BOSS HM-2w - Great or Garbage?
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- Let's check out the new HM-2w, with and without chainsaws!
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"Momentary Lapse of Reason" fanclub in session
Yeah! I saw that tour 2nd row center in Orlando. Poured buckets the whole show but was still incredibly epic.
Saw that tour in Houston. Such an amaaazing show! And your "Sorrow-esque" track...is just pure goodness and brought a smile to my face. :)
Almost had a relapse...
Great video, awesome backing track, and leads.
Thanks.
Cheers 🍻
LEGEND....
_wait for it..._
ARY
"On the turning away..."
One of my favorites.
I cannot thank you enough for not keeping everything on 10 for the whole video. This pedal turned down a little bit makes an incredible lead tone that NO ONE acknowledges or cares about. My standard rhythm metal tone is an MT-2w and my lead tone is an HM-2w. Such a great pair of pedals.
Indeed, a hm2 in front of a tube amp slightly overdriven can do wonders. Love the fuzzy favored distortion in the neck position of a strat
Still got my original HM-2... Bought her when I was 16, she still works just as good 38 years later... Gigged, recorded on her, best pedal EVER...
Now THAT is what you call a lifetime partnership
That 80s solo alone sold me on this pedal! You are my favorite youtuber and one of the only ones that focus on 80s rock guitar so much! I love it! Would love to chat with ya one day and play together. Cheers from Bulgaria.
Thankyou Vladislav! I would love that. My Dad's side of the family are from the Balkans so it's a place I absolutely plan on visiting.
@@LeonTodd Then a jam with ya is a must in that case :D after all I have one of your favourite Marshall for you to play through the old DSL only the 100 W version not the 50 and guess after watching who's video's I decided to get it :D
Hopefully a Waza Craft Hyper Fuzz is next on Boss’s agenda.
Yes please!
They should have done that first
Woop there it is
Great video dude. The Sorrow segment was spot on. Nice work!
Dan Huff used one as well! Steve Farris, just watched a video @ it!
Confirmed. I'm a deeply uncool person and Momentary Lapse is one of my favourite Floyd albums 🤣.
Thank you for the surprise. I didn't know the other uses of this pedal. I'd use it for the legendary Swedish grindcore sound. Entombed. Recognised the sound of PF at once. Great to open up the mind sometimes. Glad we both signed the thing. :)
Listened to left Hand Path a few times to get in the mood for this one
@@LeonTodd Nice. Such dedication. I love it!
Totally agree that it has its applications. I personally wouldn’t use it to creat “MY” sound but I could see using it for a very specific purpose. When I was hearing it, the first thing that came to mind was a movie score where the scene is in a dark, rainy alley in some run down part of town on the wrong side of the tracks. A place where you’d expect to be knee deep in garbage.
Great video. Thanks for posting!
A dark alley with ripping rhythms theme music
Kudos to Boss...great pedal. Great to see it back along with the 40th anniversary SD-1! Sounds the same, but it deserves new videos from everyone just for the reversed colors! 👍
LMFAO that chain saw. Also, Sorrow is a freakin' jam. Well played.
I laughted so much when you start playing with THAT face! LOL! Perfect!
Still waiting for emoji to be updated so i can use it in text :p
First of all that solo made me LOL with it's ridiculous speed. And also that Gilmour style thing was actually surprisingly nice.
Hello Leon, great review of the HM-2! I would like to ask if you know how Eric Clapton might have used the HM-2 in the 80’s for his lead tone with a Strat? Cheers
I much prefer The Divison Bell to Momentary but still a great album, easily top 5 Pink Floyd album for me
Yeah I love both but the songs on Division Bell hit me so hard. Desert island disc for me.
Forever ago I played with guy who used this pedal in a sane manner and everyone LOVED his tone ..then the Swedes came along.
Great review! Thanks for expanding beyond Swedish Death Metal.
Appreciate the Pink Floyd, and hearing other sounds this pedal can do! Love the extreme, and fuzzy tones. Good review. Have one pre-ordered.
Everyone raves about the chainsaw HM-2, but the HM-3 was/is the pedal that did it for me. It's got a monstrous wall of sound distortion, definitely my favourite.
I had an Hm-3 for a while and it was NASTY. Definitely a pedal that's slept on.
I don't have much application for the Swedish chainsaw tone, but if I were a Strat player (which, I'll note, I'm not), those Gilmour sounds would be worth the price of admission by themselves.
Yeah, colour me impressed with how well it works as a fuzz!
Great video man, it seems everybody is just playing in Drop D or C or B tunings nowadays .
I like the old music , and been looking for a review of this pedal with this kind of applicatiln man great job.
This kind of music aint got the same soul
I have a few vintage ones and the one mounted in my rack sounds really awesome set pretty much like your "Gil-more-or-less" setting on the second jam. It's like how I want a Big Muff to sound when I plug them in except better for my approach. Awesome video man, thanks for putting the work!
Yeah it doesn't have that front end "THRAK" that muff's have which is cool but also so hard to dial out for smooth stuff.
MAGIC tone through the strat jeeeeez!!!!
