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Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi
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«  spit it! »

Published on 10/24/11 at 02:51
Pedal distortion / fuzz bass legend, everyone knows (or so) this monster.
Adjustment levels, simple and efficient (at least to understand), one volume, one tone, sustain, and a 3 position switch.
An input and 2 outputs (one normal, one dry).
And the machine seems to be a real tank: test, we start off, magical, it still works (try a little extreme)

UTILIZATION

the simplest configuration, a branch is allumme the amp is played by fiddling the knobs and the switch and quickly found her a simpa (after finding the sound is a bit longer).
We can do without the manual (in English), but read it brings some clarifications, especially for the dry mode.
Super simple in comparison with other pedals with 5 or 6 knobs (the Boss ODB-3 for example)

SOUND QUALITY

So there you have to love the saturation disgusting, it's sending a very big win (even try a drop in scratches, you can go to a very brutal style).
The sound is rather special, but the sound of the big muff.
The sound can range from very severe (to the point of lacking definition) in acute (where you lose all the bass).
For the distortion, even sustain (the knob that controls the saturation level) almost a minimum, it sends a very heavy bottom I even speak.
In normal position, the sound was "normal" of the pedal, ideal puor those who want to radically change their sound from the clean, and that the serious cash pretty good (try yesterday with a group with his bass player looking for a very serious , Ibanez GSR200 with a serious boost to the bottom and a Hartke with eq I find particular: low to bottom, the rest zero, the big muff had the effect of redressing the high notes could be heard not without loss significant low frequency)
For the bass boost mode was the same sound, but with a serious stir boyeaux (sending too much bass for my taste)
The dry ets one I use all the time, it preserves the sound of the amp, adding that of the pedal, a feast with my ampeg SVT3 and my fender PRESION low 50's (regulation of amps: low acute , gain, master at noon, mid-bottom, bright switch to the pedal: volume 1:30, as the tone, sustain at 9 am, the sound is no shortage of potatoes in my punk / rock)

OVERALL OPINION

Used since August 2011 after trying the boss ODB-3 (good pedal, but missing a few balls for my taste) what attracted me is the sound that mnque no safe and beautifully made his taff in my bass sound (cec that either repeats or live, it is never turned off), the only damage that I put to the rule is that the hair should be already set its amplifiers.
Otherwise, the new price is quite affordable for a pedal of this caliber (80 €)

If I had the means, I'll test tube saturation (and I still even know if I have not taken the big muff), a choice again if it falls in the harbor, and saw the craft, I do not think it happens any time soon