I used to work in a music shop and one of the guys in Dismember used to get his guitars setup and fixed by me before/after tours. One time he came in with a HHM-2 that had a busted pot. (For like the fifth time since they didn't use gates back then, just stomping it on and off between breaks) Anyways... Since i knew what the settings was i asked him if it wasn't simpler to just remove all of the pots and solder "straight through" "Shure why not.. I'm not turning those suckers anyways" We ended up with a HM-2 with no knobs what so ever... and since all the nobs "steal" a little even att full throttle that one ended up being the "Turbo-HM-2" Later he told me he used it on "Where Iron Crosses Grow" since it had a little more of everything.
“W”olverine like “Water”. By the way, the hm-2 is suppose to go into a DIRTY channel. For that over saturated death sound. Preferably with an EMG 81 pickup in the bridge.
Back in 1996 I had this pedal in a black metal band with Martin Lopez and Martin Mendez (opeth) and we recorded a demo before they move to Sweden, lots of good memories :)
Claro que si pero solo por descarga :) mega.co.nz/#!4Qxj2YAI!HxDJKMUJL_RmIWIyhUdCEkZuWRuQ4IlrR28qS5vLmgM Y aca hay unas fotos del dia de grabacion www.metal.com.uy/foro/viewtopic.php?t=234 Un abrazo! \m/
Here's how you find the lost volume knob: go out and buy a new one. When you get back from your local music store, that missing volume knob will be at the door to greet you upon your return. 😉
Wolverine Blues AND To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth are extremely underrated... But I mean, Metallica steals from those albums all the time so that says a lot.
I consider myself a youtube veteran. I have seen a lot of youtube videos over the years. This is one of the best videos i have seen. It is informative, it is fun, it is iconic, and it is sophisticated on several levels, while also being moronic in a good way. For one second I thought Göteborg was in Denmark, but then i remembered that we (I am danish) suck at making good metal :-(
Since you have this amp, it would be great if you made a video about Chuck Schuldiner's guitar tone (he used the same amp on most of his albums). Cheers!
One if my ex-girlfriends is from Gothenburg. In fact, she moved back there, eventually. I remember hanging out with her & her mom when I was younger. I was on acid & they spoke in Swedish. It freaked me out, because I thought they were speaking backwards. 😂 Crazy trip. I wonder what Ola thinks of Hexenhaus. They weren’t death metal, but Mike Wead’s rhythm guitar work with that band was a MAJOR influence on my rhythm playing. I listened to “Tribute to Insanity” & “Edge of Eternity” a lot when I started playing thrash metal (before that I played punk).
Damn, I have been wondering how to create that sound for years. Amazing. This video makes me want to go back and listen to Clandestine or Left Hand Path.
i think everybody sets every amp to sound as they personaly like...not the way the amp is ment to be set up...for example i like bass 7.8, mids 6.5, treble 4.5 OR bass 7, mids 4, treble 4....in every amp try...then if is not sounding how i like it...i start analyzing the amp: is it focused in lows, mids or highs? and then start dialing again
Interesting video. The HM-2 is an awesome pedal, it was the first pedal I bought back in 1984, for £25 second hand and I'm still using it now. Best distortion tone ever, I've bought numerous pedals since but none match the tone of the HM-2.
I talked to Alex Hellid from Entombed before a show in CA when Clandestine came out and I asked him about his setup, when he told me all he used was the Heavy Metal pedal from Boss I didn't believe him but yup, pretty much that's all he used. They sounded great live, identical to the album.
Nightmares Made Flesh was indeed recorded using the HM-2, but the sound was so heavily edited/mixed by Dan Swanö that it sounds nothing like that classic Swedeath sound you hear in this vid. Both are great tho, not trying to bash either one. Personally prefer the NMF sound.
Hmm...let's take a midrange instrument & cut out the mids. Genius. Congrats on not only destroying ur tone but also standing on ur bass player's dick. Kudos on multitasking...
