Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal schematic

The Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal generates a unique distortion effect specially designed for Heavy Metal music. It has an interesting design with both asymmetric soft-clipping diodes, hard clipping diodes and a Ge diode pair in series with the signal for crossover distortion and simple noise gate. A wide variety of tone color creation is made possible with the 2 color mix controls.

Fig. 1: Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal guitar pedal schematic diagram

Fig. 2: Boss HM-2 PCB - component side More guitar effect schematics:

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Specifications:

4 Control Knobs: Level, Color mix (Low, High) and Dist. Connectors: Input, Output, AC Adaptor Input Impedance: 1M (FET input) Recommended Load Impedance: more than 10 kOhm Recommended AC Adaptor: ACA Series Current Draw: 10mA (DC 9V) Weight: 400g Dimensions(mm): 70(W) x 55(H) x 125(D) Dimensions(inches): 2-3/4(W) x 2-3/16(H) x 4-15/16(D)

ICs, transistors and diodes used in the HM-2:

IC1-IC3: M5218L or NJM4558S (dual operational amplifiers) Q1,Q4,Q5,Q10: 2SK30A-Y (Silicon N-channel JFET transistors) Q2,Q3: 2SC732TM-GR (NPN silicon transistors) Q8,Q9: 2SC945-P (NPN silicon transistors) Q6: 2SC2240-GR (NPN silicon transistor) Q7: 2SA970-GR (PNP silicon transistor) D1,D3,D5,D8-D12: 1S2473 (switching diodes) D2: S5500G (400V/1A rectifier diode) D6,D7: 1S188FM (Germanium diodes) D13: RD5.1EB-3 (5.1V Zener diode) D14: SLP135B (red LED)

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