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Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 5:09 am
by ck3
The Earthbound Audio Throat Locust and Walrus Audio Red sound less boxy than the original HM-2 IMO. This may not bode well for cold, industrialized doom bass.

Now Mothra is stuck in my head. It's like a soundtrack to high school on repeat. Just add loads of Floridian death metal, early 90's Pantera, Type O Negative, Anathema, and My Dying Bride for extra LOLs.

I thought Godflesh used Boss GL-100 preamps back in the day.

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 6:42 am
by D.o.S.
I am jamming Type O right now. :)

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 12:37 pm
by nogodsnobedtimes
D.o.S. wrote:I am jamming Type O right now. :)
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Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 8:33 pm
by ck3
D.o.S. wrote:I am jamming Type O right now. :)
Still one of my all time favs so many years later. :thumb:

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:39 pm
by XIX tech
If someone is still interested, there is the Boss HM-2 and XIX tech HMD-1 shootout video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8y8X7Z9GVI[/youtube]

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:39 pm
by actual
So the main difference is that one uses a single font, while the other one uses four?

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:56 pm
by retinal orbita
I've got an HM-2 and a HMD-1 on my board right now.

Consider me "a big fan".

Basically I'm thinking about ordering that Octave fuzz thing I saw on the XIX instagram later this year.

:love:

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 5:49 pm
by retinal orbita
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Just in case you guys think I'm joking.....

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:46 pm
by BetterOffShred
My man has a CS-2 as well :love: I ditched the CS-3 once I finally got one.. Nice setup.

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:29 am
by gila_crisis
I ordered a Throat Locust last week. Looking forward to play with it ^^

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:14 pm
by ck3
The T.C. Electronic Eyemaster is about as bare bones as it gets, but seems to nail the HM-2 chainsaw texture decently with plenty of output for boosting amp gain. Other than a wonky switch that has to both be depressed and release for the pedal to toggle on/off, there's an adequate amount of bang for the buck.

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:17 pm
by rfurtkamp
If all I wanted was chainsaw, yea.

I have never used it for that!

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 11:31 pm
by systemofameow
Came to thread expecting to see a photo shopped HM-2W pic and was sadly disappointed.

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 10:39 pm
by ck3
rfurtkamp wrote:If all I wanted was chainsaw, yea.

I have never used it for that!
Though I'm also not 100% about the chainsaw setting, it's nice to stomp on an affordable pedal and achieve comparable timbres. Internal trimmers would have been a nice Eyemaster bonus, but the circuit board is oriented in such a way it is difficult to determine if any exist or if mods are possible.

I wish Valeton would add a HM-2 knockoff to their Loft series, though it probably wouldn't be possible to miniaturize the circuit.

I spent a bit of time doing some A/B/C comparisons between the Eyemaster, Red, and Throat Locust. The latter two of the three seem to have a similar clipping character, while the TC Electronic take on this circuit seems slightly less focused overall when palm muting. EQ curves of each pedal differ ever-so-slightly, but are all in the same quadrant of the chainsaw ballpark. My current favorite of the 3 is the Throat Locust with the Red a close second (based on versatility/gain).

Re: Please School Me on Boss HM-2 Clones

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 11:01 pm
by rfurtkamp
Yea, for chainsaw I just go straight to the GL-100, where the dual paras on the ridiculous channel with more gain on tap win out.