The HM-2 (edit!! and MT-2) and MZ-2 get so much hate but they were great for that late 80's/early 90's full on metal tone. I think they stand up today, too! You got your sub, amigo! I enjoyed your playing and humour :)
From booklet of Slaugher of the Soul reissue: I know that Anders has been hassled for seven long years about the “Slaughter of the Soul” guitar sound… This is how you do… Are you ready…; One Boss Heavy Metal Distortion pedal, One Boss Metal Zone distortion pedal, One Peavey Supreme 160 amp… and here’s the tricky part; Anders´ home build cabinet with 2x10” and 2x12” speakers…
Some non-swedish bands that use the Boss-HM2 swedish style : Atavisma - Doom/Death from France Horrendous - Melodic Death from the US Dragged into Sunlight - Blackened Sludge from the UK SpaceWitch - Stoner from the UK Nails - Powerviolence from the US Ssanahtes - Progressive Sludge/Hardcore from France Implore - Grindcore from Germany Ekpyrosis - Death Metal from Italy The Secret - Hardcore from Italy Graveyard - Death Metal from Spain All Pigs Must Die - Hardcore Punk from US. Have fun with that !
The old Marshall Valvestates were unreal. I remember it being my first 'serious' amp and it had a really nice sounding distortion. Hard to find these days in good condition like that one.
Wool-verene.. no "v"sound.. thats a Swedish thing, Great tone on that pedal. I use it myself. Also have the ever present, Boss MT-2. people either love 'em, or hate 'em.. Not my best choice for metal paedals, but they do have their place. My fav for metal tones is the Diezel VH4....Great vid my friend!!!
Sacrilege to purists, But If you turn the "Dist" all the way down and use the gain from the amp, you can bring some of the amps character in while retaining that "buzzsaw" sound. I'd love to see what tonal sculpting could be achieved using the HM-2 that way with the Randal Satan.
I ve used boss hm 2 over years in many amps and it works not good in the gain channels.To much Feedback ,i know that dismember do this very well in the gain channel of Marshall jcm.But in my Randall G3 plus it works very bad.Record one track with boss hm 2 in clean channel and one tracks with the gain channel of your amp.This works and give you a unique and awesome Sound.
If I remember correctly Mika from Rotten Sound dials the dist back on his HM-2. All those modern bands that use the HM-2 make small alterations to that all-10 setting. I also found you can also get a neat octave down effect if you set the high knob to some low value.
Awesome video Ola. As well as the Boss HM-2, have you ever thought about making a video review on the Boss Metal zone since many of us don't know how to make use of it (if any)? Cheers
Check out Metal zone tutorial made by Hong Kong guitarist Jason Kui. Although he speaks in Cantonese, which I can't understand either, it's a good video and he really made mt-2 sound a lot better. I think you can find that vid by searching "metal zone Jason Kui".
Marvel ruined Norse religion to the point of parody. Marvel’s Odin and Thor are as heterosexual as Greek Hellenist belief which survives today even in marvel but in the afghan national army with the soldiers whom seem more attracted to little ‘tea boys’ and grooming them with hard drugs....ugh.
Sorry but this is the moment that the real Scandinavians and their North East British descendants/cousins can effortlessly tell each other apart via readiness to use HM-2s
"My favorite Entombed Album is Wolverine Blues" *plays riffs from To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the truth* Love ya, Ola! Great video as always! Oh, and At The Gates used the Metal Zone ?? I shall investigate, for i have a Metal Zone that i dont really use at all xD
It was discussed in the Making of video that is on a DVD on one of the newer reissues of Slaughter of the Soul. About 45 minutes of studio stuff discussing the album recording. Quite fun.
Hey Ola, why don't you do a tone video for Slaughter of the Soul? It' such an iconic album and has a gorgeously thick tone. I'd love to hear you try to get as close to it as possible.
On this one, I couldn't Agree with you more Ola. Same, I love this pedal because that remember me Entombed Wolverine Blues one of their best album with Clandestine album (living Dead) and Left Hand Path.
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if you start the word "wolverine" with a v-sound, you can pronounce it however you like - it's totally metal from there! :D In American English, W is almost a vowel sound, and very literally like to U's together, and sounds like those little shouts that Tom Warrior peppers classic Celtic Frost songs with: OOH-UH! So woolverine sounds something like ooh-ulver-een.... I prefer "Vool-vair-een Bloose" so much, though, that I resolve to pronounce it this way from now on....
