Your Tone Must Flow so Tame the Terror

Calling a pedal legendary or a cult classic is often stretching the truth but when it comes to the Boss HM2 MIJ its absolutely on the money Weve never tried to hide the fact that the WURM Distortion is our unabashed sonic love letter to this filthy box of doom and gloom taking the essential ingredients of this classic while in the process developing a way more flexible metaldistortion pedal

While WURM absolutely nails that Swedish deathmetal chainsaw sound the pedal is not all about that and is adept for so many other genres To give you an idea famous players like David Gilmour Prince Johnny Marr Belinda Butcher Lee Ranaldo Daron Malakian and others have all made their mark with this style of distortion

With GUARDIAN of the WURM weve evolved our take on this venerable circuit and added a bunch of really useful new features Whether youre playing guitar baritone bass or synths through this pedal were sure youll appreciate the immense flexibility on offer here So lets dig in

We of course kept the iconic active HM2 dual band EQ section but added two more bands giving a much wider range of tones to tailor your evil and gritty distortion sound Each band now has a dedicated centrefrequency control on the front of the pedal allowing you to quickly and easily change and finetune your tone

The EQSTYLE mode now also on the front of the pedal helps you carve out even more tonal variation Selecting HMII mode will get you that classic chainsaw highmids character However in KMA mode the EQ is a little more tonally balanced less peaky and a bit wider in response Selecting BOTH fattens and doubles up the tone stacking allowing you to rank the LOWS and the HIGH MIDS and rip that Swedish forest even more to shreds

To adjust the extent of drive compression you can choose between 3 different clipping styles Silicon Si delivers the original compression for rich harmonics and singing leads Asymmetric AS increases the headroom and gives you more grit by retaining complex harmonics while the OFF position lifts the sound of the Diodes for a slight compression and way more clarity which is perfect for baritone guitars or bass

Plus the Clean Blend feature helps to preserve your natural core tone Simply twist the BLEND control to mix in the original unprocessed signal allowing the initial pick attack of your tone to breathe It is also especially useful when running the GUARDIAN of the WURM into an already distorted highgain amp

When talking about highgain we all know drive circuits like this at full tilt can be noisy malice monsters To get a grip on the potential noise floor we designed a sophisticated yet easy to use Noise Gate This is based on a highperformance Blackmer VCA and provides lightning fast and precise performance Simply set the Threshold to taste via the GATE control and enjoy the silence Fast palmmutes No problem Decaying notes Dead simple to accomplish For even more tweakability we fitted an internal DIP switch to change the triggersource from pre or postDistortion or even preNoise Gate

PreNoise Gate Well thats because we added a TRS FXLoop that works between the Distortion and the Noise Gate sections allowing you to insert whatever fun noisemaking pedals you might wish between them You can also use this feature to place the Noise Gate section in your amplifiers FXLoop Those who like to experiment with sound designs might even use the Noise Gate in other ways for instance by using an external trigger source No problem the EXT TRIG jack hooks up to your source of choice

In extreme settings the WURM can sometimes begin to feedback which cant even be suppressed by the Noise Gate To tame that highfrequency content flip the internal dipswitch to activate the input filter to help smoothen things out Yup we did think of everything

But wait there is more As the cherry on top we added relaybased soft switches and also two different activation modes to suit the needs of different players

Independent mode is exactly what it says on the tin Both sides of the pedal can be switched on and off independently via the TERROR or TAME switches respectively However in Synced mode the entire pedal is switched on and off via the TERROR switch In this mode the Noise Gate can also be switched in and out of the circuit as desired Changing between modes is really simple to do Just hold down both switches while connecting the pedal to the power supply and youre good to go Once set GUARDIAN of the WURM will remember the setting even when powered off

So here it is Crank it up and you will feel the rage of the ancient WURM while the GUARDIAN will help you tame that beast when needed making GUARDIAN of the WURM your perfect pairing for an evil and gritty tone that never gets out of control unless YOU want it to m

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