Members Cliff Fiscal Posted May 14, 2012 Members Share Posted May 14, 2012 $60-$180 on eBay. Could have bought all of them back when they sucked for $20. Sweddish Metal or shoegaze to blame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 12string Posted May 14, 2012 Members Share Posted May 14, 2012 Shoegaze launched a thousand bad post rock bands who each in turn launched another thousand people who aspire to be in bad post rock bands. Swedish metal bands are still plugging their fuzz pedals directly into the mixer. What's the deal with MIJ Boss over MIT? I never really understood it, other than "MIJ is better because it's better". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArrMatey Posted May 14, 2012 Members Share Posted May 14, 2012 Can't believe people are paying this much for an HM-2. Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members diocide Posted May 14, 2012 Members Share Posted May 14, 2012 I just got one of CL for 25$. Kid thought it was broke. He wasn't using the right AC adapter. TLDR- I won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cliff Fiscal Posted May 14, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 14, 2012 I got one when I first started playing. Came with a Boss chorus and a SS peavey amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 Do any of them actually sell for $180 or are they just listed for that? I can't see any reason to pay that much for an HM-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cliff Fiscal Posted May 15, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 A minty one....looked NOS with box and papers sold on eBay for $180. Most were more in the $100 range....still. there aren't too many that didn't sell.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Likes Loomis Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 should have kept the 2 i had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members k tone Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I just got a mint MIJ one for $60 + shipping. I thought it was a good deal. I have been playing my MIT version since '89. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ispunk Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I got one on here for 50 bucks a few years ago. Was just rocking it today into an Arion Phaser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cliff Fiscal Posted May 15, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 So they're actually good? just not appreciated in it's time?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lucid origami Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I noticed the ebay prices....glad I have two... Just used one today during a recording session. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Likes Loomis Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 So they're actually good? just not appreciated in it's time?? Much like the often hated MT-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pelliott Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 So they're actually good? just not appreciated in it's time?? Well, they're one of those pedals that doesn't sound really good, but rather it sounds awesome. Sorta like the FZ-2, theoretically they're bad, but they just sound so {censored}ing kick-ass when you dime everything and play loud as {censored}. Plus you can get some decent sounds if you don't dial it in like a jackass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onyxrhino Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I've bought four HM-2s over the past few years. Never paid more than $50 for one. The one I have now, I got for 29.99 a few months back. It's a great pedal. Beautiful fuzzy distortion that works great for Swervedriver riffs. I always hear people talk about it as its this surprise pedal that mostly sounds like crap, but just works for one sound, and I don't get it. Dave Gilmour, Swedish Death Metallers, Jerry Garcia, Adam Franklin, that guy from Godflesh, Dean Garcia, and supposedly Eric Clapton have all been reported as using these things. That's a pretty broad list of styles represented there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lucid origami Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 that guy from godflesh morphed into ellen degeneres with scraggly facial hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WeStartToDrift Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I got my first two for $20, the third for $35, and the fourth for $15. I'm ready for the HM-2pocalypse. It is by far my favorite Boss pedal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MojoFilter Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I never understood the love for either the Boss HM-2, or the MXR Distortion +; I have my originals from the early 80's, and neither one sounds that great. Give me a Barber Dirty Bomb over both of them, 10 times out of 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kap'n Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 It's pretty horrible, like a not-quite-as-over-the-top FabTone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WeStartToDrift Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I never understood the love for either the Boss HM-2, or the MXR Distortion +; I have my originals from the early 80's, and neither one sounds that great.Give me a Barber Dirty Bomb over both of them, 10 times out of 10. They're definitely not for everyone. The Dist+ doesn't have a whole lot of volume and the HM-2's gain control has a huge dead zone between about 10 o'clock and 3 o'clock. I just got lucky that both of those pedals fit nicely into my rig. I've seen guys use the HM-2 and sound like ass, its all dependent on your playing style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Taylor. Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 You can get some decent sounds if you don't dial it in like a jackass. Truer words have never been spoken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nixhex113 Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 One of my favorite tones is a vintage rat into a Hm-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WeStartToDrift Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 One of my favorite tones is a vintage rat into a Hm-2. I'm a big fan of lower-gain OD's into it. I've been driving HM-2's with a TS9 clone and it really tightens the sound up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fever606 Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 One of my favorite tones is a vintage rat into a Hm-2. In college, this - plus a Boss CE-2 - was my everything. Bass into a Peavey SS head and Ampeg 8x10 or guitar into the string of MusicMan and Fender Bassman heads I cycled through, did not matter. Non-LED Rat and HM-2 all day, every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members django5 Posted May 15, 2012 Members Share Posted May 15, 2012 I kind of feel sorry for Boss. Their pedals only become good when they're discontinued; suddenly everyone wants one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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