METAL MUFF w/o THE TOP BOOST THANK YOU LORD

Trying out the Electro Harmonic Metal Muff Mini pedal! They removed the Top Boost! It's like a dream come true!
Disclaimer: EHX sent me this pedal but it's going back after demo has been made. EHX does not have a saying on how I make or what I say in my videos. This is not a sponsored demo.
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[@green8923]

I like the unique "grind" sound you get when you dial in the mids just right. It's sort of HM2-ish, yet a little cleaner on the top end. Great demo!

[@Helena-gk4ui]

guitar it's a mid-range instrument, you don't need anything beyond 6000hz and anything below 80hz, because then you start conflicting with the cymbals and the bass

[@fonesrphunny7242]

I got one and the low-mids seem scooped a bit too much, but those carefully dialed in mids really make up for it. You may want an EQ to keep the crunch somewhat under control. It certainly got the job done when I was playing along my favorite Nasum songs.

[@arkavagoswami]

kristian khole would have love this pedal..he should review it someday maybe.

[@Jimmy-cv2js]

@@Helena-gk4ui jimmy

[@DaarthPingas]

​@@Helena-gk4uiyou absolutely need treble and presence beyond 6000hz and sub bass below 80hz in your guitar track. if you put your favorite guitar track through a 6000hz low pass, it'd sound terrible and lifeless. you also generally do want some level of sub-bass for your palm mutes. yes, if you have to much of either, it'll will also sound terrible. but everything needs to lock together correctly in the end. otherwise your mix wont "mix" and sound natural. as for the mid scoop with this pedal, it might be a little excessive for most peoples' tastes, you generally have to fight extremely mid-centric speakers in your guitar cabs and mid-centric pickups.

[@davidatyson]

I love your honesty. Being a consumer it helps. Thanks Ola

[@revment]

You gotta be kidding me that I found this video. I have these two exact pedals and have been tone searching for how to balance them out and when you pulled out the East River drive I couldn't believe I was seeing that exact setup. Thanks!

[@thirteenthandy]

This pedal is my backup rig that I bring to every show, and I run it with a little poweramp pedal. It's a life saver, and honestly sounds good enough that no one even notices if I need to use it for a set (which unfortunately happens, as I have the WORST luck with my tube amps).

[@TheBoondoggler]

what Poweramp pedal are you using

[@thirteenthandy]

@@TheBoondoggler Quilter MicroBlock 45

[@tommilitello198]

Other guitarists are the only people that notice what gear you use,the general audience could care less

[@PutItAway101]

Mids up high is almost in Swedish Chainsaw territory, but minus the fuzzy broken insanity sludge

[@moisttowelette5353]

That's the first thing I thought of as well

[@olebrumme6356]

I have this pedal and it's my favorite! Got exactly the tone I wanted, good chug and the noise gate is great.

[@priorwitness]

Honestly it reminded me a lot of a Boss Metal Zone. It didn't sound like a fuzz at all. There is a great thick mid range tone to be had here though :)

[@JulianA-tr6pt]

That's because it's a modified Metal Zone and has no connection to the Big Muff. Had one, distinctly MT-ish.

[@amaethinfernal6014]

That's one buff muff! Seems bottom end is lacking but brutal distortion gain. 🤘🤘🤘

[@01blaval]

The bottom comes with the bass🤘🏼

[@doocies]

I owned a Micro Muff on a couple occasions. A 6 band MXR eq after the pedal makes it sound amazing

[@angryroostercreations5194]

Same Mine is the chintzy beringher eq, but it works wonders to reign in some of the piercing highs.

[@JoeFic9997]

Thanks Ola! I appreciate your review ms and this is no exception. I bought the Nano Metal Muff for the 3 band eq plus gate and I feed it with a J Rockett Archer and I really like how they sound together !

