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[Dr.Pain]

Boss Heavy Metal HM-2.  Made in Japan, June 1985.  My limit for it was $100 on ebay and I got it for $100.05.  Sounds a  million times better than the Behringer HM-300 copy I got this year.  Run it through my 30 watt Marshall overdrive channel and got the lovely thick chainsaw tone  :)

[Madsakre]

I got two, both a japanese and a taiwanese :P I actually tend to like the Taiwanese version a little better.

[gwEm]

whats the deal with these, they seem to be popular all of a sudden.. is it really good for teh djentz or is someone famous using one?

[Madsakre]

Djent is still for pussies!
The hm-2 is the tool of the trade to get the "Stockholm" Sound.
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxR4zQiSHQc

This Paticular sound has been become very, very popular again, thanks to Kurt Ballou from Converge, and some old school Death Metal freaks.

Newer Hm-2 worship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_rGVNht7Q

[gwEm]

i thought i would hate the tone, but strangely its actually rather good. thanks for the info! not sure i'll be buying one, but maybe a really cheap one will come up or something.

[Madsakre]

You wont :P They have a pretty high value. The japanese usually goes for around 200$ on ebay

[Dr.Pain]

They have a tone nothing else can produce. Back when I first started in to play in 1991 they were not too highly thought of and were only really used for the Stockholm sound in Swedish death metal.  Metal Zone came out and they were the go as they were used for the Gothenburg sound and American death metal.  Run the pedals through small solid state amps and you get the tone they used in the studio at the time.

The HM-2 and MT-2 were responsible for so much great music.  :)

I can't get good sound from the pedals through my Vypyr 60 amp but them again it really doesn't need them.  Has to be some modelling that works with them though.

More HM-2 goodness :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia4EH5xIBe0

[psy]

Wow, I used to have one of these pedals years ago.  It was my first proper pedal (having only had a cheap plastic distortion pedal before that).  I think I sold it for £20... kind of wish I'd hung on to it now they're in demand.  I remember it has a hell of a lot of low end on offer & the drive sounded pretty good once you dialled it back a little to get rid of that fizzy top end.

[Madsakre]

the way we use it is everything dimed out except the gain, which you leave on 1

[Telerocker]

I had that one. Served me for a while, but always founded a little thin with strats and tele. Nice buy though.

[Dr.Pain]

The other thing to do is everything on 10 in the overdrive channel of a small solid state amp and control the channel volume.  They set up the recording mic's at the back of the amps too at Sunlight Studios to thicken the sound. 

[Ratrod]

Those are cool pedals.

Kinda makes a guitar sound like Lemmy.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I bought mine Xmas 1984 along with a boss CS2 compressor sustainer from Rockbottom Music (the one that got looted in the riots earlier this year).
All got sold years ago, think I bought & subsequently sold another years later

It was fun at the time - funny that they have made a comeback

[HTH AMPS]

sounds killer for that style of music - I reckon there is scope for an even more badass version by adding a midrange control too.

[HTH AMPS]

I went looking locally on the back of this thread and found one for £25.00  :D

Should be cool for home-use br00talz.