Boss HM-3 Hyper Metal
By
Seth Carmody_1, in Guitar Effects
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General Comments
A good cheap substitute for anyone wanting to keep a Big Muff tone but move that overly massive EHX unit off their board. With the advent of the new Little Big Muff that will run on a Boss-type barrel plug I suppose this Boss unit has lost some of its edge. Based on memory I prefer the tone of the HM-3 to the old 70s Big Muff I had, but I don't have the later anymore to A/B their tones directly. The Big Muff was somewhat warmer, maybe a bit thicker and could be set much fuzzier, but this translated into sludgy and undefined on the bass strings, particularly for rhythm playing. I could find a sound I liked much more easily with the HM-3, which is a more versatile pedal.