Why This Is The WORST Metal Distortion EVER! | Line 6 Uber Metal Distortion

[@crowdkillproductions.]

The uber metal is my favorite pedal lol.

[@davidrossmusicalinstruments]

I actually just bought one of these the other day. One thing to note is that while having the "Scoop" control to the far left does boost the mids, the "Mids" control actually selects the frequency, so having it turned all the way to the right will boost at around 2.5khz which is usually where the click of the kick drum and the high end of the bass guitar are. These controls are fairly counterintuitive. I actually prefer the Uber Metal over the Metal Zone. I think it has better sounding distortion overall and the gate is nice to have I guess. Overall I think it's a fun pedal but not really an ideal way to get a metal guitar sound.

[@zanewalters5606]

If fried butthole had a sound, it'd be this pedal. Knew someone in high school with this pedal and I remember spending an entire evening just trying to dial it in so he could have a usable sound and it just never came together. He traded it in and got a Metal Zone like a few of us suggested in the first place. That was 2003, I still have and use my Metal Zone from then.

[@I.am_Groot]

lol you are straight on point. I have not messed with one of these much and its been years but to my memory if you ONLY roll the drive up around 2/3 and add it to a signal for a little gain it does bring out some pretty sweet single not tones but anytime it breaks the thing cracks and fizzles into a hot mess

[@rickwitt5735]

I was today years old when I learned that Yamaha owned Line 6. Thanks, Robert, for your efforts.

[@DevotioOfficial]

I reckon this thing would do a better job in an fx loop of an amp like Ola did with the Metal Zone. The other trick for direct recording this pedal is make it sound as much like an amp without a cab as much as possible (seems to kinda sound like that anyways) then chuck an IR on it. Great video, mate.

[@Axxman300]

Fact: When you set the switch to "Insane" money vanishes from your bank account. This what AI distortion must sound like.

[@szaki95]

The gates are very good on them though. I used a Dr. Distorto boosted with an overdrive, almost full volume in a small rehearshal room no feedback at all. Recenty I bought a Harley Benton DNA multifx and it was harder to dial in a sound with no squeaking.

[@guitarplayer232]

I remember the dudes that loved these kind of pedals, would buy the uber metal on the used market just to have extra housings and just throw the uber pooper away. I was never really big on the tone core. I wouldn't wanna buy modules then have to buy housings for them. But to each they're own. Great video Robert!

[@rickycompton2610]

Great video,Robert I agree George Tripps make some killer pedals, But the Uber Metal Blows I agree with you on that for sure, the Echo Park is a killer pedal.Keep making these videos very informative.

[@joshlenard6953]

I loved my uber metal. It was definitely tricky to set up for the sound you were going for, but once you got it dialed it actually sounded great. Many hours of trial an error and a dedicated noted pad

[@x--LeethaL--x]

😮 😅 I've owned the UBer Metal Pedal since day one and for a cheaper "single stomp" pedal... I feel like I have it set as good as it can be for "Metal". Pulverize is the best. Scoop at 7. Drive at 4. Bass at 12. Treble at 3. Volume is adjustable. Gate on 2. It's definitely meant to be used from a Clean Tone or as a boost in a Line of Other Distortion/Boost Pedals. IMO.

[@seanmonistat]

Pretty close to the settings I use!

[@x--LeethaL--x]

@@seanmonistat nice!. One other setting is : Pulverize, Drive at 7, Scoop at Off-2, Bass at 4, Mid at 9, Treble at 7 and ***Vol 7-Max.(Depending on best to adjust the Tightness/Punchyness 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ lol. For a basic guitar player in 08'-09' needing/wanting some extra distortion... This basic as it gets Line 6 Uber Metal Pedal for $75 was perfect buy.

[@DROPTUNED]

I usted to play with a fender hot Rod deville with an uber metal in front on the clean channel and a BBE maximizer through the fx loop .... and it worked quite well... early 2008... what a time.... still have that pedal just for the sake of memories and many gigs that went through... its what we had back at the time.... a dual rectifier was back in the day( and still) outrageous expensive here in Europe. .... so we had to work our way around .....

[@TypeoS]

I have been a sub for a while, and is that picture behind you on the wall a pic of you and your old band members? I am blessed to have some nice gear, but i still rock my metal zone wazaI I even leave it on the original setting.....shh dont tell anybody it still sounds great. The last i remember hearing about those older line 6 pedals was that they eat batteries alive . But i have two older ibanez tone lok pedals pedals that do the same, but these days i have a dc brick lol!

