ZVex Box of Metal

The Box of Metal is a high-gain distortion pedal with a built-in noise gate, made by ZVex. Premier Guitar groups it with the Distortron and the Box of Rock in the maker's line of dirt boxes¹.

What it does

As a high-gain distortion, the Box of Metal pushes a guitar signal into heavy, saturated clipping, the territory of hard rock and metal rhythm tones rather than the lighter breakup of an overdrive or the wooly collapse of a fuzz. The built-in gate is the feature that sets it apart from most distortion pedals: it cuts the signal when you stop playing, silencing the hiss and hum that high-gain circuits otherwise amplify along with the guitar¹.

For a player comparing ZVex dirt boxes, the Box of Metal sits at the aggressive end of the range¹:

• Box of Metal: high-gain distortion with a noise gate, the most aggressive of the three¹
• Box of Rock: leans toward amp-like overdrive¹
• Distortron: a punchier, mid-focused grind¹

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