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if you start the word "wolverine" with a v-sound, you can pronounce it however you like - it's totally metal from there! :D In American English, W is almost a vowel sound, and very literally like to U's together, and sounds like those little shouts that Tom Warrior peppers classic Celtic Frost songs with: OOH-UH! So woolverine sounds something like ooh-ulver-een.... I prefer "Vool-vair-een Bloose" so much, though, that I resolve to pronounce it this way from now on....
I got one of these from my neighbor. He bought a old Squire strat thatcane with the pedal or $20. Love this pedal it sounds killer through a cheap practice amp.
as someone who grew up listening to 'left hand path', 'clandestine', 'pieces', 'like an ever flowing stream' and 'indecent and obscene' this just took me back almost 30 years, haha.
Why does this vid have over 200 downvotes? Why would you come to such a niche video and give it a thumbs-down? Like, if you don't like Swedish metal/Ola/Feared etc, how would you even find this video? I just don't get it.
You can easily grab a couple from Ebay or such for 40 - 50 USD. It's not really a rare pedal :) Boss made a ton of them in the 80s and it was very popular then in hair metal(!).
Love the detail description of your signal chain, can you also let us know what tuning you're using on these demos? For those of us who don't have well trained ears. Thanks, love your vids!
5.40 in video, Ola playing raw chugging thrash riffs with the Boss HM-2, pure GOLD, this is exactly the type of riffing I like playing best with this cult pedal, as well as many other old school metal guitarists in the 80's when this pedal existed for some years before the Swedish death metal scene 🤘
10:00 This is the sound dudes like Leo Fender and Les Paul had in mind when they started constructing first electric guitars back in fifties
fucking lol
I want to like your comment more than once.
Leo Fender listened to this from Guitar Heaven and I quote his words:
"... Fuck yeah. That's the tone."
LMAO
I heard they couldn't stop laughing diabolically for hours after having just the thought of it.
I was wondering why the views on my HM-2 video just increased tenfold.
Great tones, Ola.
Man, at first I thought this video was a parody like yours but he had a good tone ._.
You can say that you have ALL THE GAIN!!
Eh, it could’ve used more gain.
As Peter would say: No gain, no Pain
You forgot to mention the Swedish tuned dropped C# lol
I used to work in a music shop and one of the guys in Dismember used to get his guitars setup and fixed by me before/after tours.
One time he came in with a HHM-2 that had a busted pot. (For like the fifth time since they didn't use gates back then, just stomping it on and off between breaks)
Anyways... Since i knew what the settings was i asked him if it wasn't simpler to just remove all of the pots and solder "straight through"
"Shure why not.. I'm not turning those suckers anyways"
We ended up with a HM-2 with no knobs what so ever... and since all the nobs "steal" a little even att full throttle that one ended up being the "Turbo-HM-2"
Later he told me he used it on "Where Iron Crosses Grow" since it had a little more of everything.
Thank you for that bit of golden information!
That sounds amazing
jonas åhlen killer 🤘🏻🤘🏻 the Swedish Chainsaw Massacre 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Wow
Dammit, this is a cool fucking story.
They should do a special edition HM-2 with the Swedish flag 🇸🇪 paint theme
And the twin city crests of Gothenburg and Stockholm on either side.
@@Darwinist What Pedal do they use in Trollhattan?
That is a great idea! That would be so cool! I am surprised none of the manufacturers who make clones of this pedal have done that.
...better copyright that
Abominable electronics have an HM-2 clone pedal with the Swedish flag painted on the case, it’s an incredible pedal
_"HM-2 is the musical equivalent of sandpaper. ...uh, in a good way."_
- Goniloc
Ah, I see you're a man of googoo gaga as well
@@flippy7035 mooogwaa
You must build your uwn guitar with an IKEA shelf for MAXIMUM Swedish Tone.
😁😁😁
Rob Scallon took note!
Lol
they are hollow
LOL
Since I'm making a bit of fun of Gothenburg, and will probably lose a bit of subscribers, please help me work up the quota. Subscribe now!
