nbabmf wrote:Insane-o Muff variant built around a Russian Muff board. No gut shots because that shit is crammed in there. It's a clean build though, I promise!
The left toggle switches between standard mid scoop and flat mids, and the right toggle switches between standard silicon and hybrid germanium/silicon clipping. There are some other cool mods that form the basis of the sound... huge input cap for big fat tones (and a larger output cap as well), wide open gain stages with treble cuts at certain points in the circuit to keep it from getting fizzy, and LEDs in the second clipping stage to keep it from being too compressed when cranked up.
This is my current muff, it has antlers, so a Russian woman wouldn't be able to use it to warm her hands. It is nice and hefty, very warm, very dynamic. It plays very well with others. Especially octaves.
The first pedal I bought was a newer black russian muff for 55 dollars. It was magical, through my small solid state vox amp. I wanted to sound like the white stripes, but it was black sabbath in a box. It gave me a lot of confidence, because my guitar sounded like I thought one should. I held onto that thing forever, still have it. I also owned a Big muff pi w/ tone wicker. I bought it for myself as a birthday gift. I enjoyed it. I found the tone bypass kinda worthless, and the wicker as well. But stock it was a nice enough muff. Much more consistent than my Russian. I traded it to cody_pole for a fuzzhugger upper.
I like big muffs a lot. It's a very nice sound to me. I find them pretty versatile, depending on how you treat them. They play very nicely with other effects, both before and after. I HATE boosting into muffs though, they get so squashy and compressed...I never have understood how Gilmour or whoever else could get such nice sounds by doing that. I run my boost after my muff. I let the boost pick it up, and carry it, and add a little color.
Some awesome muff in this thread.
And a lot of the time I have the tone bypass turned on, which makes it not really sound very muff-like at all.
