All user reviews for the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Russian

The pedal quil must have:
cest large: So .....
the buttons are very accessible and responsive: ca allows the rules while playing with his toes or the Santiag (it's true), but at least we see the position of knob
sound: top home top, even with a very low drive (sustain) its guaranteed gilmour shine on

NOTHING TO SAY top notch, I was narrive not do without
For the battery: a few tweaks, add a jack and a power supply boss and the problem is resolved in 30 min

UTILIZATION

See above

SOUND QUALITY

See above

OVERALL OPINION

See above

Fuzz overdrive - rglages of volume, tonal and the gain level
transformer connections add

UTILIZATION

Sensitive enough pots and influential on the sound - of o many rglages possible trs quickly

SOUND QUALITY

This is the subject of this notice, while all this say about t adj pedals: I come from redcouvrir totally by chance by connecting between my telecaster and my hot-rod ( clear channel) After a few years of closet .. while in fact con ..

I could not remember that his ct draft, quite dirty and low gav .. nice but difficult to use. but it is actually the default of its quality. By pushing a little volume, everything becomes more audible and the grain is frankly stunning.
with 5 Tone and gain (sustain) between 5 and 10, you your Jack White! Meg and add an octave is ringing your door.

OVERALL OPINION

A new life begins between me and my big muff. PDAL possder a must, especially considering the price

Repetition
No possibility of power supply via a power supply sector, but easy to tinker, there is plenty of room in this case.
Note equalizer particuliaire enough that cuts the treble by adding low and vice versa

UTILIZATION

Boh says it all, what is a pedal!

SOUND QUALITY

I do not
It's like a toy, it's funny, but there is no body of accuracy. The loss of momentum (for a normal distortion) is not compensated by an effective equalizer in my opinion. We do not find the sound of vintage fuzz of yesteryear
For such a fuzz (very fuzz) I would prefer a Zvex that the distortion coupled with a kind of expander / compressor to reduce background noise and prolong the sustain
But hey, tastes and colors ...

OVERALL OPINION

I've had a year or two
I can hardly give an objective opinion, I COPARE a Zvex that costs the skin of the ass while this model is not expensive
I puts an average side

Pedal distortion / fuzz well EMDU
Volume, Tone, and level of distortion ...
big ass, she looks rather cheap (I always feel that it is empty by connecting the jack ...)
Has no control adapter, battery 9W.

UTILIZATION

Very simple to do sonn: 3 knob ... that's sensitive, do not attack the foot like a nag if you veu pa's Get too!

SOUND QUALITY

Ah, the sound, it's been a momment that I wanted to pay the cost a Mudhoney and The Stooges ...
The overall sound is very fat, although EMDU, although with a grain Bourin I know not too dcrire.
With little distortion is just finding his cudgel like "no fun", if you push a little one is in "i want to be your dog", if it still grows "Touch Me I'm Sick" And then it goes into "pissing teritorial" ... If you want to hear it costs "Superfuzz Big Muff" by Mudhoney! sound fat, warm and dark celon the rglage! Perfect for the garage rock / grunge

OVERALL OPINION

I for some I like her especially her dgueulasse halfway between the fuzz and distortion pais.
I refer not sit this election but insternet, even cheaper!

Here we are in a prsence pedals analog saturation Submitted plutt not bad. Massive, Aesthetics sober, she looks screed of a workshop for mcanique tank. The knobs are Chickenhead, trs flexible, may be too much and the power supply is battery-9v.pas possibility of power supply even if the collection's outdoor bricolos give them your heart's content to install a home.

UTILIZATION

Usage is biblical. 3 knobs give the possibility to influence the palette still large enough that trs type of distos possible. Tone Tone sustain affects the saturation rate and volume, well, the volume ....
There are, however quickly the sound you are looking for just that one feels good branch of the same type of saturation which evokes more fuzz of old 60's or 70's that rigor in ratafouin nomtal groups.
The manual is absent and this absence does not plunge into dtresse saw the simplicity of the machine.
I will focus only on the increased flexibility of knobs makes the buttons tend to move virtually "alone" for a few trailing cables above example ...

SOUND QUALITY

The sound quality is dizziness. In the trip, of course ... Plugs into a skyscraper or a bass, your exact still usable in the bold and extremists. Noise, there are, the feedback also ... But the sound is imprial and goes perfectly in any group sound by highlighting the instrument of Manir fully effective.
Of course, nothing to do with the cold precision of surgical operating in the usual pedals mtal extreme but otherwise, versatility is not absent and rglages can skillfully blend into almost all musical landscapes.

OVERALL OPINION

Used for ages, the pedals are indestructible. And the sound does not change. Besides a reliability that makes any Soviet insdispensable turn them in all possible and all conditions.
I also know that I prcise version amricaine that seems less efficient and certainly less adapted for use with a bass.

Simple fuzz pedal / substain
Inca INGRIF, Innu
rather large piour what's inside
Original alliment only 9v battery but with a lil tinkering 30min and 5 euros (plus a trannsfo ), and many can be connected to the mains

UTILIZATION

Simple to use, you plug one turns the knob and an array of its coming ...

SOUND QUALITY

I use a Line 6 Variax 600 modeling and following asser change the pedal sounds good, but still sounds very messy, c'st a fuzz, it's done has! lol
but it's not really what I rechaerchai, its a dirty, dirty, greasy ...
really happy and bcp posibility of sounds changean the knob

OVERALL OPINION

I depusi four months apart and they hitch a little, she is really great but do not buy as distorition is a fuzz, greasy! several other fuzz with what exists, but no ... its the we like it or not but do not lese indiferen, my personal love! and for the price, really nothing to what it is!

Big box super tough, cold war era Russian design.
3 knobs "chicken-heads" without incremented so sensitive.
Switch and no power supply sector of origin, only by batteries.
= Dtail as the input / output jacks are reversed.
(Start with a checker if no sound on scne ing before insulting her )

UTILIZATION

The manual leaves a résumé but not serious because it is simple =
1 volume knob
Sustain a
A distortion and that's it.
Take it easy on the sustain, if not everything is a feedback.
Sounds easy edit, but the range of the fuzz goes.

SOUND QUALITY

It's good, do not do the cutting bouche.ZE Fuzz par excellence.
It sounds as a low (for my personal case) than a guitar.
In addition it accepts without regard additions like a flanger effect with whom marriage becomes formidable particulirement, which will push your guitar a surenchre him pointing a .357 Magnum on his neck.
BMOL: according to the respective powers of the instrumentals, you gotta go with the spoon sustain, otherwise all that ugly bitch beautiful grain.
We also regret a little chouillas versatility that has nothing removed the case. L is going to the Fuzz Fuzz Fuzz through the ... damage.

OVERALL OPINION

I have had for a year but recently sold to buy the MetalMuff that the same grain but bcp most versatile and powerful.
The grain quality = ultimate fuzz "hendrixien"
Default = Connectivity hacking and source of problem frquents
For a price of 55 euros, it's still trying, it's given!
Good exprience but my new pedals suits me better.

CHARACTERISTICS t have the correct times prcdemment.
My Big Muff is even bigger than the picture.
I think that this is not a rdition, if anyone can m'clairer the top ...

No power supply sector.
Input / Output reversed.

UTILIZATION

The usual rglages for distortion except that the "drive" is here call "sustain".

SOUND QUALITY

I'm a fan of his be Smashing Pumpkins, the PDAL has never really frmir. The sound is dirty and imprcis for sure, but in the type fuzz, I prfre far this little pedals mconnue called DOD FX100 Even Harmonic Overdrive and the famous biensr Zvex .
I had the opportunity to compare it with the US and I prfre the Russian has a more rugged and aggressive. As against the US has a switch that acts on the EQ if I remember correctly, adding the possibility, and a power supply sector.

OVERALL OPINION

A legendary pedals that I find a bit overstated.
Srement not a bad buy, I never intended to sell mine even if I use some trs. But it is to try several prfrable DIFFERENT fuzz head before going down in a prtexte it references.

Foot Disto / Fuzz
Tone settings, Sustain and volume
True bypass switch
Alim 9v battery only (no that's very!)

A large black case that is not as strong as it would have us believe, and as usual at EHX is three times bigger than what it contains

Large buttons on the knob it is easy to maneuver and is unlikely to make them move by moving the gear, but hey this case is definitely too big when you start having a lot of effect on his pedalboard, when to reverse in and out, good must not be alarmed either, it is not death

UTILIZATION

The knobs are effective and yield rapido a sound as we hear it.

As against the lack of power supply industry for making it really a handicap and a large, more not worth thinking about using a battery clip adapter, as there is no filter that must be on the adapter is good and that the power line on which plugs in good condition. Or you have to make a small filter (like a big-box use to hide a filter reported)

SOUND QUALITY

Well, after being separated from me, mainly for lack of plug for power supply industry, having tested the Dirty Rat (not bad, but it's not the same grain, sold), and the Little Big Muff (too low for my taste, it is the coup happened in my lower set), I'm an acquired because it gives me the sound of Big Muff I like bold and unclear just what is needed or too low or too sharp, the game in line is quite possible without it becoming the slurry (contraiement my LBM).
I use it when I want to make sounds like Type O Negative, or sounds a little new wave.

OVERALL OPINION

I just write it earlier, I was separated for the wrong reasons, I am finally bought one. Especially it is no longer produced (like his little sisters Russian) since the arrival of the Micro and Nano series).

I like this the Big Muff, and that, it can not be discussed. the case, I accommodate the plug, now I am able to add one without asking questions.

Pedal "Distortion / Sustainer" distortion / fuzz, you know.
It's analog, it seems? I have not been verified, but good.
Jack in / out reversed, not death, but not practical either, barf ...
It comes in the form of a big box, I like personal! Bigger is ... Huhu.
on the other hand, not taken for a power supply ', it can be boring!

UTILIZATION

Three pots, switch ... It is relatively easy to use I think.
The pots are fulfilling their role, but a poor kick and you're good to find everything ... Finally it will anyway.
Manuel? What manual?

SOUND QUALITY

Okay, so I always use this pedal distortion at the bottom, like this ... It oozes out, it spits is barbarian!
I use a Mustang MIJ upstream and downstream, a preamp Mesa / Boogie Studio 30 or a Roland Cube, and here one thing is clear:
On the Mesa, it sounds deadly.
On the Cube, it sounds horrible.
From there to conclude that it is a pedal to use as a tube amp ... I do not know, but anyway There's an obvious difference! On the Cube, it sounds cold, dirt clinic is really ugly, so that when I switch on the preamp, it's beautiful, full, warm while serving as a steamroller ...
So I put the note in connection with its use in the lamp, as it is the purpose of a lot of guitar amp level, but I still found it rather shocking.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for just over 3 months.
I love his head tank, it does sound out of my Mustang on an all-lamp, grain ... However the lack of outlet is still rather unfortunate.
Bought on a whim (like most of my shopping ...), at that price we will not fuss.
Every guitarist should have a Big Muff into a corner, it can still be useful ...
If it were to blow up under the repeated assaults of my kicks, I buy a replacement, perhaps US, maybe not. But I buy a replacement, that's for sure!

Analog
fuzz - disto
huge iron box
ca a lair tresssss solid from the 3 plastic buttons

UTILIZATION

Very simple configuration, nothing wrong, said of leffet is very easy and it immediately with seclate.

the manual .... heuu which one?

at the same time it's so easy to use ...

attention, battery power only, but I do not think it is a negative point, I knew before dacheter

SOUND QUALITY

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh this sound ...........

just awesome, exactly what I was looking for a vintage type sound, though quite dirty when it is needed. Hendrix has a sound when you do not solve the maximum, otherwise it has a more Nirvana or Led Zep if it grows well as it should.

I use a Fender Start with single microphones and many jai has nothing to envy a les paul, the sound is extremely powerful, and jai t print my own strat.

OVERALL OPINION

So in summary, great pedal, but very special, so try before you bring it home!

but if this is research, the sound is great, the case looks to me very strong and has the epreuvre time.

NOTE:
- Jimi do not use live or on album (it seems quil tested a prototype ...)
- Russia is no longer produced, so hurry up (jai had mine for states ...)
- The input-output are inverss
- Fairly bulky (but it's mouth)

It is a distortion sustainer, a short fuzz
analog
has the input and output are inverss is nothing but a note

UTILIZATION

Super simple setup, there are three knobs volume, sustain (distortion), and tone
you turn the knobs and it works
there pa sde manual that came with it is useless;
I put 9 for ease

SOUND QUALITY

-It was a sound like vintage trs tell the other post, we get a sound hendrixien without really pushed back, otherwise it switches to the metal
I use it with my jet lag with my 100 or my active bass fender mexico
-With the bass I have exactly the sound of Around the World has the intro
-With the guitar, well it's a fury of tracks like purple haze, foxy lady, sounded really good, she's really convincing trs

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a year and then
it's a fuzz, what is that you would like more
I pay 59, I was against a cardboard box and not the wooden box
frankly yes I redeem the same IP or view American, if voullez vintage sound is for you

The BIG MUFF PI is one of the first effects produced by EHX. Memory, the first was the LPB. This is a big box of steel, not heavy as few filled, with three knobs, a foot switch and two jacks in / out reversed.

The Big Muff is analog, old school and really gross stripping. But with three knobs can make things pretty good.

UTILIZATION

In use, the Big Muff Pi made in Russia is surprising. Overall, without going into detail for now, know that this box of tricks can boost a gradual transition to saturation fuzzy dirty and violent. It's more than the saturation thickness, but less than a fuzz.

In practice, the three controls are relatively effective. The volume is by far the least sensitive. It operates completely on the overall volume of the effect (and its output) below the half. At home I rarely drops below 50% of volume.
SUSTAIN is quite simply the saturation level of the animal. A zero is a dirty boost which is not without interest when we know how to use it (I return below). TONE induced coloration of the sound by adjusting the spectrum: the left is fuzzy, mushy, and especially full of serious, while on the right is acidic, sharp, shrill at times.