[@RobertWJackson]

Yep, sure is. That was a classic southern rock band that I was in called The Cold Nickel Band once upon a time. I actually played bass in that band. Our drummer, Kevin (the tall guy in the photo), unfortunately passed away a few years ago.

[@unclesamstuff]

I LOVE this pedal. Just like the BOSS Metal Zone, you HAVE TO KNOW how to use it. Its counterpart the MXR Fullbore "Metal" really sounds like shit.

[@RobertWJackson]

“yA hAvE tUh KnOw HoW tUh UzE iT!” Geezus, if there was ever a misconception about guitar gear that was born out of some dipshit guitar player’s own arrogance and cognitive dissonance, this is it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Allan-ts1ux]

Can you get the same effects from the dl4 as the echo park delay..is the only difference in the design only.. ive got the dl4

[@RobertWJackson]

I think the DL4 has the capability to run two delay settings on top of each other simultaneously, and probably a few other minor features, but beyond that they’re pretty similar. The same effects engine runs both of them.

[@Allan-ts1ux]

@@RobertWJackson 👍 thanks

[@TylerJohnstonGuitar]

Oh, Line 6. They either knock something out of the park (POD, DL4), or completely whiff and miss (Insane channel on Spyder amps).

[@SerpentsBane1995]

I don't get the hate for the Insane amp model. It was stated in the POD manual that it was created by mixing 2 different high gain amps together for an ultra-saturated lead sound, yet everyone I've ever seen test it out in a video either scoops the mids or tries playing rhythm on it , or worse, both! It's never gonna sound good if you attempt to dial in a rhythm tone, it was clearly meant for leads and solos! \m/

[@axeman6598]

When it comes to pedals.....i always remember Dime used a metal zone. To each,his own

[@RobertWJackson]

Except Dime never used a Metal Zone. His tone came from Randall solid-state amps, specifically the Randall RG80ES, RG100ES, and the Century 200.

[@drippinglass]

Yeah. And didn’t he use a Furman parametric EQ?

[@garybrady9531]

Happy Father's day and thanks for your honesty about that door stop

[@sconni666]

I gave a like for saying fuck. My priorities are fucked.

[@GarrettDare]

I have this pedal and hate it. I assumed I just needed to find a video on how to set it up right. I found this video instead. 😂

[@RobertWJackson]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dawnr8511]

Oh! Hey! Yippee! Uber Metal prices will hit the dirt now. Thanks so much Robert! You make stuff so affordable sometimes, sometimes not. As I recall, I thought you hated and judged the EHX Meal Muff pedal the worst?

[@RobertWJackson]

Metal Muff, Uber Metal, MXR Metal Core…. All viable contenders. LOL

[@rexdarvog]

I purchased a used Uber Metal pedal in 2015 I believe, and I also have a lot of difficulty to get good distortion tone out of it. I use my Boss OS-2 more often whenever I want to play with pedals, it has more distortion ability compared to the Uber Metal, or at least it doesn't sound like distortion from a bottle. Uber Metal definitely a cool case design, maybe I'll mess around with it again.

[@Metalbass1979]

Hearing that pedal takes me right back to the late 90's. Man...... I really miss the 80's. 😄

[@eliaskapravelos7171]

I wanna get one now and try it out for brutal death metal, should work nice.

[@EvilHomer1973]

When you were moving the MID control with the SCOOP down it was doing a COCKED WAH thing.

[@ShivaSeebaransingh]

Try the "Uber Metal" setting from the manual. It works fantastic though my boss katana as well as my Carvin Belair amp.

[@Lortvaz]

I had a jsx and the distortion was having an issue..so i used this pedal and i actuallly live the tone. It took me a while but yup i got it. I know a few friends that love it too

[@commonsensehill372]

Are you running in the front or the back?

[@gliii4278]

Im just leaving a comment because I love your efforts and appreciate you.

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

I like the Ibanez Smashbox or Boss Metal Core for a chainsaw-tone, but all of these Metal-pedals require some knob-tweaking & are capable of the worst sounds ever. This one is pretty bad. Can it be topped at being awful?

[@LucasLeCompteMusic]

mmmm I love shitty distortion pedals. I made an entire series on my channel called worst pedals ever and I constantly get hate comments for it lol.

[@RobertWJackson]

Link? LOL

[@LucasLeCompteMusic]

@@RobertWJackson kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4jdpaGpg9iigZo

[@blokkadeleider]

An atrocity in pedal shape. The MXR Fullbore Metal might be a contender to be even worse. I have heard both but not A/B so this opinion comes purely from memory. I did like the way the level button responded though, when turned all the way down.

