Big Muffs and Clones

[Cdwillis]

Been on a big muff kick lately and I think my favorite one I've played lately is a clone I built of the Emanating Fist Electronics Dope Priest. It is a lot more midrange focused compared it to my Ram's Head reissue which is really scooped. The Dope Priest has a lot smoother high and and tighter bass. You definitely wouldn't want to use it with a bass guitar unlike the Ram's Head or a Russian. It's got more gain than the Russian, but not nearly as much as the Ram's Head. The Ram's Head sounds way more compressed as you turn the sustain up.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

My only Muff is a VFE Fiery Red Horse and I like it.
Haven't played any other Muffs for more then ten years so I can't really compare it to others.

Still, like the other VFE pedals, having six controls instead of three makes it unusually flexible.

I also have his Pale Horse drive and White Horse compressor.
Pale Horse is my favorite TS variant, again thanks to six-knob tweakability.

 

[Dudeman7]

It's crazy how many different incarnations of the Big Muff are out there! Some are dramatically different, even though they are still "Big Muffs".

I have been downsizing my collection and I sold my Green Russian clone and one of my Ram's Heads. To be honest, there was a time when I had given up on the Big Muff altogether. It seemed that I could never get along with the mid cut and they always sounded messy. (That was when I had only tried EHX models.)

Then, I found out that some other companies were putting midrange controls on them. Suddenly the whole range of the different generations of the Muff was back on the table.

Now, a modified BYOC Triangle Muff is my go-to. It does everything that I want and I feel comfortable letting some of my other ones go.

 

[misterwhizzy]

I built a Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh clone (AionFX Osiris) and find it to be awesome.

 

[stevie_bees]

I don't currently have any fuzzes on my boards, but my favourite Muff pedal is the 4-knob BMF Effects Aries Fuzz. The mids control really brings a fabulous flexibility to it, and it covers me when I want some 'Gilmour' tones.

 

[PFDarkside]

I like the Wall of Sound for Gilmour (it was a “standard” a Skreddy in a different livery), the Zero for Pumpkins and the Super Collider for doomy stuff. The ICBM sounds like Bush plugged in straight away, it was kind of wild.