I received my BYOC Large Beaver Triangle in the mail yesterday from Gear Gas Store. I bought it pre-assembled, and it works exactly like it should. After reading some of the posts on BYOC's forum, it's nice to know that someone took the time to built it correctly for me. $135 built.
Anyway, the pedal itself is really nice. Much for versatile than any other Big Muff that I've owned (three NYCs, one Little BMP, a green Sovtek). I always liked the NYC builds, but the hum from them was awful, and there were only two good sounds I could get out of them. The Little BMP, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, is a true piece of shit, and I don't say that about any pedals. The green Sovtek was creamy, but not buzzy/grinding enough. This 'ere Large Beaver Triangle is nice and loud, and lovely sustain that doesn't crackle out into shit, and has a ton of variance on the Tone and Sustain knobs. I found all sorts of sounds I liked while messing with the Tone knob before I realized I hadn't touched the Sustain knob and it had been sitting at noon. I was using my Gibson Les Paul Special with P-90s, and the Muff sounds especially sweet on the neck pickup. A LOT of thickness/low end to it; looking forward to trying it on bass, too.
The 4-way rotary will come in handy for live stuff, I'm sure, but I mostly played with the stock scooped mids (position 1) because it sounded so nice. Position two (flat mids) was pretty basic (on the BYOC website, they say that it's included to give you more of a modern Muff sound; I'll have to have some more listens); Position three (mids bump) sounded really great by itself... most likely the best option for live application, as it added a lot of character to Position one, and isn't as straight forward as position two. Position four is the tone stack bypass, which I will have to experiment with a bit more as well. Again, I enjoyed the stock position so much that I mostly played with that.
Gear Gas Store did a great job putting it together, but they also put this ugly sticker on it. Any tips on getting the damn thing off of there? I wanted to put a Triforce sticker on it as a reference to its Triangle specs. I don't wanna take a whole lot of shit apart... maybe I can just remove the knobs. What do you recommend for getting the adhesive off? Goo Gone?
All in all, a wonderful Muff clone. I guess I prefer the rotary switch that gives you the choice of stock scooped mids instead of a mids knob; that way you can be sure you are getting the original sound instead of guessing where to put the mids knob. And yeah, I know that you should just go with what you like, but I wanted a true Muff clone, here, so I'm glad I have that option. If you can build it yourself, go with that option... I think it's $89 for the kit.
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