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  • #1

    Any Boss HM-2 love?

    I've owned one (MIJ version) for years.. Knew it was always the "Swedish death metal tone" but not until recently started using it again with jams with my drummer. I was trying to boost my amp (VTM60) rather than use a pedal for awhile, I know it's a love it or hate it kind of pedal, But I will say it's fattin up and made some of my not so heavy riffs sound allot better...
    well in a sense that is

    Anyone else out there use one or used to?...If so Like it? Hate it? What's your take on it?

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    I had one for many years and tried to warm up to it. Put me in the "HATE IT" camp. I found it to be all lows and highs. It has been gone for about a decade, but I have always preferred more midrange in my sound, and I was suing that pedal into a clean amp to give me my tone. It never happened for me....

    Glad it works for you though!!
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    • #3
      Still have mine that I bought back in like 1985 or so and I loved it.

      Mostly break it out now for nostalgia purposes, but back in the mid-80s, playing it through the clean channel of just about any cheapo solid state amp was a teen's dream for trying to approach the great distorted sounds on records without be able to afford higher end stuff.

      It seems like it reinvented itself later with the Swedish scene you describe.
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      • #4
        It can easily take over just about any amp SS or Tube, I personally like it through a slightly crunchy tube amp

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        • #5
          I used to love the way that pedal sounded. Then I got into running sound and now I hate it. There's no easier way to make a guitar disappear in the line mix than using this pedal to remove all the midrange.
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          • #6
            I had one for a while. In my opinion, it does one thing. But it does that one thing really well. It's either a sound you're gonna like, or a sound you won't like.

            When I heard David Gilmour was using one I thought I'd give it a whirl. However he ran his into a Mesa Boogie so he kinda solved the midrange issue right there.....

            I actually kinda dug it. But yeah in a band situation it has a tendency to get swallowed up due to the lack of midrange.

            Still, I'm not in the "Hate It" camp.

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            • #7
              It's definitely a one trick pony.. It's really just me and a drummer right now.. So I'll see what happens when a bass come into play

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