Chef's Old School Swedish Heavy Metal

Swedish Chef

Swedish Chef

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First attempt and a response to the tens of millions of requests for the Boss HM2 pedal and the sound of old school swedish heavy metal. Reference: http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-wish-list/59079-old-school-sound-swedish-metal.html

Patch below. You may want to tweak it to fit the band/recording/album you're trying to duplicate. But I think, IMHO, this sounds fairly good stand alone. I have not tone matched this to any source but I highly recommend placing a tone match block at the end of the signal chain if you're trying to nail a particular album tone - Entombed for instance. You might need to adjust the input level and guitar knob volume. I had the volume knob of my Tyler SE at the value 4/10 roughly.

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Nice! I wouldn't say you nailed it but good try and I appreciate the patch as well. To me this is more like a doom metal guitar tone, something along the lines of Pentagram. Sounds like you used a fuzz pedal possibly.
This was my FW 9 attempt before I actually owned the pedal and I think I got pretty close. The 2nd clip is the real pedal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWiizrU9dIM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I think most of us want that all knobs maxed out sound which is what i did here.
https://soundcloud.com/kylan-mcnichols/hm-2-demo
 
Already somewhere nearby! But it's still a little something missing that fat and saturated until the emulation BOSS HM-2, is difficult to achieve identity, but the work is carried out Khoroshayev, thank you for the good work!
 
da771 said:
Already somewhere nearby! But it's still a little something missing that fat and saturated until the emulation BOSS HM-2, is difficult to achieve identity, but the work is carried out Khoroshayev, thank you for the good work!
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Did you just call me Khoroshayev? Who dat? :ambivalence:

I'm up to refining the patch if someone is willing to post a serious sound clip. I don't mind people playing in their bedrooms but that's not at all what these pedals sound like on records. I've listened a lot to Entombed and that was roughly the sound I was going for. If you want another band/album tone, post a clip and I'll try to tailor the patch to that tone. I know you guys are aiming more for the Death Metal tone... I was thinking more Entombed...
 
maybe someone try a tone match using the OP patch? i would but only have v1.
most will know, but just to point out incase: -
on sunlight studios albums such as left hand path, dark recollections, clandestine etc. there are two very different guitar sounds going on at the same time (or one at a time for the rhythm breaks). one sounds quite close to jsls earlier post, and the other sounds a bit more similar to the OP tone (imo).
e.g. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaYzIUH9yU 10:07 <(that's the one that's hardest to copy without an HM2)
... followed by the other completely different guitar sound (more mid-range) at 10:15 (mixing together for the diabolical heavy rhythm :D)
 
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