my new Explorer / metal rig (pictures)...

[Pierre]

The Uber Metal is a great distortion. It eats batteries for breakfast though. And I mean this, if you play at night the battery will be dead for breakfast.
I couldn't find a sound I liked from it, but it's a real good one.

I thought the Death Metal was absolutely horrible and annoying sounding in comparison :P You may want to try the Uber Metal.

But neither pedals are really organic or natural sounding.
It's a bit useless having a BK and then playing through those pedals I'd say. I mean obviously it's better than a Powersound on those cheap Ibanez... but you're ruining the pup a bit.
If I were you I'd save up some more and get some real cool like a Vox Bulldog or a Radial Hot British. Or a valve amp with a distortion channel ;)

Though all this may just be me :)

[HTH AMPS]

Where's the amp??

out of shot (heh), it's a '76 Superbass 100w head.

 :twisted:

[Crazy_Joe]

The Uber Metal is a great distortion. It eats batteries for breakfast though. And I mean this, if you play at night the battery will be dead for breakfast.
I couldn't find a sound I liked from it, but it's a real good one.

I thought the Death Metal was absolutely horrible and annoying sounding in comparison :P You may want to try the Uber Metal.

But neither pedals are really organic or natural sounding.
It's a bit useless having a BK and then playing through those pedals I'd say. I mean obviously it's better than a Powersound on those cheap Ibanez... but you're ruining the pup a bit.
If I were you I'd save up some more and get some real cool like a Vox Bulldog or a Radial Hot British. Or a valve amp with a distortion channel ;)

Though all this may just be me :)

The uber metal is pure shite. I had one and all it gave me was gay line 6 nu metal distortions.

[Pierre]

The Uber Metal is a great distortion. It eats batteries for breakfast though. And I mean this, if you play at night the battery will be dead for breakfast.
I couldn't find a sound I liked from it, but it's a real good one.

I thought the Death Metal was absolutely horrible and annoying sounding in comparison :P You may want to try the Uber Metal.

But neither pedals are really organic or natural sounding.
It's a bit useless having a BK and then playing through those pedals I'd say. I mean obviously it's better than a Powersound on those cheap Ibanez... but you're ruining the pup a bit.
If I were you I'd save up some more and get some real cool like a Vox Bulldog or a Radial Hot British. Or a valve amp with a distortion channel ;)

Though all this may just be me :)

The uber metal is pure shitee. I had one and all it gave me was gay line 6 nu metal distortions.

Hehe exactly what I thought of the Death Metal or Boss MT2 myself. The Uber Metal almost felt right compare to these two. But still not organic enough for me. It's VERY modern sounding and yes, you can make it very nu metal. I boosted my mids myself though so it didn't sound anything like Nu Metal, sorry to disapoint you ;) There are many ways to set it up.

[indysmith]

The Uber Metal is a great distortion. It eats batteries for breakfast though. And I mean this, if you play at night the battery will be dead for breakfast.
I couldn't find a sound I liked from it, but it's a real good one.

I thought the Death Metal was absolutely horrible and annoying sounding in comparison :P You may want to try the Uber Metal.

But neither pedals are really organic or natural sounding.
It's a bit useless having a BK and then playing through those pedals I'd say. I mean obviously it's better than a Powersound on those cheap Ibanez... but you're ruining the pup a bit.
If I were you I'd save up some more and get some real cool like a Vox Bulldog or a Radial Hot British. Or a valve amp with a distortion channel ;)

Though all this may just be me :)

i have multiple valve amps.I'm not looking for something "organic and natural sounding", hence why i'm looking at cheap stupidly high gain solid state distortion boxes :P i just want something that will sound like death. my mesa's very bluesy and my marshall's very rocky and my matamp's very clean (and organic and natural), i want something really cheap'n'cheerful for the VERY little death metal i play.

[Pierre]

Well then the Uber Metal should be just right your alley :)

[indysmith]

Well then the Uber Metal should be just right your alley :)

sweet. thanks man

[gorath23]

Nope you're all wrong  :P  The 'old-skool' pedal to have for 80's/90's DM is the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal, loads of bands were using this back in the day. Really cheap off Ebay too.

[indysmith]

Nope you're all wrong  :P  The 'old-skool' pedal to have for 80's/90's DM is the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal, loads of bands were using this back in the day. Really cheap off Ebay too.

i've heard nothing but bad things about it though... keeley one looks good but it's expensive

[Crazy_Joe]

Not to be awkward but i think the Digitech will be better for Death :lol:

[indysmith]

bar-stewards...¬¬ *goes cross-eyed and falls over*

I thought this was gonna be a real quick decision, lol. Looks like i'm gonna have to do some more research...
http://www.digitech.com/products/xseriesflash/MetalMaster.html
the tour of hell setting on here sounds cool 8) the rest is yuck though

[Crazy_Joe]

For high gain death metal the Digitech Death Metal leads the way, such a good pedal for death metal, hence the name :lol: You can get it in my local shop for £45! Theres no point spending another 20 or so quid on something that you aren't really going to use, there isn't much difference in them anyways.

[HTH AMPS]

I've got all the organic valve overdrive I want... '76 Superbass, 60's Laney Supergroup, AC20 (homebrew), 3x Simms Watts heads, '63/43 copper panel AC30, Fender Tweed Deluxe (5E3 homebrew).  The last thing I need is more organic overdrive, I bought the Death Metal pedal specifically for masses of mental gain and that oldschool buzzsaw tone.

I got mine off ebay for £36, ended up as £41 by the time postage was figured in.  Digitech also do a distortion pedal called the Distortion Factory, that'll do a wider range of overdrives/distortions... http://www.digitech.com/products/DF7/DF7.htm



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[the_bleeding]

heres my rule: avoid pedals with "metal" in the name


i have an hm-2, and it sucks... no wonder it only cost me 12$... very nasally and smooth... no crunch that i like.  Listen to a celtic frost album, thats straight up hm-2 tone.  Its fun to put into a lightly overdriven tube amp though... that can get you chainsaw grind a la dismember... i'll post a clip

Personally, for the deth metallzlzz tone, i'd plug a tube screamer into a mesa v-twin... or just use a straight up engl preamp


http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=686797
clip details:
eastwood GP bridge pickup (super 2), tone knob set to 0, volume to 10
--> hm 2 (volume dimed, gain layed off a bit... dont remember EQ)
--> marshall 6100 LM crunch channel, VERY sparing on the amp gain.
--> line 6 spider II cab

[HTH AMPS]

heres my rule: avoid pedals with "metal" in the name


i have an hm-2, and it sucks... no wonder it only cost me 12$... very nasally and smooth... no crunch that i like.  Listen to a celtic frost album, thats straight up hm-2 tone.  Its fun to put into a lightly overdriven tube amp though... that can get you chainsaw grind a la dismember... i'll post a clip

Personally, for the deth metallzlzz tone, i'd plug a tube screamer into a mesa v-twin... or just use a straight up engl preamp


http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=686797
clip details:
eastwood GP bridge pickup (super 2), tone knob set to 0, volume to 10
--> hm 2 (volume dimed, gain layed off a bit... dont remember EQ)
--> marshall 6100 LM crunch channel, VERY sparing on the amp gain.
--> line 6 spider II cab

y'see, I actually LIKE Celtic Frost.

 :twisted: