Big Muff... Big Mehhh....

[beggar_guitar]

After a few weeks of playing with my Big Muff Pi I have decided it just isn't for me. I know the tones these have created in the past and in theory it would have been a great addition to my board but it just isn't working out.

Maybe it's the fact that I don't know what the pedal Is. Most everyone describes it as something between a distortion and a fuzz. Or a high gain fuzz... and maybe that is what I don't like.

It's too furry and loose to be the kind of distortion I want. But it's too... smooth maybe... to be the fuzz I want.

I'm playing a reissue. Not an original or any of the sought after models. Maybe that's my issue.

I see some potential for single note lead lines with it... but that is all I can do.

I had fun with it for a few days but now that's gone and I am wanting it off my board.

I'm just staying away from fuzz-ish boxes til I am in a position to sit down and run through several. Sadly I have horrible music stores close by...

I guess that means room has opened up on my board for a distortion pedal. I'm thinking MI Audio Crunchbox.

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Big Muff... Big Mehhh....

The CB is a great distortion box. Plenty of bang for the buck.

 

[misterwhizzy]

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I couldn't agree with you more about the Big Muff. I can definitely hear some of the legendary tones it helped create, but it's very, very clear that I'm not the one that's going to be making them. It didn't last long with me either.

 

[phil_104]

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I use to swear by them. Had one for the longest time, and loved, loved practicing with one. Could not get it to work for me in a band setting. So now I'm on a fuzz search, very much like yourself.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

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I'm not really crazy about that basic category of sounds, but sometimes I just want to play something different. In for a penny, in for a pound. I like my muff wild, hairy, and out of control.

 

[xntrick]

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i went with a swollen pickle as the price was right and it is very versatile, i only wish the "crunch" control had more range to the left as it starts to get a raspy fuzz tone when set up that way...

 

[JOLLY]

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I love this thread title.

 

[Agileguy_101]

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Check out the Fuzzhugger Algal Bloom. Seems to be somewher between an OD and a fuzz, but can go back and forth between them pretty well. It's going to be my next pedal.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

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Guitar -->Big Muff -->MXR Micro Amp -->Twin Reverb (...nuffing else)

 

[beggar_guitar]

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The CB is a great distortion box. Plenty of bang for the buck.

That's what I like to hear.

I love this thread title.

You caught what I did there.... eh?

Guitar -->Big Muff -->MXR Micro Amp -->Twin Reverb (...nuffing else)

Again... I dig it in His hands... but it doesn't work for me. Plus that's fun and all but not the tone I'm chasing.

 

[Khriss Bliss]

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Have you tried driving a tube amp, esp. the power tubes? If you get a low watt tube amp and push it with just output volume from pedals and hi output pickups, you ll approach the Angus/ Eddie/ Yngwie/ Srv crunch and clarity that is the opposite of fuzz,in fact those don't even use pedals, or even amplifier distortion channel.

 

[rashayritto]

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I liked my Muff a lot when i was using a 36 watt combo amp. I used it to get the amp into stoner doom territory. Never really agreed with any of my high-gain heads even on the clean channels. It does make for a unique lead boost through a dirty channel though

 

[Empty Pockets]

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they sound the best with the gain dialed back and being used to boost a crunchy tone

cranked amp, box of rock, that kind of thing

 

[James Rock]

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I find I didnt like it till I turned it and my amp up just a tad more (edge of power valve breakup) and then it opened up and became way more powerful may still sell it for a Voodoo Labs Fuzz or a Pharaoh

 

[marantz1300]

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With a Hiwatt its a GREAT pedal.Not so good with other amps I've had.