Not my type of thing on its own, but as soon as some of that delay kicks in, smoothing out the famous chainsaw character, it's pure magic lead tone
Got my HM-2W on order, been wanting to get an HM-2 for ages, but it's been out of production since before I was born. Can't wait to anger the neighbors with that chainsaw sound!
Thanks Leon for your amazing channel. Inspired me to go in a completely different direction, ditched my stereo pedals and now running thru a rack of 90's gear and tone has never been better! Anyway I was listening to the backing track on this vid - would you be willing to comment on where you find inspiring backing tracks, or maybe share some of your own with subscribers? Thanks and keep up the awesome work.
Good morning Leon, I actually have an original HM2 from the 80's. It's good pedal. I have a big wooden chest my dad made chock full of old pedals from the 80's and early 90's... Some of this stuff reminds me how old I am!
Not old, just experienced!
I feel like they should have labeled the Gain knob „Compression“. The amount of gain stays pretty much the same over the entire range, but it really just feels a lot more open on lower settings. Though I wouldn’t dare to say it cleans up better 😂
Next video "hope to mod the hm2 for better volume control clean up" :p
I took a drink every time he said the thing and I didn't get past the first couple of minutes.
Dude you can Gilmour really well, sounded legit to me. It is very much like a fuzz
just found your guitar channel and I gotta say that I am a fan. Great Job!
As always man I love your videos! Rock on my brother! Just picked one up :)
I have an original MIJ HM-2 that was my distortion tone into a Fender Dual Showman for a time. Definitely interesting to hear it used in other ways than the "maxed out" way.
It is interesting how a tone can sound great by itself but like crap in a mix and vice-versa.
Yeah that still amazes me. Listening to isolated tracks on YT changed my life
There really isn't "bad" guitar gear anymore.
I didn't think it was possible but sawdust did shoot out of my speakers. See, you are The Lumberjack!!! When I first got into guitar back in the early 90's, I loved to go demo that pedal...scooped deliciousness!!!
Good Morning Leon! There are guitarists that will use this pedal and
create great Tones! Well done and thanks for sharing Brother! Be Well All!
My pleasure!
It serves a very specific purpose, which Swedish Death Metal bands found by accident but then made their completely their own. The best bands of this genre found a way (via legendary metal producers like Dan Swano, Fredrik Nordstrom, Jens Bogren and Peter Tatgren) to bring out the buzz saw sound of the HM-2 in a way that suited the violence of the music. It’s certainly not meant to be versatile!
P.s. I forgot to mention, props for trying to make the Momentary Lapse of Reason tone with the HM-2 - that’s certainly not the pedal I’d be thinking about automatically when it comes to David Gilmour’s silky creamy lead tone on that album
I suspect there's still plenty of his usual fuzzes on that album, but it gets ballpark pretty quickly.
Dude...how could you leave out Tomas Skogsberg? He was the one who first discovered and recorded the tone with Nihilist.
I love the thing where you say the thing will help you do the thing by using the thing
Sounded great with the 77 Strat! Great lead tones
Cheers
Thanks man! That guitar is magic
JFC that first tune!! Holy Shitballs!!! 10/10
My favorite HM2 is the GupTech TorchX. Good HM2 clone with excellent distortion and boost circuits as well.
Besides the lovely chainsaw massacre the solo sounds from 2:42 are really delicate 👌 Q: Was that the neck-pickup?
Oh great playing as always 😉, nice sounding pedal 👍
Great pedal, the stock HM-2 one was better pedal than MT-2 mosquito, but nowadays MT-2W and HM-2W are far better than original ones counterpart, less hiss and fatter sounding, they are different and great pedals, scooped tight bass vs fuzzy big muffier distortion .
It sounded good on the Floyd tune.
That solo track a) sounds GREAT b) shows that this would be perfect for the Stranger In a Strange Land solo 🤘
Adrian played a lot of tasty leads, but that one is surely one of the tastiest
Guitarist walks into bar. "Any hot single coils in here?" i just wrote that. but i cant be the first person to joke about hot single coils. Cool vid! Gilmour is a bit different if he used that pedal, most players have humbuckers or those overly hot seymour duncan style single coils. Traditional single coils i bet sound good. I may pick up someday, this over the MT-2?
I definitely appreciated the hot single coils gag
One of the best demos I saw and had the favor to listen to. I really wonder how a "Heavy Metal" turned into a "Death Metal", in a good way, haha. Also I'm into the HM2(w) too, when it not comes to swedish death metal, but I really wonder how good this pedal sounds all the way up. It's a magic I tried to recreate with other metal pedals, but this pedal just does it for real.
i love those pedals in the loop as a preamp man!
Need to try this asap
@@LeonTodd absolutely dude! Give it a bash!
As usual, your take on things is super thoughtful, elaborate, special and useful. TC Electronic Eyemaster could do the same Gilmour-ish tone?
If it's essentially the same circuit then there's no reason it couldn't!
