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Your BMP collection will begin rival Mascis’

Let’s keep talking about the Deluxe Big Muff Pi.

Which one did you buy? The one with the Blend switch? or the Parallel/Series switch?

I haven’t used mine for a couple of months now, but I really love it. It sounds awesome. I’ve just been using my Ronsound modded BMP lately instead.

I don’t think I will ever have as many as mascis, although…
I haven’t bought the deluxe yet, but its the one with a blend switch sadly I wanted it to be a series/parallel switch but ya cant have it all i spose..

Just scored another big muff on eBay, its a 80’s 3034 transistor version with tone bypass. Now that I’ve spent all the money in my big muff fund I wont be buying anymore for quite some time. I’ve bought 3 in 2 days so that aught to cure teh Big Muff GAS for a while.LOL

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I got it for $140 on eBay BIN price.

Yeah, early 80’s are considered vintage. hell, even early 90’s sovtek muffs are considered vintage. The thing about the sovtek muffs are they aren’t re issues because mike never had the originals made under the sovtek name or in russia. So the sovtek muffs realy aught to be classed as early and current, the early ones definitely look cool, that’s why I just bought an early 90’s sovtek muff, I wanted it for my collection and the ridiculous thing is that I payed 3 times as much for a 90’s sovtek muff then for my 78 big muff! Sovtek muffs demand a higher price than some 70’s vintage muffs because there’s an immense amount of hype built up around them. The only difference between an early 90’s green sovtek muff and a current black one is three components values differ ever so slightly, that’s it other than that they are identical inside. Its always amazed my how a lack of knowledge always seems to lead to a “better product” among the masses.
If I wasn’t a fanatical big muff collector I would never pay over $300 for a 90’s sovtek muff, another $100 or so can get you a v2/v3 ramshead muff!

I’ve just contributed to prices staying high on sovtek muffs because I payed the asking price, all those that pay the price drive the prices up even more, sad but true.
Its funny because in the 90’s sovtek muffs were considered the lesser of the muffs, the cheap alternative to the NYC models, now they are like god himself!

I have a 2000 black sovtek muff, the last one before the current style enclosure, and with the mods I’ve done to it it is seriously one of the best sounding muffs I’ve ever heard, you wouldn’t convince all the posters on the interwebs of this fact though because it has zero mojo compared to a v1/v2/v3/green russian etc. Mojo and hype play more of a role in the success of a product than the actual sound of the thing does!

$50? wow, you wont get them at that price today. I put together a simple mod so that people with a $50 black muff can mod it to green muff specs for 30cents. Its starting to become popular on the web.

Big Muff, piece of junk? NEVER! The 3034 is known as one of the best muffs around. The 3003 is nice too but it has more hype built around it. Evidence of this is the fact that the 3003 circuit is available in the NYC enclosure yet it sells for less that the 3003 in the ramshead enclosure. You know the current issue muff, IMO in 20 years or so it will be bound to be a classic.

From EH mans site:
The Big Muff: The Crucial Differences
Version 1 EH-3003, the “Triangle-Knob” version Early 70’s to 1975
Version 2 EH-3003, the “Face Model” 1975 to 1977
Version 3 EH-3003, the “Face Model” in new red/black graphics w/ ON/OFF switch. All units from here on use Version 3 graphics 1977
Version 4 EH-3003/EH-1322, the first op-amp version w/ ON/OFF power switch 1977 to 1978
Version 5 EH-1322/EH-3003, op-amp version w/ TONE BYPASS switch 1978 to 1980
Version 6 EH-3003/EH-3034. Changed back to transistor circuit w/ TONE BYPASS switch 1980 to 1983

The opamp version is one of the best sounding and most underrated muffs too IMO, its slightly crunchy, not as mid scooped and cuts through really well. Its tone bypass is excellent as is the tone bypass on the 3034, it really makes them cut through, it give sit flat mids thats why.

As far as sovtek muffs go, I would like to get the blue and the gold muffs, also I’d like a Mike Matthews red army overdrive, also the first black one.

I’d much rather original muffs than clones, I also like the big enclosures. I’ve never been into clones when you can have the real thing for less (usually). Besides, I’ve already modded my black russian big muff into a green russian big muff, cost me 30 cents and took 20 minutes but this cant compare to owning an original first version green sovtek muff. If any of my muffs break I’ll just fix them, they are a simple circuit and not much can go wrong. The switches in the sovtek muffs go eventually but I can get exact replacements for them.

Do you own one of the clones you recommended me?