over stigmata of squeal
techniques the MT-CD can
get downright John Christ
on the matter. Show me
“How the Gods Kill” indeed.
WHAT WE LIKE
If one is after a cheap
well-built Marshall-like
stomper that can go from
classic rock, to hair metal,
to thrash, it would prove
After that trip down Metal
Memory Lane, I must stress near impossible to find a
that this box can cover a lot better sounding piece at
this price point. In fact, this
of musical ground outside
unassuming little yellow
of the wicked walls. At
bruiser can punch well
about 10 o’ clock on the
Gain with the Level just past above it’s weight in tone—a
unity and the Tone between characteristic shared across
the range of ModTone
ten and two, we are kneepedals. This is a full-range
deep in Rio Grande Mudera ZZ Top. That record still distortion pedal in every
facet. No nasally dark basssounds so slick today and
less overdrive here. It packs
this pedal nails the tone at
lower Gain settings. Grab a a stack-like wallop that is
Strat and turn the tone knob heavy on the tone and
light on the wallet—pure
to a slightly darker setting
and simple.
and we are biting distorted
doubloons at the tonal
end of Ritchie Blackmore’s
Rainbow. Basically, if it
is a throaty, woody-yetchiming-stack-in-a-box that
is needed, the MT-CD will
deliver.
CONCERNS
Want to pay a premium
for hand-painted graphics,
mythical clipping diodes and
little aromatic jute bags?
Look elsewhere. The MTCD sounds way better than
it looks, but some will miss
out because the price is just
too low for it to rock right?
Wrong.
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