KMA Machines GUARDIAN of the WURM - High-Gain Distortion Pedal with built-in VCA Noise Gate

Your Tone Must Flow, so Tame the Terror!

"The earth, once so tranquil and serene, started to shake more ominously than ever beneath her feet. After centuries of scaring the living daylights out of the ancestors, the monster-of-malice was back. She looked up with an imperious glance and faced her destiny, her irradiant eye focusing unwaveringly on the venerable creature ahead. Suddenly, the earth stood still and there fell a deep silence. She had tamed the beast! She was the long-foreseen saviour, the GUARDIAN of the WURM”

Fusing together a powerful evolution of KMA’s highly regarded WURM Distortion with an intuitive, yet versatile and ultra-fast Noise Gate, GUARDIAN of the WURM is the perfect metal monster. From chugging hard-rock, droning doom metal and grinding Swedish death metal, the beast abides. But through its highly tweakable control set, the pedal can be tamed to provide impeccable clarity to your riffs, making this the definitive dirt pedal for metal, prog-rock, shoegaze, indie and beyond.

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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Features:
• High Gain Distortion Pedal with Built-in Noise Gate
• The next evolution of KMA’s top-seller WURM, the most extensive and configurable HM-2 style unit on the market
• Easy-to-use, yet high-performance Blackmer® VCA-based Noise Gate
• 3 different clipping styles:
o Silicon (As HM-2)
o Asymmetric (More grit and less drive compression)
o Off (Diode lift, perfect for bass and baritones)
• Clean Blend, for a tight low end
• Highly configurable 4-band Active EQ, with variable centre-frequencies
• 3 distinct types of HIGH MIDS frequency controls, to tailor your tone
• External Trigger Input, allows Noise Gate control from an external source
• FX-Loop between Distortion and Noise Gate, for signal-chain flexibility
• Internal control for an input filter, signal-trigger source and Noise Gate response
• Relay-based soft-switching, with variable Gate switching modes
• Made in Berlin, Germany
• Power by opt. 9 V DC PSU (150 mA max. current draw)

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 on the money. We’ve 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 metal-distortion pedal. While WURM absolutely nails that Swedish death-metal 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 made their mark with this style of distortion.

We of course kept the iconic active HM-2 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 centre-frequency control on the front of the pedal, allowing you to quickly and easily change and fine-tune your tone. The EQ-STYLE mode, helps you carve out even more tonal variation. Selecting HM-II will get you that classic ‘chainsaw’ high-mids character but KMA mode's EQ is a little more tonally balanced, less peaky and a bit wider in response. Selecting BOTH fattens and doubles up the tone stack, allowing you to rank the LOWS and the HIGH MIDS to rip that Swedish forest even more to shreds.

To adjust the extent of drive compression, there are 3 different clipping styles. Si delivers the original compression, for rich harmonics and singing leads. A-S 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 and allows the initial pick attack of your tone to breathe - also useful when running the pedal into an already distorted high-gain amp.

To get a grip on any potential noise floor, we designed a sophisticated, yet easy to use Noise Gate based on a high-performance Blackmer® VCA with lightning fast and precise performance. Set the Threshold to taste via the GATE control and enjoy the silence. Fast palm-mutes? No problem. Decaying notes? Dead simple to accomplish.

The TRS FX-Loop works between the Distortion and Gate sections, allowing you to insert whatever fun noise-making pedals you want between them. You can also use this to place the Noise Gate in your amplifier’s FX-Loop. Experimenters with sound design could even use the Noise Gate in other ways by using an external trigger source via the EXT TRIG jack.

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