WILL IT CHUG? - Boss Metalcore Distortion Pedal

[@augusthasbirk5033]

I challenge you Ola! Will it chug - Acoustic Simulator (Boss AC-3)

[@tommy.n.guitarist]

Nice 😂

[@blakecurtis7809]

Agreed.

[@MikeLee-lg5vq]

Chug yeah!!

[@joseph_lacy]

Do it

[@AMB666]

AGREE😂 Good luck Ola!

[@OlaEnglund]

Will it Chug? Also do I look very pale in this video? Also maybe for the next video I should tune the guitar.

[@blakecurtis7809]

A bit. Get some sun. And lay off the cat's!

[@maxupp]

Finally looking like a real swede.

[@kiltymacbagpipe]

Tuning is optional.

[@proteus2103]

One could crank the treble on this pedal if you turn the level control down. Gives it a kinda scratchy soild state distortion channel vibe.

[@kennhern]

It's just color correction. I noticed that the color changes in some areas, so maybe the camera is at fault.

[@thomdushane]

Will It Chug seems more enjoyable to me when it's something with a reputation for being UN-chuggy. I dig the other dude's acoustic simulator idea.

[@ExploitTheVibe369]

The Coffee goes into my mouth and then the coffee goes into my belly. Only way to set up a signal chain

[@IntermezzoR]

The only part I didn't understand was how the coffee suddenly got from his belly to the cab...

[@lennartgruenewald]

Don't tell me that there is only one "correct" order in which to set up a digestive tract!

[@johnlegend6410]

It's a corny joke

[@HEAVY_IS_THE_METAL]

i chug coffee, then the toilet 🚽 chugs my poops 😂

[@aikumaDK]

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Ola could make an acoustic guitar chug.

[@ThrashingBasskill]

Have my like and let's make him accept this challenge!

[@pedrogonzalezpg13pg]

I third this

[@TheQwer176]

Lets make this man’s comment the most liked one so Ola can see it.

[@steezorteez9829]

Chug a banjo

[@alexandermueller4115]

I’ve done it.

[@jonathanedwards6366]

Love the Metal Core pedal. The most metal pedal ever made by Boss. Period.

[@J-DOT_TK]

Ola playing on Standard tuning, What a time to be alive!

[@bakerXderek]

Always wondered how this pedal sounded, not bad !

[@mocker56789]

I didn't expect to see you here, even though I should have considering you're a huge guitar nerd

[@Forest_V19]

You have to take into account the expensive amp and cab he’s using.

[@trefwoordpunk2225]

@@Forest_V19 Trust me this pedal makes EVERYTHING sound awesome

[@joenaccomusic]

There’s no such thing as a bad pedal. A bad amp, a bad guitarist, maybe.

[@megatherion2695]

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[@babayagaslobbedaknobba]

I just bought a Boss M2 Metal Core distortion pedal today, for $40. It was sill in the box, even! It's awesome!

[@me-xv6tf]

Y'know, I don't even play this kind of music, but I love listening to it and I discovered your channel recently and I find myself coming back over and over again. I appreciate how you get right into it, and your honesty. Works for me 🤟

[@peinmilan]

Actually this pedal was Rob Chapman's favourite in a blindfold test of many distortion pedals.

[@pezholda5935]

Who is Rob Chapman?

[@jaxonvictoria4345]

Was the Boss Power Stack in the video as well?

[@ethanbriendo7096]

Gantz graf he’s the chapman guitar CEO (great guitar with sexy look by the way) and I think he is a youtuber too...

[@VioletSerenade]

gantz graf Owner of Chapman Guitars and co host of Andertons TV on youtube

[@BoozyBeggar]

@@pezholda5935 "Who is Rob Chapman?" Can't tell if trolling or serious. Subscribe to Anderton's, very good guitar channel, lot's and lot's and LOT'S of gear tests, and look up Rob Chapman's channel as well.

[@randyrazor6780]

I bought Boss Metal Core when it first hit the market back in about 2009/2010 and have had it ever since. I loved the sound right off the bat. The thing that I like the most about this pedal is that is sounds good for WAY more than just metal. I use it for alot of hard rock and punk also. Versatile pedal.

