Yes, it's no big deal. I'm just wondering what the designers had in mind with this one. The pedals you have mentioned I like as well.You took a chance and bought a pedal for cheap and it didn't work out. No biggie.
I try to stick with the classics for exactly that reason: legions of other players have already figured out which ones are good. Big Muff, Rat, OD-R, Screamer, Klon, Blues Breaker, DS-1, SD-1, BD-2, etc. Sometimes the OG pedals, or circuits based on them (e.g. Plumes is my favorite Screamer style pedal).
With the MD-2 and MT-2 the highs are especially bad. I dial them in a little bit, because it makes it easier to track but I EQ them out later on.I don't like the midrange presence of BOSS pedals, I've owned about 4 or 5 of them.
I do like the Behringer knockoffs, but to be fair those are not similar.
I have to check out Godflesh then. That is a good point, I might want to try it with different amps/guitars.I've seen Justin Broadrick of Godflesh with one in his rig a few times over the last few years (he's an old JCM800+HM-2 guy like me) and well, Godflesh and his guitar tone is still as heavy as its always been..
It could be your amp, your guitar, your pickups, a whole world of reasons it doesn't sound good on one rig but will on another. My HM-2's, even the newer Waza model, sound like absolute crap with my Les Paul (Duncan JB pickups) but sounds like pure evil with my single coil Telecaster or my Duncan Distortion loaded Strat. Its also not really nice with my DSL20 combo, but through my JCM800 or my Vox AC, it will destroy things. Same with my Superfuzz, my Fuzzface, LPB1, etc.. The only 'all purpose' distortion pedal I've ever found that seems to work with one rig to the next consistently are my old Rats.
I can see it working on bass guitar, but I would be worried about the low end, since this is a guitar pedal. I'm going to try to keep the gain knobs closer next time. The MT-2 has extremely effective controls. You really have to make the tiniest adjustments you possibly can to get it just right.My MD2 is on indefinite loan to a bandmate (band currently inactive) who was using it with a (Schecter) Bass VI. At one gig we were lucky enough to use another band's Ampeg SVT stack, and that chain sounded amazing for those songs.
Mostly on guitar I found it was overcompressed and prone to feedback, but that was into solid-state amps. The best gain settings seemed to have both gain knobs at similar levels. I think as with the MT2 or DS1 it is possible to do useful things with the tone control but it needs a delicate touch and the right relationship with amp settings.
Statistics: Posted by LunarKitten — Sun Jun 23, 2024 11:20 am