Link for the replicas pleeeeassse???? :)
Wolverine, like wool off a sheep.
I don't care, i'm italian xD
Thank you ola ;)
Hey!! you should plug it into the satan and crank up all the gain!!! hello from Pennsylvania United States!
*Volvorine*
@Helge Smutt Scaniaton
@Helge Smutt Opelth
Bmwbath
I prefer King Crysler.
“W”olverine like “Water”.
By the way, the hm-2 is suppose to go into a DIRTY channel. For that over saturated death sound. Preferably with an EMG 81 pickup in the bridge.
"Have you ever heard of Swedish Death Metal?"
Hmm...it rings a bell, yeah...
It causes ringing on your ears that's for sure.
Sounds like white noise from more than 30 feet away...
One time I plugged my Metal Zone into my HM-2. There's still remnants of the blood stain on my floor.
Wasn't slaugther of the soul recorded like that?
@@ossisuomalainen early At the Gates was at least
you had your period?
Gotta try running my Metal Zone into my Grunge pedal
Back in 1996 I had this pedal in a black metal band with Martin Lopez and Martin Mendez (opeth) and we recorded a demo before they move to Sweden, lots of good memories :)
Te refieres a Eternal?
Si exacto :D
Que grandes! Ya no se consigue ese demo no? Soy de Rocha
Claro que si pero solo por descarga :) mega.co.nz/#!4Qxj2YAI!HxDJKMUJL_RmIWIyhUdCEkZuWRuQ4IlrR28qS5vLmgM
Y aca hay unas fotos del dia de grabacion www.metal.com.uy/foro/viewtopic.php?t=234
Un abrazo! \m/
Muchas gracias por la info! Buscaba en formato físico, digital lo tengo.. Vamo' arriba la escena charrúa!
I don't think you have enough gain
Wesley ur a funny guy!! Ha! Ha! V⚡
I say let's use multiple Boss HS-2's!
Doesn't CHOOMPHF CHOOMPHF CHOOMPHF sound like enough gain for you?
There is never enought gain
😂😂😂
They should have used the HM-2 for Kylo Ren's light saber sound effect.
Here's how you find the lost volume knob: go out and buy a new one.
When you get back from your local music store, that missing volume knob will be at the door to greet you upon your return. 😉
My favorite TH-cam guitarist for sure. Its comedic, gets to the point, and he even left his fuck ups in the video. Thanks for the videos Ola!
I just love the old Swedish death metal tone like Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, Grave, Bloodbath and Entrails.
I just started listening to grave and they are sooooo brutal the heaviest band I’ve ever heard hoping they release a new album eventually
Oh, the HM2.
It's a must have if you want to sound like the cabinet is broken :D
ChristianIce ciao zi
Saves me time on manually breaking my cabinets.
Sounds like shit in reality. I own this pedal. I’d never use it again. It’s just for collecting.
Ti amo
Nonsense, heaps of bands get a killer sound out of it!
Wolverine blues is one of the most underrated metal albums out there imo. That record is simply fantastic.
Not underrated for everyone who was listening to death metal in the 90ies.
One of my fave death metal albums for sure. So groovey and heavy.
That album is perfection
Shame what happened to the band though.
Wolverine Blues AND To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth are extremely underrated... But I mean, Metallica steals from those albums all the time so that says a lot.
Please do more videos in Swedish, it sounds so cool.
I consider myself a youtube veteran. I have seen a lot of youtube videos over the years. This is one of the best videos i have seen. It is informative, it is fun, it is iconic, and it is sophisticated on several levels, while also being moronic in a good way. For one second I thought Göteborg was in Denmark, but then i remembered that we (I am danish) suck at making good metal :-(
Fuldstændig enig!
You don't need too many bands, with Mercenary you got respect enough! 🔥🎶
You got king diamond man!
Darkane?
@@VitrificationOfBlood 💀💀👍🤘
Since you have this amp, it would be great if you made a video about Chuck Schuldiner's guitar tone (he used the same amp on most of his albums). Cheers!
nice idea
jowiszgaming PL IIRC, Chuck's rig is pretty minimalistic. A guitar with only a bridge pickup straight into a Marshall head
Yes!!