[@Thiago_Alves_Souza]

I use it for leads as well. If you get an overdrive pedal or tube screamer and have the distortion on around a quarter or less dialed up, with some decent chorus and a little delay, it sounds bomb.

[@dukoosm]

I have since 2016, I use with the distortion in 0 and a TS7. Is a underrated pedal

[@squidwardtortillini8816]

Randy Razor Right there with ya! Got mine in 2010 and I got a TS Mini around 2016 and they sound insane together!

[@markandreotti7323]

@@squidwardtortillini8816 I have this metal core pedal and a bad monkey overdrive can I use this to boost my leads?

[@daghetto101]

@@markandreotti7323 Of course.. That's how you improve your tone which is to use an Overdrive pedal. Like an Icing or Cherry on top. When playing Rock my OD is the one that i mainly use for the whole song, when soloing imma turn on the Distortion for that spice. When playing Metal my Dist is the one that i mainly use for the whole song, but when imma go crazy iim gonna turn my OD for that Chef Kiss. Do it and experiment with it man. But some people like it as is. Dist alone or Od Alone. They dont like stacking/boosting. But for me it works.

[@JoJoRock197]

Y'all know that a Mesa Dual Rectifier chugs even when it's turned off, right?

[@IanThatMetalBassist]

Your username is fucking hilarious

[@SJMORG]

Damm just your name bro

[@b.o.353]

Love the name and you are correct as well.

[@peterfabian8863]

:-DDD

[@macintalkshow]

This is a great pedal, I use it all the time. It's seriously underrated - I think people expect it to be crappy because they've had bad experiences with the Metal Zone.

[@bufonoise]

This si better

[@ivanrodriguez8855]

Ola: "Will it Chug?" *literally just turns on the pedal*

[@Hayden-pp2dy]

I have it it’s real easy to chug on

[@personal2809]

Best settings on this pedal imho are: Level maxed Bass 9 o clock High 10 o clock Gain minimized. You get a slight mid boost this way (for a pedal that pretty scooped to begin with) Great pedal

[@oulosvie]

I'm gonna try that.

[@mikelamacchia6297]

I got one today , and I freakin love it - the sound is exactly the distortion i was after --- have used a lot of pedals and Multi Effects , but wanted something that I can feel it vibrate through my body and this pedal delivers exactly that

[@garthvader394]

That coffee mug isn't fooling anyone, we all know it's booze.

[@TheMausymaus]

Idk man. Not everyone has a romantic relationship with alcohol

[@newthrash1221]

Stomp City Who cares if it is or not. How old are you, 12?

[@danielnutt9]

@@newthrash1221 dude its a joke you dont have to get so salty

[@WildChildMcCloud]

I just think he loves coffee like alot of people ☕ Swedes are known for being big coffee drinkers.

[@AB-80X]

@Samí Warrior No we don't. We just drink beer - lots of it...

[@hudsonborelli3002]

Ola: Ouch this hurts my ears Nobody: Ola: keeps playing

[@RetroPlus]

Hudson Borelli Hearing is overrated anyway..

[@SkarletOctaviaMUSIC]

@@RetroPlus lmao

[@ethanjoyce2810]

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[@APEIRON_MUSIC]

I bought this pedal a few years back on a whim and it’s turned out to be one of my greatest assets in my rig. With enough fine tuning between the pedal and your amp you can dial in a pretty decent amount of tones. I love it.

[@bullymaguire8458]

Which amp you using

[@angus9165]

This pedal might as well be called the metal zone mk2. With the new feature of being able to sound good through the front of your amp

[@ajk4164]

Lol true

[@jan7751-o4w]

This is the video that made me buy the metal core. Two years later and It's basically the only pedal I actually use. The rest (excluding tuner) have been demoted to being mostly ornamental and are in my pedal board mostly because I'm too lazy to get a new smaller pedalboard and redo all the wiring.

