Boss HM-2

For the reissue, the company also established a Facebook group to seek design feedback from the fanbase.

The Waza Craft version added standard and custom mode to the Boss HM-2W.

It is the most essential sound in death metal of all time, and the bands who have adopted that were always going to be unbeatable in a sense.

Other bands had outstanding performers and musicians, and kick-ass songs, but if they didn’t have that sound they were still sub-par in some way, and this pedal has meant everything.

[citation needed] According to Michael Astley-Brown of Guitar World, compared to the other distortion pedals, the pedal offered "radically versatile low and high ‘Color Mix’ EQ controls with 20 dB of boost/cut.

Metal song created with the Boss HM-2.
Boss HM-2 with maximum settings (colloquially referred to as being "dimed"). These settings became well known in the Swedish death metal scene to achieve the "Chainsaw" tone.
TC Electronic Eyemaster, a Boss HM-2 clone.