And early Meshuggah!
Big part of his sound was B.B.Sonic Maximizer, although he didn't use it live.
The HM-2 is the reason Sweden does not need a standing army. The ultimate deterrent. But at what cost?
CIRCLE OF TONE. Love your videos! Keep it up!
Thanks man
I can’t tell if it’s meant to be having a go at the hm or sarcasm
at the cost of a bombing every other hour and a mosque on every corner
CIRCLE OF TONE. Since its manufactured in Japan, you should consider it an international arms deal...
One if my ex-girlfriends is from Gothenburg. In fact, she moved back there, eventually.
I remember hanging out with her & her mom when I was younger. I was on acid & they spoke in Swedish. It freaked me out, because I thought they were speaking backwards.
😂
Crazy trip.
I wonder what Ola thinks of Hexenhaus. They weren’t death metal, but Mike Wead’s rhythm guitar work with that band was a MAJOR influence on my rhythm playing. I listened to “Tribute to Insanity” & “Edge of Eternity” a lot when I started playing thrash metal (before that I played punk).
Hexenhaus is mega underrated, as well as the rest of the Swedish thrash scene. Funny story though!
@@ThrashRebel i swear the ones who talk about their exes online are the most incelic ones
7:25 I see you've brought us some Stockholm Black Metal
Damn, I have been wondering how to create that sound for years. Amazing. This video makes me want to go back and listen to Clandestine or Left Hand Path.
Your BEST video in YEARS!!!
sounds like ola finally got sick of guys telling him he makes everything sound the same haha
i think everybody sets every amp to sound as they personaly like...not the way the amp is ment to be set up...for example i like bass 7.8, mids 6.5, treble 4.5 OR bass 7, mids 4, treble 4....in every amp try...then if is not sounding how i like it...i start analyzing the amp: is it focused in lows, mids or highs? and then start dialing again
We broke Ola
Put the bass at 7.8 and treble at 4.5 on a boogie Mark series...I dare you.
Oh god, that would be a farty mess. For my Mesas I tend to have bass around 10 o clock, mids 12-1, treble 11-1.
Just put everything on 666 lol
7:25 " YES "
Interesting video. The HM-2 is an awesome pedal, it was the first pedal I bought back in 1984, for £25 second hand and I'm still using it now. Best distortion tone ever, I've bought numerous pedals since but none match the tone of the HM-2.
I talked to Alex Hellid from Entombed before a show in CA when Clandestine came out and I asked him about his setup, when he told me all he used was the Heavy Metal pedal from Boss I didn't believe him but yup, pretty much that's all he used. They sounded great live, identical to the album.
0/10 didn't play Eaten by Bloodbath. jk ily
Nightmares Made Flesh was indeed recorded using the HM-2, but the sound was so heavily edited/mixed by Dan Swanö that it sounds nothing like that classic Swedeath sound you hear in this vid. Both are great tho, not trying to bash either one. Personally prefer the NMF sound.
My one desire my only wish is to be.....
I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE......
Ethan... i mean, Eaten.
My one daisari, my only vichy's to be E-10
After years asking for Ola with the HM2 i can finally touch myself watching you man
7:27 would sound way better with all the mids scooped out though. The best guitar tone is one you can shave with.
Not if it sounds like "ssssssssssssssssssss ssssssss ssssssssssssss ssssss ssssssssssss" when playing.
Hmm...let's take a midrange instrument & cut out the mids. Genius. Congrats on not only destroying ur tone but also standing on ur bass player's dick. Kudos on multitasking...
I usually put the tone nob on full, 10% treble, 30% bass and 100% mids, sounds way better
The HM-2 (edit!! and MT-2) and MZ-2 get so much hate but they were great for that late 80's/early 90's full on metal tone. I think they stand up today, too! You got your sub, amigo! I enjoyed your playing and humour :)
The tone at 3:45 sounds like a weaponized power saw.
