Behringer HM300 Heavy Metal Pedal

Name: Behringer HM300 Heavy Metal Pedal
Brand: Behringer
Price: 23.45 USD
Availability: Discontinued

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Key Features

Get the death metal sound
From guttural growl-like breakup to chainsaw-esque grinding dirt
Straightforward four-knob layout for ease dialing in colossal tones
Lightweight, super-portable plastic enclosure with bright LED for dark stages

Behringer HM300 Heavy Metal Pedal Overview

Let's get it out the way, this pedal sounds best cranked. Known as 'diming' the controls, the Behringer HM300 Heavy Metal Pedal's circuit gained its legendary reputation by setting every control to 10 and letting the mayhem unfold. This gives the characteristic chainsaw-like buzzing distorted tone by pushing the circuit to extreme levels of clipping.

This was the sound of Swedish death metal which is also the reason the original circuit has left such a significant legacy. If you need a distortion pedal to propel your tone to crushing new highs and deliver some of the most grinding textures available, the HM300 supplies it in abundance.

Product Ref: 21875

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Death Metal in a pedal

Distinctive tone, distinctive design. The Behringer HM300 Heavy Metal Pedal's signature grinding tone comes from germanium diodes providing asymmetric clipping which pushes the signal close to a square wave. This extreme clipping is reinforced by powerful EQ-shaping. First, the low peak is sitting right on the low E string of the guitar. This means chugging the bottom string is going to sound POWERFUL!

There is then a huge dip in the mid-bass which some people perceive as sounding muddy but is critical to the characteristic tone. The high peak boosts the prominent midrange, which at this stage is mostly comprised of odd-order harmonics emphasizing ‘crunch'. The ‘mid’ and ‘high’ frequency bands mostly overlap with each other making the HM300 the ultimate angry power-chord machine.

Finally, there’s so much content at 1000Hz that the EQ stage itself is clipping constantly when you have the 'High' control maxed out. This is a concise version of how the HM300 creates such mammoth, fuzzy tones and creates it's unique grinding sound signature.

Features

Provides sought after rock & heavy metal distortion of the 1980s
Ultra-high gain circuitry to give thickest & most obscene distortion with endless sustain
Dedicated distortion, 2-band EQ & level controls
Status LED for effect on/off & battery check
Operates on 9-volt battery or the Behringer PSU-SB 9V DC power supply (sold separately)
Electronic on/off switch for highest signal integrity in bypass mode