All user reviews of 5/5 for the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff PI

3 knobs but not much freedom in sound. In fact, putting all the background was done!
Big box in Mtal that when we have in hand seems empty ...
POWER ENTRY amricaine prvoir (mini jack)

USE

The configuration is simple since it is very limited ... There just press it with its large pumps.

SOUND QUALITY

Its distortion / fuzz excellent, slobbering desire while keeping a lot of precision. Lightweight compression attack. Dcrire very difficult ...

NOTICE GLOBAL

My Last pedal to buy any distortion. The sound is nromissime. The only problem is that it is very little paramtrable.
To get an idea of ​​the sound of this great pedal, listen Hypermusic of "Muse".
To know that many are buying this bass pedal.

See other opinions, I put it 8/10 because of its relatively large size ..

USE

Simplest one n'peut, 3 knobs: volume, tone and sustain.

SOUND QUALITY

I use it with my Lag Arkane and my ENGL Screamer50 has sent of the little wood !! Here is a video test of this pedal (http://www.guitaretv.com/test-de-l-effet-electro-harmonix-big-muff-pi-video-45.html) has be more informative than the crap. After one likes or does not like, I love

NOTICE GLOBAL

I use it for little, and I did not test other pedals of the same type (that's some I put 9), but I am entirely satisfied, again the report quality price seems excellent (new 70) as given the price of the pedals in general ...

- See the notice above. Fuzz analog tres, but then very typical. 3 knobs. jack in / out. Warning: the power supply is either by 9V battery or either a minijack connector own headphone guy this pedal, and former US. qu'EHX wonder has not changed ca. But hey, an adapter beast was € 3.50 and AC plugs in all serenity on any garland / PSU type boss. however, for the ridiculous price of the big muff, one can forgive this gap.

UTILIZATION

yes, it's simple.

the manual is simple too.

OUi and the edition is made simple thanks to the knobs very reactive. we do not care less about you. Or it is the written sustain, and well ... it sustain, your rating last long.

SOUND QUALITY

Ah the big muff ... Love it or hate it.

In my debut guitar, I bought it solely on its reputation, the detour for a bargain anywhere.

My first impressions? "Caca / yuck / ca is yucky and spin eardrums" I wanted me debarasser.Avant the yield to a low price, I plugged one last time, months after having a row closet.

But after having wrung a lot of high gain pedal, I glimpse that big muff, she not cheat, she does not try to reconcile the overdrive, the distortion is live dirty, nasty, and what I did not like eventually seduce me. Horribly typed reconaissable, ca amused me a lot to play clean and break ca pressing the knob and swing the power chord has galore.

it amuses me, am surprised by his grain, or two years ago I would have returned to live mag saying "this is crap"

She is docile, in its visible appearance of a German tank of WW2. the knobs do what they are asked, always borrowing their dirt. But with other pedals as a compressor and an equalizer, it allows itself to tame, and psychedelic solos pope david gilmour are with a strat.

reconaissable of 1000, I finally gave me part with it. I not use it all the time, but when you have to send the sauce, she reigns unchallenged in the DB. sharp and yucky it right.

OVERALL OPINION

-some months.

- No.

- I love his sound, the challenge it poses to the master, its ridiculous price / I do not like his huge size, its special power supply.

_ QP report ... for a PS3 game, you fumble a legend of sound. this is much cheaper than the competition. but also differ.

- If I would do this choice? Not at the beginning guitar, I have taken a more mainstream thing kind boss OD1. but according to my tastes, a big muff would inevitably landed on my PB at one time or another, and I regret not already have it, I rediscovered.

sharp, dirty, huge, boring, it is a challenge that only those who give trouble will appreciate the value.

This is the legendary Big Muff Pi Electro Harmonix home, no need to dwell on a pedal that most of us know, it is only an analog preamp distortion with transistors.

UTILIZATION

Usage is could not be more simple, volume, tone and sustain.

Please note a little flat, the connection to the power that made Jack Mini.

The manual has remained in its box, as with all pedals like this, it's plug and play!

Editing sound is simple, the tone lets go of his deep in the low to fuzz sound in the treble.

SOUND QUALITY

I use it in my pedalboard second position, just after a boss DS1. I play it mostly with a Mexican Stratocaster and a Fender Pro Junior.

One can easily find the distortion sounds like Gilmour of Pink Floyd, or sounds extremely saturated like to play stoner rock to the Ancestors.

Note also that if the rendering on my fender is excellent, this is not the case at the marshall of a friend, to his home, the precision is not really to go ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months now and this pedal gives me a very good lead in sustain and precise (on the fender) for my solos but also lowering the tone a chance to play as a rhythm guitarist, is So a very good pedal that EHX sells us here, especially with a price / quality ratio like this is hard to beat.

I tested the blackstar pedals lamps that do not believe me at all, I hesitated with that in Hiwatt but the price made me decide, but with experience and more money I would have made the Hiwatt.

Billed as a fuzz, but I think it's an overdrive pushed beyond its limits. in a jack, a jack out and roll youth, the transistor (silicon memory) will do the job for you! And the big side pedal has a charm (even if the model is little big muff for which I never found its shade with the original).

