Boss Metal Zone MT-2 vs Metal Core ML-2 Guitar Pedal | Full Compass
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- Boss BC-2 British Combo Drive Guitar Effects Pedal overview at Full Compass Systems with Boss Product Specialist, Robert Marcello
ML-2 Metal Core
With its extreme gain, the ML-2 is the most potent and heavy distortion pedal ever created by BOSS. It easily delivers massive distortion and gain with heavy lows for playing Nu Metal, Grind Core, Industrial, Hard Core, or any genre that requires crushing sound. The ML-2's ferocious and biting tone will complement and cut through any blast beats your rhythm section can create.
Features:
• Ultra-heavy distortion with sharp-edged attack for crushing metal riffs
• LOW control for heavy, low frequency sound a la 7-string guitar or dropped tuning
• HIGH control for screaming, metallic tone
• Road-tough BOSS metal construction
MT2 Metal Zone
Features dual-gain circuitry for thick, tube stack distortion with heavy mids and lows and long-lasting sustain. A 3-band EQ with semi-parametric mids takes your sound to the extreme.
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He really did a good job in finding the worst sounds these pedals can produce
Finally someone who doesn't play blues when demoing a metal distortion pedal
John Morgan Yeah I know Man! I was looking for a demo of the MT2 and I'm telling you I got literally four or five vids in a row where the guys said they weren't into metal and like strummed chords and shit and looked confused. Sounded like a bowl of ass.
Dudes will say they shred but will straight up play blues rock riffs.
Hahaha
Hmmmmmm I smell a jobless, useless snowflake millennial?
the metal zone sounds great if you know how to set it up .
Compared to what. To a chainsaw? You can tune it as much as you want ,but will never sound as crisp and clear it should. As a budget pedal is ok, but that's it. Plus it has a terrible backnoise.
the only way to use it through the effect loop return. GAT- Boss MT-2 input MT-2 output- effect loop return
@@cristianseibriger799 as a preamp in the fx loop then it sounds killer
Robert is one of the most legit players in guitardom... I've met him a few times and he is ridiculously humble, and more talented than you would believe.
MT2 for old school metal
ML2 for modern metal
this single comment made more sense than any other comparison ive seen
this dude can play but this was truly a poor demonstration of the two pedals in a head to head comparison.
"This one actually let's you keep all that gain and the audiability of your notes"
Proceeds to play almost incomprehensible riff
I was going to say. My sub-woofer started going crazy, but I still couldn't tell what chords those were :)
If you're like me, you'll want a back and forth between the two pedals :) so to make it easier for you.
MT-2: 1:02
ML-2: 2:24
Não sou especialista no assunto, mas como ja tive a oportunidade de tocar por um bom tempo com os dois, posso dizer que se vc procura algo pesado puxado para a onda do metal moderno, vá com o MetalCore. Se vc procura algo um pouco mais versátil para tocar uma onda do metal mais tradicional, va com o MetalZone.
Foi essa a impressão que tive ao tocar com os dois.
mt2 is the most reliable metal stompbox since its creation. another pedal to check is the mxr fullbore pedal
Well met, Hey just a shout out to Robert Marcello here, i love your style and good controL playing :o) and the pinky over technique on your lead run while the first three hold it down , thats really cooL and provides a whole ton of speed :o) and the tone you got here reminds me of the unmistakable powder Puff crunch of a diezel hagen DAZ ! yeah! Well and the maple fretboard, it really provides a thick pallette and lively base for these pedals to chime in with their abilities to push the envelope. Well loved it. Great to hear these pedals in action and what they can do with a great player. Thanks.
Rob Marcello is one of my favorite guitar players! I met him a few years ago at my local music store while he was demoing the roland syn, very cool guy and a amazing guitar player!!!!
That sounded absolutely terrible.
I have the ML-2 and think its one of the best Metal pedals out there but I also think the MXR Metalcore is right there with it. Tough decision
The standard is normally EMG 81's at the bridge, 85's at the neck.
Some guys reverse them. Ex: Jon Donais from Shadows Fall.