[@jan7751-o4w]

Forgot about noise gate, because it's always on. The integrated noise gate on the CHUG pedal has almost made me buy it. If only the CHUG pedal also had a tuner - then it would really have everything a groving (sideways) metalhead needs. Perhaps in version 2.0. Or am I allowed to dream about a Solar Amp with integrated tuner and noise gate.

[@adrianm7960]

I have this pedal since maybe 7 or 8 years ago and I can say that the harmonics sound really amazing and they come without any effort.

[@tommyfeagle689]

This was one of the best reviews of any pedal that I've ever seen. Subscribed

[@lutherkilmer7193]

I've been playing on the boss metal core for years. Gives me just what I need... I noticed your amp and speakers were different that what i play through... Which would require you to adjust the dials as you have... I play a Randall hd45rms head through a randall 4x12 1/2 stack. This set up has done me well for the direction i chose to travel.

[@sketpang]

Been using this pedal for a year.. so far so good 😊👍🏻

[@ortizmarcos0079]

Thanks!

[@goatsurgeon]

I think this is my favorite Will It Chug video so far hahaha

[@fatdydnkn]

I have a joke for You, Ola: Who is the best guitarist? . . . Chug Norris

[@highpsi7463]

Clark djent?

[@francescochissale]

Just because he had an important role in Walker Texas Chugger

[@th3378]

Chug Schuldiner

[@BoozyBeggar]

This should be top comment.

[@Pannemat]

Chug-Claude van Damme would kick his ass.

[@Guitarsandgaming4life]

Just got this pedal recently and fell in love. This review gave me a better grasp on the settings, thank you for posting this :)

[@nenzimedia7377]

Ola can make a guitar chug without using an amp or pedal - legend says everything he touches starts to chug

[@BoozyBeggar]

"Will the BOSS Metal Core distortion pedal chug?" Gee, let me think, having owned one for well over a decade: UUUUMMMM, yes.

[@BoozyBeggar]

Bonus test: will it DIMEBAG if you put an MXR 10-band graphic EQ behind it?

[@LegendaryK4]

I want to see a Metalzone running into the seymour duncan powerstage 170 into a cab.

[@delfeth]

LegendaryK4 that video already exists

[@LegendaryK4]

@@delfeth Link? I know he ran it into the effects loop of an amp... unless you are talking about someone else

[@oc2419]

Wow Ola, one of the best tones I have ever heard.

[@occithev0id596]

Next you should do the Metal Muff pedal by Electro-Harmonix

[@Gravy1255]

I have the pedal, it is a better volume boost and EQ than distortion pedal. I have a Joyo metor it makes it go from like 70s and 60s rock to full on 80s Heavy metal/Thrash.

[@GoatSimpulator]

I can answer that for you... Definitely yes!!! I have one going into a Orange Crush 20RT and it makes a perfect prog metal/sludge tone that chugs for days!!!

[@TheDogPa]

mojo mojo into metal muff into eq into old tube amps. this grandpa rocks! been shredding through a metal muff since it came out.

[@jaychen2000metal]

I couldn't get a good tone but then again, i was using a line 6

[@IAmKillEveryone]

I swear by my metal muff. It'll turn any tube amp with a halfway decent clean tone into a death machine.

[@eirikz24]

So happy to see this vid. It was my main core sound before I got my Revv G120. Yeah, you kinda figured it out, it's drop both EQ knobs, turn the bass up until it chuggs how you like, then add treble just enough to fill it out. I kept the distortion at about 2/3's. Also, get it? Core sound? I'll see myself out....

[@kenbell9094]

Why would anybody give this video a thumbs down??? This pedal sounds awesome!!!

[@denismorozov6494]

Man best distortion pedal ever. I got one in 2008 and never gonna give it away. And it’s great if you don’t play “chug”-music. Fantastic for solo and riffs at lower gain. Great video btw

[@iamycy]

As a Taiwanese, I didn't expect Ola say "taiwan" from his mouth... Best thing ever.

