the metal zone has good distortion but i am looking for more buzz in the distortion!. i was thinking a fuzz pedal might help or maybe an overdirve pedal, i have no idea!. Has anyone used another pedal with the metal zone!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You've gotta be joking!. You need more distortion than what a metal zone has to offer!? Seriously!? And what the heck is a tremolo going to do!? Make it go "wobble wobble"!? How is that going to help!? Okay, if i'm interpreting your question correctly, you need to do one (or more) of the following things: Get a hotter signal - get higher output pickups!. If your pickups aren't making much of a signal, then your distortion will be anemic!. Stock pickups!? Bingo!. You can try raising your pickups closer to the strings (not too close!), but that only goes so far!. Get a hotter signal - line boost, overdrive, EQ!. Again, a hotter signal makes a chewier distortion!. Line boost/clean boost takes a quieter signal and makes it louder, overdrive adds some grit and harmonics for a richer signal, and EQ is fine tuning or selective frequency boosting!. Without knowing the particulars, any of these could do the trick!. A decent pedal like an MXR or a Boss GE-7 should give you plenty of control over your signal!. Cheaper EQ's will hiss more!. Get a different distortion unit!. It is conceivable that the sound you're looking for isn't possible with the metal zone!. If you want a thick fuzz, for instance, a la Big Muff or Metal Muff, you pretty much aren't going to get it from a Metal Zone!.!.!. it's a different type of distortion!. Usually with a unit like the Metal Zone gain stacking isn't feasible!.!.!. there's already so much gain in it that adding more just doesn't work!. Nevertheless you can try adding another distortion pedal in front of it, but you'll want one that can clean up if you roll back the gain or volume of your guitar!. Set it with very low gain and high level or volume!.!.!. that way it works more like an overdrive and pushes the Metal Zone further into clipping instead of turning your rig into a Feedback-o-Matic!. Well, it might do that, too!.!.!. Usually buzz = fuzz!.!.!.!. but not always!. I can get a pretty wide range of sounds from my Metal Zone, but I also have a moderately hot pickup - a Seymour Duncan JB humbucker!. It ain't the highest output, but I can't turn up the gain past 40% or so before it turns into noise!.!.!. so I think it's hot enough!. Try getting better pickups or an EQ pedal!. You can do an awful lot with an EQ pedal, from modifying tone to a solo boost to feedback control to distortion voicing (EQ after the distortion pedal)!. SaulWww@QuestionHome@Com Fulltone's OCD sounds great! ZVEX makes the (cheaper) Vexter Line Box of Rock- which is both a killer distortion that emulates a classic Marshall on 10 and also has a great and clean sounding boost built in!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I'd recommend the tremolo also!.Www@QuestionHome@Com tremoloWww@QuestionHome@Com |