FX70 Metal X

I've enjoyed this pedal with a variety of rigs over the years, but it is pretty much limited to metal and modern punk.  Someone talked about blues with this pedal, but that's a joke.  It's a super high gain pedal.  Even with the gain turned all the way down it still is fuzzy.  Still, it's great for metal...I play an Ibanez through it and into an old tube amp and it rocks.  I use other overdrive pedals for any other sound, though.

Some people talk about how crappy their DOD pedals are, but I've had two of them for 10+ years without any problems.  Don't try to smash it when you stomp and it should be fine.

I bought this pedal years ago and have always found it easy to use.  It's like any other simple pedal...with no stupid names for level, high, low, and gain.   

I've never had to call them, but because this pedal was discontinued years ago, you can't get the manual from the website.  They have manuals for other discontinued pedals, but not this one.

They're pretty cheap used and are great for playing something heavy.  Just remember what you've bought.  It is a specialized pedal.  It can't do everything.  I've been using it for more than 10 years and wouldn't even think of selling it.

I bought this pedal because I heard it was one of the heaviest pedals ever. I play lofi rock and I've used a Grunge pedal in addition to a RAT for normal use for years - not because it sounds good you understand but it gives an uncontrollable noise to get a wall of noise for occasional freakout bits. It sounds horrible. Which is good. I heard that this was totally out of control and like a Grunge on 11. I expected this pedal to be heaver than a grunge ie: total sonic Armageddon in a box. I was disappointed. It's pretty loud and it's louder than the grunge pedal. But it's not as distorted and it's got that scooped mids sound I hate. I guess I was pretty stupid to expect more from a pedal called metal X, but it's been released under different names too (Corrosion, Big Pig). It probably is one of the heaviest pedals ever but no mids mean a lot of the distortion and power is lost. You can adjust the highs and lows but there are always no mids with this pedal. Grrr. The pedal is noisy and has a nasty synthetic sound that will work well for industrial and metal. This pedal is for METAL. If you are into Marilyn Manson and all the nu metal stuff you'll like this pedal. It's really distorted and has no mids whatsoever. It gives that chainsaw guitar sound or a wall of noise. But there's no mids and this means I don't stand out with a band. I personally don't understand why anyone would want to scoop the mids. But whatever floats your boat I guess.

It's DOD which means footswitch problems agogo. It's basically reliable but you'll have to fix things with your soldering iron. It's always small things that go wrong you can fix yourself. Bizzare 10 v power supply.

Four knobs, distortion amount, Low, Mid, and level. Dead easy

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This is a really distorted pedal for nu metal. I'm not into metal and therefore I didn't like it. But you might want to consider this if you like all this seven string music and are just starting out. It's not the sort of thing you will use when you get to be in a professional band though, you'll want a big stack of amps. But it will more than do for playing the Beautiful People in your bedroom.

I originally bought the pedal because I couldn't get enough gain from my Crate GX 2x12 combo.  I liked the increased gain but not the increased noise.  I tried using it at low gain settings as an overdrive for the the same setup also.  Again, I liked the sound but not the noise.  When I got my Mesa/Boogie strategy 500 power amp, I used this as the preamp for it until I could upgrade to a Triaxis.  The sound is EXTREMELY good when run through a decent tube power amp section.  The pedal does have noise, but I'm planning on keeping it because it simply has killer distortion.  It looses one point for noise while on and one point for some noise while it's in bypass.

I have not had a problem with it ever except for a battery dying.  I have the ac adaptor for it now, however, so that is no longer a problem.  I would suggest not stomping too hard on the pedal switch since it's plastic, but overall the chassis and controls can take a fair amount of pressure without sustaining damage.  It looses one point for having a plastic switch.

It has four knobs; level, low, high and gain.  Tweaking can't get much easier for a pedal.  I wish it did have a midrange or contour knob though.

I've never used their customer support.

For thrash, shredding, some death metal, some industrial, some alternative rock and any music that you need high-gain distortion for, this pedal delivers.  I now have a Mesa Triaxis, so this pedal will only see occasional use, but it will still get used, just not as often. Like I said in the features section, a midrange EQ control or contour knob would've been great, however the death metal distortion box is the only DOD pedal I know of that does have a three band EQ. The noise that comes along with using it is the only thing that I strongly dislike about it.