All user reviews of 3/5 for the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

Analog distortion pedal high gain
A volume
An equalizer four knobs: high, low, middle and mid freq
A distortion knob

UTILIZATION

It's pretty simple, and it is interesting to see how the EQ gives its color to the sound. I play thrash and manuals provide options, but personally, I find it more interesting to look yourself.

SOUND QUALITY

Well, it does not lack punch and less aggression, this side no complaints. After I think it is each recipe. For my part, I find the sound compressed, nasal, it emits a lot of breath and feedback even at low volume (I recommend using it with a noise gate). It's funny when you're in the room you can make such a feedback, but I guess it's more hassle when the sound is background.
If you want a consistent sound, solid and body, forget this pedal. on the other hand, for fans of the under or over dripping sounds, it will do.

OVERALL OPINION

It was one of my first pedals I've used quite a few actually. She never gave me too much more. A twisted knobs and caps out easily. You can always do something, personally I use when I want a dripping sound ominous ... Basically, it seems to me not bad for the black death or under, but for a more consistent sound thrash (Testament, for example) I do not find it terrible.

Everything has been said I think in many opinions on this pedal.
Foot-high gain distortion
-1 Volume knob "Level"
-2 Coaxial potentiometer EQ (low, medium, sharp and to choose a parametric midrange frequency change)
-1 Potentiometer for adjusting the level of distortion
-1 Input and 1 output
-9V battery or external
In short a distortion pedal rather complete level parameter.

UTILIZATION

I always love the buttons and tweak what is not these unfortunate knob that scare me! The handling is very simple, the manual is almost useless. We shoot, we see what happens and then return it to understand what each buttons are.

SOUND QUALITY

This should be about 6 years that I have this pedal if not more. I had a few months after my first electric guitar. Chooses a bit by default, being new at this at the time, I just wanted a distortion pedal to play the song of my favorite group of the time. I thought she was great with my little transistor amp marshall has 15 watts
With time I learned new things, my ear is improved, new equipment has arrived and after a year and a half I completely neglected. I finally find the foul and I still do.
The sound is neutral, synthetic, too "hardcore" for my taste and my style. The éqaliseur works very well gives a wide range of sounds but only unusable.
But there are quite a few months, out of curiosity I decided to resortir to experiment a bit, and especially out of the dust! And it is qu'additionner with the overdrive of my amp (100 watt ashdown fallen angel hybrid) I can get stuff from the beast! I could get the sound of the song "Till I Get My Way" Black Keys! It plays very well the role of EQ pedal with boost bonus.

OVERALL OPINION

Conclusion:
Pedal very poor for my taste in "standalone" but is very effective coupled with an overdrive that will provide the necessary heat and restore some life to the metal box.
In my opinion it up to ca in most musical styles. Only, it will be suitable to the metal, trash, ect ect (area that does not attract me especially) but for all the other style (blues, rock, pop, alternative why not even RnB) it will use it wisely and not especially only. It's not really the ultimate distortion pedal for the novice!
So for now it remains in front of my amp. But once I have the means I highly likely to replace it with a good fuzz.
So much for my very first review

$120 from a Guitar Center in Florida.

I've read a lot of reviews that very from one extreme to the other, but I have to say that it's definitely one of the better solid state distortion pedals out there. I think most of the people who complain about this pedal haven't heard the rest of the offerings out there.

Very unusable in recording situations. The hiss this pedal generates makes it pretty much a live-only pedal. Too easy to dial in that horrible all high-end distortion and speaker woofing bass sound.

Like every Boss pedal, the construction is top notch. I've still got Boss pedals that are 20 years old and they are still working perfectly.

I'm a recording engineer so I get to experience the horrors of beginner guitar sounds all the time and this pedal is heroin to the newbie guitarist. Have you ever heard a guitar part that is so distorted you can't even make out the notes that are being played? It was probably recorded with a MT-2. It's a versitile pedal when used responsibly, but it's still just a solid stated distortion unit. Let's face it folks, this pedal was designed for the beginner guitarists to sound like they're playing through 100 Crate stacks at once. Once they try it, they're hooked and it's hard to get them to come back.

