My Muff's Bigger than Yours! - Will My BIG MUFF CLONE Sound as Good as the ORIGINAL?

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In our last video, we repaired a 1976 Electro-Harmonix Big Muff fuzz guitar pedal. CLICK HERE to see that video: • BIG MUFF WON'T PUT OUT...
During the repair, I decided to go ahead and build a clone of the pedal since I had most of the parts already on hand. That is the subject of today's video. Let's see if my Big Muff clone can match the tone of the original.
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@TheGuitologist 2 года назад

In our last video, we repaired a 1976 Electro-Harmonix Big Muff fuzz guitar pedal. CLICK HERE to see that video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_v0br-NIFDE.html

@officialdirtmcgurt Год назад

My bad for the artism comments on the last Big Muff π video, that was in real time, as I watched it. Also that soldering iron tip is hilarious

@roncarter2188 Год назад

Man that pedal sounds awesome and I'm not really a huge fuzz pedal fan that thing rocks. Maybe you should raffle off the pedal and donate the money to a charity of your choice, now that sounds like a deal!

@jonlennon3348 Год назад

You really should look into marketing these things.It sounds way better than the original big muff. Its just my opinion .

@joeydurant6267 Год назад

Love that crispy Velcro sound. Still has killer definition though. I'd buy one.

@briansimpson8116 2 года назад

Nice. I like the way you handled that Muff.

@ctcards2636 2 года назад

You dont think he was a little rough with his muff ? :-P lol

@rollingedges9469 Год назад

O that Hairy muff!

@TheGuitologist Год назад

After 30 or so years of practice, I've grown adept at handling the muff.

@gisellechacon7081 3 месяца назад

@@ctcards2636what fun is it otherwise? 🫠

@sisajtegabre Год назад

Great video and IMHO the best guitar related channel on YT by far, you are helping people , teaching them and that is the most important. Plus great infos. A lot of people will be inspired by this and make a pedal.

@mikeh892 Год назад

That graphic you printed out is an invaluable resource for anyone who's curious about what all that crap inside a muff does.

@EasyHeat Год назад

Now THIS is some freakin GREAT content my dude!!! Love it!

@Hue_Nery Год назад

Sounds awesome man! Great work!

@leshreddur Год назад

Great work, man that is Epic!

@davidflamee Год назад

Brilliant video. You make it look so easy. Much appreciate your time and effort.

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it, David.

@mega1113 Год назад

Best sounding fuzz I have heard for a while I like buzz sound its totally great keep it up great video

@simonkormendy849 Год назад

Hey Brad, this video, and the one where you're repairing a 1970's Big Muff, have both inspired me to do some restoration work on my DIY Big Muff pedal so I can get back to using it again, should be a fun restoration job cause it doesn't really need much work done on it to get it working again.

@jonathanmeyer1164 Год назад

What better way to enjoy my morning coffee than with Brad making a fuzz pedal. That thing sounds awesome.

@k.d.mccarty7194 Год назад

Good stuff G

@bartnettle Год назад

Sounds really Good! Well Done!

@gisellechacon7081 3 месяца назад

Nice work! I love how you built the circuit in a line like the schematic, it's a very nice demo of biasing the stages, and you ended up with a beautiful *musical* fuzz with a lot of different colors! Also you can play quite well! 👏 Thanks for a great demo!

@TheGuitologist 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much!

@blkjckgtr3075 Год назад

Awesome job Brad your muff is better and killer,Have a great weekend,love the braiding job on the wiring!Cheers!

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Thanks man.

@mikkabrightheart2268 Год назад

You should do a FF topology build, there's a lot you can do with them even just as far as swapping component values and transistors to get some really different sounds out of them and there's basically an infinite number of different mods you can do with them... If you want something to tinker and tune... And the circuit is mainly straightforward 🤷

@Chinaguitarsceptic Год назад

Sounds great bro

@milestownsend Год назад

Kick ass as always..love you brother!

@TheGuitologist Год назад

You too, Miles. Love you too. Hope you’re doing well. Come up and see me sometime!

@milestownsend Год назад

@@TheGuitologist I've acually talked to my gf about us doing that lately.. skip town go to Louisville.

@bradwonnacott5945 Год назад

it's sweet man! multi-talent

@lowheadroom Год назад

Excellent shred at the end!

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Thanks dude!

@jonathanatwell4111 Год назад

Muff-ologist..!

@stevewinwood3674 Год назад

Awesome sounding pedal

@olegsharafutdinov8463 Год назад

Hi Brad, transistor's bias is unlike the vacuum tube. You have to do it changing the values of R9 R14. The voltage between Emitter and Base of sillicon transistor should be 0,6-0.7 V. Don't touch the emitter resistor it isn't for bias at all, it is for negative feedback and temperature stability.

