u/Acceptable_Grape_437

i'm very satisfied by this pedal. i paid 20 eur for it.

donner giant metal is a boss HM2 clone (same pedal as mooer blade, AFAIK) and only mini sized HM2 you can buy, except for the angry swede which is going for 160/170 eur rn.

tbh, i wasn't expecting to enjoy its sound SO much! i used to have a boss mt2, which i didn't like much. i loved its preamp/eq feature, tbf, but not the sound. so, this thing surprised me. it's VERY growly and focused. the mids control is plenty useful (as the original, i guess), but we lost the bass control; in turn we got a treble control toggle switch (not as useful to me)

I've been enjoying it through my big muff, and with clean blended in (thanks to my boss LS2), especially using my jazzmaster.

this is not a preamp pedal. this is a brutal, in your face, aggressive drive which stacks great with other drives

it's not the TYPICAL metal pedal you'd expect. it CAN do metal, but it's actually kind of fuzzy and noisy (not your usual "tight" metal) and dirty. it was famously used by david gilmour on solos.

this pedal is very powerful, i can't believe it costed so little. it deserved a permanent place on my main board... for now ;)

I'd strongly adive you ge one, if you're on the fence!

it just happened. just wired!

sonicake source comp>donner giant metal(HM2)>eno tc18(big muff)>donner dark mouse(rat)>tc spark>demonfx ravine*>GFI clockwork.

*fake keeley caverns clone, OF COURSE!

please ignore the cabling. honestly it was tidier when i was using daisy chain only. i only switched to a compact psu cause i figured I'd try some drives power starving (courtesy of Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-3AC SAG) soon.

idrk how I'll manage to connect my amp cable to the back of that clockwork, but that's a future problem.

i recently got me a uber cheap HM2 CLONE (not in picture), which i'm LOVING. my favourite combo has been with my jazzmaster going into a big muff.

it goes without saying, that i'm not going for traditional metal sounds here.

so the query is: please throw here your favourite HM2 drive stacking combos/technique, or combos in general, even to the wackiest weird stuff!

which drives work great paired with a HM2?

this is a rat post.

this is a cheap rat clone post.

i have a joyo splinter, a donner dark mouse, a dolamo vintage distortion, and i've had a friend's proco rat 2 for a while. i think it's safe to say i know my rats.

HECK, dark mouse almost never left my board for any of the others. is it the middier eq profile? is it that it's crunchier, grainier overall? idrk, but it SMASHES the other two cheapos. its eq profile is SPOT ON the proco's, while the others' is flatter. that seems to be the case for TC magus pro too.

i'm not going to say it's "better than the original". but, boy, given its size, i do prefer it. it's *better* the the original at what it does... proco rat 2 just sounds good in every spot and setting, extremely adaptable. but i kind of prefer the dark mouse's slightly specific sound.

just don't get a splinter or a magus, when you can have the donner (same as mooer black secret as of what i know), unless you're averse to mini pedals, or want a fat rat (in that case: splinter). the donner sounds WAY better, AND way rattier.

and i'm not even considering the turbo rat mode here, which i'm in 90% of the time anyway.

end of communication

/uj i feel they have gotten to the point of jerking us *this* bad even for ads

/rj which one of you did this? only a true jerker 'd know its fellow jerkers this well.

it wants me. will i be able to say no? what about consent? idc