zaegirs - 24 August 2010 06:31 AM

I’ve been using Big Muff playing my bass through it and it loses a lot of the lower thrust I like. Is there another pedal you’d suggest instead.

OK I did try the Bass Blogger but I didn’t like that pedal - it had not the versatility I would expect from a Bass distortion. has anybody tried the Bass Big Muff - and give me what to expect before bying?

Thanx a million - Stoner rock

Colorsound Jumbo Tonebender! It’s essentially a muff minus a gain stage and you get some clean signal bleedthrough. There’s a few clones kicking around—the Sonic VI is great.(Note, different from all the Tone Bender MkI/MkII/MkIIIs and Vox Tone Bender).
Or try a Green Russian muff.
The DAM Ezekiel is a great bass fuzz, but hard to find and very expensive once you do.

The Bass Big Muff sounds like what you are looking for. Sound practically identical to the Russian Muffs in normal mode, has a bass boost switch, or you can blend in the Muff signal with your dry signal.

devnulljp - 03 May 2010 02:13 PM

I have a 73 ram’s head muff that’s quite quite and a 77 Guild Foxey lady ram’s head, both with FS36999s, and neither is really noisy—sure there’s always some, but not too bad. My DAM Ram Heads are as quiet as you can get with such a high gain pedal. OTOH I had a 3034 that sounded like you were standing next to a helicopter and my tone wicker was worse than that. I’ve had a half dozen Hoofs over the eyars and none of them came close to the noise levels of the TW or that 3034. A little buzz is acceptable but the overly loud jet engine WOOOOOOOSH is a deal killer (for me anyway).

I wonder if that’s due to the 3034 circuit board being smaller? the 3003 circuit board is huge by comparison. I’ve recently acquired a 3034 and there is a bit of hum that I don’t recall there being with my IC muff. Nothing like you’re describing though. On the other hand the IC had bleed-through issues and the 3034 does not, although the bypass is still abysmal. Either way as soon as I start playing I can’t hear the hum so I’m happy.

putting my 2 cents in: my former bass player had a green russian and that changed everything for me. i’m still trying to get that thing off him. in the mean time i’ve purchased a black russian (& modded the tone stack, including a bypass switch) & a NYC reissue. i’ve also built a ram’s head & violet rams head, an opamp version & the skreddy mayo (complete with an additional recovery stage as a boost). the reissue is the only one in my gigrig, but all of the other ones are on my ‘it’s friday lets just get drunk and jam’ board! so yes, that means that i could have 6 going at once.

hi everyone
i was just wondering about the bass big muff circuit.
i’d like to mod a black russian muff that i have and add a bass boost to make it a lot warmer with a bass guitar.
where shall i add the bass boost circuit? before the whole effect, after it, or in between 2 transistor stages?

thanks
regards