Only way to demo a pedal is to play through one yourself. All sorts of tone modifications are possible depending on your amp and guitar. Even when I go to a vendor to try out effect pedals I still feel like it's all up in the air until I plug it into my set up.
Now this is a DEMO! Thanks Rob!
People talk shit about this pedal.
It takes a long while to dial it in. Remember, if your amp has a clean input you have to balance your input gain on your amp in addition to not overloading it, bass, treble, mid. If you just plug it in and expect the best, you'll be mad. It takes a while, set it up right and experiment - all set ups are different.
Fantastic guitarist but the tones were muffled as fuck.
Those boss pedals and that tone, so freakin badass!!
DUDE!! Finally someone that gets it!! Thanks for doing it right🤘
leave alone the distortion knob (best zero) ,tweak the eq,put a EH Soul
Food/ etc. in front of it and you get a tight/cut through Satriani
lead/rythm sound...
this pedal has very small sweet spot...but then it rocks!
i would hav to agree with u. i took a very long time to tweak my MT-2 after buying it & recently found my favourite setting that satisfies me. it's all about the knob. now everything that anyone else said about this pedal doesn't matter anymore.
Good God.
Some of the best technical players have some of the worst ears for tone.
Watta ya mean?
+dejaron hermann example Randy Rhoads
It's his job to market box products so obviously he will say nice thing to the pedal now won't he? :D but those pedals sucks big time. I just came here for his crazy articulate playing.
Wak Job Absolutely
Yes he could of dialed in the metal core a little more, muffled tone.
all you people saying that the pedals suck and sound terrible abviously dont realize that everyone has a preference for tone and all.
you're so humble man,
but a so furious great guitarist!
Alright, thanks for the feedback!
not true, its just most people dont know how to get the best out of the EQ section on them. i picked up an MT2 years ago for like $30 and i prefer it to other pedals i own that i paid more than 10 times that for. its got a TON of gain (p.s. dont buy it if you arent gonna play heavy) and the EQ section is more versatile and musical than you get on most budget mixers let alone a budget pedal!
the tone they had with the metal zone was AWESOME
i have the ml2 and i dont even know how they make it sound that bad. and im running it rhough an 8inch 15w warwick bass amp.
Plug it in fx return
I was thinking exactely the same, don't recognize AT ALL the sound of a metal core.
Needs mid control if you play metal
@@SamuraiBud that's only your point of view, if you've got the two of them hard to say the metal zone is better ! Could be in a mix for some 90's metal, if you what a "clean" and sharp distortion the metal core is way better, I've got the two and for me it's really clear ! And to answer to the comment, it was about how bad they both sound on this video.
Not to mention one of the most recognizable songs of all time with pinch harmonics (Bark at the Moon) was written by Jake E. Lee who was Zak Wylde's predecessor. Not saying Zak Wylde wasn't already playing like that but just that he is not the only one for sure.
I had a metalzone about a decade ago, but sold it when I needed cash.... Now that I wanted to get some of my pedal collection back, I got a new metalzone. Yes, if you can get the large assortment of analog circuitry to naturally create distortion, it will be slightly more full than any pedal, but the zone is more versatile and costs significantly less than a room of stacks. To the guy who mentioned, only "TS or OD?", the statement is far too general to be applicable even 20 years ago.
Finally..a dude that can play..sweet..and the Core pedal is better.
I´m trying a different pedal, the mega distortion from boss - with an equalizer and I´m very happy with them!
I also did a comparison at GC and the Metal Core won hands down !!! I ended up buying both, and a ST2 and a Metalizer too !!! The metalizer with the ML2 is really fantastic with a GE7 pedal on !!!
Let it snow, let is snow, let it snow...
I'm using the mt-2 rite now. I used to use the ml-2 but it crapped out and stopped working after about two years. In my opinion, mt-2 is much better for soloing, while the ml-2 is AMAZING for 7-string riffing:)!
Yeah, Ed has probably done it all.
If the object is to reproduce a particular style, preference is the rule of thumb. If you are looking for a distortion that has a rich gain stage yet retains the tonal characteristics of your guitar and amp with a maximum degree of flexibility + signal boost the Metal Zone has been set the standard for how many years now? The Zone can justifiably be called classic.