[@DielectricFailure]

_This seems like a good addition to using a Laney Dualtop amp to record some nasty yet brutal industrial metal. 🤘🤘🤘🤘 Definitely one pedal on my radar!_

[@halo0919]

Ola, would love to see you demo the Steel Panther 1987 pedal - just to hear your thoughts 🤘

[@darkgardener9577]

The gate is way better value over the top boost...I got a delux big muff with one and I like that feature.

[@8Seven65]

Good thought

[@JoeCostantini74]

Reminds me of a Boss Metal Zone, maybe I'll compare the two one day.

[@panagiotisioakeim834]

Bruh.. i bought this pedal yesterday and because i let it in the heat it doesn't work. I waited months for this pedal and now im kinda sad.. The funny part here is while im contacting with the store i bought it from, i see a notification from your channel for this video😂😂. Olaaa, you're playing with meee

[@claudevieaul1465]

It's very rare that a pedal stops working because you kept in the heat... 🤔 With that I think you mean in full sunshine? Shouldn't affect a pedal, I would think. Unless it got so hot inside that plastic parts warped, or maybe even some soldering came unstuck (but that's an extreme scenario)

[@panagiotisioakeim834]

I believe it's from heat, because as a stupid man i am, i let in the hot sun inside the car and it got very VERYY hot. So i guess that's why. Anyways the store replaced it and im pretty happy. It's a very nice pedal, i truly recommend it.

[@caelenselke-minogue]

It sounds like what happens if you combine an MT-2 and an HM-2. Both grinding/crunchy and gritty. It also has the compromise in regards to those two pedals - way too touchy controls crossed with useless controls that have to be maxed out.

[@angryroostercreations5194]

the East river drive is supposed to be an 808 TS clone. I use it to boost fuzz pedals.

[@alexskibicki2262]

Killer demo, ola 😎🤘🏻🎸 and this pedal is a major improvement from the previous metal muff. The noise gate feature is so much better than the top boost(which sounds unpleasant). And I do dig the tone of this pedal by itself.

[@philipdesailles5286]

You will have to try out the new Friedman JEL20 Jake E Lee Junior 20w Guitar Amp Head

[@TheCyberMantis]

Cool. They made a Metal Zone clone pedal.

[@rustee_nyfe]

Sounds really cool. Really cool

[@mmfs1919]

Sounds like a metal zone 🤘🏼

[@insulartomb]

love the t shirt dude

[@OfficialDroidRevenge]

Is a pretty standard distortion until you throw an octave up pedal, or an octave fuzz at low gain in front of it. Then you have a ghetto FZ-2.

[@timchan8205]

Maybe the Top Boost is for you to plug it straight to the power amp but no the preamp 🤔?

[@mvyper]

He tried that. You have to balance it out with the treble knob.

[@BrianYates-ct9db]

I have a Big Muff from back in the late 90's and pll are always trying to buy it off me lol..I also have one of the original Digitech Whammy pedals and guitar isn't even my first instrument 😮 I'm a drummer but learned guitar so I could lay down and loop different ryhtms and riff ideas to practice over 🤘🧐✌️

[@CitizenKang]

As a NYC'er, I do like the name "East River Drive"

[@gajapi]

That chug 😍

[@perpetualgrimace]

Sounds surprisingly good!

[@coolchug1611]

Yeah, that MID KNOB!! wonders

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

I reckon for the beginner musician (as in gigging) this might be a good pedal. You're bound to play small clubs and bars mostly, with a high chance of not playing your own amp. Tone would be the least of your problems at that stage. That only comes into play when recording and when you can play bigger clubs.

[@jonbanks3341]

big improvement! But wow is that EQ sensitive

[@tizianodeberardinis6306]

I have bought this pedal and it's so great! I use it with my bass as well and it's a pretty cool little thing!

