Its pre­curs­or, the Heavy Met­al HM‑2, has the repu­ta­tion of hav­ing cre­ated an entire genre. Every suc­cessor will have a hard time with that.

Nev­er­the­less, I com­pared the HM‑3 to some dir­ect com­pet­it­ors and clones and it pro­duced the best sound by far: Singing, full sound­ing, simply beau­ti­ful. Almost too beau­ti­ful for met­al. And maybe that was the prob­lem with this pedal…