Description
Some distortion pedals politely suggest aggression. The MXR Fullbore Metal M116 delivers it outright. This is a purpose-built weapon for players chasing dense, contemporary metal tones — thick, saturated, and unapologetically heavy, with enough gain on tap to push your amp’s front end into territory it couldn’t reach on its own.
What separates Fullbore Metal from a generic gain pedal is control. A three-band EQ with sweepable mid-frequency lets you carve out exactly where your tone sits in the mix, whether you need scooped brutality or a more mid-forward attack that cuts through a dense band arrangement. Flip the Scoop switch and you get an instant boost of highs and lows layered on top of whatever EQ settings you’ve dialed in — useful for adding extra low-end weight and top-end clarity without touching your existing tone shape.
High gain circuits are notoriously noisy, so MXR built in a fast, switchable Noise Gate that cleans up hiss and hum between notes without swallowing your attack. An internal Gate Trigger control lets you fine-tune the gate’s sensitivity to match your pickups and playing style, keeping syncopated palm-muted riffs tight and defined rather than washed out in noise.
Housed in MXR’s rugged compact enclosure with true bypass switching and an LED indicator, the Fullbore Metal slots easily onto a crowded pedalboard as a dedicated high-gain voice, whether stacked after a clean amp or in front of an already-driven one.
- Super high-gain distortion circuit
- Three-band EQ with sweepable mid frequency
- Switchable Noise Gate with internal Gate Trigger sensitivity control
- Scoop Switch for instant high/low boost
- True Bypass switching with LED
- All-analog circuit path
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