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Published on 04/07/06 at 05:48
This is a guitar effects pedal, which offers a single effect: the distortion. Pedal analog transistors: it means and it's good.
Input and output jack and a footswitch quality in DOD. It eats batteries 9v course, but there's a minijack input for a dc external power supply.

UTILIZATION

As on most distos, turn the knobs for gain, tone and output volume to sculpt the sound. Very easy to use. Bought new with the manual, it spoke only of chaining possible with other pedals but not the settings themselves understood ... it's simple to do his little sound distortion at home. Very easy to adjust.
Mention A + (20 of 20) for the footswitch which is silent in all weather, and as new after 14 years of use.

SOUND QUALITY

Special attention to pedal!
The distortion that comes out of this pedal is super effective! but I will not say realistic, knowing that many of the scratch looking for "tube" "vintage" "warm" etc ... But it is one of the powerful distos I know: it breaks everything in its path.
I use it primarily an electric guitar, and while it sounds on the humbuckers, it is especially simple micro-coils (with more acute and more attack then) you get a very destroy its . Sometimes I get a Hammond organ or synthesizer in basic: ca does too.
Overall I compare the sound of the Metal Maniac to that of a mill in full operation. Probably due to the "fuzz" in the upper midrange on each note. It's quite a fuzz, and it does on the powerchords, and it is more distinctive (we like it or not) of arpeggios or solo.
My favorite sound with this pedal: a wah-wah to before, with the pedal on and "max" (after the "wwwouaa"), and enters the Metal Maniac with an excess of treble. Huge!
Pedal designed to make the grunge of the Indus, the goth! and why not a big yucky riff in the middle of a tube.

OVERALL OPINION

I have since 1992 and I keep it warm. When I bought it, the salesman told me I was one of the only scratch to buy it. Apparently, a distortion too original, too conventional. It's funny, most people who have taken was to saturate a harmonica.
I collect distortion pedals and I use them all regularly, and it's one of my favorites. I do not know the equivalent of pedals ... it is similar to Boss Metal Zone but also messy.
Yes I do it again the same choice if it again. Then it was cheap at the time about 500FF.