[@SkogliJotunn]

I just can't hardly believe that people like the fullbore. It's WILDLY terrible

[@blokkadeleider]

@@SkogliJotunnyep. I think it's actually worse than the Line6.

[@SkogliJotunn]

@@blokkadeleider I 100% agree

[@w1zard0f0h]

I had an Arion metal master and it made two of my speakers blow out.

[@drippinglass]

It sounds good in your demo! 🤘😎

[@dw1784]

It sounds like someone connected a lower-end model EHX distortion pedal to a 4 inch speaker mini amp and smothered the amp with a pillow. Then took the amp and stuck it in a furnace duct.

[@rockerbuck967]

Wow, that thing sounded like a kazoo crapping itself - ugh. Most anything pre-Yamaha was garbage. I had one of the huge Pod XT Live units, and I flat out threw it away a few years ago just because you couldn't update the firmware anymore. And sadly, I gigged with it, thinking it was the greatest thing ever. How young and stupid I was then. For the record, I really enjoyed taking it apart to make it fit in the trash.

[@musick777]

The mid knob was pretty obviously sweeping through mid frequencies. So you just ended up boosting the highest possible mid frequency, which is a pretty good recipe for shitty tone.

[@RobertWJackson]

Didn’t matter which frequency it was. It still sounds like shit.

[@tobins6800]

This sounds like it would make a better preamp rather than in front of an amp. That being said, the bass knob had more of an effect on the mids than the knob, to my ears. Also, the mid knob seemed to control only the honkieness spectrum.

[@howardcunniffe8738]

Well you can call it the worse pedal ever, but it sounds way better than a Super Weirdo fuzz pedal.

[@RobertWJackson]

You REALLY don’t like the Super Weirdo. LOL

[@howardcunniffe8738]

@@RobertWJackson This pedal you were demoing has a way better sound.

[@ShreddingFinn]

I don't know I enjoyed this one. I ran it into the front of a rg100es. The eqs give a lot of flexibility. One mode I thought gave a decent 80s metal tone and another was instant Dime into that rg100

[@sonicsega1699]

i mean to be fair, it sounded better than the MXR Fullbore Metal. also sounded a bit metal zonish. ofcourse, playing a pedal is way different than hearing it. but still sounded alot better than the digital distortion everyone uses these days

[@jmatthew9641]

Sounds better all the way off. Maybe I should see if I still have Danelectro Fab Metal and have you review that....

[@jettschenker]

Wow! You're not kidding. That thing sounds like ass. It's definitely not a quality distortion tone!

[@oldmanandguitar]

Can I suggest something? I have watched videos, demo pedals that sound great, I try them and they sound terrible, I have a good guitar and reasonable amps, I was thinking a really useful demo would be to show on popular expensive amp and popular bargain basic 10 w amp. That would help me decide more easily. And maybe others, because I don't see many demos on the cheap and nasties and they need the p3dal more than anyone.

[@piotrpiotrowski4681]

Well, I've been following your channel for quite a while, and I've always been convinced you could get a decent tone from a pack of angry wasps put in a tin can. If you, of all people, couldn't make this pedal work, probably no one can and it means it's worthless.

[@onefatstratcat]

But still not as bad as the DOD Supra Distortion :)

[@johndaugherty4127]

What about the Helix?

[@WilDBeestMF]

You're right, Robert. Echo Park and Otto filter are sensational. Uber metal sounds like bathtub farts.

[@Nightmerica]

It sounds like an angry bee.

[@Mr.Goldbar]

Worse than the Metal Muff or the Black Licorice? Edit: worse than the Metal Muff for sure! I would say though if you're going for this intentionally crappy 90's Scott Burns produced death metal sound then this could actually be sick! It's kinda like a Spider in a box lol. btw Pulverize is even more ooga booga caveman sounding than the Insane channel lol

[@TooPunkToBeAPodcast]

If an album had "produced by Scott Burns" on the back I bought it. Never let me down lol

[@angel.hernandez6669]

The black licorice is a sick pedal just use a drive pedal after it or an eq pedal Real evil sound/tone comes out of that little box

[@RobertWJackson]

“This shitty little distortion pedal isn’t that bad if you doctor it up with boosts and EQ’s!” just became my new favorite defense for a bad pedal. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HH-js9ps]

Im confused, he praised the Tonecore Echo Park, Space Chorus and Verbzilla and at the end of the video goes on to say he is not a fan of Line 6 pre-Yamaha products. I think I want an Uber Metal real bad.

