Driving a Big Muff pedal.

MR. CREEPER · August 05, 2013, 06:18:12 PM

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.

neighbor664 · August 05, 2013, 06:59:29 PM

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.

MR. CREEPER · August 05, 2013, 07:08:22 PM

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.

Corey Y · August 05, 2013, 09:04:03 PM

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.

eyeprod · August 06, 2013, 12:13:44 PM

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

RacerX · 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.

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.

bbottom · August 06, 2013, 01:28:38 PM

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.

MR. CREEPER · August 06, 2013, 06:28:55 PM

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.

Lumpy · August 06, 2013, 08:10:10 PM

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.

johnny problem · August 08, 2013, 10:14:51 PM

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.

Instant Dan · August 09, 2013, 01:05:50 AM

I believe Church of Misery still uses the set-up of an OD into a muff for the guitar sound.

moose23 · August 09, 2013, 05:49:12 AM

I like either another muff (tone bypassed not too loud) or something like an LBP1 or Rangemaster boost.

Ombrenuit · August 23, 2013, 01:12:52 PM

+1 for black muffs. Sold mine years ago and I regret it now.

Chovie D · August 23, 2013, 01:21:05 PM

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.

spookstrickland · August 23, 2013, 02:15:59 PM

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.

MR. CREEPER · August 23, 2013, 04:00:22 PM

Yeah, I've been keepin' an eye out for older Muff unit's, or assimilated goodies of the like.