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I was looking for a good distortion and BOSS is pretty reliable. I found the MT-2 and it suited my needs fairly well, so I bought it at Guitar Center for somewhere around $80.

It's rather durable and has a good range. I can get a lot of sounds out of this sucker.

It's a bit expensive and it tends to still be a bit to metalish and beefy in the less distorted overdrive range sounds, but what do you expect? It's called "Metal Zone." If you want overdrive, get an overdrive pedal or a good amp.

Like I said, it's a BOSS product, so you could have an elephant stomp on it without breaking it.

Bottom line? Buy it if you want metal. If you're looking for an all-purpose solution to all your distortion needs, then don't let the other reviews fool you... This isn't it.

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Simple effect pedal distortion typical Heavy Metal
Nan is not digital, and it is 100% pure transo
Input and Output by jack
4 Gain and Volume knobs which
Medium settings, Treble, Bass ...
Main power supply or 9V battery (it seems I have not checked)

UTILIZATION

Difficult to have a sound that fits perfectly with this mess in the knobs, it's boring and long to resolve. The sound is still as "fuzz" and too full of acute (heavy enthusiasts will love), but it is still nice (haaa potatoes anyway) and not drool too much ...
I bought used so I have no manual adjustment provided but just search yourself, or for those who are sick are going to download the manual on the site of Boss.

SOUND QUALITY

Haaaaaaa the essential point: the sound

Okay so now, not put the really crappy stuff behind the pedal. A test on a tube amp. I used a casserole Marshall Valvestate 8080 and its disgusting fuzz coming out and is already becoming more precise and clear on my Hughes & Kettner, but it is not phenomenal either eh ..
Already have good sound, must have the right settings (ouch) ... so you should check the frequency settings on your amp and find those who agree on the pedal. After several months of use, I found the settings that suited me just about on my Marshall, but the sound remains tjs as mediocre and bland.
You can have a multitude of distortion, both crunchy (with the knob of level), that fat that makes the ground shake. The sound is pretty vague.
This pedal is not for rockers.
on the other hand, nothing to do with Digitech The Weapon is really a killer! (Even on an amp transo)

OVERALL OPINION

It's been a long time now I have this pedal.
Its full of sharp, it's loud, it's fuzzy, and it's annoying to get to get a good sound.
I never buy it for 120 €, that's for sure!

Big analog distortion effect
5 control knobs: level and distortion, plus low, mid and mid frequency

UTILIZATION

Not easy with 2 MT!
Then even with patience, we come not to find the right sound (not metal like the sound full of parasites acute, a fuzz that excitement).
I sold it quickly because the main effect of this pedal was to get upset.
I know people say it's a good pedal, I, frankly, I like it.
In addition it is expensive, e m. ..

SOUND QUALITY

I played one time with the Disto 5
Low 10
Mid 5
Mid freq 3 or better at all
Level 2 or 3
This pedal, in fact, a big distortion, but the general default is that in technical means palm-mute the noise instead of a decision of the (shredding).

OVERALL OPINION

I used two months this famous pedal.
Expensive, time consuming in setting, at the end have overcome its shortcomings with two to three other pedals. I reffer no choice. My question obsessive: Would it have been better to buy a 2 MT manufactures in Japan? Made in China because it is the e m. ..

Deja said ... EQUAL distortion level in out ... 9v battery or plug, I board the balls just double knobs for me may seem a weak .. It's been a while since I ais I board a heavy foot but I'm not a nag so it should not go ....

UTILIZATION

Well being the Equal very complex I not recommended for beginners (like me n'on that one amp while poo-pourri because ...

SOUND QUALITY

That's the stuff ... This pedal sounds completely different on each amp (this is normal you say) but not I use a Laney 100W 1x15 .. A shrill sound like everything a true horror as a randall 100w 2x12 AC a hit .. . It's a bit the same for any other pedal but this one is particularly long and tiring a tame but over time ... So if you find a disto; ayer a good amp first and then test different pedals over to find the right one.

OVERALL OPINION

I ais since 2-3 months and I am satisfied I board a while to find a good sound but maintenat's it! I changerrai can be later but for now I n0en not see the point,. Boss is expensive but at least if you just ca not like tjrs easy sell

Of analog distortion pedals primarily for the metal, with a 4-band equalizer (High, Low, Middle, Mid Freq). 1 Level knob + knob a Disto. Powered by 9 volt battery or AC adapter Boss (by options).

