Boss digital metalizer

ThePrettyDamned

Tried one. It's a bitchin' pedal! Now I want one. Huge, saturated crunch and also a really nice medium gain overdrive sound that's pretty responsive.

Yup, not kidding. Anyone else used one? Turns out I like a pretty wide range of boss dirt boxes... I'm going to get an sd-2 soon hopefully, and the metalizer is definitely on my hit list!

mike_l

I believe a certain Mr Gilmour used one on the track "Sorrow", most specifically for the intro/outro parts.

steamabacus

Just say no!

It starts all innocuously, just a quick play on an MZ-2 - "What harm can it do?". Before you know it, you're onto the hard stuff, three or four Metal Zones a week, selling your last Klon to get a fizzy hit. Your wife leaves you, your kids disown you, you're sleeping in a cardboard box.

It's really not worth it. Stick to a nice safe pedal like a tubescreamer.

mike_l

steamabacus said:

Just say no!

It starts all innocuously, just a quick play on an MZ-2 - "What harm can it do?". Before you know it, you're onto the hard stuff, three or four Metal Zones a week, selling your last Klon to get a fizzy hit. Your wife leaves you, your kids disown you, you're sleeping in a cardboard box.

It's really not worth it. Stick to a nice safe pedal like a tubescreamer.

Don't listen to this. He's wrong, wrong I tells ya. Distortion is awesome*.

 

*Rhyme incidental

vasselmeyer

I remember playing with one of these in the late 1980s. If I recall correctly they had a kind of very short delay (doubler?) and a chorus built in. Very 80s.

hugbot

Im really liking the HM2 at the moment. Not tried a metallizer. I had a quick bash on a HM3 and it was a bit wank.

ThePrettyDamned

vasselmeyer said:

I remember playing with one of these in the late 1980s. If I recall correctly they had a kind of very short delay (doubler?) and a chorus built in. Very 80s.

That's it. Apparently, the distortion is all analogue - and it sounds really, really cool.  

Neil

vasselmeyer said:

I remember playing with one of these in the late 1980s. If I recall correctly they had a kind of very short delay (doubler?) and a chorus built in. Very 80s.

Yep, got one here.

Six modes (?) on tap.

SGL
Drive
Doub I,II,III
Cho 1,2

Horrifically mad thing, belongs to my son.

d8m

Sometimes I quite like the sound of my MT-2...

fretmeister

Great pedal. Should never have sold mine.

mike_l

fretmeister said:

Great pedal. Should never have sold mine.

Wisdom. Hindsight is a wonderful thing....

ThePrettyDamned

mike_l;574391" said:

fretmeister said:

Great pedal. Should never have sold mine.Wisdom. Hindsight is a wonderful thing....

Glad I'm not alone. The crunch sounds really good on it!

spacecadet

Did that have built in chorus?

ThePrettyDamned

spacecadet;574578" said:

Did that have built in chorus?

Yeah, two digital settings.

stonevibe

I hated the one I owned.

Sounded fizzy and thin.

But then I'm more of a fuzz man.

rawk100

I had one years ago, it was fizzier than an alka seltzer in a glass of champagne.

Gassage

mike_l said:

I believe a certain Mr Gilmour used one on the track "Sorrow", most specifically for the intro/outro parts.

Ironically no. Those were a Big Muff.

The solo itself is a Boss HM2.

ThePrettyDamned

rawk100;576223" said:

I had one years ago, it was fizzier than an alka seltzer in a glass of champagne.

The one I tried could get fizzy, but only if you wanted it to. It just had a crazy big sounding, thick, saturated crunch.

I think I might need one to further bossify my board, though I want a dd2 more. Or a dsd2 for cool factor...

steamabacus

ThePrettyDamned said:

I think I might need one to further bossify my board, though I want a dd2 more. Or a dsd2 for cool factor...

Is there a particular reason you want a DD2 as opposed to an early DD3? I would have thought you could pick up a DD3 for much less.

ThePrettyDamned

steamabacus;576254" said:

ThePrettyDamned said:





I think I might need one to further bossify my board, though I want a dd2 more. Or a dsd2 for cool factor...





Is there a particular reason you want a DD2 as opposed to an early DD3? I would have thought you could pick up a DD3 for much less.

Early dd-3s seem to be pretty much as sought after as a dd-2. A battered one should be affordable, and dsd-2s are the cheapest of the lot really. Rarer, too, so bonus cool.

steamabacus

Back in my gigging days, I used a DSD-3 (borrowed off my bass player) alongside my own DD-3. They did sound identical but, if my memory serves me, the DSD-3 didn't have the short delay time setting (<50ms?) of the DD-3. And the 'sampler' bit was useless!