Zakk Wylde
From booklet of Slaugher of the Soul reissue:
I know that Anders has been hassled for seven long years about the “Slaughter of the Soul” guitar sound… This is how you do… Are you ready…; One Boss Heavy Metal Distortion pedal, One Boss Metal Zone distortion pedal, One Peavey Supreme 160 amp… and here’s the tricky part; Anders´ home build cabinet with 2x10” and 2x12” speakers…
Some non-swedish bands that use the Boss-HM2 swedish style :
Atavisma - Doom/Death from France
Horrendous - Melodic Death from the US
Dragged into Sunlight - Blackened Sludge from the UK
SpaceWitch - Stoner from the UK
Nails - Powerviolence from the US
Ssanahtes - Progressive Sludge/Hardcore from France
Implore - Grindcore from Germany
Ekpyrosis - Death Metal from Italy
The Secret - Hardcore from Italy
Graveyard - Death Metal from Spain
All Pigs Must Die - Hardcore Punk from US.
Have fun with that !
Giorgio Tskhadadze 9:59 was a "ah. I know what kinda pedal Dragged into Sunlight and Nails are using" moment lol
Harm's Way, Cursed Earth, Like Rats, Wolfbrigade (I believe) use it or variants as well!
Hemlok used the HM 2 into a Fender Twin for the Guitar sounds.
It sounds very Magrudergrind too.
add Trap Them to that list.
Muito bom
Também sempre ensinando licks monstro que eu adoro
Parabéns, viva Suécia 🇸🇪 e 🇧🇷
All 321 dislikes are from Gothenburg.
I liked and I'm from Gothenburg.
@@Jikdor Det är bra xD
Fy fan va gött 🤘🏻
Nah it came from Florida death metal
since it's a swedish band,it must be "volvo-rine"
But pronounce the V's like its a W.
So it's wolwerine
That cracked me up.
1:52 reminds me of skwisgaar skwigelf
Lmao same
NO
Stop that shit
EVERYFING ON MAX
Valvestate and HM2 in the same video? Too much classic shit and stuff, I can't take it. Awesome.
I was laughing because I have that exact same setup as my backup :)
The old Marshall Valvestates were unreal. I remember it being my first 'serious' amp and it had a really nice sounding distortion. Hard to find these days in good condition like that one.
Holy smokes tht sounds so badass, soo much bite and rawness!
7:27 BLOODBATH TONE!
After watching this video, i became a fucking viking warrior, complete with axe, beard and a fucking drakkar! It's so swedish, uh...
Postie Don't forget your mead!
Psycho Chicken Öh, ýeah, it is mÿ drakkär, btw!
Hur man blir utskickad från 4sound på 2 röda
HAHHAHAHA!! Sant, tyvärr.
Hahah köpte en Boss DS-1 och blev nästan utslängs för att ha maxat ut alla inställningarna👍
faan sant asså
Patrik Nessbo ha snacka om att inte ha någon respekt.
Lidl musik...
"Everything on max!" had me dying. This is why i keep coming back.
I love the guitar tone so much I have re watched this quite a few times......
First ola video I ever watched!!. Awesome to re-visit !!
Dissection! one of my favs. Storm of the Lights Bane great album
best band and best album fckn ever!
0:40 - I thought you were showing us Skyrim for a second
now we're snacking bois
JÄÄÄÄÄH!!!!!
NU SNACKER VI!
Yes now we snacking my män
At 7:26 I pissed myself laughing.
Ola went full savage there... Like, viking savage...
Älskar när Ola talar svenska, så sjukt skönt.
Wool-verene.. no "v"sound.. thats a Swedish thing, Great tone on that pedal. I use it myself. Also have the ever present, Boss MT-2. people either love 'em, or hate 'em.. Not my best choice for metal paedals, but they do have their place. My fav for metal tones is the Diezel VH4....Great vid my friend!!!
3:44 "Now we're snacking" Lmao!
You little cute swede, you!
Hahahaha
hans meier okay... 😏
😁😁🐱🐱🐱🐱🐈🐈🐈🐈🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Kind of gay ngl
Vräääääääääl!!!!
(I greet you from sweden)
"It makes me very happy" *smiles*
adds even more gain
it made my day lol
Every time I rewatch the part where your engage the pedal, it blows my brain and I stinkiest o face, that tone is so good, gets me every time
Ahhh valvestate..... what memories. My first amp, will always miss you ....... uuuhuuuu.