UTILIZATION

Three buttons, tone volume and drive, nothing complex, but still very versatile result.

Only the switch is hard to operate and brittle over time.

SOUND QUALITY

Welcome to the realm of fat, beefy, the dark and heavy. A so use sparingly (unless done in a simple fleshy distortion, it is also very well see black sabbath) before it is a dump.

This is the queen of solo, which add an almost infinite sustain (especially with a Les Paul in the ass), masters of expression, it will help a lot.

It also works with bass or keyboard (although there is the base model in the big muff, the result is not the same)

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 3 years, my pedalboard is constantly evolving, but it is one of the reliable values ​​of the latter. The value for money is excellent, and the sound also. After she should not everyone, the lady is not clean.

I remake this choice tomorrow if necessary, after there is often better than a lot of the big muff clones, but more expensive, and they have the privilege to have created!

I bought this pedal brand-new for $59 bucks at Sam Ash. Throughout my playing years I've always looked for a distortion pedal that was heavy and thick. I used a Boss Turbo Distortion for many years because that was the closest distortion that fit my criteria. Recently I read a couple of articles in which Big Muff Distortion/Sustainer was mentioned. I decided to buy it, and I'm so glad I did.

I really love the distortion - period. It's the type of distortion I've been looking for forever. The pedal looks great and is very simple to use. If you like heavy, thick, and warm distortion, this pedal is for you. I still can't believe I found the pedal of my dreams.

The only thing I don't like about it is that it is powered by battery only. You can't plug an adapter to it - but who cares.

This pedal is so well constructed that I think it's going to last for many years and still look great. It's very good looking pedal.

This pedal is the best distortion pedal I have used and, believe me, I've used many different ones.

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I bought this pedal from shopoftheworld.com (has a good selection and delivers quickly in the UK) for £62.00 [88.10 EURO]. I bought it because I was looking for a good distortion and heard that bassists such as Cliff Burton (Metallica), Chris Wolstenholme (Muse) and others used this pedal.


Although this is designed to be a guitar pedal, it works GREAT on bass, in fact it keeps some of the lower tones (even on a five string) equal with the rest better than some bass distortions I have tried. This pedal has 3 controls, (Volume,Tone,and Sustain) which can be used to create a great sound that fits perfectly with a guitarist distortion, and is also great for any bassist in a heavy band looking to play distorted solos and if can really cut through if the tone is pushed.

No major complaints, one thing that is a bit of a downside is the fact it is quite load on bass. There is some noticably background noise, but this is to be expected as this pedal does boost volume a lot.

This, as all EHX pedals is built like a rock. Strong, heavy and theres no chance of the control knobs causing any problems. The wiring on the inside is a bit messy (lots of wires with a lot of slack). But this is obviously not a major flaw as I have played this pedal for about 2 years now and despite quite a lot of abuse, is still working fully. And the only other slight problem is the paint work, the black surround of the footswitch gets scratched easily.

This is a great pedal for anyone wanting to get a really big sound with themselves and their guitarist but still keeping the low end nice and clear. I would definatly recomend this pedal to all those into bands such as Rage Against the Machine, Muse etc. Bassically any song with bass distortion this thing can emulate quite closely.

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I bought this unit from Nevada, my local guitar shop in Portsmouth UK. It set me back £89.99. I boughtt it because i was in need of a top quality distortion pedal and i was aware of the big muff's excellent reputation as one of the best that money could buy. It is even featured in album titles (Superfuzz BigMuff by Mudhoney) and T-Shirts (Rock Action T-Shirt by Mogwai) by great bands proving it has a dedicated following!

There is a few things that i really like about this unit but the main thing is the range of different distortions in relation to how few knobs there are on it. I've tried out quite a few distortion pedals over the past few months and the vast majority of them use four to six smaller, fiddlier knobs and yield a smaller range of sounds. The Big Muff is so simple and classic and really delivers a wide range of distortion sounds. The only other pedal that comes close tho it is the Marshall Shredmaster but i'd still go Big Muff every time

There's very little that i dislike about this unit. The only thing i can say is that i would have prefered it to have been a pedal rather than a push button as this means that you have to wear shoes to use it or you hurt your foot. It's a little annoying if you're just playing at home or if you like to play bear foot at any point (or is that just me?!). But this really is the only thing i can think of that i didn't like and i'm really just splitting hairs here!

The construction of the Big Muff is first class. The first thing you'll notice is the sheer size of the pedal. It's huge! I'll bet you it's the biggest pedal you ever seen. But it's not just that its big but flimsy, its made out of metal and the unit is heavy and the dials are big and sturdy giving you confidence to really stamp down on it when you're rocking out. Trust me, you wont break it. And if you do go for the big theatrical stamp when you're playing you wont be let down by a feeble sound coming out of it. It' loud!

The bottom line is that the Big Muff is a quality unit. There are other pedals out there that you can get pretty decent sounds out of but they're all too small with fiddly buttons and you have to mess around with them for ages to get a decent sound. If you want a great distortion sound with top quality construction (and dont mind paying for it) the Big Muff is your only option.

