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MERCYFULFATE
Copper Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/14/2008 : 05:39:45
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does anyone here own one? your thoughts?
did Gilmore really use one? i dig mine. |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 09:47:18
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Hi MERCYFULFATE
I have an MZ-2, Christo has one as well, if I remember correctly.
It's the pedal I have a love-hate relationship with.
But I will not get rid of it or sell it.
Have you ever tried to run it on about 8V? or less (flat battery mode).
You'll Be very surprised, the processor goes into a strange Robotic noises effect.
Best to do this with a variable power supply.
See I'm giving away all my best kept secrets...  ...
Regards Dr. Bob |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 10:15:24
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| I'm not sure if Gilmour ever used one. I've never come across any pictures where he's had one on his pedal board. There are pictures of him with an HM-3 though. |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 10:41:42
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MZ-2 is a nice pedal to play around with, it can make some serious noises.
Without delay or chorus I think the distortion is not that good, but with one of them it sound good enough for me.
It sounds way better used in stereo with two amps.
But as Dr Bob writes, it�s a love/hate pedal�.
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dudewheresmybass
Bronze Member
United Kingdom
66 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 12:35:13
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I have one too.
i love the stereo mode, even without the extra effects added.
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ChristoMephisto
Platinum Member
Canada
1288 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 14:32:19
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Yeah shes a whacky pedal for sure,
I'll try that dead battery thing, i know I got one somewhere.
Theres gotta be a way to remove the harshness |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 14:42:09
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Originally posted by ChristoMephisto
Yeah shes a whacky pedal for sure,
I'll try that dead battery thing, i know I got one somewhere.
Theres gotta be a way to remove the harshness
Hi Christo
The MZ-2 draws far too much current to really experiment with an almost dead battery, it won't give you enough time to play.
You really need to be able to control the voltage, that's why I suggested a variable power supply.
Regards Dr. Bob
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ChristoMephisto
Platinum Member
Canada
1288 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 15:10:54
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Think i have a link on how to make one of those, but I'll have to put it on the back burner for now. Too much on the go at the moment, mod wise.
Finish my ODrive, rehouse a Dano pedal, tweek my friends bass, and of course there still that 'old tube radio turned amp' i havent even started... |
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MERCYFULFATE
Copper Member
USA
45 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 05:29:21
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| thanks guys. i would for sure like to know if Gilmour used one. but that aside its pretty cool. |
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Mr Arkadin
Bronze Member
United Kingdom
119 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 12:24:29
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Yeah, i read somewhere that Gilmour used one - doesn't sound likely i know.
i love my MZ-2 - it's a bit odd isn't it? i want to try out that stereo mode properly though. |
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ChristoMephisto
Platinum Member
Canada
1288 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 13:24:31
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Play the opening to Sorrow through a MZ-2
you'll see then |
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jaymzHal
Silver Member
United Kingdom
297 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 15:01:35
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Christo is right, he uses it on on the intro to sorrow, I think on the second chorus setting. There is a picture of his board with it somewhere. Also check out http://www.gilmourish.com/ for any other Dave Gilmour pedal board queries, I believe he did use a HM-2 for a while. Try running it with a compressor set for riffing beforehand and a ge-7 equaliser scooped for a very saturated metal tone that walks all over the metal zone. I wouldn't use an MZ-2 as my tone base without compressor and Eq though. Also if you route the stereo out into the input it sort of self oscillates but you don't have much control over it. However, if you feed it into a delay pedal then you can get some excellent knob-twiddling sounds. Probably a little too fiddly for live but interesting for recording...
It's also nice for sheer noise in a shoe-gazey kind of way. |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 15:36:51
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His blog site has answers to a few gear questions as well. Unfortunately the older pages are gone and only exist in the google cache now like this one:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:bYzeTHUf0HYJ:davidgilmour.musicblog.co.uk/2006/11/ladies_only.html+boss+site:http://davidgilmour.musicblog.co.uk/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&lr=lang_en
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What FX (Pete Cornish board?) did you use during the 'On An Island' tour? (Ernest Peske)
- No, I don't have one of David�s cast-offs if that�s what you mean. But I do have� Avalon DI, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, Demeter Compulator Compressor, Ashdown Bass Overdrive Plus, MXR Phase 90, Boss CE-2B Bass Chorus, Boss OC-2 Octave, Boss DD-5 Digital Delay, Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer, Boss T4-2 Tuner (2), Boss SCC-700 Pedal Controller, Roland SDE 3000 Digital Delay, Melody Evidence Audio Guitar cables. |
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Boss MZ-2 Metalizer.
