Chords for What Does 100 METAL ZONES Sound Like?

What is up everybody, my name is Pete and I play music.
So today I'm doing something really really dumb.
Something that's really really pointless and stupid.
[Em] So this_
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[E] is the Boss Metal Zone.
You all know this, the world's most infamous distortion pedal.
Got a bit of a reputation for being_
a bit naff.
Kind of [D] a bit [Em] rubbish.
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And this_
is the new and improved version.
The Waza Boss Metal Zone.
They released this one a few years ago as kind of a successor to the original Metal Zone.
I don't really know [E] what's different about it [Ab] honestly.
It's got a modern voicing [G] which I guess means there's a bunch [B] of technical gubbins inside it
which make it better than [E] the original.
And you know what, I like the Metal Zone.
I'm not sure it entirely deserves this reputation of [D] being kind of awful.
[Em] Anyway, some people love these, some people hate them.
Have you ever wondered though, what 100 of them sound like?
Together, all at the same time.
So that's what I'm doing today.
I'm gonna take 100 [Eb] of [E] these_
and [G] play them all at the same time.
[D] But Pete!
That's not 100 Metal Zones, that's [Em] 2!
You're right.
Very observant my friend, you are [Gm] correct.
So when I first thought [E] of this_ _ _
stupid idea,
I knew I was [D] never ever going to be able to get 100 Metal Zones.
It's just too impractical.
And very expensive.
I wonder how much it actually [Em] costs.
UGH let me see here.
Times 50 [C] plus the Waza Metal Zone times [E] 50 _ [Em] equals_
It's a big number.
So, because I didn't want to spend 10 grand on distortion pedals,
I found [D] another way of doing this.
I'm going [Am] to use reamping to simulate [Em] this.
If you don't know what reamping is,
it's basically when you take a [E] guitar signal from your computer,
run it out of the computer into an amplifier,
and [D] back into the computer.
It basically allows you to change your guitar settings after [Eb] you've recorded your guitar parts.
But [E] also in this case,
it will allow me [Em] to reamp this over and over and over [E] again.
Doing this two pedals at a time,
until eventually I end up with what would [Eb] be 100 pedals.
In theory.
Now I don't know whether this has ever been done before.
Probably shouldn't be.
But, you know, content.
All right, so I thought I'd run you through my reamping setup here.
So these are my guitar tracks in Cubase.
And yeah, [Em] I know it's a really ancient version of Cubase.
[E] Cubase 6.
But you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
From Cubase, it's going out of my audio interface,
out the back, into this reamp box over here.
Follow this cable all the way down to my pedal board,
which has got a noise gate on it with both my Metal Zones.
And from the [B] pedal board,
this is running straight into the back [D] of my amplifier here.
It's actually not [E] turned on.
I will turn that on.
So the last thing in the chain here is it comes out the back of this amplifier,
not into this cab.
[Em] We're not using this today.
It goes straight into my [E] Torpedo Live,
which is running a 4x12 custom impulse.
And [Gm] from there, it goes straight back into the computer.
So I've [D] already dialed these in to [Eb] around about roughly the same tone.
They sound a little bit different, but [Bm] who cares?
And most importantly, I've set the gain [Em] to three o'clock on both pedals
because you don't [G] want too much gain, right?
[G] So let's dive in.
The first Metal Zone sounds like [E] this. _ _
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[A] _ _ _ [Em] And both of them together sounds like [E] this.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] Now all we have to do is repeat that 50 times.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Db] So the original idea [G] for this video was to show everything,
step [D] by step, slowly [Gm] adding distortions alongside with the playthrough
and [E] slowly building towards the big 100 [D] Metal Zones.
[Em] But it just sounds so bad and I'm only [G] at 10.
I mean, I don't know what I expected exactly.
So I'm changing the [E] plan a bit.
I'm still going to do 100 Metal [G] Zones,
but instead of subjecting you to the entirety [D] of it [E] piece by piece as [Eb] I go,
I'm just going to cut to [E] the chase.
I could feel my IQ dropping every single time I added a Metal Zone to this,
and it's slowly driving me insane.
What does [D] 100 [E] Metal Zones actually sound like? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ I [Dm] do these stupid experiments [Bm] so you don't have to.
I guess I thought that even after [Em] all of these Metal Zones and all of this distortion,
that the guitar would still be recognizable in some way.
But no, no, [E] _ it's not.
It seemingly [F] takes all of the high-end distortion and [E] noise
and amplifies that far [Eb] more than the low end.
It's [Em] just a total, [E] total mess.
Oh yeah, it's probably worth mentioning that the Metal Zone isn't awful.
You just have to know what you're doing with it,
like running [Eb] it in the back of [E] the effects loop instead of in front [Gm] of the amp,
stuff like that.
And it's [E] just in this case that what I was doing was so stupid,
it was always going to sound flipping awful.
Yeah, much love Metal Zone, you still rock.
So that noisy mess, my friends, is what 100 Metal Zones sounds like.
Yay!
Hooray!
Yes, another impractical and completely pointless experiment.
Anyway, that was really dumb, but I hope you enjoyed it.
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Thank you so much for watching, and until next [D] time, my name is Pete, and I play music.
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