Post by reverendrob on Feb 29, 2024 4:10:10 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for the Boss HM-2. I've used an original since the day I started guitar - it's more a fuzz pedal than a distortion, with a VERY brutal EQ section. I had no idea what such things were when it was given to me by a friend the day I started playing as a hand-me-down, and it started my love of weirdo germanium circuits.
The "Swedish chainsaw" sound mystified me when I heard people were doing it about ten years after I got my first one - I've always used mine at the lower-gain settings, which I find now thanks to the Internet is the favored approach of Gilmour when he used one (I had no idea when I got mine, or for twenty years of abusing it).
IT's beaten, battered, and looks like somebody threw acid on it, literally. But it has that sound.
I love the original so much that I got one of the Behringer clones a couple years back, and discovered...it sounded...better. A little more open, even if it is plastic.
It's been on my board instead of the vintage HM-2 since i got it because of that (and it's a LITTLE less noisy when on).
They announced the Japanese-made "Waza" reissue a couple years back, and I wanted one, but didn't NEED It - but...after finding one for $90ish shipped NIB....I couldn't say no.
It does EVERYTHING I wanted from the HM-2- it's got more range than the Behringer clone, quieter than sin for what it is, and ..has more presence in a good way. !0/10 for a higher gain/fuzzy thing. I'm in the process of rewiring my board to put it in.
The Warm Audio Ringerbringer, well...it's more out there than any of you will probably ever be. It's a VERY faithful reissue of the Moog Ring Modulator pedal (which now sells for $500+ and has been discontinued for years) - it's a modular sound design tool with CV in/outs for all the dials, etc. I've wanted a Moog one for ages but never wanted to shell out the price for them (they were $300ish NEW when that was real money). I've slummed it with a vintage big box EHX Frequency Analyzer for ages (does Devo but that's about it)
I can't even begin to sum up the thing - it goes from an amazing vibrato/trem to ...absolutely insane ringmod, slower than anything I've ever seen. Even morso if you jumper the duration control to the input. Surprisingly, the built in drive (which isn't footswitchable, it's always on - but you can dial it down to 'clean only') is a damn good overdrive period. I can't really "review" it yet - it's going to take a week to get the "basics" of what it does.
No audio explainer of the thing (it's VERY complicated for a pedal):
The "Swedish chainsaw" sound mystified me when I heard people were doing it about ten years after I got my first one - I've always used mine at the lower-gain settings, which I find now thanks to the Internet is the favored approach of Gilmour when he used one (I had no idea when I got mine, or for twenty years of abusing it).
IT's beaten, battered, and looks like somebody threw acid on it, literally. But it has that sound.
I love the original so much that I got one of the Behringer clones a couple years back, and discovered...it sounded...better. A little more open, even if it is plastic.
It's been on my board instead of the vintage HM-2 since i got it because of that (and it's a LITTLE less noisy when on).
They announced the Japanese-made "Waza" reissue a couple years back, and I wanted one, but didn't NEED It - but...after finding one for $90ish shipped NIB....I couldn't say no.
It does EVERYTHING I wanted from the HM-2- it's got more range than the Behringer clone, quieter than sin for what it is, and ..has more presence in a good way. !0/10 for a higher gain/fuzzy thing. I'm in the process of rewiring my board to put it in.
The Warm Audio Ringerbringer, well...it's more out there than any of you will probably ever be. It's a VERY faithful reissue of the Moog Ring Modulator pedal (which now sells for $500+ and has been discontinued for years) - it's a modular sound design tool with CV in/outs for all the dials, etc. I've wanted a Moog one for ages but never wanted to shell out the price for them (they were $300ish NEW when that was real money). I've slummed it with a vintage big box EHX Frequency Analyzer for ages (does Devo but that's about it)
I can't even begin to sum up the thing - it goes from an amazing vibrato/trem to ...absolutely insane ringmod, slower than anything I've ever seen. Even morso if you jumper the duration control to the input. Surprisingly, the built in drive (which isn't footswitchable, it's always on - but you can dial it down to 'clean only') is a damn good overdrive period. I can't really "review" it yet - it's going to take a week to get the "basics" of what it does.
No audio explainer of the thing (it's VERY complicated for a pedal):