Same here, 8240 combo :D
Me too, i had a valvestate vs65r
I still have my old vs30r...it gets used as a 'coffee table' to put shit on when I'm on the sofa...
Yup, I had an 8020 and 8100 in the early 90s. I loved those amps!
Yup I had a vs65r
Sacrilege to purists, But If you turn the "Dist" all the way down and use the gain from the amp, you can bring some of the amps character in while retaining that "buzzsaw" sound. I'd love to see what tonal sculpting could be achieved using the HM-2 that way with the Randal Satan.
I use minimal dist, level all the way up, and EQ knobs both around 1 o'clock. Sounds MASSIVE.
I prefer as well to use this way, it brings a more massive and tight sound :D
I ve used boss hm 2 over years in many amps and it works not good in the gain channels.To much Feedback ,i know that dismember do this very well in the gain channel of Marshall jcm.But in my Randall G3 plus it works very bad.Record one track with boss hm 2 in clean channel and one tracks with the gain channel of your amp.This works and give you a unique and awesome Sound.
this guy does a similar thing: th-cam.com/video/8oQTygtsEMs/w-d-xo.html
If I remember correctly Mika from Rotten Sound dials the dist back on his HM-2. All those modern bands that use the HM-2 make small alterations to that all-10 setting. I also found you can also get a neat octave down effect if you set the high knob to some low value.
Det här var så j*vla kul på svenska, mer sådant Ola
I recently purchased this pedal and I can't get enough of it.
the ear splitting feedback before him playing at the gates really added to it imo
Awesome video Ola. As well as the Boss HM-2, have you ever thought about making a video review on the Boss Metal zone since many of us don't know how to make use of it (if any)? Cheers
ALL THE GAIN NO MIDS SLAYYEERRRRRRR
Check out Metal zone tutorial made by Hong Kong guitarist Jason Kui. Although he speaks in Cantonese, which I can't understand either, it's a good video and he really made mt-2 sound a lot better. I think you can find that vid by searching "metal zone Jason Kui".
Seconded!
Hell awesome tones from those Swedish bands, Dismember is one of the most powerful death bands of all time.... SKIN FATHER🤘🤘
Loki: 'I have an army...'
Ola: 'I have an HM-2 pedal...'
Loki: :0
Marvel ruined Norse religion to the point of parody. Marvel’s Odin and Thor are as heterosexual as Greek Hellenist belief which survives today even in marvel but in the afghan national army with the soldiers whom seem more attracted to little ‘tea boys’ and grooming them with hard drugs....ugh.
Sorry but this is the moment that the real Scandinavians and their North East British descendants/cousins can effortlessly tell each other apart via readiness to use HM-2s
Ola, thanks so much for this...so many memories from teenage years. Those records were such a big part....
Nice set up, looks and sounds rad my far away friend.
His reaction at 7:25 on the "hiss" tone kills me. "Yes!!" Lmao...
the 13 year old in me is screaming
BlapDuck
Don't let kids be inside you... that's disgusting and illegal
*They’re on to me...*
Wow. I had heard about this pedal being used that way before, but had no clue how well it works. I never expected for it fo sound that good…
Ola, you have me in stitches. And my neighbors hate me for listening to your videos on full gain as well.
Not only is ola just great at actually demoing. But he's also funny af. You're the best man🤘
"My favorite Entombed Album is Wolverine Blues"
*plays riffs from To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the truth*
Love ya, Ola! Great video as always!
Oh, and At The Gates used the Metal Zone ?? I shall investigate, for i have a Metal Zone that i dont really use at all xD
It was discussed in the Making of video that is on a DVD on one of the newer reissues of Slaughter of the Soul. About 45 minutes of studio stuff discussing the album recording. Quite fun.
You mean how "At The Gates" used the Metal Zone? Coolio! Now i have a great jumping off point! - Thanks for the tip :)
Yup. Looks like their label has posted it on TH-cam also: /watch?v=Xfv1EcQ532w
The guitar stuff starts at 15:20
Hey, awesome! Thank you SO MUCH for hooking me up!
Sweden and Bay Area metal was my formative years.
Good 'ole memories :D
Cheers!
