That's amazing (ly horrible, but definitely brings back memories! I'm so proud that I hated the Metal Zone when I was a teenager. All my guitar player friends of same age wanted to convince me how GREEEEEAAAAT it is, but no way, I worked, saved me some money and bought a Dual Rectifier )Check out Mark's awesome tone in this video! That tone really brings back memories...
Wondering if he is running a gate at the end of the chain. At any rate thats is some extreme gate clamp down.
He's probably using the gate block at the end of the signal chain with it side chained to the input. Using the gate block side chained to the input is the best way to get a tight gate because it's threshold is adjusting to the dry guitar sound but because it's at the end of the signal chain, it shuts down the sound of everything before it and isn't affected by amp noise.
That's amazing (ly horrible, but definitely brings back memories! I'm so proud that I hated the Metal Zone when I was a teenager. All my guitar player friends of same age wanted to convince me how GREEEEEAAAAT it is, but no way, I worked, saved me some money and bought a Dual Rectifier )