Hiya folks. About 6 or 7 years ago(My memory isn’t perfect) My father bought me a EHX Big muff Pi Op Amp pedal. The first year i had it, it worked fine. The second year the switch started to only work sometimes. And then it stopped working entirely and i had stopped using it. Recently i paid a technician to fix it but it was returned to me in even worse condition and STILL doesn’t work. in fairness i should’ve purchased a new one but with all the guitar gear locally skyrocketing in price. it just wasn’t doable. also i kind’ve wanted THIS one because my father bought it.

Now my question may be or IS stupid. but i’d like to wire it so the pedal is ALWAYS on or at least add a new toggle switch. but where the original switch was wired. was completely burned up by the technician that failed to fix it. And i’m wondering if there is a different location that i can add a wire to and connect to a switch.

Also I have an Octave Multiplexer from the 1990s.

In the 1970s I decided to take 4 EHX pedals, the EM, OM, Bib Muff Pi V1, Small Stone Phase V1 and a breadboarded Guitar Sound Intensifier (fancy words for preamp/treble/bass boost/cut circuit) that was actually featured in an old Popular Mechanics magazine that I still have the article for. I decided to disassemble the individual boxes and get one bigger box and make it “The Squawking Owl” that incorporates all the effects with a power supply I made. Used it for many years. I decide I would like to sell the unit but when I went to test it I noticed the Flanger, when on, had a whole lot of white noise in the background with the flanging. I thought I would exlude the power supply and I disconnected the flanger from it and wired a separage AC adapter type PS to the board but I screwed up and reversed the polarity. That made something unhappy. After awhile I stopped getting sound entirely out of that effect. The rest were still working fine. But then I took the flanger out to troubleshoot it and wired around the footswitch for it and for some reason, now my Octavizer isn’t working in effect mode. Ugh. So frustrating. Everything on that effect seems to be wired correctly with power. So I no longer own my big old oscilloscope, I decided to buy a small portable OS and a small transistor/capacitor/diode tester.

I went ahead on the flanger and replaced all the chips but the one that’s hard to get, the Reticon SAD1024 (that used to be $7 at Radio Shack). I also replaced the two transistors with equivalent PNPs. I get sound out of the flanger in effect mode but no flanging (oscillation) but no white noise either. Hmmm.

So my problem is I can do a rudimentary troubleshooting with a signal generator and the oscilloscope and see that the wave is making it through the Op Amps and such, but it would help if I had a service guide that would tell me what I should see at the various points at the chips and such. So I can see where the flaw is. Same with the Octave effect. I haven’t changed any parts on that yet. But all the chips on it are available for not that expensive as it’s a newer effect.

If I can’t fix it I will probably have to start selling off parts as non working on Ebay.

Thanks for reading.

Hello everyone!
20 years ago I sold my old Big Muf Pi and now I am very sorry. I want to order such a he on ebay, but I don’t know if it’s 4 or 5. I still have a drawing of the scheme, it may not be accurate, but the main thing for me is to find out if there is a buy pass on the scheme or not, If not, then this is m 4 help me figure out who is in the know, sorry for AI English.
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Apologies if I posted twice, tried to edit and it seemed to have vanished – mistake on my part!

Hello –
I’ve had the 1440 looper for about 6 months, and slowly, one by one, the small buttons for reverse, octave and (most important for me) one-shot, became less and less reliable, and finally have stopped working alltogether. The only one that still works is the one I have never used – ext clk.I would use the buttons maybe 5 or 6 times during a show, nothing excessive to account for their wearing out so quickly.

I wouldn’t mind those physical switches not working on the pedal if I were able to switch those functions with a small midi footswitch. In fact that would be better, rather than stopping and bending down to press the little buttons. So my question is – would the Gecko MkIII midi controller be able to toggle those functions (octave, reverse, one-shot) on/off?

Here’s the midi footswitch I was thinking of: https://one-control.com/products/one-control-gecko-mkiii-english

Thanks for any tips –
Bob

PS: been using EH gear since the late 60’s and still have my Big Muff bought in 1972!

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Hi, I had to write this review due to how awesome the EHX Silencer is. I am the original owner of an early 70’s BIG MUFF PI. I used the BIG MUFF when I first purchased it but then I put it away and it sat all these years until a couple of weeks ago. The main reason I didn’t use the BIG MUFF was due to the nose these things make (btw perfectly normal for this pedal) also I had a hard time using it on stage due to the noise especially when you mic the amp. This all changed when I decided to try using the EHX Silencer this thing is the best pedal for what it does! The BIG MUFF in conjunction with the Silencer is the perfect marriage and because of this the BIG MUFF is now one of my favorite pedals and no more noise! I can’t say enough about the Silencer and I’m so happy that I found this pedal. Just make sure to hook up the silencer with your effect pedal using the send and receive on the pedal.

I would post a photo here but not sure how to do that.

Paul

• This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by paulk.

Hello everyone so long story short I purchased a little big muff approx. 11 years ago and the op amp big muff orange pi about 9 years ago. I only got to use the orange pi muff for a couple of weeks then I had had to box all my gear up and put in storage. Well fast forward to about 2 month ago and I was finally able to start pull my gear back out. Anyways today I pulled out my big muffs to use them and the knobs on the little big muff were seized and didn’t want to turn. Well the volume pot shaft broke and the sustain pot broke. So I need to find a place to buy all three pots. Anyone know the best place to buy them.
Now the orange pi muff it sound like it has a dying battery but I’m not using a battery. It is very sputtery and the volume cut outs. Any Ideas what it could be???