JCM800 + Metal Zone =???

[jgcable]

Death Metal.
Crushing tone.
Here is the simplest way for me to describe the tone.
Imagine stacking a Single Rectifier on top of a JCM800 and turning them both up to 10.
If I ever needed a tone this crushing I would be scared.
I think the combination works so well because the Marshall is very midrange heavy and the Metal Zone is a scooped sizzle rich stomp box. They actually play really well off of each other. This tone is almost as heavy as the Lurchhammer settings I got for the Dual Rectifier that involved using 2 Metal Zones.

[86mod5]

Re: JCM800 + Metal Zone =???

I love my MT-2 Metal Zone stomp box with my Marshall. I would never need the amount of saturation that I could get with this setup.

[Dreamland_Rebel]

Re: JCM800 + Metal Zone =???

that is the old thrash and deathmetal standard right there. so many albums were recorded like that.

[IrfaanSE801]

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So ya finally got it? What setting is the Metal Zone on? I tried hooking it up to a few amps and it send it into insane unusable overdrive.

[InflamedMonkey]

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The Metal Zone is so underrated. It kills through my RG100ES.

[jgcable]

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I just middle of the roaded all of the knobs on the Metal Zone, I dialed down the gain on my JCM800 to 3 and cranked up the volume. The controls on the JCM800 are basically flat. Holy crap. Actually, I fiddled with the controls and I couldn't really get it to sound bad. It even sounds good through the clean channel of the JCM.

[catzodellamarina]

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I bought a MZ when they first came out. It was blazing cool. Too bad at the time I was poor college student and had to trade it in for mic stands for the next band I joined. The other guitarist in that band was just as poor. He traded an original TubeScreamer for mic stands too! AHHH!

[Grandturk]

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Metal Zones - pah! The BOSS Heavy Metal was where the real tone could be found. Man, I miss that pedal.

[jgcable]

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The Heavy Metal pedal is nothing more than a DS-1 with a black paint job. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Cleveland Metal]

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I used to hate the metalzones, but now I love them. That parametric is what gives it the big bang for sure. Definitely a cool sound with an 800!

[442w30]

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I guess I should give the MT-2 another chance.
I used one in the old Gorilla/Fender Champ days and I thought it was the coolest, then thought it was WAY hissy and noisy and just made everything fuzzy with a Randall SS and Crate SS amp. I guess I need to try it with a 'real' amp. John hasn't made a bad suggestion yet IMO.

How does it sound compared to the single rec you were looking at?

[catzodellamarina]

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Analogman has some good sound clips of a modded Metal Zone. His mod certainly beefs up the sound and takes the thin buzz out of it.

[InflamedMonkey]

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Mine has no buzz/fuzz I have one of the first Metal Zones, it's so beat up you can barely read anything on it. Every other metal zone I have tried sounds kind of thin next to it.

[finnman]

Re: JCM800 + Metal Zone =???

MOD No# 5 on this site has a mod for the Metal zone.
http://analogman.com/boss.htm#form

[Dreamland_Rebel]

Re: JCM800 + Metal Zone =???

the trick is to set up your marshall to its best clean sound. then tweak the MT2 to you likings.