UTILIZATION

From the point of view gnral, there is nothing very complicated one turns up that is like. But it must be when even a lot of patience before finding her, especially because of the equalizer, which is not very easy to take in hand, especially for beginners. I think that has to be the main reason for the exaspration some (yes is not putting any funds you get the big sound forcment ...). Otherwise I did not have the user manual. I do not even know there was one in fact. Mdr

SOUND QUALITY

You can have a lot of types of distos available. the crunch is a big sound to fuzz a bit. may agree to play both rhythmic solo. I had used the era of my ESP / Ltd for playing Metallica and on my Whale on the buggers to Sepultura and Slayer.
I tried it on two channels of a Marshall MG30DFX Manir the following:

- Optimal use of the canal clean
- As a boost on the overdrive channel of the amp with equalization twelve o'clock
Well it is in boost I think she was doing the best.

On the clean channel I have to go almost as slowly and Level knobs with Disto boost in the saturated channel of the amp so that the bug does not blow too many. A wind that seems to invite ...

N'esprez not learn something INTERESTED if your strings are not blind.

OVERALL OPINION

A friend to me prt two weeks. The main inconvnient that I have found is that it tends blow too easily. Apart from a, it's not a bad pedals as a. You just love spending time tweaking the rglages and let the spirit of "plug and play" to ct ...

It is also best possder good leads Jack and the limit a noise gates to enjoy properly the capacity of the beast.

I think this is PDAL Designed to boost the base of the small stuff and consquent perfect for beginners to feel a little to transform its 15W transistor in a big body when playing 2 in his room.

Boss everyone know!

input, output, power supply or battery ...

solid pedal

UTILIZATION

No need for manual EQ is overpowered, making it sound very changeable but has the same inconveniant radically change when you move a little knob on ...

not that easy after all!

SOUND QUALITY

I Rejoinder many negative opinions on these points:

1. if you fall down the distortion in the frankly horrible crunch is no hot ... impossible

2. distortions are compressed, ideal for large or heavy metal rhythm, but guitaristre a soloist, it's only the game Intet drown in the mass, in short it is to have a scaffold or boost then use a second channel amp ...

OVERALL OPINION

In total I had two, one that I had been stolen ... I bought one and after much!
nostalgia, when you hold us!
and when I was a kid, I liked this pedal.
now that I'm big, I have more experience and therefore more demanding too!

try, you will see for yourself! but very clearly there's more!
not much better for this price!

next purchase: Blackstar HT Dual

The Boss Metal Zone was designed to basically offer the tones of a very high gain amplifier stack like a Peavey 5150 or Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, but in their classic and compact stompbox format. It features level and gain controls, as well as two dual mode equalization controls, one controlling lows and highs, the other controlling midrange and midrange frequencies. It is housed in Boss' standard compact pedal enclosure, with 4 knobs (the two EQ controls feature concentric pots). It runs on either a 9 volt battery or on Boss' standard PSA adapter.



UTILIZATION

Setting up tones with this pedal is very simple. It's designed to be a very extreme sounding distortion right from the get-go, so you know right away the type of tone you are going to get out of this pedal for the most part.

The level knob controls the overall output level you are hearing (turn it up for more, or down for less, very simple), the first EQ knob controls your low end (bass) frequencies as well as your high end (treble) frequencies. The second EQ knob controls your midrange amount as well as the frequency it sits in (more of a scooped sound or more of a boosted sound).

SOUND QUALITY

I've tried many different versions of this pedal through the years. They're very nice for a young musician who wants a metal tone on a budget. At the time that I owned/used these I was looking for a very classic metal sound like that of Metallica or other thrash metal bands. This pedal works well for that type of high octane tone, though it doesn't come even close to the sound of a good high gain tube amp like the 5150 or Recto. I preferred to boost the mids slightly so that I could be heard within the mix of a band, but still get enough cutting chunky tones out of it as well.