"rich gain stage yet retains the tonal characteristics of your guitar and amp" definately not the metal zone. The metal zone gave people gain back in the day for not a big amount of money and that's what made it popular and what keeps it selling today making it a "classic", definately not because it was a very good sounding option. Nothing wrong with it for the money but you can't be dellusional.
Of course boss can make better sounding metal distortions but they sure will cost more and for that there are other companies already producing excellent options.
You are commenting on an effect pedal as if it functioned in isolation from the amp and instrument. What savvy marketers rely on is our willingness to believe that if we keep upgrading effects we car rescue ourselves from falling behind by spending less time working to improve and more time shopping for new stuff. By referring the Zone with "back in the day", it sounds like you have fallen for the myth that art is like commerce and driven by technology If you are spending good money trying to create a better sound with effects you are buying something. Consider backing up the signal chain to your guitar and remember that your ears are wired to your brain hopefully not to the market place's self serving conception of "progress". I am tempted to say that the older the effect the better. Less is more.
gary morrison"Back in the day" refers to the era when the only amps producing metal sound were very big and very expensive and high gain pedals was for most people the only affordable choice.
Where did I say that the pedal works in isolation? It is better to have something that works well unconditionally than something that will put you in a shitload of settings- hunting and setup configuration changes just to be audibly acceptable.
If you have tried all other metal pedals and noone floats your boat then stay stuck with your metal zone, its your opinion and its respectable.
And where did I say that I like the new stuff instead?
Old or new if something is shit, its shit.
Thanks for this
I think if you don't have a bass player the ultra heavy saturated distortion is great. If you do have a bass player (and you haven't mixed him out) then you will probably be lost in the mix. I use a OD-3 or the philosophers twin with my guitars. And the ML-2 with electric ukulele. Seriously some sweet slide tones with an electric uke. However the high saturation could be good for some undertones/pad like sounds ambient stuff like that.
Thanks for the comparison. I'll probably get the metal core.
I dont play death metal but I really like the Digitech DDM Death Metal Distortion.
This chick can shred!
And she, s hot!
Meta lCore is the one that I am getting, thank you for your demo of the two varieties that Boss makes.
Yep gonna have to get both
Great Intro music, is there a pedal that sounds like the first 8 seconds of this video?
Gotta get both of em!!
jerry cantrell's long lost twin xD
These pedals sound much better coming off a weak 9 volt battery it also when your dial back on the distortion take some of the distortion off of it get some nice stones tickly early funkadelic tones like red hot mama and maggot Brain basically a better fuzz pedal than any but like one of the subscribers said it's best to know how to set that pedal up to get the exact tone that you looking for it's not for everyone it is a pretty good pedal for certain situations like said the Weaker the battery on an boss pedals when it comes to distortion the better to me it seems like they sounds like it gives you a tube effect/ breakup distorted sound
imagine this, mostly guitareffects sound great on youtube because they use expensive amps and guitars and when you get home they suck. With the boss metalzone it even sucks on youtube or in commercials lol
great effects and great player too! :D
The mt-2 is a pretty good, versatile distortion pedal if you know how to use it but, that metalcore pedal is just terrible, it's so muddy and buzzy.
wich one is better for avenged sevenfold?
Metal Core All The Way 😎
Kay thanks. I'm probably gonna get the ml-2.
yeahh same with moolag distortion sound character is very good
I used the Metal Zone as a distortion pedal in the clean channel of my Blackstar HT-5R and it sucked ass, then I used it on the dirty channel with the distortion all the way off and the level almost dimed and the eq however you want with my MXR 10-Band EQ in the loop in a V shape and it sounded BRUTAL! Like I mean insane like early Cannibal Corpse and Deicide it's actually a great pedal when used that way
My Metal zone didn't sound any good in front of my Framus Cobra clean channel. It didn't sound any good in either of the dirty channels. Then I used it in my powerful industrial cement mixer and sounded fantastic. Its all about the correct settings.
