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Hybrid chainsaw distortion
The SAURON DISTORTION
A great eye…lidless…wreathed in flame… Brings your tone to the fires of Mount Doom.
So imagine the gain staging of the Balrog, an updated version of the midrange controls of the MT-2 and a foot switchable fixed tone stack of the HM-2… sounds pretty brutal right? Well, IT IS.
Basically it’s a high gain distortion with an active cut/boost semi-parametric midrange and frequency, active bass control and passive treble control.
The second footswitch kicks in a fixed HM2 tone stack but the other controls all still work, so in order to get it to sound closest an HM2, you have to dial the other controls in (cutting low mids, bass and boosting treble a bit) and then flip the mid shift toggle to the up position.
The point is not to sound exactly like an HM2 (it’s not a clone) but rather to have that flavor.
Although I designed it to be the ultimate DEATH/GRIND distortion, It’s perfect for any genre of metal including death, grind, black and doom but also hardcore, punk and shoegaze.
It’s definitely a distortion pedal for knob tweakers so be warned! The extra work to dial in the tone is worth it though. I’ve never heard anything like it.
FOR BEST RESULTS PLAY THE SAURON INTO A CLEAN AMP.
CONTROLS:
Mid shift three way toggle
V=volume
F=frequency
G=gain
B=bass
M=mid (clockwise boost, counter-clockwise cut)
T=treble
Right footswitch ON/OFF
Left footswitch HM2 EQ
