be it. This pedal sucks so much as a retard ass pop punker could only be happy with it. Oh yeah for some reason the mother fucker decideds to self oscilate. The only effects that don't make it sound horrible are delay, reverb, and tremelo

Yeah I throw it out of my window but the peice of shit still works one of the bottom pads feel off but thats about it. ANd Hell no I will not gig with it. I Fabtone sounds as shitty as this pile glad I got it for cheap cause if I would have payed full price I would have shit myself in the face.

I have better things to do than bitch out rocktron. THey have nice sounding racks but the stomps so as shitty as new found glory.

I play metal and this is not for metal the name and materail is the only metal thing about it. I would rather play thru a zoom 505 than this shit hole. If it were lost or stolen I would call up the person and thank them for taking it off my hands but no one wants the damn thing. I wish it had good tone. The only thing that its useful for is punkbullshit or blues or old bastard rock. If you buy this fag rocker pedal don't bitch to me because old Bob warned you shit heads. So if you fuck faces buy it after this you should cut your own balls off because your tone will also lack balls.

This is a distortion stompbox, so it's not terribly complicated. Still, it has a nice active EQ that seems a bit more detailed than other units in its class and lets you really dial in whether you want a "tinny" or "bassy" distortion. There is not much to the manual, but really, there doesn't need to be. The only improvement I could suggest would perhaps be suggested settings to get one type of overdrive sound or another, but then again, it's just as easy to twiddle the knobs yourself!

This pedal impresses me. I use a Yamaha G20-110 III amp, which, even though it has a clean and dirty channel, is a remarkably clean sounding amp. It is so clean, in fact, that to get adequate distortion from this amp before I bought the pedal, I re-adjusted the trim-pots that bias the amp so that the dirty channel would have adequate distortion. The problem with this approach is that it left the clean channel somewhat dirty as well. Now that I have this pedal, I've returned the amp to it's original settings. The results: I have beautifully clean tone with the pedal off, and bone crushing crunch (with a little fuzz) when I turn the effect on. At the end of the day, it's not a Marshall Stack, and it won't make your practice amp sound like one. But it comes as close as something like this can get to that wildly overdriven type sound.

I haven't had trouble yet. Unlike the plastic stompboxes some other manufacturers are fancying these days, this unit is solidly built out of metal. I would gig with this without a backup, but then again, typically you have some way to play with distortion if need be so it wouldn't be the end of the world if it went out.

I've never dealt with Rocktron.

I've been playing guitar for about a year, but I've played bass in bands for about 10 years, and I've heard plenty of different guitars, amps, and effects to have an opinion of what I like. For the punk-ish music I play, this is about perfect. Most working punk bands (ones that don't have tons of major label money for equipment) don't have particularly great equipment, or they just play whatever is handy. So I go for that "semi-nice amp with every knob maxed out" type sound where you get a good amount of overdrive with a little bit of bad solid state fuzz thrown in for effect. This pedal will give you that sound.

What I like in particular about this pedal is that is has a nicer active EQ in it than a lot of the competition. You can adjust the sound to whatever you like, be it my preference for a bassy crunch, or a tinny sound if you prefer, or anywhere in between.

What I don't like is that I have this pedal pretty well maxed as far as the "distortion" setting goes, and the "level" control has to be set pretty low so that clean and dirty have the same overall volume. This isn't particularly surpising though, and I attribute this mostly to the fact that my amp was really probably designed by people who felt that cleaner was always better, and so this pedal has a lot of work to do to make it sound aggressive.

One other comment I'd make is that Rocktron has totally bought into the trend in pro audio equipment in the last few years of using blue LEDs in everything! These seemed cool for a bit; to me they are annoyingly, ludicrously bright and distract/bother me, especially when playing somewhere poorly lit (which is almost any bar or other venue). I guess if you had any question as to whether the distortion is turned on (and trust me, you won't) it'd be handy.

I didn't do a whole lot of shopping around, as my local music store doesn't have a great selection, and things like sounds from pedals are so subjective that I want to hear it for myself first, so I wasn't going to buy online. I compared it to one of the newer Ibanez Tube Screamers, and a Boss overdrive pedal (don't remember specifically which one; it was yellow). I hated the Tube Screamer, which left the Rocktron and the Boss pedal. In the end, I bought the Metal Planet because it was cheaper and I like the sound a tiny bit better.

Overall, I like the sound, and it helps me make music, but I do stress that I have pretty simple taste when it comes to this sort of thing. Simply having a ton of distortion is just fine by me.

I give Rocktron points for actually including a battery with this; I was pleasantly surprised that I could use it without shelling out more dough for a battery.

In the end, I give this unit an eight. It's very nice, but I haven't seen a stompbox yet that works miracles.