I have not seen a manual in the box.

SOUND QUALITY

Returning to the importance of SUSTAIN knob.
At a minimum, this acts as the boost dirty which I mentioned above. This is really interesting dirty boost the crunch channel / OD of a good quality amp. For my part I use a Laney Chrome-O-Zone, a sort of supercharged LC30 ranging between VOX and Marshall but with more aggression in saturation, probably one of the best cleans all amps combined. In boost so dirty, play with the guitar volume and position of microphones is essential. This dirty boost is growing with a single microphone position on the handle or simply mixed with the middle (on a strato). Here it is expressive.
This allows an interesting progression: clean> clean + dirty boost BM> BM + OD dirty boost. With a background of chorus and reverb is a nice touch to the grunge / garage expressive.

By mounting the SUSTAIN canal clear, with the tone at noon, we enter in a register already more violent. This is where it becomes interesting to reduce somewhat the tone (TONE) of the pedal and test the microphone neck of the guitar. It's not bad at all.
This becomes even more biting, playing with the bridge pickup the guitar, especially if it's a humbucker, and the TONE of the Big Muff provides a real choice in the range of sounds.

Used with a low élecrique the Big Muff PI with our Russian friends, you can come very close to the sound of the famous HYSTERIA MUSE. Everything is a matter of hit and know-how of course. This pedal is excellent with an electric bass for the punk from the very large industrial.

OVERALL OPINION

The Big Muff is a legend in the world of effects for guitar / bass. It is legitimate.
Offered at a fair price given the relative simplicity of its circuit, the PI is a Russian icon that it is good to have in stock, especially in cases of chronic lack of imagination. I think it is more useful with humbuckers than with single well resolved. Still need a pedal ... yes, one more.

Very rich, with a strong personality, she will not replace a Roger Mayer or a Zvex but it is not justice to compare it to these monsters. If you need a fuzz / drive affordable and fun in your rig it is and not another. Why? Look at the price and sound, the answer is there.

1 IN and one out single, 3 knobs, an LED, a switch and a bullet casing prouf! You turn the knobs and that's it!
No buttons ON / OFF, no power supply spar: a good old 9V rectangular. It's roots I tell you!
But it's solid and it sounds fat.

UTILIZATION

I wanted to pay me a Devil inside and then I test the IP in a mag that makes hardware recovery. I finally left with her.
She serves on synths.
On a rack or a north juno, etc etc. To "stain" on her!
1 volume knob: even when there is no need to explain Why this so?!
1 Sustain: the more you turn more and more ca spot the distortion / fuzz / overdrive (call it what you want) is Submitted, long time. There is a small step in the disto After a few millimtres racing this knob.
1 Tone knob: it is left in the lower register (the treble is lost by the way), right in the high (and you lose the bass). In short it is extreme. Low standards can be noisy and treble. Can sustain all of the same fine-tune the amount of effect.
9 because of the offset knob on the sustain.

SOUND QUALITY

Perfect for the lead of my synths. I have not tried it on a bass drum but I'm not a fan of hardcore kick so I do not think I feel like it.
The pedals sound very fat, gurgling.
It blows a little sadly. (Too my taste but you have to do with because it sounds good) If I get as fat-free breath I go for sure.
The click of the activation means of the effect in the sound.
9 because of the "click" but I'm totally crazy because of its default sounds good. There are certainly better in spite of all, more versatile, etc. etc..

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two months.
She is currently on an Aux console.
+ + +: It sounds hot, bold, vintage, and make a sound like an old rack north cuckoo gargoyle.
---: It blows, clicking on its activation is not great but in my configuration ca does not impede me since j'amne effect with the volume knob.

I do it again this choice. If I did not test would have cost the Devil Inside 3 times more. But this one suits me well.

It's a fuzz pedals with three knobs and one switch. The advantage of the pedals is that the power supply is not required!
For it is against trs solid and it works just the analogue is no problem with a.

UTILIZATION

Three knobs allow for easy large panels of his rgler. on the other hand, no manual in the box <img class="smiley" src="https://fr.audiofanzine.com/images/audiofanzine/interface/smileys/icon_sad.gif" alt="sad" /> .
Be careful also in the sense of input and output that can prter confusion (well, it was my opinion).
The knobs move easily, be careful!

SOUND QUALITY

I use it mostly with the guitar.
The sound is excellent, it also happens to have the sound of the sixties Garage Rock a slight crunch today!
For there against a "click" when you press the switch is meant especially when you not play hard.

OVERALL OPINION

I am Fully satisfied with the pedals!