Blenders are a useful tools and work quite well to clean up/increase clarity. However, the dry/wet mixing sets you at a disadvantage: guitar and pedal have not the same output. The use of an HM2 is based on it's boosted/high dB output driving the amp into more distortion whereas the humbucker output, even through a buffered interface, only delivers an average of 1v which is meager compared to an hm2. to mix the dry and wet requires to roll back the hm2 volume, defeating the high dB use of it. to arrange a much better and much more efficient mixing, the dry guitar shouldn't be dry but clean boosted, around 10dB shold be enough. Only then, both outputs mixed would equalize, pushing the amp into further distortion.
When i was a bass player i always used a blend control to retain bottom end and clarity. For some reason i never thought to do the same with guitar. This is great info, thanks dude
Thanks a lot for this video. I didn't realize I could keep the beloved chainsaw tone but also add some cleans into it for more flexibility. Now I understand what makes the grindstein and other blend pedals 'modern' sounding.
Great demo! I have a blend on my Bardic Audio Devices HM Demon. I love it to death! I love Full on chainsaw droning, but i also like to add a little chug and chunk to it😂🤘 best of both worlds!!
I'm not a guitar player, I use my pedals for feedback mixing. I use a passive matrix mixer for parallel/series mixing. I do occasionally break out my guitar and use many dirt pedals. I can send the signal through multiple pedals in parallel, series and adjust the amount of clean signal. This gives an infinite amount if tone and dirt options.
This works great on other pedals too, most notably EHX Big Muff Bass variants which come with clean blend. Gives it back some definition. It's the problem with a great sound for chords that is weak for solo notes and vice versa. Golden midway method.
Like as always, I think the king of this style of peals is the hex Tri parallel mixer that coul make insane things an with his eqs and has also a knob controlled phase shifter.
@@DomeNightbearer yas perfect also cause is possible to deactivate the tree loops, I immagine a setup with hm2 style, a doomy fuzz, and a crazy modulation or delay.
I'm planning on purchasing this mixer as well.it seems to be a very very useful tool in chainsaw creations with clones and other pedals for all kinds of endless tones to mess with.
@@thefuneralparade could surely be an interestin alternative to common mixers for features designed for guitar application, maybe the only missing could be a stereo out and panning
Do you use noisegate in you pedalboard with hm-2 on stage and live events? Maybe you could do video about complete setup? Thank you for your chanel so much, great info:3
I under no circumstances mean this in a negative or gate keeping way but please don't use that noise gate. It takes away from your tone real bad. The hm2 is ment to be a feed back ridden tone . Just from my experience. Using a boss ns1, and a decimator, and a zuul. They all cut out parts of the tone. Takes away from the gain. I can't speak for this pedal combo but hm2 alone definitely no noise suppression.
Where should the blender pedal go if I use a Boss NS-2 with the four cable method in the fx loop? I mean if the input of the HM-2 goes into the send of the NS-2 where should the blender be placed?
Either out NS2 and HM2 in the loop of the blender or put the hm2 in the blender and handle the blender like it were the hm2. in your particular setup I'd recommend the second way, because otherwise you can't use the 4 cable method.
I own the same Left Hand Wrath Deluxe that you've got and I always though that the blend control was for bassists. I never could get a good sound out of the Blend function, can you show a working example? What I would love would be an Output 2 that is the bypass signal that I could send to a different amp and blend the two tones.
Man, I must be a neanderthal. Noise gates? Clean blends? Extended EQ? "Usable gain?" I just do not get the need for any of these. ;) I just set my amp to be more on the bright side and slam it with a dimed HM2. Any excess noise or loss of clarity is part of the charm. If the audience doesn't like feedback, they came to the wrong show.
Even if I agree on all terms, I must also take the point of view of the poor sound engineers who bleed their ears out with every show! On the serious side, noise, feedbacks and "lack of clarity" are sides of a same triangle. If an HM2 had less noise, the clarity would be far up and the feedback would be controlable, that's why noise is something to consider seriously. Unfortunately, HM2 pedals are weirdly designed (and no one in his right mind would do it so as of now) and noisegates are kind of like scooping water out of a sinking ship. It's hard work with moderate results. By moderate I mean you can't really have a sound that respect dynamics and strokes while cleaning up the noise efficiently. Add this to compression management and you have a nice audio puzzle!
I just want to know how to tame the extra noise. I run a fortin zuul as my gate and even that cant tame the hm-2w that i use. So much feedback still. If anyone can help id appreciate it. I just want clean cuts and not a bunch of extra noise when im not playing.
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Blenders are a useful tools and work quite well to clean up/increase clarity. However, the dry/wet mixing sets you at a disadvantage: guitar and pedal have not the same output. The use of an HM2 is based on it's boosted/high dB output driving the amp into more distortion whereas the humbucker output, even through a buffered interface, only delivers an average of 1v which is meager compared to an hm2. to mix the dry and wet requires to roll back the hm2 volume, defeating the high dB use of it. to arrange a much better and much more efficient mixing, the dry guitar shouldn't be dry but clean boosted, around 10dB shold be enough. Only then, both outputs mixed would equalize, pushing the amp into further distortion.
