KMA Machines Wurm 2 Distortion
£140.00
With the WURM Distortion pedal, KMA Machines brought you a highly regarded, yet straight up sonic love letter to the legendary filthy ‘doom and gloom’ distortion sound of the original Boss HM2 MIJ pedal, but took it much further and pushing just how destructive it could be. KMA Machines Wurm 2 is here…
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KMA Machines Wurm 2. Slithering across the ravaged landscape, the behemoth advances. With each thrust, the beast drags thousands of years of grinding grief and mauling malice that’s ready to be unleashed upon the world yet again. There is no escape. You either stand in its path and get torn asunder or join the legendary beast… OK, it’s just a pedal people, but what a pedal!
Covered in its iconic black and orange colour-scheme, WURM 2 takes the essential ingredients of KMA’s classic pedal, adding the ability to switch between EQ settings right on the front of the pedal. Brilliant.
It’s now squeezed down into a smaller, more pedalboard friendly enclosure with top mounted jacks (one of our favourite pedal features). KMA have improved the electronics and enhanced it with relay-based silent switching. It makes KMA Machines WURM 2 a more flexible metal-distortion pedal than ever before.
Calling a pedal legendary or a cult classic is often stretching the truth, but when it comes to the Boss HM-2 MIJ it’s absolutely spot on. From its beyond brutal and grinding distortion tones, bands like Dismember and Entombed birthed Swedish chainsaw metal. While WURM 2 absolutely nails that death-metal sound, its thick walls of gain and sustain is not all about that genre – the pedal is also adept for so many other styles, from Shoegaze to Prog Rock. To make that point clear, famous players like David Gilmour, Prince, Johnny Marr, Belinda Butcher, Lee Ranaldo, Daron Malakian and more have all made their mark with this style of distortion.
The Wurm 2 keeps keeps the iconic active HM-2 dual-band EQ section, but adds two more bands, to give a much wider range of tones to tailor perfectly. Plus, each band has an internal trim-pot to change the centre frequency and fine-tune your tone further should you needs to, we think they’re well-chosen already but the option is there.
In WURM 2, the EQ is now on the front of the pedal to make it easier to access on-the-fly. Selecting HM-II mode will get you that classic ‘chainsaw’ High-Mids character. However, in KMA mode the EQ is a little more tonally balanced, less peaky and a bit wider in response. If balanced and less peaky sounds too boring for you, select BOTH to fatten and double up the tone stacking, letting you ramp up the LOWS and the H-MIDS and rip that Swedish forest completely to shreds!
However, with all of this extra tone shaping, the pedal can sometimes begin to feedback at extreme settings. So, if this proves too much there’s a new internal control to smoothen things out. Flip the dip-switch to activate the input filter to tame the high frequencies when everything is maxed out.
The TERROR control dials in all the distortion sounds you are searching for. If you’d like any further details or have any questions please contact us.
- High-Gain Metal Distortion pedal
- Modern take of the classic HM2 MIJ
- Wide range of metal-distortion tones
- Chainsaw, to plain evil and gritty
- Highly configurable 4-band active EQ
- 3 distinct types of EQ frequency controls
- True Bypass, with silent relay-based soft switching
- Compact enclosure with top-mounted jacks
- Made by hand in Germany
Dimensions | L: 5 in./12.8cm x W: 2.9 in./7.4cm x H: 2.4 in./6cm (including control knobs) |
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Effect Type | Distortion |
Power Requirements | Requires 9v DC power supply (Negative Centre) – Power Consumption: 50mA – Power supply is not included. |
Build/Construction | Strong metal stomp box. Hand built in Germany. |
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