The Chainsaw Files - Boss HM-3 Hyper Metal vs. Boss HM-2 comparison

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  • Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
  • Chainsaw Files Episode 28:
    Boss HM-3
    In this video, I review the Boss HM-3
    For further information about Boss: • The Secret Chainsaw Fi...
    You should also check out my other HM-2 related Videos!
    Chainsaw Files 1 - How the HM-2 produces its sound: • The Chainsaw Files - H...
    Chainsaw Files 2 - TC Electronic Eyemaster: • The Chainsaw Files - T...
    Chainsaw Files 3 - Arion SMM-1 Metal Master: • The Chainsaw Files - A...
    Chainsaw Files 4 - Behringer HM-300: • The Chainsaw Files - B...
    Chainsaw Files 5 - Anarchy Audio HM-2 clone: • The Chainsaw Files - A...
    Chainsaw Files 6 - Lone Wolf Audio Left Hand Wrath: • The Chainsaw Files - L...
    Chainsaw Files 7 - Dunwich HM-2 clone: • The Chainsaw Files - D...
    Chainsaw Files 8 - KMA Audio Machines Wurm: • The Chainsaw Files - K...
    Chainsaw Files 9 - HM-2 Japan vs. Taiwan: • The Chainsaw Files - B...
    Chainsaw Files 10 - Walrus Audio RED: • The Chainsaw Files - W...
    Chainsaw Files 11 - Where to put your HM-2: • The Chainsaw Files - F...
    Chainsaw Files 12 - Decibelics Angry Swede: • The Chainsaw Files - D...
    Chainsaw Files 13 - Fractal Audio Axe-FX 3 clone: • The Chainsaw Files - A...
    Chainsaw Files 14 - Abominable Electronics Throne Torcher: • The Chainsaw Files - A...
    Chainsaw Files 15 - Secret Chainsaw Boss DS-1: • The Secret Chainsaw Fi...
    Chainsaw Files 16 - Where to put your HM-2 pt. 2: • The Chainsaw Files - a...
    Chainsaw Files 17 - Buzz Helvete Metal Plugin: • The Chainsaw Files - F...
    Chainsaw Files 18 - XIX Tech HMD-1: • The Chainsaw Files - X...
    Chainsaw Files 19 - How to copy the HM-2 in your Axe-FX: • The Secret Chainsaw Fi...
    Chainsaw Files 20 - Lichtlaerm Woodworker: • The Chainsaw Files - L...
    Chainsaw Files 21 - Dunwich Nihilist: • The Chainsaw Files - D...
    Chainsaw Files 22 - Peper's Pedals Too Many Clones: • The Chainsaw Files - P...
    Chainsaw Files 23 - Lone Wolf Audio Left Hand Wrath Deluxe: • The Chainsaw Files - L...
    Chainsaw Files 24 - DOD Super American Metal: • The Chainsaw Files - D...
    Chainsaw Files 25 - Airis Effects Merciless Drive: • The Chainsaw Files - A...
    Chainsaw Files 26 - Lone Wolf Audio Six-Hammer-EQ: • The Secret Chainsaw Fi...
    Chainsaw Files 27 - Boosting an HM-2: • The Chainsaw Files - C...
    Ultimate Clone comparison: • The Ultimate Boss HM-2...
    Signal chain: BlacKat Custom guitar - Axe-FX 3 - Steinberg UR824 - Cubase 9.5
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 70

  • @barrygomez5968
    @barrygomez5968 5 років тому +68

    Hm3 actually sounds pretty Damn good

    • @jye_24
      @jye_24 8 місяців тому +1

      Its good but not as good as the HM2, it sounds great at the start and better because its higher gain, but once you put them through an overdriven amp the HM2 only sounds better as you turn the distortion up, where the HM3 just gets Muddy. HM3 is a cool distortion but doesn't get the Chainsaw tone, BOSS didn't mean for that tone to come about and that's why they couldn't make it better, HM2 isnt the greatest by itself but once you put through the right amp you have one of the best Heavy Metal guitar tones in the world.

  • @aidanbrooks771
    @aidanbrooks771 4 роки тому +55

    The HM-2 sounds like a chainsaw
    The HM-3 sounds like a lawnmower

    • @ellisdugg
      @ellisdugg 2 роки тому +7

      And the metal zone sounds like a vacuum because it sucks 😉

    • @jackslayers
      @jackslayers 2 роки тому +1

      Your comment is so precise

    • @joshuagarcia8547
      @joshuagarcia8547 Рік тому +1

      Then what does the metal core sound ?

    • @RetningNord
      @RetningNord 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ellisduggyou obviously have no clue.

  • @TheNocturnalEvil
    @TheNocturnalEvil 5 років тому +34

    From what I can infer from their sounds the HM-2 is great for Swedish Death Metal while the HM-3 will sound great for Black/Death Metal (Blasphemy, Connqueror, etc).

