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Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker

Fuzz pedal from Electro-Harmonix belonging to the Big Muff series

Mostha Mostha
Published on 05/12/13 at 07:08
Value For Money : Excellent
See previous opinion

UTILIZATION

It is very easy to use, 3 knobs and 2 switches.
The volume knob rule ... volume (fantastic, is not it?)
The rule of tone equalization (it also works very well and the sound really changes throughout the course of the knob)
"Sustain" sets the level of distortion / fuzz

Then there are these two small switches: tone on / off and wicker ...

Here I take 2 points because it is a shame not to have footswitchable switch for tone on / off because in addition to cutting tone, it gives an increase in volume at the foot, could be useful ...

SOUND QUALITY

Fat, fat and ... fat, all that I love.
I'm not going to compare with the old big muff because I have simply never touched a (and I find it ridiculous to spit on the news, if you want to sound old big muff, you buy an old big muff ...)

It therefore has a lorgant fuzz distortion to ...
I divided this category into two because if the tone on / off really changes the sound, the wicker is barely audible.

With Tone

In the first third, the sound is loaded into low (no kidding ...) I'm not a fan but it can be fun ...
Then they move to the sound that I love, in the second tier, it is exellent for playing blues-rock in the filthy black keys and white jack.
Finally, when we reach the end of the tone knob, you get a synthetic sound that I like a lot, it's not modern fuzz but the museum where radiohead for example, it can go until we have this more modern fuzz.

Whatever the setting, the sustain is huge and front of the amp, it's party ... I love to larsens

Without tone

So we gain a high volume and does not change drastically the sound is always filthy (a little less anyway) but it is drier and the sustain is shorter, more fun for the rock oropendola this ... is not there fault and it can switch only justify buying it rather than the little big muff "classic"

I used it with my strat lone star and some other guitars that do not belong to me (epiphone les paul, gibson sg, telecaster, ibanez hollow body, ...) and the sound was always more.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 4 months, I tested some other fuzz and distortion before buying, my choice is focused on it for very good quality / price ratio (a real tank that my foot ... drummer tried to kill without success.) and just his signature sound.

The feature I like least is that fat has a price: it's not bad breath ... But it is the vice of any kind of pedals ...

The quality / price is as stated above very good.

The choice I would do without hesitation.