Big Muff Pi

[daav]

Thoughts on this unit? I picked up a russian made one fairly cheap. Looking to get a nice intense distortion ala Jack White (and I understand he uses one with sears silvertones). Will be played through a fender blues deluxe or a old low watt tube amp (lafayette) that i picked up and like as well.

Daav

 

[eeb]

can't stress how much i love this pedal.. amazing (unless you play metal)

 

[gcapel]

There are some mods you can do with these. I would do a google search. I thought about getting one and doing a enclosure transplant.

 

[noisewreck]

There are some mods you can do with these.

Which just got me thinking...

I use two of these as a quasi-stereo setup with my synth, which is a bitch because it's hard to have the knobs set the exact same way. What if I opened them up, put them in another enclosure, disconnect all the knobs from one, and have the knobs from the second unit also connected to to the respective points on the first one. This would allow a "true stereo" control. Any reason why this wouldn't work?

 

[rory]

Which just got me thinking...

I use two of these as a quasi-stereo setup with my synth, which is a bitch because it's hard to have the knobs set the exact same way. What if I opened them up, put them in another enclosure, disconnect all the knobs from one, and have the knobs from the second unit also connected to to the respective points on the first one. This would allow a "true stereo" control. Any reason why this wouldn't work?

Yeah, it wouldn't work like that. You'd be combining signals at the very least. Maybe if you took out the existing knobs and replaced them with double gang knobs. You'd have to keep the circuits separate and by sending them to one tone, volume, and sustain knob you'd be combining them at those stages.

 

[mikemorgan]

Big Muff PI........nothing makes a big powerful clean amp (think Ampeg V4) sound more like a Marshall. In fact, a Muff in front of a V4 with a V4 cabinet sounds like a wall of marshalls. Raises the hair on my arms, makes my sack shrink.

 

[Outlaws]

Which just got me thinking...

I use two of these as a quasi-stereo setup with my synth, which is a bitch because it's hard to have the knobs set the exact same way. What if I opened them up, put them in another enclosure, disconnect all the knobs from one, and have the knobs from the second unit also connected to to the respective points on the first one. This would allow a "true stereo" control. Any reason why this wouldn't work?

The "controls" are not controls. They are variable resistors.

 

[rayc]

There is an excellent pedal called the big fluff by morrison from tasmania .
An excellent option for downunder as the originals are way too expensive for us.
If anything the box is tougher than the original.

 

[mrT]

I also love this pedal... Great distortion box.

Cheaply made (breakage prone) especially the Russian ones. But it's certainly worth buying a new one when they break.