Moltar
Well-Known Member
Long post ahead...
I have been using on and off a few HM-2 style pedals as a boost with a few different Orange heads, and I had been blending them with the dry signal either with the blend knob on some of the pedals, or on ones without a blend knob I had been using a separate One Control blender pedal. I then run them into a decent crunch level of gain on my amp.
I was using them in a way that used a decent bit of the pedal distortion, but without the extreme EQ settings that get that chainsaw sound. I more just was using them for the textured midrange and the crunchy way they break up in the low end. I had been using a Lone Wolf LHW Deluxe for a while(sold it cause the builder is nuts), replaced it with a Wren and Cuff Hangman and the One Control blender I had mentioned for blending in dry signal, and now I also have a custom made Dunwich HM-2 with a built in blend knob.
I love the sound I get from them for death metal set up this way by keeping the EQ lower, and blending them into the dry signal, I can get a really interesting textured crunchy midrange that was somewhat similar to a Proco Rat style pedal but with its own thing going on as well.
My problem I have found with all these HM-2 type pedals I have used is that they really aren't very harmonically active at all. Especially trying to get harmonics on higher strings and definitely unwound strings... extremely hard unless you hit them 100% perfectly.
When I plug on of my Rat style pedals in or even the actual Rat reissue that I have, it suddenly comes to life harmonically.
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a pedal that is somewhere in between the two? Chunky and textured midrange/bass but actually harmonically active like a Rat. Or even just a harmonically active HM-2 style pedal.
Thanks.
I have been using on and off a few HM-2 style pedals as a boost with a few different Orange heads, and I had been blending them with the dry signal either with the blend knob on some of the pedals, or on ones without a blend knob I had been using a separate One Control blender pedal. I then run them into a decent crunch level of gain on my amp.
I was using them in a way that used a decent bit of the pedal distortion, but without the extreme EQ settings that get that chainsaw sound. I more just was using them for the textured midrange and the crunchy way they break up in the low end. I had been using a Lone Wolf LHW Deluxe for a while(sold it cause the builder is nuts), replaced it with a Wren and Cuff Hangman and the One Control blender I had mentioned for blending in dry signal, and now I also have a custom made Dunwich HM-2 with a built in blend knob.
I love the sound I get from them for death metal set up this way by keeping the EQ lower, and blending them into the dry signal, I can get a really interesting textured crunchy midrange that was somewhat similar to a Proco Rat style pedal but with its own thing going on as well.
My problem I have found with all these HM-2 type pedals I have used is that they really aren't very harmonically active at all. Especially trying to get harmonics on higher strings and definitely unwound strings... extremely hard unless you hit them 100% perfectly.
When I plug on of my Rat style pedals in or even the actual Rat reissue that I have, it suddenly comes to life harmonically.
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a pedal that is somewhere in between the two? Chunky and textured midrange/bass but actually harmonically active like a Rat. Or even just a harmonically active HM-2 style pedal.
Thanks.