The eyemaster has internally maxed EQ, which makes it mostly a one trick pony. But you may get something out of it, or get a Behringer heavy metal, that can be an acceptable replacement
Hey Leon, would like to see more videos on fractal fm3. Thank you 😊
Oh they're coming!
Believe it or not Jerry Garcia used one briefly as well.
Oh for real? I'll have to dig through some stuff and find out when and if there's any live clips.
Awesome demo. You really showed what this thing can do. Which is..... make nasty sounds I DO NOT like. ;-)
For single notes its actually quite pleasant. For chords it goes to shit pretty quickly, which is inexplicably pleasant to certain weirdos.
😂😂😂
I was so hoping that you were going to bust out some Obituary. Lol. That chainsaw tune in the beginning was pretty cool. Maybe a side project to Ragdoll. Call it Brutality Down Under or something like that. Lol
Hahaha I have a group chat with some mates where we write short metal songs like that, scream on them and send it to one another
I had one of the originals. Great fun.
Momentary Lapse of Reason. I was 13 when it came out and probably the reason why I picked up a guitar!
NAILED IT BRO AB 4SURE man! There goes my wallet :)
It's a pedal that they should have issued relic'd. Looks wimpy all shiny and clean. I've got a beat up MIT on my board.
Hahaha look out for the "Hm-2 relic service" kits on ebay
It definitely does thing very well.
I want that many guitars at my house!
[Applause]
I still just like the GX-700 with more parameters than I even get into 😂
Hey Todd! Would you consider releasing the preset you used with the pedal? Sounds amazing, would love to have it!
Clean was the Band Commander at stock settings, chainsaw was hm2 into the Angle Severe 2 at stock settings!
Bonjour tout e monde j'ai " perdu " un bouton de ma pédale, et j'aimerais bien en acheter un ,mais je ne sais pas où ???
Des pistes ?
Un lien ?
Merci
These www.ebay.com/itm/333175716143 ?
@@LeonTodd merci mais c'est pas encore ceux là
Ahhh, I see you know your Judo well...
Great Gilmore sound
Great pedal!
i think the S-C switch is a Lofi-Hifi switch
Yeah...I love Rebea and all, but he didn't know what to do with this pedal ;-)
😂. ordered. it does the dg thing. ☺️
😁
Hi Leon!
really liked that overview
Lots of different tones!
I really like that style of pedal in parallel with nice tight amp distortion.
you get all the filth, but also the chugg
yeah that's good thinking. Quad tracking rhythms with a super tight amp "say mark series) then variations with this and blending them to taste would be powerful.
Leon you ever seem to do anything but impress killer sound from skillet box thanks
Thanks so much mate!
I prefer the fatter custom mode, mostly using my HM-2w after octaver and reverb to boost Hizumitas. The sludgiest and most evil drone sounds…
I have an hm2. It sits on a shelf because while it's cool, it sounds like absolute liquid shite.
Odd to think Steve Farris used one of these things on Broken Wings. Still not buying one though 😆
The thing in this pedal is broken. I know its been said, but it amazes me how a whole genre of music spawned from that tone. Life does find a way.
Nobody mentions the DS-1 on center coupled with HM-2 panned left n right on the Left Hand Path album
@@infinidominion is that what is is? Cool. It does make sense to mix it with other distortions to shape the sound. Since it’s not my thing I didn’t know that.
Didn't know that about the DS-1 either!
If that isn't you doing the thing then when it actually sounds like solid the thing then no one can do the thing.
I saw your fingers moving during that first reamped rhythm guitar sample, but... 👂🤷🏼♂️
A fuzz doing a poor job at LARPing as a distortion pedal.
Lol
Think Clapton played one mid 80s didn’t he?
I see you know your judo well
Was it a Sthil or Husqvarna??
hahhahahahaha a succulent Chinese meal!
A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL
Very usable for such a stupid pedal! The "original" has a bit more depth in my opinion than something like TC Eyemaster, despite the obvious lack of eq on Eyemaster. Would've liked a little overlay saying what pedals are engaged when switching! Funnily enough Clifton Wright also just released a video with this in his 80's rack. Either you guys are in tune or inspire each other.
I just watched that video for a second time, CW is such a monster player
it's great.🤘😑
Momentary lapse of reason is way too 80's. I think that's the problem. So people into that 80's sound will like it but others will think it sounds like hot garbage production wise.
This pedal better be garbage or I’m not gonna like it
A succulent not chinese meal
The first tune was nothing but total noise, I couldn't decipher anything that resembled a note. In the context of the Floyd tune you can hear what's actually going on. As to weather or not it's good or bad is all in how it's used in the track.
ok boomer
@@litos_mendes you think I'm a boomer?
I just want to do thing with obnoxious chuggy riffs. Take my money already boss.
In the mix, great. In isolation, I still can't stand it. Which just goes to show that you should probably always be thinking about the song.
Yeah the ruder the better for a mix
I'll tell you whas garbage. The way Gilmore ruined the hm2 sound. All dials left
Thank you for not playing Swedish death metal and actually doing a real demo! The pedal has knobs for a reason you foolish metal heads!!
I have 2 Japanese ones from the 90s. I am happy with them. But cool video.