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I came across this video today. It was quite cool on many different levels.  I’ve always been interested and intrigued by Nels Cline, so this was a cool view into his style. Looks like he stopped by the ZVex shop in Minnesota to talk about the ZVex Box of Metal distortion pedal. The video was submitted by russianmusicgear.

I definitely thought it was odd that Nels would be into this pedal (judging the artist and the pedal by the cover), but after hearing his reasoning.. it made good sense. I think it’s important to not stereotype pedals to the genre of music you’re in, there could always be hidden/useful traits that can be greatly applied in your style of music.

If you liked what you heard coming from the ZVex Box of Metal, you can pick up one for yourself at Musician’s Friend for $219.00.

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Last week I brought up the MXR Fullbore Metal Distortion, but today I thought I’d bring up the ZVex Box of Metal. This is another high gain distortion pedal with noise gate built in specially designed for “metal”. Metal isn’t my thang, but I know a lot of people would eat this pedal up in a heartbeat!

Here is the official ZVex description:

The ZVex Box of Metal is an aggressive high-gain distortion pedal with a highly effective built-in switchable gate which dramatically reduces noise and unwanted feedback. Its gain and tonal characteristics are somewhat similar to high-gain tube amplifiers that have been the staple of hard rock and metal sounds since the 80′s. On the right, the guitar effects pedal has a true-bypass switch with an indicator LED to bypass the entire effect. On the left is a gate switch, that is only effective when the pedal is on (the gate cannot be used separately.) When the gate’s LED (on the left side of the pedal) is on, the gate will be active whenever the pedal is turned on. The gate is very useful for cleaning up any noise between palm-muted chords and lead phrases, but may be switched off to initiate feedback or to stretch out soloed notes that are fading into noise. Switching off and on the gate is silent so the gating action of the distortion pedal can instantly be changed during any part of the performance to fluidly integrate soloing and palm-muted chords.

I found a cool little video (by  bigcitymusic) showing what it can do:

I thought that was a little too short, so I found another by MusicPlayerNetwork:

You can pick up the ZVex Box of Metal for $219.00 at Musician’s Friend!

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