  • @regortex3364
    @regortex3364 5 років тому +29

    I’m falling in love with HM-3, so glad I own one.

  • @ThrashingBasskill
    @ThrashingBasskill 5 років тому +15

    Niiice, your background in the intro is much better now, no flickering lights, sharp image and you act way more natural. I have to catch up with your latest stuff but you get better and better! :)

  • @Tedris4
    @Tedris4 5 років тому +23

    The HM-3 into the clean amp almost sounds like a heavier version of the later Schuldiner Death tone to me!

  • @H_A_R_M
    @H_A_R_M 5 років тому +13

    It’s indeed a giant gap if the whole of China fits in there! 😂
    I had to laugh hard at your description, but it’s spot on! 🤘
    I’m a fan of the HM-3. 😉

  • @Merjia
    @Merjia 2 роки тому +3

    Picked up a 1997 HM-3 the other day, such an awesome unit. And very appropriate for my band name 😁

  • @414deathmetalist
    @414deathmetalist 4 роки тому +13

    The Hyper Metal may not chainsaw, but it's actually pretty close to the early Chuck Schuldiner sound. It's pretty much a DOD Death Metal with a gain knob and no mid controls

  • @camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303

    I play the hyper metal in a shoegaze band. It's a super fucking thick distortion which I really like. For more metallic stuff I like the HM-2 a bit more, though it's only got 1-2 good tones into it

  • @IronSwan-ll5ju
    @IronSwan-ll5ju 12 днів тому

    I always thought it was funny how hm-2 came out 5-6 years before the first wave of death metal in Sweden and America and is iconic, yet most of the iconic albums are early 90s and mid 90s. You’d think there would have been more hm-3 tones mixed in. Maybe I just haven’t listened enough to the blueprints of death.

  • @Muppio
    @Muppio 4 роки тому +8

    Kinda dig the HM-3.

  • @sonicsnout
    @sonicsnout 4 роки тому +5

    My first ever pedal was a Hyper Metal pedal and somewhere along the way it was switched, accidentally or maybe not accidentally, with someones Heavy Metal pedal. I don't even know how long it was before i noticed because they look so similar lol.

  • @headbuster03
    @headbuster03 5 років тому +3

    Don't just love how these companies like to break what doesn't need fixing. But then again, Behringer makes a great copy with their HM300

  • @georgesaris9968
    @georgesaris9968 5 років тому +2

    All right, the video I have been waiting for, and a very good one it is! Interesting how similar the pedals sound in your amp's distortion channel! The HM-3 is definitely not a bad sounding pedal in the clean channel either, although I find that depends much on the amp. Sounds great in the clean channel of a Marshall Valvestate.
    And it is actually supposed to be a higher gain pedal than either the HM-2 or MT-2, actually the highest gain Boss pedal until the ML-2 came along. \m/

  • @efrazable
    @efrazable 4 роки тому +7

    1:50 the hm-2 with distortion at 0 sounds menacing af

    • @fleshmotorcycle9427
      @fleshmotorcycle9427 2 роки тому +3

      been going down a huge rabbit hole looking for gear that might yield a 'big' metal sound without the gain consuming all the notes and the low gain setting HM2 sounded something like what im after

    • @OctoberSoda
      @OctoberSoda 7 місяців тому

      @@fleshmotorcycle9427what do you use it for?

  • @mjcsixteen
    @mjcsixteen 2 роки тому +3

    I just bought the Hm3 for bass and it sounds incredible! I’m prob gonna use it to replace bass big muff pi 😄

  • @fleshbomb29
    @fleshbomb29 3 роки тому +2

    Just bought an HM-3 this morning for $45. Pretty excited to try it

  • @LordKarasuman
    @LordKarasuman 2 роки тому

    May the force be with you too!

  • @micahj9828
    @micahj9828 4 роки тому +8

    The HM-3 is virtually the same circuit. You can get a HM-3 for $50 and put $3-5 worth of components in it to make it a HM-2.

    • @DomeNightbearer
      @DomeNightbearer  4 роки тому

      Has it the same chip as well? Sounds like an interesting mod

    • @micahj9828
      @micahj9828 4 роки тому +6

      @@DomeNightbearer The eq section is actually three tansistors, but you can build a HM-2 eq section on a perfboard with a pair of op amps and tap into the HM-3 bypassing the transistors. I've done it with a couple pedals as an experiment.

    • @beforesoad8686
      @beforesoad8686 2 роки тому +4

      @@micahj9828 You can do a tutorial?

  • @kazzTrismus
    @kazzTrismus 5 років тому +4

    BIG Difference.....how about the mxr fullbore?

  • @jezmez68
    @jezmez68 3 роки тому

    Wait. Was there a clean tone? I thought I heard a spot where the amp was all gained out?

