This past weekend my neighbor across the field (I live in the country) called me up and told me to go over to his house to jam. He plays guitar primarily but he does have a drum set in his music room too. After loading my guitars into the truck I drove around the corner of the road (I live in the country....did I say that already?) and walked into his music room to see him drumming away. Pantera T shirt and all with beer bottles sitting all over the place. This was my kind of music room.
Anywhoo he has a sweet Jackson with the Dinky body and told me to plug into his guitar and Marshall DSL amp. He happens to use the Boss Metal Zone pedal...so I said..."what the heck"...and man was that ever fun. I've never used any sort of "metal" pedal before in my life. Seriously. I've always attained killer gain with amps and maybe an overdrive pedal...but certainly no metal pedal of anytype. This thing was just way too fun. I imagined that I transformed into a 15 year old kid who just plugged into his buddy's amp for an afternoon of metal rhythms and shreading. I had forgotton what scooped mids sounded like. The crazy thing about the pedal (and I may be dumb for writing this...dumb and ignert), was that you run this pedal on a CLEAN channel! All the hyper scooped mid shreading gain comes from this pedal. Lows like I love and really bright highs similar to Marnold's Numetal setting on his Vox. And the volumes we were playing at didn't cause the amp to feedback hardly at all which amazed me. When I plugged in my Les Paul and let him have at it while I pretended to play drums he literally went into a trance and played for almost an hour only to look up and smile occasionally and scream..."man this Les Paul is bad!"
Re-reading this thread made me want to post this little story.
Guitars/Bass - MIM Fender Classic 50s Strat, MIM Fender Standard Strat, Squier Classic Vibe 50s Tele, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Epi '56 Gold Top Les Paul, Martin DSR acoustic, Sigma Martin Auditorium electric/acoustic, Squier Jazz Bass.
Amps/Cabinets/Modelers - Model 2558 50 watt Marshall Silver Anniversary Jubilee combo w/ Celestion Vintage 30s, 4x12 Marshall cabinet w/25 watt Greenback Celestions, Fender Blues Junior w/ a couple of Billm mods, Line 6 POD 2.0, Roland Micro Cube
Pedals/Effects - Cry Baby Classic Wah, Boss TU-2, Boss NS-2, Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Ross Compressor, MXR Micro Amp, Danelectro FAB Echo, Danelectro FAB Chorus, Danelectro Chicken Salad, Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Marshall Echohead, Duhvoodooman's Zonkin' Yellow Screamer, Digitech Digiverb, Digitech Bad Monkey, Dunlop Fuzz Face, Homemade Loop Bypass pedal, Duhvoodooman's Sonic Tonic (Maxon SD-9 clone +), Voodoo Labs Superfuzz