[@peaner083]

This vid actually certified my purchase of this pedal just the other month. Love it!! Especially through my Dime-O-Flame 🤘 Love your shit Ola keep it up Much respect from 🇦🇺🤘

[@MiNdLeSs1234567890]

This pedal has a presetting in the preset section of the manual named "Gothenburg sound"

[@tommybaynard8157]

That pedal thru the setup you have there is just straight up a kick ass sound....in my opinion that is the perfect sound....and in all honesty dude.....you had it chugging as soon as you turned on the pedal...literally 1 second was the official chug time.......Keep Chugging Ola....you rock dude

[@TheHorrorFreak]

It really is a great pedal. I use it more than my Ceres and it’s 1/4 the cost. The Ceres collects dust

[@SpokenBroke]

Got one to front end my BOSS Katana, so fricking happy. Makes my passive pickups come to life.

[@neonlights_12]

I'd love to see a "Will It Chug" with the quintessential distortion pedal: the Boss DS-1

[@mvyper]

He did.

[@JonadanandtheFreaks]

Good tip !!! Put Metal Core ML2 into a transparent overdrive (like a clone Klon) with no gain (for the Klon). With low and high at 12 on the ML2. Massive sound. The Klon helps to cut the harshness from the ML2, especially the high frequencies

[@cryptyknyk]

this automatically went into 4k and I'm watching it on my tv and it's freaky, so clear, for a sec I thought we were videochatting

[@steveskull]

I have been trying to remember a pedal that a student of mine brought in for me to try years ago. I plugged it into a peavey bandit 112 and it blew my mind. I have never been a pedal user. I have owned some in the early days of when I was starting out, but rarely in my later years as i fell in love with the Soldano amp model in the Line 6 Flextone II and XL. I have 3 of those now and have been using them since 2000. But, that one distortion pedal I've been trying to remember may have been the metal core, but I think maybe it was a DOD pedal. Anyway, I'll never know unless I am able to get my hands on several different distortion pedals (all I remember is it was a black chassis) and able to plug into a peavey bandit 112 to know for sure. It will always be a mystery I guess!

[@shawnbottom4769]

2:50 when he turned the gain down: instant time warp back to 90s era Prong.

[@Godflesh88v2]

Yessah

[@tristanmalyon1018]

I have this pedal for 9 years and it still hammers but it doesn't like any other pedals plugged into it keep up the good work

[@benryan1847]

Ola, do the Fullbore Metal by MXR

[@AaraliRam]

NOT THE BEES NOT THE BEES

[@locar12]

+1 on the Will it Chug: Fullbore Metal.

[@defazer607]

Make Cafe With Ola with MaxCavalera

[@samuelmagnum6047]

Love the "Mellcore pell". Thank you for the review, which convinced me to get one.

[@marks9197]

Dang! That sounded pretty good.

[@vestridreaming]

Gotta love it when a pedal can chug with everything basically at noon!

[@MireWolf29]

Would love to see you do this with the Electroharmonix Metal Muff or the Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Mayhem (if you can find one)

[@shellbournian]

I love this pedal. I used one into a JC-120 for my main tone for years.

[@amidfallen]

Hey Ola, try EHX Metal Muff :)

[@blakecurtis7809]

Hell yeah. I owned that for a year and loved it. Plus there is a inspiring message inside the battery compartment that was a nice gesture.

[@tyrp7309]

I just bought the meta muff. Would you say it’s better in the FX loop or straight through the front

[@jacksmith4460]

@@tyrp7309 Short answer FX return if tube, if Transistor Clean channel front end Long answer: Not sure how you have been getting on with the Metal Muff, but I find its best into a really flat amp be it solid state or tube, you want to run it through an "open" amp or straight into fx return. When I say open I mean not adding too much character or colour. I think both this and the Metal Zone were designed for use with cheap solid state amps that could quite do the most extreme metal sounds that well. Most solid state amps at the time had a competent clean. I think these days solid state amps have far more tube style character, which colours the tone, so when you put a Metal Muff or Metal Zone into them it can be quite hard to get the right balance. You can still get killer tones into most amps if you are ok with dialling stuff carefully. But even a little amp gain can (not always) just ruin it. For instance I found it really had to get a good tone in my Jet city clean, its the only pedal it does not like, literally tried over 50 in it. The Jet is a Tube amp, it is amazing with every other drive I have tried, just not the Metal muff. Pre amp changes the tone too much to work But at home into my cheap flat as hell budget solid state clean channel, its fucking immense. Its not so much the quality of the amp as the type of amp. So what usually is a bad fit for guitar (i.e. flat response, uber clean hi fi style pre amp) I think is easy to use with Metal Muffs and Metal Zones, if you have Tube amp , go into fx return, unless its a HI Watt or something similar or a fender twin style amp

