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Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:23 am
by Kellanium
I had an EHX Little Big Muff Pi a while back, and i could never bond with it. I went into guitar center and A/Bed it with a full-size NYC RI and damn if the Full-size didn't sound better to me on the same settings.
I can't possibly be the only one to hear this, can I?
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:01 am
by DarkAxel
They are different, yeah
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:47 pm
by IEatCats
I think I remember reading that a few of the resistors are different, so the tone is naturally changed. The low/high pass on the tone circuit might be a little different as well.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:11 pm
by wsas3
We're talking about two bad pedals here, so I woulda scrapped them both
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:18 pm
by MaxMaps
wsas3 wrote:We're talking about two bad pedals here, so I woulda scrapped them both
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:29 pm
by MEC
MaxMaps wrote:wsas3 wrote:We're talking about two bad pedals here, so I woulda scrapped them both
Blasphemy! The NYC reissues aren't bad at all (For guitar and noise anyway. I will concede, they're shit with bass.), especially when you factor in that you can score them all day on CL for $40.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:41 pm
by BlindtoFaith
MEC wrote:MaxMaps wrote:wsas3 wrote:We're talking about two bad pedals here, so I woulda scrapped them both
Blasphemy! The NYC reissues aren't bad at all (For guitar and noise anyway. I will concede, they're shit with bass.), especially when you factor in that you can score them all day on CL for $40.
I agree....with a few easy and cheap mods you have one cool fuzz box!
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:57 pm
by ifeellikeatourist
Call me insane, but when it comes to the muffs that Ehx is currently producing, I actually love the double muff. Next time you are at GC, I would throw that bad boy into the equation as well.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:00 pm
by IEatCats
I love my Big Muff Pi w/ Tone Wicker, honestly. I don't understand the EHX hate.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:18 pm
by Kellanium
IEatCats wrote:I love my Big Muff Pi w/ Tone Wicker, honestly. I don't understand the EHX hate.
Some of there stuff right now is rather silly, but honestly, i like the BMP, it sounds great with guitar, which is waht i use it with, and i like that.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:35 pm
by wsas3
No hate here, just preference. IT was my first fuzz a long ass time ago and I even hated the pedal then. I'll try it out again though.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:41 pm
by McSpunckle
They're not the same circuit, yo. The current NYC is a little weird, as far as Muffs go. I kinda dig it, but it takes a couple of mods to really get it sounding awesome.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:12 pm
by The Mad Owl
not a big fan of EHX here, but man, their muffs are damn cool.
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:30 pm
by BlindtoFaith
McSpunckle wrote:They're not the same circuit, yo. The current NYC is a little weird, as far as Muffs go. I kinda dig it, but it takes a couple of mods to really get it sounding awesome.
What mods do you recommend oh great father of the Gnome?!
Re: Tell me I'm not insane (Or that I am)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:29 pm
by IEatCats
I want to add in a feedback loop from jumping a couple of transistors, personally. You can also swap some resistors to get tone changes. I've been considering rigging up some resistors on rotary knobs to do tone changes to mine.
There's a good guide here.More cool tweaks and mods here.