Post Your Big Muff(s)

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October 23, 2009 at 2:02 am #102558

InvaderCC
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What is the story on the brown and yellow one and the blue one?

October 23, 2009 at 6:36 am #102570

devnulljp
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What is the story on the brown and yellow one and the blue one?

Brown & Yellow is a 1977 IC-based Little Big Muff — it’s a EH1322 board in a smaller box with resistors across the Sustain and Tone pot pads leaving only one operational pot — the volume.
The blue one is a D*A*M Ram Head — it’s a boutique lamb’s head clone from a superstar builder in Yorkshire in the UK. Small box because it’s one of a limited run done on PCBs instead of perf board.

November 3, 2009 at 12:03 am #103207

frances rhodes
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i wish i had a mogwai muff!

i have a deluxe big muff pi modified so the output signals of both comp and muff circuits are higher.
it’s way nice!!
sorry i couldn’t get a picture of it “solo”, i didn’t post this picture to show off!!

November 5, 2009 at 9:38 am #103378

ZenJenga
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What is the story on the brown and yellow one and the blue one?

You actually own a couple Guild Foxey Ladies?! Now those are rare!
How are they though?

November 7, 2009 at 5:40 am #103500

devnulljp
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You actually own a couple Guild Foxey Ladies?! Now those are rare!
How are they though?

Yes, I’ve got three Foxey Ladies…
1968 Guild Foxey Lady/Mosrite Fuzzrite (pot codes: 137 68 09)
1968(?) Guild Foxey Lady/EHX Axis Fuzz (pot codes: 137 68 29) (although I guess it could be later — I heard Mike Matthews had loads of pots when he started out so there’s a good chance the pot pre-dates the pedal by a bit. Although these were made in 68…)
early 70s Guild Foxey Lady/EHX Big Muff Pi Lamb’s Head EH3003

They’re all different. The Mosrite is a Fuzzrite with a Sprague module, so you know what that sounds like — the Stooges / Iron Butterfly / Davie Allan & The Arrows … I love the Fuzzrite.

The Axis is a strange beast — the fuzz knob is really mislabelled. It’s a two transistor circuit and the knob is more of a blend between the fuzz from one or the other trannie. Similar to the Fuzzrite in that respect. One’s a thinner trebly sounding fuzz and the other’s thicker and middier. It’s cool.

The Lamb’s Head is a Lamb’s Head big muff w/ FS36999s. Sounds like an awesome Big Muff (although it’s a bit beat up…I’m in the process of cleaning it up).

I’ve seen pics of a triangle big muff/foxey lady but never seen one in the flesh.

EDIT: Better pic after I cleaned up the ram’s head

November 28, 2009 at 5:18 pm #104354

i_amnt
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i wish i had a mogwai muff!

i have a deluxe big muff pi modified so the output signals of both comp and muff circuits are higher.
it’s way nice!!
sorry i couldn’t get a picture of it “solo”, i didn’t post this picture to show off!!

i dont mean to hate, but i am curious- what is with the masking tape on select pedals?

November 28, 2009 at 6:53 pm #104358

frances rhodes
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i dont mean to hate, but i am curious- what is with the masking tape on select pedals?

hehe it’s no big mystery!!
in french it’s called something like “paper-tape” it’s used all the time to write your settings with a pencil so you can erase it, etc.
actually, i taped almost every pedal i have with the intention of writing down the settings because my father had a roll of that tape… but after taping everything, i didn’t write anything!

November 29, 2009 at 3:10 am #104405

firesgt911
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With some friends!

November 29, 2009 at 7:49 pm #104433

BlueSteel
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i dont mean to hate, but i am curious- what is with the masking tape on select pedals?

hehe it’s no big mystery!!
in french it’s called something like “paper-tape” it’s used all the time to write your settings with a pencil so you can erase it, etc.
actually, i taped almost every pedal i have with the intention of writing down the settings because my father had a roll of that tape… but after taping everything, i didn’t write anything!

i write my settings down on a piece of paper and then i end up not looking at the paper that much ever again for some reason.

January 7, 2010 at 8:40 am #106163

devnulljp
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this may be a dumb question but is the foxy lady guild pedal an ehx? or did mike mathews have somethin ot do with em?

The first Guild Foxey Ladies were rebranded Mosrite Fuzzrites built by Ed Sanner, but Mosrite went under so Mike Matthew picked up the deal and Guild rebranded the Axis Fuzz, which was the first EHX pedal in 1968. When they developed the big muff, Guild rebranded those as the Foxey Lady, so there’s a triangle Foxey Lady (my white whale…) and a ram’s head FL, both of which are rebranded muffs. So yes the one on the left in my pic isn’t EHX, it’s a Mosrite. The other two are though. Ron and Kit both have loads of more accurate info on their sites though…

January 7, 2010 at 9:29 am #106165

Ned Flanders
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My muffs:

This ones in the mail: (got it in a trade yesterday…I’m uber ecstatic about it coming with the original box!!!)

All the sovteks are highly modified and the latest black one I built a ramshead muff into, the 3034 and 1322 are stock, the 3003-A I added tone bypass to, the wicker is stock, the LBM is modified: (right click view image to view full size)

January 7, 2010 at 9:35 am #106166

devnulljp
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My muffs:
This ones in the mail: (got it in a trade yesterday…I’m uber ecstatic about it coming with the original box!!!)

You crafty bugger — That’s one you owe me…

January 7, 2010 at 9:44 am #106167

Ned Flanders
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Yeah thanks for the ref!

I swapped my SMMH for it, he was stoked to get offered the SMMH. He’s actualy a cool guy, we spoke on the phone yesterday. He called me up and said he didn;t really want to get it fixed anymore as muffs aren’t his sound (he plays in hillsong in Sydney) so did i want to buy it. I said hows about a trade, he said sure! The rest is history.

I’m modding it, there’s no way I’m leaving it stock BTW.

As for the delay I no longer have, I’ll get a memory boy. (its just for noise anyways)

January 14, 2010 at 10:44 am #106395

Ned Flanders
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New Muff new pic:

(I used my Soviet flag as a back drop 😆 )

January 15, 2010 at 5:57 am #106435

devnulljp
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Here’s my latest — a CL find: Mike’s Head Big Muff.
I asked the guy for a gutshot, and got a blurry camera phone pic, so I thought it was just a mid 70s BC239C, but figured as I just sold my last one and it’s a good deal & in pretty good shape, I might as well snag it.
First thing I do is rip off the back to have a look…Hang on a minute…something not right about that wiring
Turns out to be a pretty rare 1976 PNP 2N5087 muff.
It’s a huge tight sounding muff, loads of clarity, loud and fantastic.Stoked!
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