Originally Posted by: pennyanmurphHey everyone-

A friend of mine has a Boss Metal Zone Distortion pedal that he will sell me for 25 bucks. He has hardly used it, but I was wondering if this is something I should buy from him. I'm just learning to play guitar, and want to play mostly classic rock, nothing too heavy metal or anything. Just wondering if this would be good to get for that kind of playing. Thanks a lot.

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it does have a "Dist" function and you can lower your gain with it pretty much. if you want to know my settings for metal and classicrock:

metal: - Level to half (5)
- Low to half ( 5 )
- High to a kwarter ( 2.5 )
- Mid Freq to just over a half ( 5.5 )
- Dist to max ( 10 )

and for a rock-sound I use the same settings but decrease my Dist to 2.5 or 3. just find out what you think is enough gain.

good luck

and don't forget to use good reverb!