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I got this thing off eBay in basically mint condition and even still in the nice classy wooden box it got shipped in for 40 bucks or so. I wanted it because I love the sound of the Smashing Pumpkins' distortion, and this is what they use (sort of, see below).

Gorgeous fuzz. Beautifully solid sound when a mid or high single note is played, gotta hear it to know what I mean, and you want to, trust me. The tone control is really really good at changing the sound of the effect. It can pump out warm, thick overdrive or a crispy, nasty higher-end fuzz. Sustain control isn't as versitile, but still can do a LOT to the Tone-controlled sound, giving your guitar better range of possible sounds with just one pedal than I thought possible. So it was pretty good at imitating the Pumpkins' sound.

Wasn't nearly as heavy as the Pumpkins' distortion. It lacks the sheer punch that the Pumpkins' distortion dished out. The Sustain isn't nearly as high on this thing as I thought it would be, kinda disappointed with that. Kinda lousy at artificial/pinch harmonics, because (and a bad thing by itself) the gain is pretty low. I've got a DOD Death Metal pedal, so relative to that, it's lousy for loong sustain or huge gain, but I could just have my universe warped by that DOD pedal.

It looks tough. It looks like a little tank that could roll around and launch some missles out of the INPUT and OUTPUT jacks (which by the way are left and right respectively, backwards from any other pedal I've used, which makes things a little annoying, but oh well). So anyway, I dropped a speaker on it one day, and now the case is dented, so the metal isn't that strong, it's no tank. And the Sustain control also broke. It got twisted around too far, so now I can move it from minimum to maximum in a 10-degree turn, instead of 350-degree, so that's no good. Everything else is holding up well though. I don't stomp on my pedals though, so I'm not sure how well of a description this is for those of you that do mistreat your pedals.

It's really good.
BEST THING ABOUT IT: is it's easy to modify. I haven't done so yet, but everyone on DIY pages have modified their Big Muff into something slightly different. You can't make it a delay or anything, but you can change the sound texture or something like that. Speaking of which, I found out after I got it that the Pumpkins used a Big Muff modified by the little company Sustain Punch, which simply boost (aLOT) the sustain and the punch, appropriately enough, of the pedal. All in all, excellent excellent purchase, especially if you can/want to modify it, you can get exactly what you want out of this baby. Get it, it's worth it if you need a fuzz pedal, even if you don't like the Smashing Pumpkins, but I don't know why you wouldn't like them.

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The fuzz
adjustable vol, tone, sustain (dist)
ample

UTILIZATION

Ras

SOUND QUALITY

The volume may be the one that you are looking for so long, you know what the fuzz
I use it on a jaguar and a sg and is perfect

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for four years, first in Russian for the bass, then I pass my guitar and my bass player given the Russian to buy a US, with its lg rately brighter I love it, it is unique (nb for the low: prvoir to mix the direct sound and dist for the intelligible sound recording)
it is well worth the 100 euros, I was looking for this sound for years ...

Input / output + footswitch on / off / 3 knobs: volume / tone / sustain

big box mtal trs sound

UTILIZATION

Extreme simplicity = not making unnecessary head

SOUND QUALITY

This is the perfect pedals for fuzz sound dirty trs: in a word as in 100 is typical but not plutt forcment "big sound" is the nickel hendrix or alternative rock style sonic youth ... my bass player uses it and it's quite convincing as a low: in some rvant it's almost like the sound of an Ampeg in saturated!

OVERALL OPINION

Well it's me playing sr plutt jazz rock I do not too much useful ... but the sound is a nice pedals though a bit dirty and rough, well built and also try looking for a bass distortion

A box, 3 knobs, one button,
volume
tone
sustain / dist,
c 'is con ...

UTILIZATION

An efficient trs tone, volume, too.
Becomes quite sustain my standard thanks a.

SOUND QUALITY

I play on a low: dgueulasse much dirty sound, that is what I wanted ...
The tone changes from trebble slamming the bass, that is the foot, knowing that the SETTING THE dist moves from one overdrive a little fat one disto good big hendrix type.
intresss know for bassists: Chris Wolstenholme 's in a pdalier, bassist and guitarist Gomm the have both, and if I remember correctly, I think I saw the big muff in one of pdaliers Ghinzu ...

OVERALL OPINION

No trs long as I have, but when I have tried in the store, I have IMMEDIATE DCID to sell my Korg multi-effects ax1-b, and I 'come out a winner : a gear of 85 professional quality, cheaper than a Boss ODB-3 for the least rpandu ...

Does everything said.

UTILIZATION

Trs simple, not you do more, three buttons and then voila.
Manuel unnecessary and nonexistent elsewhere.

SOUND QUALITY

THE sound fuzz, dirty wish. Not to be confused with distortion, the sound is to get dirty between the distortion and overdrive you could say.
I find it not versatile.

Finally I used few positions, the sound is difficult to operate, ancessite a lot of adaptation over his guitar, his playing and his amp. Beginners to get used to this new lment in the chain, but hey you get used to it quickly.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for six months, I do not have spares. I'm hooked.
I bought a United States for style, for the object, if a Russian is the case I think.

Good quality price. Electro-Harmonix pedals not give her, but it is never the.