When i was a bass player i always used a blend control to retain bottom end and clarity. For some reason i never thought to do the same with guitar. This is great info, thanks dude
Thanks a lot for this video. I didn't realize I could keep the beloved chainsaw tone but also add some cleans into it for more flexibility. Now I understand what makes the grindstein and other blend pedals 'modern' sounding.
Great demo! I have a blend on my Bardic Audio Devices HM Demon. I love it to death! I love Full on chainsaw droning, but i also like to add a little chug and chunk to it😂🤘 best of both worlds!!
I'm not a guitar player, I use my pedals for feedback mixing. I use a passive matrix mixer for parallel/series mixing. I do occasionally break out my guitar and use many dirt pedals. I can send the signal through multiple pedals in parallel, series and adjust the amount of clean signal. This gives an infinite amount if tone and dirt options.
I think you could use a LS-2 (Line selector) from Boss as well for this purpose. So you still could use only Boss pedals. 😉
The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination
Every consider trying this out with a Boss LS-2? Instead of one FX loop, you get two that can be blended together or switched separately.
and it can be had for about half the cost of the Mosquito Blender.
Correct! I actually don't know why we opted for the Mosquito... maybe form factor and size?
This works great on other pedals too, most notably EHX Big Muff Bass variants which come with clean blend. Gives it back some definition. It's the problem with a great sound for chords that is weak for solo notes and vice versa. Golden midway method.
Like as always, I think the king of this style of peals is the hex Tri parallel mixer that coul make insane things an with his eqs and has also a knob controlled phase shifter.
Is this the one from Electro Harmonix? That's on my list!
@@DomeNightbearer yas perfect also cause is possible to deactivate the tree loops, I immagine a setup with hm2 style, a doomy fuzz, and a crazy modulation or delay.
I'm planning on purchasing this mixer as well.it seems to be a very very useful tool in chainsaw creations with clones and other pedals for all kinds of endless tones to mess with.
@@thefuneralparade could surely be an interestin alternative to common mixers for features designed for guitar application, maybe the only missing could be a stereo out and panning
Do you use noisegate in you pedalboard with hm-2 on stage and live events? Maybe you could do video about complete setup? Thank you for your chanel so much, great info:3
Yes I do. Currently waiting for a new Noisegate actually 😉
Ok, many thanks for the answer. Trying to find NG too, cause my wurm is "a bit" noisy.
I currently have the Boss NS2, and it's kinda ok. However I'll step up to Endless Blockade 😉
I under no circumstances mean this in a negative or gate keeping way but please don't use that noise gate. It takes away from your tone real bad. The hm2 is ment to be a feed back ridden tone . Just from my experience. Using a boss ns1, and a decimator, and a zuul. They all cut out parts of the tone. Takes away from the gain. I can't speak for this pedal combo but hm2 alone definitely no noise suppression.
true, I've sold mine. It sucks too much tone
Where should the blender pedal go if I use a Boss NS-2 with the four cable method in the fx loop? I mean if the input of the HM-2 goes into the send of the NS-2 where should the blender be placed?
Either out NS2 and HM2 in the loop of the blender or put the hm2 in the blender and handle the blender like it were the hm2.
in your particular setup I'd recommend the second way, because otherwise you can't use the 4 cable method.
@@DomeNightbearer Thank you. I was hasty and bought an HM-2W without considering the boutique alternatives and now I'm paying the price lol
I own the same Left Hand Wrath Deluxe that you've got and I always though that the blend control was for bassists. I never could get a good sound out of the Blend function, can you show a working example? What I would love would be an Output 2 that is the bypass signal that I could send to a different amp and blend the two tones.
Depends on your amp's settings, but with a driven amp around 2 o'clock does it for me
Man, I must be a neanderthal. Noise gates? Clean blends? Extended EQ? "Usable gain?" I just do not get the need for any of these. ;)
I just set my amp to be more on the bright side and slam it with a dimed HM2. Any excess noise or loss of clarity is part of the charm. If the audience doesn't like feedback, they came to the wrong show.
Oh, you don't have to. But if you want to add a specific feature you know how to achieve it now 😉
I agree on both sides...lol
Even if I agree on all terms, I must also take the point of view of the poor sound engineers who bleed their ears out with every show! On the serious side, noise, feedbacks and "lack of clarity" are sides of a same triangle. If an HM2 had less noise, the clarity would be far up and the feedback would be controlable, that's why noise is something to consider seriously. Unfortunately, HM2 pedals are weirdly designed (and no one in his right mind would do it so as of now) and noisegates are kind of like scooping water out of a sinking ship. It's hard work with moderate results. By moderate I mean you can't really have a sound that respect dynamics and strokes while cleaning up the noise efficiently. Add this to compression management and you have a nice audio puzzle!
Disagree with most of what you said, but definitely agree on feedback. I hate the concept of feedback cancelling
Don't want another pedal? Then buy a new pedal! xD
That's the spirit, isn't it?
I just want to know how to tame the extra noise. I run a fortin zuul as my gate and even that cant tame the hm-2w that i use. So much feedback still.
If anyone can help id appreciate it. I just want clean cuts and not a bunch of extra noise when im not playing.
I use a revv g8 and the 4 cable method. Works perfectly