August 9, 2009

Dirt Review – Boss Metal Zone MT-2

Stashed under: Reviews - Overdrive / Distortion — grygrx @ 5:15 pm

Initial thoughts:

My personal tastes veer toward the pricey and fancy, but I’m not so snotty about it that I can’t recognize that many of those fancy pedals are wasted on a live audience, and that having more money tied up in pedals than I do in amps is totally vividly ridiculous. I’m making an effort to include more quality budget boxes in my buying/review habits.

This is a pedal I had never considered for bass, but when asking around for ‘less boutique’  things to try its name came up a couple of times. I saw a used one pop up for a good price and figured I would give it a whirl.

1 Comment

  1. I’ve been using Boss MT-2 some time ago. I was nice to recreate old-school metal distortion sound like Cliff’s Pulling Teeth.
    The biggest problem is lack of lows I think – even at all-tube amp I couldn’t really cut thru the guitars.

    As for cheap-ass Boss effects I like Bass Overdrive ODB-3 set Gain at 3 o’clock and Balance fully clockwise. It sounded to harsh with late 80’s solid-state Trace-Elliot, but gives tons of grit with all-tube Ampeg.
    Try it with your Sovtek amp and I don’t think you’ll be dissapointed.
    Greetz

    Comment by Burning — August 12, 2009 @ 3:47 am

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