  • @dddd717
    @dddd717 5 років тому +1

    Can you take say the metal zone or the ds1 and get the same tone with a 10 band eq?...by the way...I really enjoy you videos

    • @DomeNightbearer
      @DomeNightbearer  5 років тому +1

      I think I've done a quick video with a GE7 and either MT2 or DS1, just search through my channel content, you'll find it eventually :)

  • @reneotten7376
    @reneotten7376 3 роки тому +2

    Varg Vikernes used the HM3 for the recordings he did in jail.

  • @RMosack
    @RMosack 3 роки тому +1

    Running the level on full kind of ruins the comparison. The amp seems to be overdriven anyway, covering up what the pedal is doing.

  • @helldeirch
    @helldeirch 4 роки тому +4

    I get it, people want that lo-fi hm2 sound

    • @DomeNightbearer
      @DomeNightbearer  4 роки тому +4

      You think it sounds lo-fi? Huh, for me it's more brutal and "dirtier" compared to other sounds.

    • @00dtanner
      @00dtanner 3 роки тому +1

      I came here to say the same thing. The HM2 sounds like a lo-fi version of the HM3. The HM2 sounds neutered in comparison. I’ll keep my HM2 around but I’ll be snatching a 3 off Reverb soon.

  • @brozio77
    @brozio77 3 роки тому +1

    i like both. for my sound better hm3 but i have two hm2 clones that i use sometimes

  • @danriley903
    @danriley903 3 роки тому +3

    unfortunately what sounds good in your room doesn't cut through in a band, the wormhole continues............

    • @ChristianBurrola
      @ChristianBurrola Рік тому +2

      This is wrong though. Almost any tone can work in a band context as long as you have the headroom to amplify it.

  • @Dirge4july
    @Dirge4july 3 роки тому +4

    The hm2 sounds like a half cocked wah.

  • @davidelizalde3844
    @davidelizalde3844 4 роки тому +1

    I'm no expert at all on this but seemed to me that the HM-2 has a more "unique" sound while the HM-3 soundd like a "stepping stone" towards a MT-2.
    Great video btw :)

  • @FancyJohnny
    @FancyJohnny 2 роки тому

    both are super aggressive but in very different ways, i might have to track down an HM3 when i get the chance

  • @maotemplar
    @maotemplar 7 місяців тому +1

    HM-3 can replicate the HM-2 for 1/3 of the price on the used market. The HM-2 clearly can't reach the HM-3. Even Dod/digitech Death Metal does the job... Forget the hype!

  • @Blakullawitch
    @Blakullawitch 4 роки тому

    i own a hm-2 and i dont see a reason to own a hm-3 its just a hm-2 with a tweeted sound effect, which you can do that easly with any guitar amps these days, but mt-2 even the waza craft are weak, i use the hm-2 mostly for black metal

  • @gabfuentebella4791
    @gabfuentebella4791 3 роки тому +3

    Damn i nearly had an hm2 earlier for crazy cheap, sadly someone got it first.

    • @DomeNightbearer
      @DomeNightbearer  3 роки тому +3

      There will be another chance. If not, opt for some clone or improved pedal 😉

  • @drdre4397
    @drdre4397 2 роки тому

    I got given one of these for free and don't play metal but for a free pedal it's tons of fun.

  • @URTH-yb5xh
    @URTH-yb5xh 4 роки тому +2

    Your demos/vids always thank you I have owned both of these at some point in my life I’m sorry but I don’t see what everyone believes about the HM-2 I’ll go back out and get HM-3

  • @GregMerritt-ws8tq
    @GregMerritt-ws8tq 6 місяців тому

    Run a 2 through one amp and a 3 through another in stereo.

  • @JohnnyNation
    @JohnnyNation 2 місяці тому

    No way in Hades the hyper metal matches the HM-2. I thought I was "upgrading" when I traded my Heavy Metal for a Hyper/still regret it 3 decades later !!!###

  • @AD-ij2wj
    @AD-ij2wj 2 місяці тому

    I’ll never get rid of my MIJ HM-3

  • @Mr.Goldbar
    @Mr.Goldbar Рік тому

    HM2 for Swedish death metal, HM3 for American death metal :)

  • @Potatoenfuego
    @Potatoenfuego Рік тому

    dimed it sounds pretty good tbh, just different

  • @blvckno_1
    @blvckno_1 Рік тому

    I very much prefer the less muddied lows of the hm-3

  • @johncooper9912
    @johncooper9912 2 роки тому

    You forgot to stack them 😁

  • @benmccarthy9923
    @benmccarthy9923 2 роки тому

    I have both. Hyper metal all the way.

  • @mauricioretamales4614
    @mauricioretamales4614 Рік тому

    HM-3 diodos de germanio

  • @Tagros
    @Tagros 4 роки тому +2

    I have no friends hahahaha

  • @huntermcdougal5013
    @huntermcdougal5013 10 місяців тому

    HM2 sounds like trash, HM3 has that 80s death metal sound. Cannibal Corpse, Death...