Metalzone Question

UnclePsychosis

Yeah yeah, tin of bees, whatever.

I've seen people talk about using the metalzone as an EQ because the parametric EQ on it is so powerful.

Does this mean that if you turn the gain all the way down you can use it as a (clean) para EQ? Or is there always some level of distortion? 

professorben

Brian Wampler did a video of midfield no a metal zone to an eq pedal. 
Im not sure how much signsl you will get out of it at min gain/max output. 

Sporky

UnclePsychosis said:

Does this mean that if you turn the gain all the way down you can use it as a (clean) para EQ? Or is there always some level of distortion? 

If you really spank the input it'll clip eventually, but with the gain on 0 it'll go pretty loud without any dirt. You can also snip out the clipping diodes.

It's a remarkably useful pedal.

mike_l

The single biggest mistake made with Metalzones is the use of too much gain from the pedal. Use no more than 2/3rds of the gain available into a (slightly) crunchy amp, and you have a very useable fuzzy distortion.

And yes, the EQ section is fantastic for a (relatively) cheap pedal.

guitarfishbay

There are  surprising range of sounds in it, from absolutely terrible to useful in many different scenarios.  I figure the name, and the ease at which you could potentially make it sound awful are the reasons for it's bad rep, but it's honestly not that bad at all

darthed1981

The cheap behringer copy gets rave reviews on Amazon if that helps anyone

Teetonetal

Yes it's a very good eq. I used to use it in an fx loop to do just that after thinking it was an awful distortion. Haven't had one for years so I can't recall if you can get it totally clean or not and i was using it in a dirty amp so wasnt too bothered if it was a little bit dirty but that eq is very powerful and useful.