Hey all. Lately, during some writing and demo recording, I was looking to use more fuzz in my tone, but I was always a bit skeptical of my Muff, due to a lack of some attack for any palm muted notes. I had read recently a different website that suggested driving the Muff with an OD with level slightly up, and gain set low. Well, this works great, and still retains a nice, fat fuzz sound. Figured I'd share, and see if anyone else has tried, or has similar tips. Cheers.
I haven't tried with the Muff in a while, I am skeptical that it would tighten it up. What I do know is that doing that works great for my FZ-2. That shit sputters and farts in a beautifully ugly way when I hit it with my OD808.
Nice. I saw a demo with the FZ-5 and and OD. Seemed pretty cool. I used to have an early '90's Classi cFuzz from DOD, and that thing was great.
I've used a tubescreamer in front of a muff, to tighten it up a bit. A treble booster might do the trick as well. It takes a bit of fine tuning.
My muff is modded pretty heavily but I find that it beefs up with the distortion slightly up on my sunn concert lead. I don't know about tighter but I like the sound
I can't stand Big Muffs, specifically because of that looseness. If a pedal needs to be modded to sound good, I don't really see the point. There are plenty of fuzzes available hat sound great right outta the box.
In the interest of complete honesty, I did mod my Meathead and my Crybaby to add "on/off" indicator LEDs, but that was just for visual reference.
Quote from: RacerX on August 06, 2013, 12:24:46 PM
I can't stand Big Muffs, specifically because of that looseness. If a pedal needs to be modded to sound good, I don't really see the point. There are plenty of fuzzes available hat sound great right outta the box.
I totally agree.
I've also really tried to like the Big Muff (I've owned two) and it just isn't for me.
I truly ove the black Russina Muuf pi, but a)they are hard to come by cheaply, and b) now the tone I get is right there(as in same as Black Russian Muff). I can deal. May look elsewhere some day, but I like originals not copycats so much.
I don't like Muffs, but they are a cheap pedal to modify, if you know what you're doing. Used Muffs are everywhere for 50 bucks. Or spend 150 bucks on a clone, it's up to you.
I used to run a Blues Driver in front of the muff and a DS-1 distortion after and it was on my dirty channel (one up bitches, jk). It was disgusting. Needed so much fine tuning, mostly on the muff. I got rid of that pedal setup and just bought a black forest. I've tried using the blues driver in front of the BF, but the Blues driver sucks ass.
I believe Church of Misery still uses the set-up of an OD into a muff for the guitar sound.
I like either another muff (tone bypassed not too loud) or something like an LBP1 or Rangemaster boost.
+1 for black muffs. Sold mine years ago and I regret it now.
I lucked into a ramshead big muff for $100 (paid $300 for everything in the picture). it is an amazing pedal. the newer muffs ive tried were garbage.
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Muff's are great, play them as is for a huge fat rhythm tone, then kick in a boost in front of them for a sharper lead tone. I built a Silicon Rangemaster derivative that works really nice with it.
Yeah, I've been keepin' an eye out for older Muff unit's, or assimilated goodies of the like.