Which Big Muff should you buy? The Big Muff Deep Dive Part 1a 

I have had an Earthquaker Hoof, I've watched this video several times and decided to purchase a Green Russian Big Muff for my Bass rig! Wow! Super impressed! Excellent!

Beautiful Tele. I love it. Also love the Ehx amp.

This was awesome, I hadn't heard the Keeley before but I love how it sounds. Looking forward to the next parts!

New subscriber, loved the CARCOSA video... now I'm checking out you other videos. Good stuff!

I regularly come back here to watch the HAZUMITAS FACEBLAST at 3:04, never fails to make me cackle SUCH a great video, geezer!

This really doesn't feel like a small channel video.. none of them do! good luck man, I'll be along for the ride!

Excellent video! As a Muff connoisseur, I really appreciate the deep dive and can’t wait for pt. 2! An often overlooked Muff variant is the Ibanez 850 Fuzz, which is like a Japanese-made Ram’s Head Muff. Just like you found in your video, it doesn’t sound too much like a Ram’s Head but when I had one, it was the only Muff I’ve played where the tone knob sounded excellent in absolutely every position.

Sooo cool! Still discovering & exploring the channel.. great videos! Good points on about the Deluxe Big Muff.. I don't understand why there's isn't more Muff inspired pedals with simple footswitchable tone bypass to go from "wall of sound with room for the vocals" to "just a wall of sound".. Liked the Hizumitas when I tried it (the tone knob works differently IIRC) but went with the Barber Electronics Exacta, which is a monster too.. there's an EQ switch that controls the low end input (& saturation) & the second switch deactivates a pair of clipping diodes,taking it closer to a Jumbo Tone Bender.. Didn't bond with the Pharaoh (too clean or "refined" maybe?) .. it's it's own thing.. Like the Hoof I find it's not really a Big Muff.. I find the Hoof is more an overdrive/distortion .. the guitarist in my former band used one as a "mid forwards lead overdrive" & it worked fine .But it doesn't have germanium clipping (diodes) but 2 germanium transistors (for amplification,not really clipping but they probably compress/clip a bit). The clipping diodes are LEDs (red or clear)

Passing 1k soon! I will love to see this grow!

Great video thanx !!!

Hey, great video as always! I was thinking - maybe a video about how the pickup, it's hotness, output effect the fuzz pedal?

I’ve got the hizumitas coming soon and this video made me really happy with my choice

good video dude, for me I'm All for the EHX Op Amp reissue, however if you want the best of both worlds I would go a Muffaletta by JHS

Yesssss mate, love this. As a bass player who has recently started playing guitar this is totally scratching an itch for me. I have trouble getting the sounds I want out of my bass big muff pi with my guitar (although that might be cos I broke the tone knob off at the end of a particularly gnarly gig many years ago!) I've been coveting the op-amp reissue but tbf, all the reissues sound sick and I'm starting to get that "gotta catch 'em all" feeling now... RIP my wallet!

Even if I didn't have a soft spot for that signature fuzz tone, I'd have to click this video for the title alone.

Hey amazing video thanks for a huge work comparing them all! Just ended up watching the first part and wanted to add to i guess some little misconception around using guitar muffs on a bass. That rational logic "oh if this muff sounds low end boomy on a guitar then it will be great on a bass" and opposite doesn't work and that is why you get so confusing results in the end. The thing is the filtering on the input stage are different for bass and guitar pedals, for guitar it is actually cutting lows below around 150Hz. So if for a guitar it will just add those unnecessary (for guitar) frequencies at later EQ stage and will sound ok, for bass it means it will trying to recover something already lost. And this is why some of them became sounding unpredictable or completely smeared. Or others opposite surprisingly good, cause it becomes crossover for what actual part of bass spectrum will get dirt. As also there is a huge difference on how opamp or discrete transistors topology react basically on everything. And by the way building on this last statement I'm not sure about Deluxe version to be classic muff exchange as it actually an opamp circuit and as long as it is good on replicating muff's tone curves its opamp character actually makes itself felt time to time. Finally, give a try to the classic muff on a bass guitar with sustain at 0..1 you'll be surprised, especially with some kind of an preamp before it. So there is somes actually playing at those levels in here lmao.

Absolutely loved it. Mixing them parallel with an overdrive stack (SD into BD is my choice atm) gives some nice sound opportunities.

Lets go ! Doctor !

love the channel and your content. I have the triangle what other muff would you add next I'm leaning towards the deluxe or the big pi. interested in what you thinks would be a good choice to get next

The ehx deluxe civil war is pretty great too! Btw great vids 🤘

I’ve used the Pharaoh for a long time. It works killer, on its own, with a low gain overdrive before it, as well as plexi or Marshall in a box pedal, after. The mids cut through a full band mix, with the Silicon easiest, and the Germanium clip is great, but it needs a push of boost for solos. I really dig it with a Strat, because it also has pretty good volume knob cleanup, in the Silicon or no clipping settings. I’ve thought about getting the Priestess, with it’s different options, plus that mid control. And my last Black Arts plug, is The Black Forest really kicks ass, especially stacked with the Pharaoh. I’ve had many of the EHX Muffs, and some of these others, like the Keeley Op Amp, but they end up only having one tone that I use, while I could play a pretty diverse setlist, with just a Pharaoh.