It tended to sound better when I was using higher output pickups like EMGs or Seymour Duncan Invaders. However, since I don't play that sort of metal music any more, those pickups are not something I use. As a result I don't think the MT2 would work for the type of gain tone I go for nowadays, which is more of a classic hard rock vibe.

OVERALL OPINION

All in all I feel that the Boss MT2 is a good pedal for someone on a budget who is looking for a classic metal sound. It's not recommended for someone who knows great tube amp tone, because it will almost certainly fall short, but for a sub $100 pedal it does an okay job at capturing a slice of molten metal tone.

- Controls for Volume, highs, lows, high mids, low mids, drive

- Solid construction, components.

- Powered by either 9v battery or 9v (-) adapter, standard Boss style

- Easy access battery compartment

- Bright red LED

- Buffered bypass

UTILIZATION

Pretty standard pedal setup, input, output, footswitch, power.

Controls for volume and distortion are likewise easy to setup. The 4 band EQ is a little more unusual in a pedal, and can be difficult to dial in for people who aren't familiar with it. The manual is pretty good about providing starting points for various genres and sounds.

Pretty reliable as most boss pedals are. Never had any issues with it.

SOUND QUALITY

There isn't a whole lot of leeway, the MT2 is definitely a metal guitarists pedal. It CAN be coaxed into producing more of a hard rock sound, but that isn't really what it was designed to do.
Overall, the sound is a little thin and fizzy. This can be capitalized on to achieve a very particular form of distortion, but it definitely doesn't have the bottom end that a lot of heavy music requires.

I've found that placing a graphic EQ pedal directly after the Metal Zone can really bring it to life through a little fine tuning. I've also heard great things about the Keeley and Monte Allums mods for it.

Keep in mind it uses the standard Boss buffer which doesn't do great things to your bypassed signal.

OVERALL OPINION

This pedal definitely has a bad reputation among guitarists and the online music community. To be fair, a lot of this has to do with beginners who run it through cheap digital amps that don't take pedals well at all.
But that aside, its not the best pedal out there. It is definitely no replacement for a good high gain channel.

This was the first pedal I bought many years back, and would have probably made a different choice had I been exposed to different options. In my opinion it just isn't worth the money when you can get a digitech TL2 or used Barber Dirty Bomb for the same amount of money.

The Boss MT-2 is one of the more infamous pedals in the Boss line up, and I don't mean that in a good way. Boss set out to create a crazy "heavy metal" to cater towards the metal scene that was prominent at the time. It features a level knob, distortion knob and a three band EQ along with a mid-band knob to adjust the overall tone of the pedal.

UTILIZATION

Boss actually did a really good job at throwing everything in there. It's housed in the famous Boss enclosures, so it'll withstand a nuclear bomb. That said, it also has a pretty bad FET bypass that sucks quite a bit of tone. The manual does a great job at describing what everything does, and first time users might want to glance it over considering this has a 3 band EQ that most people probably aren't used to.

SOUND QUALITY

The sound of this pedal is famous for its poorness. Basically, this pedal sounds pretty bad. The distortion is very harsh and buzzy, and there's no real way of cleaning it up. It's so over the top and noisy that it's almost unusable. I have no clue what Boss was thinking of when they released this pedal. The only saving grace to this pedal is that there's a trick you can do -- Given that it has a three band EQ, you can actually use this as a parametric EQ to boost the amp like a lot of 80s players did back when the Furman PQ-3 was popular. That's actually not a bad way of running this pedal, and it can get some decent tones as it's acting more like an overdrive than a distortion pedal.

OVERALL OPINION

Aside from the trick of using this pedal as an EQ to boost the amp, I really can't recommend this at all. It sounds way too buzzy and fizzy to be of any real use. Most people who buy these are beginners who have no clue what they're getting themselves into. What's worse is they tend to run these things through solid state amps which just square waves the entire signal into some awful mush they call distortion. There are some modders out there that can make them sound good, but I honestly don't think it's worth messing with.

everything has been said, it is small and solid, it's Boss.
sold without transformer.

UTILIZATION

No need for manual, very simple just turn the buttons.

