HM300 Heavy Metal Distortion Pedal Review

Ultra Metal

Bought this a year or so ago and am very pleased with this pedal. It is one of my all time favorite distortion pedals. Very versatile tone and not a ton of noise. I do have to put a noise gate with it running into my Fender steel however it reunited very very minimal gating. For those of us on a budget this is the best distortion pedal you can get. Yes the housing is plastic but… read more for the price just do what I did and buy a second one for a backup.

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Best pedal on my board

This pedal gives a great sound with all my guitars. Sounds fantastic.

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When you want to SWEDE on a budget!

Definitely does the trick. No further words to describe it. I have the Taiwan and JPN HM-2 ACA 12v Models and it sounded close to both. Barely any difference noticeable on a live setting! Thanks to Alberto. My trustee sales engineer for years!

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Surprised

This is my 4th Behringer pedal. I own the tuner, vintage delay, and the Super fuzz. The Metal Distortion is my fourth and man I was surprised at how good it sounds. Basically I needed a distortion to play one song in my cover band. Overdrives normally all I need and I can stack a few to get the drive I needed. But this was a modern high gain alternative song and I've fallen… read more back in love with Stratocasters… to say the least my tone wasn't right. I didn't want to buy something terribly expensive because it's just one song! I was looking at used Boss pedals and this metal distortion came up. It was $ so it was the right price. As it turns out it's perfect. The tone is spot on what I needed and the 60 cycle hum wasn't bad at all with the gain wide open. Will it survive the gig life? Don't know and don't care... This series is clones of old Boss pedals, the circuits are nearly dead on copies. Get some!

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Does what it should do.

I've used a HM-2 (Japanese) for almost all the time I've played guitar - thirty some years now. I never used it on "Swedish chainsaw" settings. Frankly, I'm amazed anyone ever set it like that! What the HM-2 (and the HM-300) excel at is gritty, almost fuzz-like high gain with a particularly pronounced high end (if dialed in correctly). In that respect, the HM-300 works VERY… read more well. Trying to copy my existing settings is futile, given thirty years of circuit drift and the old variations in production - but the same sounds I know and love are in the little box. If anything, and it pains me to say so, it's slightly crisper in a good way and more open than the vintage HM-2. Will it live as long? Probably not. Will it age as well? Nope. Is it cosmetically hideous in a plastic box? Yes. But it's far more solid than I thought it would be, and works as advertised. I'll be returning my HM-2 to its normal place in my permanent studio emplacement and keeping the Hm-300 in my practice/quick recording rig, and not feel like I've left the "better" pedal out with the big amps and toys.

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