I have the Deluxe Muff and its really flexible. One of the most flexible muffs. Ive since bought a few of the EHX reissues, and they are fantastic. The Russian is one of my favourite muff sounds. It sounds better than most boutique clones of the russian that I've tried. I even have a part for part Civil War clone from Tru-fi, and althoufh it sounds wonderful, I like the russian reissue a lot more. The rams head one also is brilliant. I had a J Mascis signature EHX RH reissue, and that things sounds wonderful. It out performs my Wren and Cuff blue-violet caprid. I really want to try the triangle one. Ultimately I think the Pharaoh is the best muff-inspired pedal. Its just fucking rad. The Pharaoh Supreme is so worth the money. Other great muffs, the Swamp Lord from Sonic Minotaur effects. That has a full-frequencg clipping option that just sounds so musical and heavy for a muff. Best one I've tried. Also, Frantone's Cream Puff and Peach Fuzz sound beautiful as well. The Cream Puff is the thickest muff on the planet, a great rythm destruction device. Only con is that its scooped. The Peach Fuzz is so sweet sounding. Makes for such great lead tones. The Peach Fuzz also cleans up super well with the volume knob, unlike most muffs. BAT also makes a great op-amp muff inspired pedal. Its like a op-amp muff with a pharaoh tonestack. Can sound a lot like that Moon from Keeley to my ears. And the BAT LSTR is like a super high gain Pharaoh. I need to play with it more to gain a better appreciation for it, because upon first playing it, it just sounds like a higher gain paraoh, which i feel can be achieved with just driving a normal pharaoh pedal.

I had been using a Walrus Audio Eons for over a year. It's a really really great pedal. I just finally bought a Ram's Head nano after wanting one for like 6 months. And damn... it's an unbeatable sound! I didn't buy one before because I thought that the Eons covered this pedal, but the Ram's Head has a really gritty, crunchy sound that the Eons can't quite get.

I've seen a lot of people mod the big box muff with a three way switch. Something you've come across? Anyhoo, great work. Loved the video mate.

Did you do the forearm cut on that Tele yourself? I don't understand why fender won't make standard configuration Teles with the comfort contours. Whenever they do make a "modern" tele, it almost always gets humbuckers :(. Have you ever tried a way huge swollen pickle jumbo? It has a lot of options when you take the internal trim pots into account.

I own the Op-Amp and man it has a shit ton of treble in the tone! 😅 It can really sound like shit if it’s dialed in certain ways, but with some fiddling around I’ve gotten some amazing sounding tones out of it. I went for that one because I wanted the option to have some assaulting frequencies, and boy does it deliver! 😂 On a side note: I’m loving the Moon. What a grimy, nasty sounding fuzz. Gonna look into that one more. And of course, the Hizumitas is just awesome. My cousin (bass player for this band) has one. Gonna have to borrow that one. Great video! Looking forward to the next one.

This was a great video but was kind of sad seeing the big muff that I own be on ur shelf instead of on the board haha Other comments have said that this doesn’t feel like a small channel video and I agree really good quality I’ll be sticking around

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im trying to get a pedal that would get me a hard driving sound for deftones songs so i could cover which of the big muffs would be good for deftones songs song example (be quiet and drive)

I'm a fan of the Russian green. I had the earthquaker pedals but meh, I could get the same tone for less. The op amp is Dookie but it's all subjective isn't it? I really want to check out the Walrus eons pedal. Fuzz is life! 🤘😁🤘

Of the 50+ Big Muffs I have owned, originals + clones, the only useable one in a band is the Black Arts.

Honestly the Moon sounds like it'd be great for bass synthfuzz sounds.

Deluxe big muff

The problem is that the muffs, regardless of the model or brand, are all beautiful when you are at home or in another place and play alone. We all feel a bit like the David Gilmours of the situation. But when you go to play live and you're with your band they become a real nightmare: you can't hear yourself and you don't come out in a band's mix. The big muffs have too much bass and too scooped mids. I tried almost all of them and they ALL had the same problem. Also the beautiful Vick Audio 73 ram head which has midrange boost control. The only way to solve the problem is to put an overdrive before the big muff, but at that point the sound changes radically and a lot of noise is added. Or you have to use Marshall head and cabinet but maybe that's not even enough. (I also tried the big muff on a hiwatt amplifier but the problem remained. It is practically impossible to use the big muff on fenders). Do you like Gilmour and have a Fender tube amplifier that you don't want to give up? Maybe (definitely) you'd be better off with a Rat or an Ocd or a boss bd-2waza Craft.

Aaaaw yes, not even 30 sec into the vid and you already earned my like

Im sitting here watching wondering why the volume on my Muff sounds miserable. Lo and behold you start telling your invader pickup story, and now I realize it's my invader pickups, too funny. The invaders do sound great pushing a Black Russian Muff.

I hate the Muff tone stack. It sounds awesome if the bass player is using a bi amp rig with one distorted by the Muff. The Rat is underrated for these heavy genres. Ideally I'd want my bassist using the Muff and me with a Rat and TS or an EQ to boost the mids. I'm anticipating the video and hoping one of these use a tone stack bypass or an actual EQ. I know Maxon made a Muff with a parametric EQ. That pedal is hard to find.

You haven't tweaked the tone stack knob on the Hoof, thats why there is no bass. You have it on flat

I’m torn between the Pharaoh and the Priestess. Which would you choose?

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Green.

"Board"? or "Bored"? Is that the British spelling?

Great video!! But I don't like that you're not wearing shoes...please put on some shoes