Playing contemporary Metal music demands power, which is best expressed through a gut-wrenching, bone-crushing, and devastating distorted tone. Sometimes this means that warming up your tubes and cranking them up is just not enough. It just means that you need more gain than that your amp would offer; the trouble with that, however, is the degree of noise that it introduces into the signal may seem that the effort might just not be worth going for after all. If you had something that would give that boost yet cut down on the noise without resorting to an external noise gate, it would be quite a relief, something which the Dunlop MXR FullBore Metal claims to offer.

The MXR FullBore Metal is designed to add more gain for that powerful metal tone while cutting down on the noise this process can produce via a built-in noise gate. This primary feature allows you to go for extreme gain levels without ever fearing for that annoying noise in your signal. EQ control knobs for bass, mid, sweepable mid-freq, and high give you tone shaping according to your whims. If you want that smiley face EQ configuration for that thrash metal sounding tone, you can just go for the scoop switch instead of fiddling around the EQ controls of your stompbox or amp.

Other feature that the Dunlop MXR FullBore Metal include true bypass and options for either 9V battery power or AC input. Noise is a big thing that is an "itch" that I strive to get out of my signal, and if the MXR FullBore Metal can do just that and remove my headache, it might well be worth taking in for that pedalboard setup I dream of building. The Dunlop MXR FullBore Metal can be availed for a street price of 99.99 USD/list price of 169.99 USD.