[@MALINCHE678]

i have this pedal, is great for a beginer like me, the gate noob is really usefull, if you set the eq correctly and boosted with a overdrive (i have the boss blues driver BD-2 and then the overdrive/distortion OS-2) is a great distortion, i think is almost a fuzz with all the distortion noob on full, in the future i am gonna buy some tipe of eq, btu for the price is a good distortion.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

The MM has so much distortion, I can't imagine what it sounds like with two OD boosts.

[@JulianA-tr6pt]

Note to everybody - this pedal sounds like a Metal Zone because it is a modified Metal Zone. It features a different type of EQ, basically. C'mon it's clearly not a Big Muff circuit! I had the original, large Metal Muff w top boost back in probably 2011 when I was younger and getting into some metal playing. Yeah, that top boost was useless! I had it set to 0.5, where it'd just "change" the EQ rather than boost. I made a true bypass mod for it (probably one of the only OG MMs with true bypass ever) and ended up putting in on reverb years back. It's out there somewhere!

[@ratt669]

at first settings with the od as a boost sounds close an ENGL. Nice!

[@cybersixx]

Is Ola tune to D standard in this video?

[@mescaliiiiine]

Hey Ola, have you ever tried the Empress Heavy? If not it could be a pedal to look at one day, and if you have already, they have a new revised pedal, in a smaller package too.

[@mattmartinez3741]

He did. In will it chug. And has an 8 second clap from ola. The fastest ever. Lol

[@0dreads0]

YESSSSS!!!! I SUGGESTED THIS ONE A WHILE AGO 🤘👹🤘

[@0dreads0]

this is my main pedal and sound no iff ands or butts about it

[@CrushingAxes]

Definitely chugging my friend!

[@michaelgrahamwongacutemadness]

I’ve tried the top boost engaged but not turned up much I think if it was voiced for more upper mids there’d be a lead guitar use

[@profound369]

Why do people use expensive petals when we have axe fx and neural dsp?

[@Daveed2087]

Love the sounds and love the shirt! let’s go!!!!

[@Mike-vu7em]

I don’t know if you do but you should offer the solar x type (cheaper model) in blue (for dime) the red was a nice choice as well

[@needsLITHIUM]

I'd still turn the gain down a bit on the main pedal, and turn the gain on the OD to 9 o'clock, but that's just me. I tend to like my distortion a little smoother for my main tone, personally, with the low end very tight, mid forward, and a lot of low-mid information (I love Orange and Mesa amps for a reason), then I blend that with either a marshall/friedman type voiced amp/preamp or a turbo rat boosted with a chainsaw pedal.

[@Trendkill666]

Honestly it sounds decent. Especially for the price! 😈🤘

[@SiriasisOFFICIAL]

This pedal slams hard

[@DonDouglass]

I wonder how long those pedals will last before they break? I have had no luck with EHX.

[@bbq4126]

My east river drive broke after a month or two. Not fault of mine but EHX quality control is shoddy.

[@louchavez4307]

Great demo. Have or will you demo the mxr fullbore metal distortion pedal. It also has an on board noise gate.

[@Mike-vu7em]

Planning on grabbing 1 at some point

[@6rusT]

would be nice to hear the muffins in the effect loop of a tube amp

[@ulrichweber3944]

I also have this pedal in my Collection. I is one of my Favorite beside Guardian Of the Wurm and the Fleshrot ;-)

[@Makuz1988]

Very good Pedal. Keep it Simple

[@TylerJohnstonGuitar]

Metal Muff by itself ain’t bad. It’s that damn top boost that gets the pedal a bad rep.

[@rjadamz9117]

What is the closest to the “end all” distortion pedals you’ve tried/used?

[@coldragoon]

You need to do the MXR Fullbore Metal. Pretty much same controls but 20 years earlier

[@МихаилЛебедев-ч2ф]

Ола проверь педаль AMT P-1 drive from AMT

[@yohanonshine4664]

So there is really metal in the pedal I think it chugged

[@scottishbawbag315]

Ola, I know it's not related. But are u going to be releasing a solar acoustic anytime in future. Thanx bud, love and life to family.