[@iKremps]

ola i just discovered you and you’re already my favorite

[@donnythei]

Now put an overdrive in the front of that metalcore pedal, i wonder how would it sounds

[@GrimYak]

Don Urbano Binasbas III i would describe it as a heavy but creamy distortion. I used a metal zone in the past and would occasionally put an OD in front of it to wet the sound. Don’t know if i made sense at all :)

[@plumbummusic2051]

Just tested one yesterday with a TS-9 boosting it. With all the gain down and no boost, it can sound like a lot of vintage rock/metal distortions of the classic marshalls, with the boost you get a tight modern sound and can crank the gain up until 12 o'clock for some heavy crunch and chug. I'd recommend setting the treble dial fairly low, given the boost will add a lot of bite and the pedal still sounds kickass by itself

[@Thorrison]

I’ve been using this pedal for at least 12 years. It has a special place in my heart.

[@user-ww3js8ci7d]

Damn I expected a pedal call “metalcore distortion” to sound like ass but it’s actually pretty good

[@Even_N.D.]

I just thought it sound like metal core. Lol

[@DenseSilkyVenom]

Thanks Ola! My desire for CHUG has been satisfied once again! 🤘🏻

[@shanetrain90]

I almost bought a Metal Core pedal, but I talked myself out of it because I already had an MT-2 Metal Zone. If I knew how it sounded I would have gotten it!!

[@klasewiberg]

Hej Ola! Jag tycker det vore intressant att höra din personliga bedömning av pedalen/stärkaren och någon form av betyg. Jag tycker såklart som du att det är svårt att ge men jag tror det skulle dels vara bra för kanalen och dels för oss som tittar. Tack för ytterligare en bra video! Du är otrolig på att ständigt hitta saker som är intressanta och visa upp dem, bra jobbat!

[@nickbavera362]

i absolutely love how the camera goes outta focus when hes pumping the bass.

[@oscarpizano5976]

Thanks Ola. Just picked up my Boss Metal Core Pedal. Thanks for your video!

[@Nano_Noodles]

Please do MXR DD-11 pedal and make it chugg! I want to see you use the dime time pedal!

[@SpokenBroke]

I needed something to front end my Boss Katana for extreme old school metal tones, now I have it. Thanks Ola! Damn it sounds good!!

[@gitarraikasten]

Is the tolex of the head changing the colour slightly? How do you do that effect? 🤣

[@analogaudiorules1724]

Its being possesd by the metalcore

[@azazello777]

man the way you play chugs, and always chugs! chugs like there is no tomorrow! awesome!

[@crimsonstrix]

Hola Ola. It's 4am and I need to be asleep. Why you do this to me?

[@spacedudeandromeda8464]

I wanna get hold of the chug list till date .. damn yeah!! I'm getting most of em...Keep rocking man , Awesomeness !

[@fartnpooper]

I own 2. Recorded an album with it. Run it through a 200 w. Solid state head and 1960 A. I get compliments every show I play on the tone. Love mine.

[@natethompson1257]

I totally see why Rob Chapman likes this pedal. Tons of beefy mid range and a nice, tight low end. Nicely done Ola!

[@youngseokim7645]

1:25 Best clean signal demo right there

[@deadscenerecords]

Ola! ... What effect are you using to turn the mono mic input into a stereo signal and what are its settings (screenshot)? Sounds really good without sounding chorus-y.

