Favourite Discontinued Pedals

[devnulljp]

if we're just talking favourites and not losses, these are two of my favourite discontinued vintage and modern pedals side by side
FS36999 Mike Matthews Head Big Muff & big box D*A*M Ram Head.


And I'm glad I grabbed these while they were still available
Spectre #1 and Oracle #12


Other than that, most of my fave gear is 30+ years old.

[Blurillaz]

Sold all three of my op-amp Big Muffs about 2 weeks before that OMFG BILLY CORGAN USED AN OPAMP BIG MUFF blog post and the prices shot through the roof.

I love how I was one of the few who found those Big Muffs cool before the post. Every time I'd show it to someone they'd say "Oh, that one's the worst Big Muff made" or "Even the russian ones are better than that pile of crap."

[nightraven]

i liked the op amp muffs as well. the deluxe big muff was an amazing fuzz but the bypass was atrocious - you could hear fuzz leaking through
at least now that they're popular more people will start making clones i guess.

[Bellyheart]

Was the Schumann PLL, but now...Improbability Drive

[devnulljp]

I love how I was one of the few who found those Big Muffs cool before the post. Every time I'd show it to someone they'd say "Oh, that one's the worst Big Muff made" or "Even the russian ones are better than that pile of crap."

As long as you don't think of it as a muff or even as a fuzz, they're cool...but I know it took me months to sell them. Nobody wanted them. Only reason I punted them was I was jonesing for something else and figured I could snag em back again at some point. fat chance of that now, unless Billy Corgan posts a gutshot of his muff now and it turns out it's really a rehoused Green Russian...

[leastwise]

Boss RV-3: dime all the knobs and it's the darkest, doomiest sound you could imagine.

[Ghost Hip]

Effector 13 Super Tri-Fuzz
CC/DC
E13 Pagoda pedals.

[pothole]

Sold all three of my op-amp Big Muffs about 2 weeks before that OMFG BILLY CORGAN USED AN OPAMP BIG MUFF blog post and the prices shot through the roof.

I love how I was one of the few who found those Big Muffs cool before the post. Every time I'd show it to someone they'd say "Oh, that one's the worst Big Muff made" or "Even the russian ones are better than that pile of crap."

Ditto. I was preaching the virtues of the IC big muffs years ago as well...really enjoyed picking them up for $60 on ebay back in the day. I've still got a few of them stuffed in the big muff cardboard box up in my attic. I've got one that doesn't have the tone circuit..the switch is just an on/off like the 3003 ones. I like that one...it has mids. Still, nothing compares to the Marveltone Distortion Sustainer (fs36999).

[Inertia]

Black Box Russian Muff, Sheetmetal cased Small Stone, Boss DD6, Digitech PDS series, Danelectro shiftdaddy, HEROIN LIFESTYLE

[Big Mon]

Devi SM with chaos switch. Was my bread n' butter. I ran the US I used to have after it with the SM's control knob barely above the minimal setting,rolled back the tone on my guitar,rolled back the volume and the notes just went zipzipziiiiip,similar to an EHX microsynth's filter sweep but on the plus,my Phantom Octave sounds pretty chewy and filtered when used with other fuzzes. Phantom Octave+current SM+ gain-dimed mini wolf cpu=synth-tastic badassery

[Sockgazer]

HM2, FZ2

[devnulljp]

These are cool. A whole series of what seem to be mostly clones of the old Vox plugin devices, built by Tracy Sands of Bad Cat amps. Very minimalist, although here is a version of the Orange Sunshine with a pot for something...volume or fuzz I'm not sure which.
They also have the best names ever.
SDS is a treble booster, the OS is a fuzz.

[lizardville]

This is the only muff ive ever known.....
given to me for free back in 1989 when it wasnt cool...



Suddenly i have the coolest pedal on planet fuzz...... or not???