I wonder which pedals i have to bye to get a certain sound? I already have the Digitech Metal Master and the Ibanez FZ7. The sound i am looking for is the sound of (and i know that their sounds are different); Entombed (the swedish death metal-sound), Fear factory, Deftones, Korn, Slipknot, Strapping young lad. Does anybody know what these band uses?

In other words i like a big fat heavy and brutal sound!!!

a lot off metal distortion pedals can give you some nice sounds (i'm saving money so i can buy a boss mt-2 )
you should have either an equalizer or equalization on your distortion (or if you can't otherwise, on your amp)
most metalbands boost their treble and bass (bass slightly less) and turn their mids down (so i guess entomed also does that, but i'm not quite the equalization or entomed expert...somebody else might supply this, but its probably already answered by this)

also, fear factory is an industrial metal band, so i guess you should crank up your mids a bit and your bass, and slightly turn down your treble.

As for korn and slipknot, its nu-metal, so its just key to detune to drop d or c (or a and b if you have 7-string guitar) and REALY crank up your bass

I suggest you go and buy a multi-fx pedal even though that kind of distortion usualy sounds very canned... for a nice metal sound, you'll want at least an booster or some delay, and equalizing is a must. i suggest you look for some older boss multi-fx pedals, you can find them quite cheap nowadays, and they have some mean fx (other than sucky distortion )

it's not realy the answers you asked for i think, but i hope it helps

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a good head could be the best answer
for that kind of sound i would look at mesa,marshall,peavey,engl,hugh & kettener,randall, and brands like that. but if you dont need a big amp and/or dont have the cash for one that has great distortion then i suggest looking at some high end (tube maybe?)pedals like the guyatone mmx metal monster, or the mesa bottle rocket or vtwin pedal.

scooped distortions are probably what you're going to want for that nu metal sound, so just turn up the lows,highs, and gain, and then turn down the mids.

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I have seen Entombed, and they only had a Marshall fullstack.

If you have the metal-master you don't need the metal zone.

If you know how to use your metal-master, it should give you what you want.

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Only problem Ive noticed with using heads is that most heads come with EL34 valves and the distortion rate is very slow on them so you dont get that big heavy sound at all!!! I run a Metalzone (with all the top rolled off) with mids pushed to 6/7 and the bass at abouut 6, through a DSL and all eq on that is around 4/5 with tone control out(off) and deep button off too. I get a massive sound out of that... ALthough i do wanna get an Boss Eq pedal. Like Spikyhairz says it makes a big diff since u can only have one Eq on the head (well on my 1).

boss eq-7 rocks. i want a jsm.. but i'm gonna get an eq pedal before that. an eq pedal and a tuner pedal.. everybody should have those 2 before they play a single show

I totally agree with having some sort of tunner in your setup, as for an eq pedal, Id perfer a rack 31+ band eq, but an EQ of any sort be it a pedal or a rack device or something would greatly benefit you, I would also suggest a noise surpressor in your pedal chain if you are using extreme high gain.

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