777timesgod
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So, I was at work and got frustrated after a meeting, it was the end of the week and I was tired. I went home and while looking/browsing used distortion pedals I came across a Digitech Death metal pedal. As I was pissed off and wanted something foul-sounding for my guitar practice of the day, I offered the seller 14 Euro and he agreed. So in hindsight, it will be easy to sell after I calm down or just use it as decoration.
My usual Damage Control Solid Metal does not provide that nasty dirt of the Boss Metal Zone and Digitech Metal Master (which was my first distortion pedal ever) and to be honest, sometimes you play guitar to blow some steam and not to sound elegantly heavy but at the same time boring and sterile like Ola, Abasi, that Lamp guy whose name I do not remember, etc. I just feel that there is more of an emphasis on constructing a tone with those guys (understandable if you like them as they work hard on what they do) rather than going balls to the wall.
Sometimes you need to sound ugly, so these pedals have their use, despite being mocked by the tone purists.
I never owned the particular one but a guy from a band who shared the stage with one of my own in the past had one and when he forgot it on a gig, we used the Metal Master and he got the exact tone after dialing it right. So it was within the range of the Metal Master, which was a better choice due to it Morph knob which made it versatile to an extend. I remember the Digitech pedals of the 00s being build like tanks, cheap and fun as hell so they are not worthless despite not being a great choice for a serious rigs.
The DM came out many years ago (where is the hate for the Fuzz face or other legendary old pedals which grew old in a bad way?), there is NO Gain knob as it is cranked to 10 and has only the normal EQ selection and the volume (they seem to be very sensitive though). This may be silly to some but how many players that you know, who dial to that point and leave it on their standard distortion pedals, my guess is quite a few. So it made sense to produce one for this crowd, despite it being wrong from a point.
More details and needless review, when it shows up in the post.
My usual Damage Control Solid Metal does not provide that nasty dirt of the Boss Metal Zone and Digitech Metal Master (which was my first distortion pedal ever) and to be honest, sometimes you play guitar to blow some steam and not to sound elegantly heavy but at the same time boring and sterile like Ola, Abasi, that Lamp guy whose name I do not remember, etc. I just feel that there is more of an emphasis on constructing a tone with those guys (understandable if you like them as they work hard on what they do) rather than going balls to the wall.
Sometimes you need to sound ugly, so these pedals have their use, despite being mocked by the tone purists.
I never owned the particular one but a guy from a band who shared the stage with one of my own in the past had one and when he forgot it on a gig, we used the Metal Master and he got the exact tone after dialing it right. So it was within the range of the Metal Master, which was a better choice due to it Morph knob which made it versatile to an extend. I remember the Digitech pedals of the 00s being build like tanks, cheap and fun as hell so they are not worthless despite not being a great choice for a serious rigs.
The DM came out many years ago (where is the hate for the Fuzz face or other legendary old pedals which grew old in a bad way?), there is NO Gain knob as it is cranked to 10 and has only the normal EQ selection and the volume (they seem to be very sensitive though). This may be silly to some but how many players that you know, who dial to that point and leave it on their standard distortion pedals, my guess is quite a few. So it made sense to produce one for this crowd, despite it being wrong from a point.
More details and needless review, when it shows up in the post.