SOUND QUALITY

too harsh and aggressive for me, metal type of course, I do not think it can be used as a main distortion or for solos Dailleurs little rhythmic riffs to be secondary, in short breath away but it is not the distortion I was looking for, very few versatile, it remains in its field.
I highly recommend you to try it because it somewhat surprising, we like it or not.


OVERALL OPINION

I've had it for 2 years now, she is kindly in her closet.
re ^ ^ after changes scratches in my effects loop it all his utilitée, it is not my main disto (I play Punk, Rock, Grunge, Funk, etc.), but from time to time for good thrash metal though, it doest matter XD and then coupled with another distortion pedal it pretty interesting ^ ^

go to review the 20,000 already carac'disons just that it compact and complete

UTILIZATION

this has already thickens the "accuracy" of the eq is very (too?) sensitive so the adjustment can break the balls, however the sound is really "sculptable

SOUND QUALITY

Ben's mouth breaks you either love or hate, I would say this pedal is not made for solos, not very expressive, difficult to make the harmonic whistled as it should, artifficiel, so in many areas is a stew, or much else it is very average, however there are one or palm mute it excels, g test quite a distortion pedal (EHX, MXR, Boss, t-rex, dod, Zvex ... ) on the amp a lot (all tubes, fender vox orange) all higher except for the palm mute
Mass is said

OVERALL OPINION

double effect Kiss cool: stuff means overpriced
super pedal to palm mute

It is a distortion, and everything has been said about the character.

UTILIZATION

The configuration is simple in theory but in real case is squarely face.
Editing sounds is super simple.
The manual I do not know.

SOUND QUALITY

Okay so the big piece, notice the sound.

Puree the MT2, broad question is not obvious.

Good already strong points:
Gain control allows range from crunchouille delivered at a distal overgrown, inaccurate and without personality, without any dynamics. Between both the range and wide.
The equalizer came after the cell distortion can cut the sound drastically and efficiently, without prejudice to the action of the amp's preamp downstream.
The interesting aspect of the proposed adjustment of mediums is that with two guitarists can fiddle with the sound to share the mid frequencies, without stepping on each other. brief fit into the mix. The sound alone is disgusting, nobody would play with him alone with his settings, but
at least two guitar sounds are well separated.

Defects:
The filter is located before the distortion gives a rather special grain that makes the sound a bit tinny with a pronounced hump in the treble. Loved the grain remains rather the same (a little rocky stuff) adapted to a large metal saturation, but not super suited with a minimum gain settings.
The EQ is very effective, downside it is very easy to oobtenir frankly rotten sound by changing the equalizer. The button p____n mediums is much too sensitive, it must be fiddling with micropoil, it really makes no difference.

Room on an amp at low volumes, we lower the mids a bit, it grows low to the big palm mute and treble is added, it candidly flattering.
Set in this manner is atrocious group, group it more bluntly galley to use the big bass are eaten by bass, or returning it in competition, if you cut the mids they are still more that a heinous shit that spin treble filthy ears., so he must review all equalization, but difficult to get away with something honorable.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had six years is not the best pedal in the world, it's clear now I think the difficulty to adjust, earned him a reputation that is not justified execrable.

Already it is not versatile, but it's not a fault either, I would advise against buying this pedal first. A beast DS1 or SD1 after the amp is much more interesting. But gos rock stain, it does pretty well.

It is true that some adjustment has a small synthetic side and I understand people who are nasal, but with a soldering iron can improve things on that side.
Otherwise the sound is cold according to some, is not even funny I see how a metal distortion could have a warm sound, it seems paradoxical to me.
It may not be accurate, but good gain setting can also rotate counterclockwise, which contributes much to gain in precision.

Obviously with this level of distortion, it hums very easily be double and have to get away from noise sources (eg the receiver).

To finish at 100 euros, it's not interesting, now seen secondhand current document is a good little pedal for someone looking for a big distortion, occasional. I doubt that lme for fans of pure metal and hard, there meixu but I doubt whether at 40 euros. In any case if mine makes a soul I redeemed.

Edit: Okay I just décourvrir the Ibanez SM7 on the same segment of the SM7, less twangy, more dynamic and incorporates a noise gate is minimalist and less sweet deal breaks. In short I found that it bursts through the MT2, you see, but try both I think is important before buying.