BehringerHeavy 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.

For the money, this pedal is what it says it is. I'm actually shocked. Yeah it's housing and frame is made of plastic and it doesn't FEEL all that great, but it's still sturdy and can be stomped on a bit. For me, there's no worries at all since I'm playing around with these Behringers on a pedal board experimenting with tones. I'm pleasantly surprised as to the quality of the pedal's function - producing that Metal grinding distortion. It's possible to make it chunky, it's possible to go 80s hairband. Is the best? NO. But does it work and give you what you want? YES. Aside from the build quality, this pedal and so far, others like it from Behringer are 10 outa' 10 for me. I have this guy specifically paired up against a Boss that I have, and it's not only comparable, I actually like the HM300 over the Boss's lower grades. It's better than the Digi Punk I used to have. The output signals is so much more clear than I'd expected. The quality of the tone coming through the same up, in terms of my driver actually throwing the full frequency range, was a lot better with this cheap little guy. The Heavy Distortion pedal from Behringer specially matches up with a DS-1 and just out does the DS-1 in every way but build quality. These are not pedals to get for collecting, they're pedals that give you what you asked for and in today's economy? You couldn't ask for much else.

This pedal runs distortion about half of what the super fuzz does which sounds better in my opinion. Everything worked as expected. Still working on dialing it in to the sound I'm looking for. For the price I am happy with it. Honestly the main gripe I have is with Behringer and it's shipping practices on all the products I have purchased. They don't get right on the order when it is received. In some cases they don't ship it out for days. Customer service is a big factor in deciding whether to purchase their products. Step up you're game in this area and you will have a loyal customer.

Misleading, doesn't come with the power chord to even turn it on. Don't waste your money

Great for when you need that extra crunch

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.

Pretty decent pedal. Like the boss mega distortion only less intense.