@drmaawenz Год назад

It is actually for bias too :)

@officialdirtmcgurt Год назад

The high knee is *hilarious*

@jmd76family Год назад

More videos like this please!

@palusguitar Год назад

Unreal! Send one to Uncle Doug! Fantastic work, Great sound, Sweet shredding!!! Loved the video, Brad! Peace

@nobodynoone2500 Год назад

Dude do i need to send you a decade box? Watching this was needlessly stressful. Great sound, fun approach. Dig the look and the sound.

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Hey, I’ll take it if you want to send it. Need to clean mine.

@westonhogan1672 Год назад

Bless you for making cherub rock the first sound this muff made, lol.

@4602experience Год назад

Cherub Rock! Great choice and sounds killer

@officialdirtmcgurt Год назад

That was a a V4, The OPAMP big Muff

@4602experience Год назад

@@officialdirtmcgurt yeah man

@keithfr7095 Год назад

More interesting than any new music at this point in 2022.Thanks

@stevesuv Год назад

sounds great

@simonkormendy849 Год назад

Finished working on my DIY Big Muff, had to swap-out all the existing caps cause there was too much bass, not surprising cause all the caps were 3.3uF Bipolar types, I changed them to the proper .1uF and 1uF values where they needed to be, sounds a lot better now.

@dazz5849 Год назад

I read somewhere that these common emitter stages without a bypass cap (or with emitter degeneration) work always the same irrespective of the transistor used in it. The gain and bias are set by the emitter & collector resistors and don't depend on the transistor at all. Loving your new content, Brad.

@Bangkokguitar Год назад

That's cool, I got inspired to get off my ass and do some myself. You made it look so fun! Thanks Brad. Cool! BTW, it seems to remind me of that Guess Who Fuzz sound.

@strat0871 Год назад

Great fuzz, congrats !

@JaniceLalla Год назад

Wow, you sound great!

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Thanks Janice. I appreciate that.

@lulu1192 Год назад

dude i am always watching and looking for videos related to fuzz pedals and i always hope that the video will play cherub rock or mayonnaise you gave me what i need god job

@Sizzorfite Год назад

Change the input cap to a 1uf and you will have a great overall Bass/guitar fuzz.

@71771PAULTHEWALLOFSOUND Год назад

This takes me back to when we made radio transmitters and broadcasted our own music, it would only go about a mile though, wasn't a strong wavelength. But sure is fun. I've forgotten most of how it's done since i wasn't actually building it, just brought transistors etc

@muddyudders Год назад

I did this for about three years. Had a 25 mile radius even made the front page of the local newspaper.

@71771PAULTHEWALLOFSOUND Год назад

@@muddyudders wow that's crazy lol, good stuff. The good old days of pirate radio lol.

@farerse Год назад

so this is what the Depeche mode song "Big muff" is about. I thought it was something naughty

@tomhood8897 Год назад

Lovin the bit of Gerry!!!

@stu-j Год назад

Muffs are a great first pedal to make and turn out great in the end. I've bought a few diy pedal kits for guitar friends for Xmas presents. Great stuff diving into the muff.....lol

@JendrixHimi Год назад

Always pull on the hair and ask if she has any cooties in there first

@jonsnothere84 Год назад

OMG Wow! Brad this turned out amazing!! Anyway you can share your version of the schematic? Would love one of these myself

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I only slightly tweaked a couple things from the schematic in the description link. Use 1N4148 diodes and BC549 transistors.

@bukwok Год назад

my very first diy pedal was a big muff type of circuit found on internet like 12,3 years ago, but mines sounds like big mud , but still fun and learn a lot about pedal circuit or audio stuffs.

@davidmurray9193 Год назад

Not into fuzz's but thats the best sounding one I've ever heard I'm well impressed

@thallrudedjentstorm1756 7 месяцев назад

Really? What fuzzes did you try out? XD

@matts.8369 2 года назад

It sounds so spicy! I love it

@jakedyer2674 Год назад

Either way I want one lol nice build!

@srtamplification Год назад

I think you should keep the bias of the original design and just play with feedback resistor and coupling cap values. Feedback resistors control the gain and the coupling caps effect frequency response.

@nobodynoone2500 Год назад

That move down the line caught me off guard lol.

@doctoribanez Год назад

Awesome man. That circuit shit is way over my head but a bit less now maybe .

@madaxe79 Год назад

Man, when you were picking the knob for the top.... so funny

@daemoniatropikalis5523 Год назад

Very nice content thank you

@doggystaves 5 месяцев назад

Great build! You absolutely positively have to play some Siamese Dream on the first run out :D

@lroy730 Год назад

Bias is Key Transistors or Tubes ! JFET’s are most Finicky. No proto Board ? Come on Man You Know the Thing . Love this shit 🤘👍🥃😎

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I have a really nice prototype board. I need to bust it out…but i need to do a lot of things.

