DRodriguez wrote:BoatRich wrote:Does this exist? I know there was a no clipping HM-2 thing going around, but what about something lower gain for the clipping with that EQ section? Ideally I’d want like a DOD 250 or something. Could the Elements do it?
My other pedal is a 250
The swede saw will boost significantly, but not dirty. It's pretty simple to add though.
Boneshaker could get you close. Goroth would probably recommend the elements for any sound
You can get ballpark with the Elements - set the mids to 1200 Hz and crank them fully, keep the bass loose, silicon clipping. It's a great sound in its own right, and it's definitely good enough for jamming some Dismember. But it's not HM-2.
PeteeBee wrote:Excuse my ignorance, but what is so special about the HM-2 eq? I'm imagining that it has a big mid scoop, and then you can boost the bass and treble a lot? Does it have a signature sound that I should be aware of? I think Swedish chainsaw, but I've never really attributed that to the eq?
It has two mid humps, the one already mentioned, and a second between 800-900 Hz. I can't remember exactly where. The hump at 8/900 lives in the Marshall zone, and gives it a good solid presence, and the 1200 hump gives it a real nasal quality. But of course, there is no mids knob on an HM-2, which is kind of the fun of it. Neither is it a bax. So that Sunlight Sound, you're only going to get that with both the low and the high cranked, which of course gives you lots of lows and highs as well. So you end up with a lot of low end thump, a normal strong mid sound, a characteristic nasal sound (which happens to sound great with guitars tuned to B or lower) and quite a crisp top end. So the EQ, and in particular the way it was implemented in the pedal, are crucial to the Sunlight sound.
FWIW, the MIT pedals don't behave the same as the MIJ. I went through a phase of buying HM-2s from ILF and flipping them for profit in $weden so I have A/B'd enough such that I'm relatively confident this isn't the result of individual tolerances between pedals: the MIT has more gain, less bass and a lot more top end (some of which might be from the increased gain). It's still a decent enough pedal and you can get good sounds out of it, but with the lo and hi dimed it doesn't have that strange sense of balance/fullness that the MIJ has. I tended to dial the gain back a little and back off the hi a little, which gets it back to MIJ sound, but then you lose some of the mids.