[@RobertWJackson]

Why are you confused?

[@HH-js9ps]

@@RobertWJackson All Tonecores are pre-Yamaha.

[@RobertWJackson]

@@HH-js9ps Yep. And?

[@thesnowghost1]

Robert' that is the most heaviest distortion I have ever heard

[@oliveremanuel6852]

Don't despair people, this pedal is great. The only issue I have with it is (appropriately) is that the pedal is a big chunk of actual metal (it will never break) and it is very heavy. So if you travelling light on your board you might only want to carry this and maybe a reverb, depending on what you're going for. This guy doesn't highlight the sweet spots. It does the trick you're after. Get one cheap while you can. Oh and it has a built in Gate! Nice, can't say that with a Metal Zone 2 can you!????

[@RobertWJackson]

Who are you talking to?

[@rationalinsanity]

my first metal pedal (20 years ago or so), big nostalgia! i've since upgraded to something that's actually good, but i'll be forever thankful for this shitty fkn pedal

[@donsimon63]

The (angry) 'bee in a bottle' tone! Nailed! Awesome! Knot (sic.) 😅

[@bjstein4242]

ROBERT.. thanks for killing my turn of the Century barn find .. I was waiting for another "Man this is million times better than the Metal Zone.. or did you know Metallica used it on And Justice for All" so i could get it out of my closet and sell it for $ 800.00.. mint in box.. wow you just killed my dream.. but enough kidding aside.. the pedal is bad in most settings.. the Pulverize setting is the ONLY one with any bass response.. and the Mid/Scoop works like a Para EQ and have to tweak BOTH to be effective.. keep the drive down or it gets buzzy.. maybe we can offer this as the "WORLDS BEST DOOM PEDAL".. and we might get the value back up.. thanks for all you do brother..

[@zombiemosher1139]

A bad workman always blames his tools.

[@RobertWJackson]

Right. Because I’m sure you’ve just absolutely fallen in love with EVERY piece of gear that you’ve ever managed to get your grubby little dick-beaters on. 🙄

[@zombiemosher1139]

@@RobertWJackson man, you can't take criticism very well. I don't go on KZbin & bash it though.

[@RobertWJackson]

Criticism I can handle just fine. It’s hypocritical bullshit like the nonsense you just spewed that I refuse to put up with. If you can’t handle people giving their opinions about your favorite pedal, go be butthurt somewhere else. Geezus, what a fucking hypocrite… 🤡

[@zombiemosher1139]

@@RobertWJackson 🤣😂🤣 how am I a hypocrite

[@RobertWJackson]

I’ve already explained this. You and I both know that you cannot tell me that you’ve fallen in love with every piece of gear you ever used. Yet you’re sitting there on your high horse, complaining about ME not liking a pedal (likely because it happens to be one of your favorites 🙄), resorting to taking a trolling cheap shot at my skill set because you have no other argument. That’s not only hypocritical, it’s a classic case of whataboutism, which is equally as pathetic.

[@fuzzy734]

ya, that sounds pretty bad LOL!

[@paulgilroy7647]

I have this pedal.never liked it as a standalone but im gunna tey using it as an eq .im just waiting for my new amp(randall rh150g3) to arrive cuz i aint using it on my spider ii half stack🤣 all metal distortion pedals from the same era more or less sucked anyway

[@Kylora2112]

This demo triggered my girlfriend's melissophobia.

[@taz3672]

It only sounds good if you have bad tastes and are deaf as an old WWII cannon or tank operator.

[@wilhelmklieschnikov7185]

I got one. Gave me crisp, crunchy distortion for my Jackson. Sounds heavy as hell. Only complaint, it eats 9 volt battery power quick. Sounds best when you play through clean channel. Then kick it on!!!

[@jeremyporter5540]

Hey rob Ive got a brand new. Because i haven’t used it but 3 times. In 3 years. I can’t get it to come on. It’s a zakk wylde reverb pedal. It was ordered for me for my b-day. I wish i could get it to u. So u could check it out. Jp

[@RobertWJackson]

Again, who the FUCK is Rob?

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

@@RobertWJackson😂

[@aldersmoke1]

Hot damn, there is literally no good way to set that thing. I didn't hear a single usable tone. That's almost an accomplishment in its own right.

[@jeffseven2194]

Never been a fan of Line6 stuff, still not

[@debradorsett7624]

you are wrong in your opinion of this pedal

[@RobertWJackson]

No I’m not. But thanks for asking.

[@JacksonCharvelRULE]

Idk sounds ok to me... just don't blast the knobs full either way and it sounds good