@jstro-hobbytech Год назад

I'm seeing a dc offset. smaller resistors would help too my man. space wise. cool work. I breadboard mine first but you always get stray capacitances and inductance. just going for it like you is the best.

@RobMods Год назад

I've made quite a few modded big muffs over the years. I recently built one into a crosswalk button enclosure! But none of them sound quite like this one. Do you use spice software? Or even Duncan Tonestack? It has a sim of the Big Muff tilt filter. Very useful. Thanks for the video.

@richreid7098 Год назад

At the end, that is some bowl of noodles! The return of the fuzzologist.

@stevesuv Год назад

Great job Brad. The big ? is how does it play with the other kids on the playground?

@Nemoando Год назад

Nice Brad, super nice.... Hip Hip hooray! Love the way you play. Jam on! Nemo-

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Thanks for watching, dude!

@Nemoando Год назад

@@TheGuitologist Brad, plz send me your shipping address. It's going to be a good year! Go check your gmail account! Nemo-

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 2 года назад

That muff is FUZZY !!!!! Nice ...

@666pinkster Год назад

R22 is controlling the gain of that stage. You do nice work, brother. Try a three band active bax where the tone stack is sometime. Loads of fun once ya get it balanced. Rock on!

@jwjeffrey Год назад

Hey Brad great job as always, you should of called it Brad's Muff!

@alexbozas887 Год назад

We all need us some fuzzology, great build brad. You sure play well man, maybe i missed something in your earlier videos, but would be cool if u did a video on your early musical life, am assuming you played in some great bands.

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I’ve talked about my high school band a couple times. I might do a video reliving some of that stuff eventually. It’s interesting listening back to that stuff now.

@1683clifton Год назад

Is it the fuzz loogey? Awesome job man!

@MrTylero28 Год назад

I love making big muffs. Still Have my original Russian Green in its original wooden crate… I love it! I have one I use and that one is basic just a collectible

@rager1969 Год назад

Ooh, I can tell this is going to be a good video just on the number of ads so far (two banners in the first minute and video ads around the 5:30 mark).

@jacobdowler1 Год назад

Brad must still be trying to find a new tip for his soldering iron locally!😆

@leechild4655 Год назад

hell ya i remember when everyone wanted that MXR distortion pedal when it was oh you dont have a big muff? ok MXR has some new pedals, look. Then Boss had a Heavy Metal pedal Eddy Van Halen used so we all flocked to that. Pedal madness is still with us and hard today. every mom and pop has a damn pedal `you need!`

@markheefner8245 Год назад

Nice muff!

@badavis84 Год назад

heck yeah. cherub rock!

@bloodmines Год назад

cool pedal... i suggestion that those empty holes you can put right side power on led and left side effect on/bypass led.. its helping dark room to know when its plugged on and when effect is in off. i like myself do pedals its very enjoyable doing and can play different values and how it effect the sound.. thank you for your videos i like that you do outside of the box videos too...

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I may go back in and add those.

@robnic52 Год назад

Have I dropped though a time-loop to the 1970s? There is nothing subtle about that old bees (or wasps) in a tin can fuzz sound. Would have appreciated you exploring the various settings. Volume where it just starts adding gain through to insanely OTT. Explore the sustain, how long will it feedback to the pickups etc? Brave building this live and allowing us to listen in as you try to suss it all out. Could have been a car-crash but that's entertainment. 👍😎

@sebastiansteixner6432 Год назад

Hey Brad! Looking to purchase a oscilloscope for a good price to do some signal tracing. Fairly new to this and would love to hear of some good recommendations.

@STV-H4H Год назад

In the early 1980s I began playing guitar. Scored myself an Ibanez lawsuit Les Paul and a small Barcus Barry amp. Along with this I bought the only distortion pedal I could afford. It was something all the way through the 80s into the 90s all my friends said was a shitty sounding box. But because it was absolute FUZZ I liked it, but always really just wanted the MRX distortion plus. I can’t remember what happened to that Big Muff (or the Little Big Muff?) probably traded it for beer. 80( Now it appears it’s THE coveted distortion box above all. Funny how times change.

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I think RU-vid videos have driven prices of some stuff crazy the last decade or so.

@STV-H4H Год назад

@@TheGuitologist when I wrote my comment I was still watching the video in the background. The clone had a nice familiar sound to it. Very cool.

@tednugentlives Год назад

Many of us scraped up enough for a boss ds-1..I was poor so got a kit distortion from Amdek. Shows they were roland in origin for the DIY poor musician..like heathkits in the 60s. Now I'm jonesing for a hot cake clone. Anyone ever see a kit?

