Behringer Heavy Metal Hm300 Heavy Metal Distortion Effects Pedal

NEW REVIEW AFTER RECIEVING REPLACEMENT: It's works wonderfully. Make sure that your guitar/pedal cords are meant to use a complete bypass before dismissing. It's a low cost product, with one hell of a performance. I'm very pleased; considering the cost. I use to use a Boss Metal Zone pedal in my younger days; and this behringer pedal does exactly what the BOSS could do- at a sincere fraction of the cost. 6/5 stars! **make sure you have compatible equipment; via cords input/output and such, can't stress this enough** So, I had ordered this pedal thinking it would come with the 9v AC power supply cord.. it did not.. So I researched how to open it to access the 9v battery port; and to keep this short- it did not work or turn on. So, I ordered that power supply; hoping it would work that way.. took 17 days to recieve; but it was to no avail. I just received a les paul gibson classic 1960, and was so excited to improve upon my distortion- get back into the metal days.. needless to say I was extremely disappointed. I have requested a return, and am waiting on the new product. Fingers crossed. I will update this review upon receiving and testing out the replacement.

First, should know what you're getting into if you buy this thing. AFAIK it's a very close clone of the infamous Boss HM-2 pedal from the 1980s. That was the first pedal I ever owned back in 2000 or so. It sounded unusably awful to me even then, when I could barely play a lick, and it really is terrible for most uses. At the time I just wanted a more normal reasonable distortion tone, so I sold the pedal, which I've always kind of regretted (especially after I started getting into more death metal stuff in the late 2000's). Now the HM-2 has gotten rare and expensive, mostly because it was used by a lot of the Swedish death metal bands in the 90's and 2000's. This Behringer really does seem to be pretty much the same thing though. It's really cheap, but you should still only buy it if it's what you really want. Don't get it if you're looking for a normal, versatile distortion pedal or something that sounds good in any conventional sense. The manual (somewhat hilarously) says you can get the "typical hard rock or heavy metal distortion sounds" from the pedal. That's a lie. The sound here is like something in between a distortion and a fuzz, with a really distinctive, crusty midrange that reminds me a bit of a half-cocked wah pedal. It's scratchy and farty and just completely terrible sounding, but in a way that's potentially useful as a truly creepy/hilarious special effect tone. Imagine you were to stumble on a huge, writhing ball of snakes breeding in a swamp somewhere. Imagine the thick swamp stink, the slurping and slapping of the snakes intertwining and slithering ind an out of the water, the filthy droplets gleaming brown on the scales. Now imagine waking up one night and finding that same thing in your bed with you. Then somehow translate that into a sound and stick it in your earhole. That's kind of what this pedal is. It's pretty sweet.

This is easily the worst pedal I've ever played. The controls are hilariously awful. The level knob barely brings the volume up to unity gain, but at least it reaches unity gain. The bass knob controls frequencies much lower than any other bass knob I've encountered in a pedal or amp--I mean the lowest, most boomy frequencies. I honestly don't know what the mid knob does. I can't tell if it's changing the frequency or the gain of the mids, but in any case, at its max, it's obnoxiously searing. Finally, the distortion knob essentially has two settings: 0 (medium overdrive), and anywhere from 1-10 (high gain), which sounds pretty much the same throughout. Seriously, somewhere around 0.5 it abruptly changes from overdrive to high gain with absolutely nothing in between. I'm probably in a unique position because I used to play death metal, but more recently have gotten into the Dead and Jerry Garcia, who used the original Boss version of this pedal for high gain leads in the late 80's. I was looking for the latter, and, to be honest, I got it. It does that tone very well. But really, any high gain pedal or amp would capture Jerry's high gain tone just fine, and there are way more versatile pedals out there. And yet, I don't dislike the Behringer. It was cheap enough that I don't have any regrets, and I may even find a use for it. However, if this is your first pedal, or you're looking for anything other than *old* Scandinavian black metal tone--the kind from the 80's that sounds like it was recorded in a trash can--I suggest looking elsewhere.

Pedal arrived brand new in sealed packaging. It was shipped well with no damage to any exterior packaging. But, the panel did not work. Neither with a new battery, or plugged in. I've played guitar for years and trusted this brand, but I now suspect that they may outsource some of their products. I could definitely complain more, but the pedal was only about $20. Maybe bad luck? But I think they're just having everything made in China now.

倅が私のギターを弾くようになったので、それに併せてセッティングに苦労しないエフェクターをと考えてコレを選びました。 我が家にはZOOMのマルチしかないので、流石に中学生にソレ使わせるのはちょっと、ねぇ。 で、この商品。値段が値段なので、ノイズが酷いのではないか、逆にハイ落ちするのではないか、歪みは強いがチープな音になりはしないか、と心配はありました。その全て、とは云い切れませんが、良い意味で裏切られました。コレとデジタルディレイがあればそれだけで私の好みのメタルメタルした音がします。小規模なライブならコレ一台で十分な音作りが出来てしまいます。 必要十分。コストパフォーマンスは非常に高い商品です。

I watched lots of YouTube videos reviews. I’m really happy with this pedal, it sounds great for metal and rock. It sounds so good with my small Peavey and Mesa Boogie amps and large cabinet. I hope the plastic housing can handle live conditions, I’ll update my review later. I am very happy with it and highly recommend it. Amazing price and value. I suggest you watch YouTube videos to see if the sound is for you.

Funciona bien solo q no venía con cables se tuvo q comprar aparte

Excellent product. And it will be helpful to those who are buying their first guitar pedal. Unless both input and output are inserted with 1/4 cable. The led indicator won't glow and seem like it is not working even when you have installed a 9V battery or powered up with 9V power adapter. Working well with battery but haven't bought the behringer 9vV adapter so can't say much about working with adaptor.

Recomendo para quem curte o timbre de metal sueco. Ótimo custo benefício