I.
Hey Ola, why don't you do a tone video for Slaughter of the Soul? It' such an iconic album and has a gorgeously thick tone. I'd love to hear you try to get as close to it as possible.
wool-ver-een-blues ;) great album, great band! the band Blackbreath also uses an HM-2 sound.
Thanks! Now I can finally imitate that swedish death metal sound that I always loved!
Ola. Talking about Sweden, what dou you think of Swedish guitar amp such as Olsson, Hagstrom, etc. Are they good for Swedish metal?
"WOLVERINE" with a W haha. Left hand path and Clandestine alums were Entombed best albums in my opinion \m/
Clandestine was a killer album.... It's what got me into the death genre.
212 people come from Gothenburg
Does that include Andy LaRoc?
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322 by now.
*Limited Edition*
On this one, I couldn't Agree with you more Ola. Same, I love this pedal because that remember me Entombed Wolverine Blues one of their best album with Clandestine album (living Dead) and Left Hand Path.
Bought it yesterday!!! Killer pedal
I have to say this is one of my favourite metal guitar tones ever! Would have been great if you had used an old Peavey Bandit combo.
Rotten*Sludge yup the bandit loves pedals
and I think Entombed or Dismember used a Bandid combo with a HM2 for their first album
which was better ?
The BOSS Heavy Metal
or
The BOSS Metal Zone
Errr... in Eastern US, it would be Wool - Ver - Reen, but dialects vary, just do you. Great video, man!
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if you start the word "wolverine" with a v-sound, you can pronounce it however you like - it's totally metal from there! :D
In American English, W is almost a vowel sound, and very literally like to U's together, and sounds like those little shouts that Tom Warrior peppers classic Celtic Frost songs with: OOH-UH! So woolverine sounds something like ooh-ulver-een....
I prefer "Vool-vair-een Bloose" so much, though, that I resolve to pronounce it this way from now on....
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if you start the word "wolverine" with a v-sound, you can pronounce it however you like - it's totally metal from there! :D
In American English, W is almost a vowel sound, and very literally like to U's together, and sounds like those little shouts that Tom Warrior peppers classic Celtic Frost songs with: OOH-UH! So woolverine sounds something like ooh-ulver-een....
I prefer "Vool-vair-een Bloose" so much, though, that I resolve to pronounce it this way from now on....
I got one of these from my neighbor. He bought a old Squire strat thatcane with the pedal or $20. Love this pedal it sounds killer through a cheap practice amp.
as someone who grew up listening to 'left hand path', 'clandestine', 'pieces', 'like an ever flowing stream' and 'indecent and obscene' this just took me back almost 30 years, haha.
Why does this vid have over 200 downvotes?
Why would you come to such a niche video and give it a thumbs-down? Like, if you don't like Swedish metal/Ola/Feared etc, how would you even find this video?
I just don't get it.
TH-cam recommendation
DS-1 fanboys
Still sounds like Ola Englund!
Someone stole my HM-2 more than 20 years ago. Never was able to replace it. Kinda blows, as I actually did like that pedal.
You can easily grab a couple from Ebay or such for 40 - 50 USD. It's not really a rare pedal :) Boss made a ton of them in the 80s and it was very popular then in hair metal(!).
Sometimes when i need to regain my hope and faith i come here to listen to the first 3 riffs OLA plays on that clean channel.
Sounds like someone is using the blender to mix coins while you play guitar.
R. I. P. LG Pertov
The greatest Swedish guitar sound is on Opeth-Still Life (not lead, but riffs, also clean parts maybe in top 10 in the world)
Clandestine. Sounds like a bad toothache.
Storm Of The Light’s Bane and Enter the Moonlight Gate
Love the detail description of your signal chain, can you also let us know what tuning you're using on these demos? For those of us who don't have well trained ears. Thanks, love your vids!
5.40 in video, Ola playing raw chugging thrash riffs with the Boss HM-2, pure GOLD, this is exactly the type of riffing I like playing best with this cult pedal, as well as many other old school metal guitarists in the 80's when this pedal existed for some years before the Swedish death metal scene
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Wolverine Blues is Perfect Death N'Roll Album.