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Metal Core Pedal

This is the most aggressive distorter that BOSS has ever built - for the hard core of metal fans! The most extreme distortion with a snappy attack for the hardest riffs!

When the most brutal of sounds are desired, the ML-2 Metal Core is the perfect weapon: for death metal, industrial, grind core, extreme metal, etc.

The bass control of the LOW knob ensures extreme bass, even for 7-string guitars and drop tunings, while the HIGH knob ensures cutting, metallic highs. Ultra fierce!

Ultra heavy distortion - ideal for the hardest riffs
Also for 7-string and dropped tunings
LOW knob for extreme bass (7-string guitar/drop tunings)
HIGH knob for cutting treble
Robustly manufactured - typical of BOSS
Weight: 0.4 kg
Dimensions (W x D x H): 73 x 129 x 59 mm

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Available since March 2007
Item number 112448
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Overdrive No
Distortion Yes
Fuzz No
Metal Yes

456 AED 107,56 €

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Consistent, brutal tone anywhere — plug, play, destroy

John Venieris 13.06.2025

The Boss ML-2 is a beast. With zero effort, I get the same crushing tone no matter what amp I plug into — and that’s a massive win for rehearsals, live shows, or even last-minute gear situations.

It’s tight, aggressive, and focused, perfect for modern metal and hardcore. It cuts through the mix, handles drop tunings with ease, and just delivers that heavy, chug-ready sound every time. No tweaking for 20 minutes — just plug it in and go.

What really makes it shine is its consistency. Whether I'm using a clean solid-state amp at rehearsal or a random backline at a venue, I can rely on this pedal to give me my tone. That kind of reliability is gold.

For the price, it's a must-have tool for metal players who want simplicity, power, and no surprises. Set it and forget it — and get back to playing hard.

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The best distortion pedal ever.

Jorge Casado 10.09.2021

Simple to use and well built, this distortion pedal produces the most satisfying sound you could possibly want. If you are looking to get a great metal tone, this is it.
Flexible and powerful, it will allow you to get heavy metal, Djent, power metal and prog/metal tones easy.
It’s stylish and strongly made, just great to the feel.
Don’t be deceived by the name of it, this is the best metal distortion out there.
I use this on a Marshall clean channel, and guitars fitted with SD Dimebucker, invader and Alpha&Omega pickups.

I’m super happy with this purchase.

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Amazing!

Odexer 08.08.2020

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For electric guitar and electric cello.
Summary:
I bought it for making some experiments with different distortion pedals. Sometimes with digital pedal like GT100. It works great!
+Pros:
The material quality is perfect!
-Cons:
Batery doesn't last to long.
Opinion:
One of the best distortion metal pedals.. I'm very happy with this pedal! I totaly recommend it! . : )

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I'm not sure how to describe this

Medvedotron 13.02.2019

I wanted to have this classic metal masterpiece for fun and I'm kind of disappointed. It's objectively good, it does what it should, it has enough knobs to let you play with it instead of guitar for hours. Where's the problem? It's fizzy, the proper tone can't be set easily (you have very short span of cool sound before the fizz appears while turning the knobs) and it's definitely not a pedal for all amps. So unless you have many of them you might be unlucky and it's not going to work with your setup. Definitely try it with your amp before you buy or at least don't use it as your first and only pedal.

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