[@there_is_nothing_here]

I liked it when I heard it back in the day, I still like it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@philippemartignier9858]

Hi Ola, would love to see you testing the baghdad pedal from does it doom !_!

[@JaniceLalla]

Great video, very amusing

[@onguitargerry]

Can try boss power stack..

[@coreydenegar7698]

Sounds like a metal zone

[@Pj32Sr]

Jhs legends bender into eq ❤️‍🔥

[@hallofshame6112]

How much usd sir this cost from nepal I wanted to know

[@newrockorder]

brutal shit man this cool pedl is useful

[@homunculusSZN]

Ola, please make a Precision Bass chug.

[@j.boogie1646]

It kinda seems like the old mxr full bore metal ......

[@oldmanshreds]

EHX METAL MUSH

[@TiwazPagan-if3og]

What does the gate do exactly, take out unwanted fuzz?

[@newbeginning1510]

Is the top boost supposed to be a tube screamer? Also if not would you recommend me using a tube screamer without the top boost ?

[@evankiljoy]

Shades of HM2

[@StupidEarthlings]

For a hot sec, I mis heard ya, which makes me think,..... they should make an Oladrive Pedal. :)

[@METALFROG6]

Damn!!! 🐸🤓✌️🤘

[@Lauri_K]

Perfect sludge metal tone?

[@zacharyzane1638]

Sounds almost as good as my fillhore metal pedal

[@theartofts]

You are best, Ola. Thanks.

[@pedroroggla8129]

i had a metal muff and it lasted about a day on my pedalboard

[@zacharymurphy5312]

What gauge and brand strings he use?

[@mikaels819]

Test these and see how close they are to the original Dual Wreck Ampworx Nux Rec To Distortion Mooer 0011 Cali Dual

[@scoliewood]

🤘🤘

[@j_c_93]

Is there anything you don't try in a quick manner??

[@MeOwOgai]

Metal Muff sounds horrible, in a good way. And then you think it can't be more that disgusting, you discover a "NO U" button, top boost to cut through the mix. Any mix. Think about it. But I honestly can't remember last time I used it, and I am afraid to accidentally push that button while I am playing, it would be a Valkyrie screech of death

[@8Seven65]

I think the gate is probably more useful then the boost. I think they make a deluxe version, maybe it has both?

[@jackclements2163]

It sounds not a million miles away from a Boss Metalzone.

[@jackclements2163]

...or is it Metal Zone...or Me TalZone...who cares. The black one with the fizz.

[@HCkev]

I'd say it's like a metal zone but with a smoother, less fizzy top end

[@msteele0]

Love you Ola! The pedal = yuck!

[@Metaldad87]

What happens if you turn down the gain? I thought we didnt ask that here 😂

[@BalashToth]

It has a strong Metal Zone into the clean channel of a tube amp vibe for my ears. Not for me😢

[@GOICOBA]

That thing has the coolest name with the crappiest sound ever, I can never decide if I respect or hate it more xD

[@coinslotsandjoysticks2572]

🤘🤪🤘

[@RevenantThe]

Hey ola can I send you a song I'm trying to upload it but the evil in the world is literally preventing me can u help

[@jan9]

Medal or Metal, Ola?

[@NobotyBoi]

Chainsaw

[@mauricio.a.f6573]

Is hard to dial that pedal , y sold it, dont like it distortion character.😢

[@BloodBoughtMinistries]

Jesus Christ is Lord

[@sacreddangermoose5260]

Da 313 of asking Ola for an 8 string string T.

[@greatreset3]

Wow, that's better the CHUG pedal 🤷‍♂️

[@itim18]

Test the pedal Cuvave hahahaha good lucky hahahaha

[@rocketPower047]

Is it me or does it look like his leather mat is floating?

[@finnancahill2644]

It definitely has a grimey sound going on