Great vid Dome! I love mine and so glad they put a blend knob on it. I look forward to putting it up against a Dirt Monger Leviathan when its released.
I don't know if it is better,lol. I would rather take your word. I got the Metal Zone it seems to do its thing very well. But to get my best sound I end up stacking 4 pedals.
@@DomeNightbearer I want to do a comparison of the Grindstein and Guardian, because the Grindstein has way more gain. Maybe, in the mix, the lower gain of the Guardian will actually sound better. I definitely won't say that the Wurm sounds worse due to its lack of gain, because the sound is excellent, but the Grindstein just has more of that sizzle that I attribute to the higher gain. But, they were also designed for different purposes. The Grindstein is supposed to be its own preamp, whereas the Guardian is supposed to go in front of an amps distortion section. I might swing to your side when I actually do a mix test, and agree that it actually doesn't need more gain.
@@visualdarkness I don't know. When I put my ZW44 in front of the Guardian, it sounds pretty close to the Grindstein, but I don't know if that's because of the added gain or because of pushing the high end. However, because you can make the Guardian sound like the Grindstein, but you can't make the Grindstein sound like the Guardian, I'd prefer the Guardian. Plus, you can do so many other non-HM2 sounds with the Guardian.
Been waiting for this! Wow this thing does almost everything. Hard to think of any more features someone could want from an hm-2 style pedal. Thanks again for more great chainsaw content!
Really like this pedal….. except for the $$$$. As always; you do an excellent job with the freq curve analysis. I’m willing to try it with a shoot out against the LHW Deluxe if you wanted to ship it here. 😀😀😀 Cheers Domenic.
Great vid Dome! I love mine and so glad they put a blend knob on it. I look forward to putting it up against a Dirt Monger Leviathan when its released.
I love my Wurm, I hooked it up to my Eurorack Modular the other day, I have a FX loop module, it's killer dude.
Thanks for the EQ analysis as always.
Would love to see what cool tones you could come up with using the FX loop.
Noise gate is brilliant btw.
I don't know if it is better,lol. I would rather take your word. I got the Metal Zone it seems to do its thing very well. But to get my best sound I end up stacking 4 pedals.
The Guardian is such a versatile pedal. I wish it was a little higher gain, but it sounds excellent.
This is one of the very few occasions where I don't think it needs more gain 😅
@@DomeNightbearer I want to do a comparison of the Grindstein and Guardian, because the Grindstein has way more gain. Maybe, in the mix, the lower gain of the Guardian will actually sound better.
I definitely won't say that the Wurm sounds worse due to its lack of gain, because the sound is excellent, but the Grindstein just has more of that sizzle that I attribute to the higher gain.
But, they were also designed for different purposes. The Grindstein is supposed to be its own preamp, whereas the Guardian is supposed to go in front of an amps distortion section.
I might swing to your side when I actually do a mix test, and agree that it actually doesn't need more gain.
@@joshua.merrill Isn't that attributed to the added presence rather than gain in the Grindstein?
@@visualdarkness I don't know. When I put my ZW44 in front of the Guardian, it sounds pretty close to the Grindstein, but I don't know if that's because of the added gain or because of pushing the high end.
However, because you can make the Guardian sound like the Grindstein, but you can't make the Grindstein sound like the Guardian, I'd prefer the Guardian. Plus, you can do so many other non-HM2 sounds with the Guardian.
Awesome! Bass demo, pretty please?
I would love to see how the guardian of the wurm compared to a LHW Deluxe
The Guardian is awesome!
feels good with bass?
excelent video as always, Cheers bro
Been waiting for this! Wow this thing does almost everything. Hard to think of any more features someone could want from an hm-2 style pedal.
Thanks again for more great chainsaw content!
Oh yasss!!!!
Really like this pedal….. except for the $$$$.
As always; you do an excellent job with the freq curve analysis.
I’m willing to try it with a shoot out against the LHW Deluxe if you wanted to ship it here. 😀😀😀
Cheers Domenic.
Haha, I could do this shootout myself 😉
And true... price is high, but some pedals are worth it!
You should do a shoot out with the KMA and the LHW deluxe + endless blockade.
don't have the endless blockade yet, but this would be interesting!
@@DomeNightbearer do you use a gate at all?
currently I only use the Gate in the Fractal. I got rid of the NS-2, because I didn't need it
YESH!
Damn, I really prefer by far the HM-2
Hey Dominic, awesome review. I was wondering which distortion pedals to put into fx loop to get something super crazy. Maybe another video?
Definitely some follow ups coming!
@@DomeNightbearer ay, Capt! Cant wait to hear from you.