[@robertbeckerii2715]

Finally some of my gear , thats the pedal I run through my BOSS Katana Mark ll 100 with my ESP LTD MH-1000MNT ... great pedal you can get a lot of great sounds out of it !!!

[@gbirdo4718]

0:22 me explaining metal to my non metalhead friends 😂😂

[@19boro76]

Great video!! Good to hear that those (sort of) budget version pedals also Chug Pretty Good!!🤘😎👍

[@NothingHereButMe]

Will it chug; FAB chorus

[@DreidMusicalX]

I have this pedal and it can do some really nice metal sounds. Even at its lowest setting you still have plenty of distortion! It kicks ass! Its even kicks butt with single coils on a strat.

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

Dear lord I'm early. I was gonna try to make a joke about it, but I just woke up. I think I need some coffee with Ola

[@joshuaperez-rios7452]

My Marshall MG30CFX on max gain (with bass at about 1 o’clock, mid at 8 o’clock, and treble at about 2) and my boss ds-1 (being used as more of a boost) chugs incredibly. And when I plug in my digitech drop...it’s all over🤘

[@FuzzImp]

Will It Chug: Cup of Coffee? .01 seconds

[@darthj_der7447]

Wow for the 1st time i think im gonna go buy 1 of those today. Sounds nice with very little trouble. Thanx Ola!

[@poseidon5003]

Boss Metal Core. Best tone for the buck.

[@elroi678]

Just bought this pedal and this video convinced me about how goooood it is

[@joevinil7943]

Hi Ola Englund, I joe from Brazil please test the Benringer UltraMetal UM300

[@EpicStuffMan1000]

would be similar to the metalzone but the pink makes it worth it

[@ABoyd1852]

I completed my order for one of these pedals by the time the vid was over. Sounds awesome.

[@wkkkkkk545]

Hi Ola, maybe you will make another series which simply will be just opposite idea to Will It Chug? Will It Suck?

[@Mark-zi6nt]

Didn't expect this one. I'll admit, i kind of like it.

[@jaredtbo2075]

My favourite tone I think I've ever heard

[@amirrezatavangar1113]

Hey ola. Could you do this with Boss power stack? and try to sound like oldschool bands like death

[@n_i_t_u_s_]

I had the MetalCore and the Power Stack, the Power Stack gets so noisy with the gain past noon, which made it unusable for me, but it has very good low gain tones. I miss my ML-2 though

[@amirrezatavangar1113]

Herman Tolken Hmmm I think they all need a good noise gate for a precise sound but it would be intresting to boost a high gain amp with power stack or even using it with plugins to see the response!

[@gonzalocastillo2804]

"Its actually not that noisy". Its well behaved on the hum and hiss department. Its a metal pedal you will get saturation even at the lowest gain. I crank it straight into the clean channel of an old Marshall valvestate. I use the amp mids to give it more cut. For solos i boost it with an od3 and it sustains forever.

[@philipkvamme6969]

Hey Ola, a brother from Scandinavia here. Will it chug: Boss blues driver. (BD-2)

[@kyleolin3566]

Philip Kvamme I can make it chug on a fender amp. Cranked with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. Sounds pretty good, actually.

[@roberthickman2953]

The only channel where I already know the answer but I still watch.

[@LaughingCadaverFilms]

It sounds awesome with a Snarling Dog Mold Spore pedal in combo......try it !!!

[@georgesaris9968]

Good video, you got a good sound from the Metal Core for pedal distortion in the amp's clean channel. But DAMN, I was waiting for you to run the pedal on low gain to boost the amp's OD channel (THAT would have been a MONSTER of a tone, Metal Core boosting a Rectifier) ... and then compare it with the Recto's OD channel on its own, like you did in the video for the Boss DS-1.

[@michaelwolff9207]

Hands down the best distortion pedal boss put out

[@peaner083]

Pretty rad hey,I only just got this pedal about a month ago,plugged in and just couldn't put the guitar down haha

[@tolvana]

My Metal Core ML-2 saved my Behringer MD-108 from selling it away. Even that small POS finally chugged with the help of this little pedal. It works wonders on the tiniest things.