FX58 Metal Maniac

The sound of this thing is pretty lame. Much worse than I remember, but I guess this is understandable after being used to using better quality distortion for so many years. The sustain is pretty weak compared to what I've been used to. One nice thing it has to offer is that it rekindles some old memories of what it was like when I was younger and first started playing guitar, but after the reminiscing is over I'm still left wondering how on earth I ever coped with this lousy sound for so long back then. I guess it was a case of not knowing anything better at the time. Well, time certainly changes things. Stylistically I guess this pedal would work good for people who were into the early 90s sloppy grunge rock style. It doesn't work that great for Metal though, when playing Metal you definitely need something more powerful than this.

As for the pedal's reliability, well...it's still working after 13 years, so I guess I can't complain there. I just wish I could say the same thing about my beloved effects processer :)

My effects processor recently died, so I had to resort to digging out this old pedal from my closet. My friend first bought this pedal back in 1992 and I bought it off him a couple years later. It's certainly quite simple to use, 3 knobs to choose from. Click it on and presto!!You're ready to rock!!...well, sort of.

I remember for a short time I had a pedal called The ''Death Metal Pedal''. I remember that one had a much better and more powerful sound. My advice to Metal fans would be to find one of those instead.

ive used it with 2 strat copies and a telecaster it sounded good on them all, apart from it screamed abit with feedback on my strat with humbuckers so it depends whats in your guitar.I has a strong distortion with strong bass so it adds alot of thickness i was amazed of how much sustain it had.At the shop i bought it in i used this and a metal zone i tried playing some riffs with the metal zone but it didnt have the chunkiness and the sustain, i got home played this to death reacked it rocked looked at the reviews and i cant believe how many say it sucks i dont reckon its true. but make up your own mind play one.I use this with a tube works 352 solid state amp works perfect, im not sure if its really good at imatating sounds i can get some good stabbing westward tones like "everything i touch" "ungod" and filters "hey man nice shot". This pedal really kicks off with some chorus i out the depth up on my ce-3 and put the rate down it gave a good flanged distorted sound, use it with another effects pedal to get screaming feedback. all in all its good but its not perfect.

nah its not gonna break its metal the only thing to worry about is the battery cover coming off. The switch is plastic but it would be hard to break it.I would use any pedal as a backup if i had a gig

Its easy enough to use you got level presence and distortion. A bit weird that the distortion knob only has to sounds below 11 o'clock and above but the presence knob helps create more tones with it.

i havent dealt with them.

I play abit of everything mostly rock based from led zepp nirvana filter stabbing westward nufan mest bush placebo etc. it seems to work well with most of these. Ive been playing for about 5 years ive got about 8 guitars 5 effects pedals this is second best out of my pedals the ds-2 is first only cause the range of sounds. I has a real bassy distortion thats thick thats the best thing about it. Its only been compared to a ds-1 a ds-2 a metal zone a modern fusion and a range of amp disortions but i like it second best. This pedal gives me an edge to create new sounds i havent heard with other distortions, i recommned getting this is you need a thick distortion with alot of sustain and most importantly dont let these reviews decide what to buy try it first