Patato Keftes haha what
Great playing, but agh it was like listening to it with my fingers in my ears. No high end at all. Could the demonstrator have lost all his hearing in the upper freq range (maybe from too much gigging)?
He shoulda backed off the gain a bit, the Zone doesn't need more than a 1:30 setting for most applications and the Core no more than 12 o clock.
Beery I agree, I rarely go above 2:00 on the Zone and the core I keep at about 1, but I should probably back off the gain some. I'm probably just hiding behind it, letting the compression compensate for all my picking irregularities.
EVH wishes he could sound like this guy.
I'm sold
"sounds like fried ass holes" - Glenn Fricker
in which video did he say that
+Isaac Kovack line 6 spider review
he says that about the amp not the metal zone
Glenn Fricker's opinion on music in general is pretty fucking trash.
The dude honestly believes that bass serves no purpose in music lol he's an idiot.
Save your money and get a HM-2.
God the intro music....
I will.
Man, these pedals sound so unnatural o_o but... I guess that's what people like...
Rob Marcello is one of my favorite guitar players of all time... and even he can't make the tone of these things good. (albeit his guitar playing is just as fantastic as ever!)
He has to get up the Hight´s!!!
Great Pedals. Just too many amateurs who fuck them up. If the pedal was so bad how come that cover bands try to copy the bands who use the Metal Zone in the first place ? It is only drama queens who criticize these pedals.
If you want to play some 70's - 80's metal, go for the Metal Zone but if you want to play some Nu Metal, go for the Metal Core.
a wide variety of distortion sounds......😳
could use the metal core for that crazy low tunes rhythm with all the palm muting, then use the metal zone with more hi end for a better shred tone :) mix 80's with modern
First of all im going to say you are an awesome guitar player! But my choice would have to be the metal core ;)
Great vid man epic play! I play a combination of the second example of the metal zone and the metal core. I already have a t Rex mab sig. Pedal which should I go with? Also i use a line6 spider iv half stack.
Funny the MT2 was released in 1991. Kill'em all was released in 1983.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Corporation
Skwisgaar...?
buy a behringer noise gate theyre cheap like 30 bucks and put it after the metal zone and turn it all the way up
you made these sound awesome, what amp are you running these through?
Finally a video!
metal core is good for heavy metal like priest or thrash like megadeth or exodus?
The mt-2 is a very badass pedal. I use it when my amp head has alittle gain. Combining the two makes my amp roar. I'm getting the ml-2 someday. Both very amazing pedals.
Metal zone mt-2 metal core ml-2 nice and heavy sound I like too ✌️
The stupidity in some of the comments is overwhelming.
which is best to sound like Motionless in white
My money is on the Metal Zone. The Metalcore is a refined version of the HM2.
Sick, you shred man!
i have a question im getting the metal zone and i have a guitar that is a 1973 classic vintage guitar its pretty awesome but im wondering if it will play really good metal on it by the way my amp is a line 6 spider iv 15 pretty small but will it still sound good? and last question what did u play at 1:03 sounds really awesome lol...i love this vid btw Peace man..
Well, both pedals sounded darker than black…
Hi! I can’t decide between the two, I’m after a grindcore sound? Which one would you recommend please?
OK I own one, haven't played with it for a while, well, its back on my pedal board...
Even the amazing Rob Marcello can't make the MT-2 sounds good....
But Ola Englund and Colin Scott can.
i have both and i feel like they are almost the same pedal. a bit more versatility out of the metal zone imo
That second sound would get lost in a band setting
u rock man...one question< I play metal and I want that distorted sound but at the same time I don't want too much distorted like slayers..Just want just right amount of gain that sound metal and at the same time it doesn't sound too muddy!!!!..which pedal would you recommend?which pedal do you think would sound good while recording and playing live?....\m/...
this help a lot!! metal core sounds hard!
Not sure is Rob Marcello.....or just Dave Murray.
i need the metal core but the metal zone is good as well in my opion
YO ROB EVER HEARD OF TREBLE?
Shit which one to buy?? I'm getting both pedals!
If you close your eyes it’s Christopher Walken doing the review.