Boss HM-2W

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:20 pm

STABxYOU wrote:
Mike wrote:They benefit so much from adding a mid gyrator control to complement the lo and hi colour mixes

That would have been a decent waza mod

Such a daft silly pedal
That high knob is a mids knob. It impacts something like 890 and 1100 with a really distinctive twin peak.

ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s true but it controls the highs as well.

I decoupled the mids range you mentioned into a separate independent control (as others also have) - gave the pedal so much range and versatility - could even cop a passable AC/DC style sound (with the gain control taper/range also fixed!)

Post by **Doog** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:58 pm

STABxYOU wrote:
Mike wrote:They benefit so much from adding a mid gyrator control to complement the lo and hi colour mixes

That would have been a decent waza mod

Such a daft silly pedal
That high knob is a mids knob. It impacts something like 890 and 1100 with a really distinctive twin peak.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:14 pm

Unreal

dub · Post by **dub** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:46 pm

The weird EQ *is* the pedal though.

People have made clones that are just the EQ section. Which is a fun way to use the HM2, send the Swedish chainsaw into your favourite gain/amp.

STABxYOU · Post by **STABxYOU** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 2:10 pm

dub wrote:The weird EQ *is* the pedal though.

People have made clones that are just the EQ section. Which is a fun way to use the HM2, send the Swedish chainsaw into your favourite gain/amp.

I'm surprised no one's made an HM-2/OD hybrid with that EQ curve but without the distortion.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:42 pm

Fuck yeah.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:03 pm

dezb1 wrote:
benecol wrote:
Hurb wrote:just get the behringer
Just got the Behringer, more like.

(they're Ã‚Â£16 on Amazon today).

Ã‚Â£16 I just bought one to do a side by side test for myself.

You'll have to let us know how they sound A/B'd. Quite curious.

The Behringer is totally out of stock on this side of the pond

STABxYOU · Post by **STABxYOU** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:13 pm

singlepup wrote:You'll have to let us know how they sound A/B'd. Quite curious.

Do those help?

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:59 pm

singlepup wrote:The Behringer is totally out of stock on this side of the pond

A number of the cheap Behringer pedals seem to be in short supply here. You can't rely on Behringer to tell you whether they have discontinued them, either; the rotary pedal RM600 was on their website for months after they stopped making it. They've now marked it a "legacy product". Of course, there is a chip/production capacity shortage too so it's difficult to tell.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:17 am

I suppose that's to be expected, between the Suez Canal blockage and so much chip production being diverted to various vaccine programs.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:15 am

STABxYOU wrote:

Looks like the Behringer isn't quite identical; I definitely heard more upper-mid harshness from the Behringer (shown in the diagram), but maybe people want a spikier chainsaw? No doubt you could approximate the Boss a little more by just pulling back slightly on the Mid control.

That setting sounds like pure shit to me regardless Ã‚Â¯\_(Ã£Æ’â€ž)_/Ã‚Â¯

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:46 am

Quite tempted by this, which also seems to be a HM-2 clone (although no EQ, which leads me to believe both those controls must be all the way up).

[youtube][/youtube]

I reckon there's some horrible lead lines on the new Thank record which could benefit from THE CHAINSAW when we start playing live again.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:01 am

Doog wrote:
STABxYOU wrote:

Looks like the Behringer isn't quite identical; I definitely heard more upper-mid harshness from the Behringer (shown in the diagram), but maybe people want a spikier chainsaw? No doubt you could approximate the Boss a little more by just pulling back slightly on the Mid control.

That setting sounds like pure shit to me regardless Ã‚Â¯\_(Ã£Æ’â€ž)_/Ã‚Â¯

I thought the consensus was that this type of test was bullshit anyway (haven't watched the video, at work) because of tolerances and variations in components. Setting everything at 12 o clock on two identical pedals will still sound different, so you would always use your ear to tune it anyway.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:07 pm

Yeah, true enough I guess.

kingkiller · Post by **kingkiller** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:02 pm

Freddy V-C wrote:Quite tempted by this, which also seems to be a HM-2 clone (although no EQ, which leads me to believe both those controls must be all the way up).

[youtube][/youtube]

I reckon there's some horrible lead lines on the new Thank record which could benefit from THE CHAINSAW when we start playing live again.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Freddy

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:04 pm

Aye, it's probably snobbery on my part but I think I trust this more than the Behringer. And no way am I paying for the Boss.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:07 pm

Behringer own TC Electronic these days. IIRC, I think they banged out a lot of the old Behringer clones in TC Electronic cases a few years back.

kingkiller · Post by **kingkiller** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:10 pm

Freddy V-C wrote:Aye, it's probably snobbery on my part but I think I trust this more than the Behringer. And no way am I paying for the Boss.

I already have the Behringer, but why not get an 8th distortion pedal?

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:21 pm

You can never have too many dirt pedals.

Just totted mine up and I've got 16. So, err, actually, maybe you can

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:40 pm

BearBoy wrote:Behringer own TC Electronic these days. IIRC, I think they banged out a lot of the old Behringer clones in TC Electronic cases a few years back.

Yeah, you're right. I just trust the TC Electronic construction more.