@peterdavies5358 Год назад

It has a look of soviet chic with a bit of Dharma Initiative from Lost blended in there too. The magic of Dymo. It actually sounds harmonically very rich, what can you do with filters on them?

@muddyudders Год назад

Brad how do you go about taking it from the schematic to board layout

@R3TR0R4V3 Год назад

Fuzz overload 😎

@russl9029 Год назад

Sounds pretty damn good! Any chance you can tell me what clipping diodes you used?

@TheGuitologist Год назад

1N4148

@gisellechacon7081 3 месяца назад

@@TheGuitologistthose are some exotic diodes maaaan....

@flhusa1 Год назад

i have the original first version THE BLACK FINGER with triangle spaced controls . uses two 9 volt batteries inside with no external power in jack. Electro-Harmonix

@rishpanjeet7479 Год назад

Impressive

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Glad you dug it, Rish.

@jacobdowler1 Год назад

Dude that thing is sweet! you gotta rip some DOOM METAL on it!....You should keep that pedal forever. Great choice on the knobs i was hopping you'd go for that gold one!!!! Only thing id do to it is stagger some washers between the knobs on the pots to fill the void. LOVE IT Brad!

@robertparker3580 Год назад

I MUST HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@keithfr7095 Год назад

ALWAYS more interesting, I meant to say

@ziggylayneable Год назад

Plug in the big mouth and Billy Corgan smashing pumpkins riffs are the first thing rolling out I would have done the same thing

@WarrenBey Год назад

The knob really ties the fuzz together. Its kinda velcro-y when you turned it down. Does that mean the signal is getting clipped? Kinda cool it has that wide of settings. If you can get enough parts to do some more I think there are a few of us that would throw down $200+ for one. Also Cherub Rock is the best SP song ever. Super cool video.

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I will consider it after knocking some other projects out. In the meantime, this #1 is for sale if someone is serious about it.

@nicoguarini28 Год назад

@@TheGuitologistWazup Brad? Sounds pretty good. Could use a lil more bottom end tho. For that legit "MUFF feel + experience, but still cool. How much you need for it? God bless ya man. Nico........

@SonofCastille Год назад

that muff /marshallmade Billy a Million dollars on Gish!(, even tho he claims he had to sleep in the ol storage practice place until he cashed his royalty cheques!)

@keithfr7095 Год назад

Hey Brad, enjoy your amp repairs, I’ve got a really old eh made unit called a Foxey Lady by Guild with 3 knobs. Have you ever had a 3 knob big muff?

@the-np4mr Год назад

I think almost all big muffs have 3 knobs

@nicoguarini28 Год назад

I know right? What's he talking about?

@johntoland3520 Год назад

Wild Thing

@tcb0044 Год назад

Listened to cherub rock for like an hour after watching this. Decided your fuzz tone was superior.

@thetechguy6288 Год назад

Sounds better than the one that you worked on

@Za7a7aZ Год назад

Why are the diodes used so significant to the sound coming from the fuzz.. Unfortunately i do not know where my first edition rams head electro harmonix fuzz went to. Probably at a friends house...

@danielsaturnino5715 Год назад

It sure fuzzes! :)

@leepshin Год назад

I notice you're using two different types of capacitor, both orange drop and oil in paper. What's the difference and why use two types?

@simonkormendy849 Год назад

I used 1N4148 diodes in my DIY Big Muff build but they're different to the ones you have used, the ones in my DIY Big Muff build have more of a red-ish colour to them, but they're still 1N4148s.

@richreid7098 Год назад

Maybe your diodes were made in China

@ajaxpowder Год назад

I would 1000% buy a Brad built pedal.

@ibanezleftyclub Год назад

Isn’t it crazy when you work on pedals then you get that itch to build some by hand, happens to me everytime lol

@TheGuitologist Год назад

I sit there looking at it thinking, “I could knock this up in NO time!” Then 12 hours later…

@josephshmoesinsky8610 Год назад

BUMMER

@JohnRivers Год назад

This is a great video. Hope you can answer a question for me. I just built my first pedal and it is a Big Muff V3 clone. It sounds nowhere near how your sounded. My question is Are all the resistor values suppose to be the same for each pedal? I purchased my PCD from Tayda Electronics and used the Version 3 list. The material list I had for resistors did not match any list I have searched. Even the Kitrae site. I hope you can help. Thanks in advance :)

@TheGuitologist Год назад

Maybe there is a misprint on their instructions? No idea, man. Sometimes you get parts that are bad out of the box too. It's rare, but does happen. You might benefit from watching my Big Muff troubleshooting videos.

@JohnRivers Год назад

@@TheGuitologist Thanks for answering back so quickly. I will definitely check out the troubleshooting vid. But to clarify. Should all the schematics and part values be the same for a Big Muff version, except for some minor mods?

@stevesuv Год назад

please with the fing knobs?