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Big Muff Deluxe
Essentially, the ultimate Muff. Imagine having every Muff, and every combination thereof, in one pedal. With presets. This box would be digitally controlled analog, for maximum versatility. In addition to the traditional Muffs, there’s a Metal Muff gain stage following the typical preamp. Needless to say, SMMH size box.
Knobs, from left to right:
-Sustain (As on a typical Muff)
-Distortion (As on a Metal Muff)
-Tone (As on a typical Muff)
-Volts (Controls the volts going into the gain stages. Maximum 18, minimum 1)
-Volume (Output)
-Preset (As on a POG2)Under the knobs are two buttons.
-Mode: USA/Russian/Triangle (Hopefully self-explanatory.
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-Mod: Normal/Tone BP/Wicker/Tone & WickerAnd of course, a BP switch and a Preset switch. Imagine this pedals capabilities. Russian Muff with Tone Wicker? Check. Dying Battery Triangle Muff? Check. USA Muff cascaded into a Metal Muff? Check.
Macrosynth
This pedal is in a HOG size enclosure, and has full MIDI control over all parameters. This is another digitally controlled analog deal.
Faders, from left to right:
-Input Gain
-Two Octaves down
-One Octave down
-Dry
-One Octave up
-Two Octaves up
-Amp Attack Time
-Amp Decay Time
-Envelope Trigger
-Filter Start
-Filter Stop
-Filter Sweep Speed
-Filter Q
-Portamento
-Ring Mod Mix
-Ring Mod FrequencySwitches for Amp Envelope looping and Filter Envelope looping. As on the HOG, there’s an expression pedal input with the following modes:
Filter Manual
Filter Sweep Speed
Ring Mod Freq
Input Gain
Portamento
Amp Envelope Looping (Toe down, no looping. As you sweep through, the amount of looping increases.)Three foot switches: Octave Bypass, Envelope Bypass, and Ring Mod Bypass.
Resonator
This is a pretty simple dealie. XO size enclosure. More or less, the filter matrix/slapback modes from the Polychorus.
Knobs:
-Delay Time
-Feedback
-Mix
And a switch between slapback and filter. There’s an exp in for Delay time.FreqOut
Frequency analyzer plus envelope follower plus feedback looper? Yes please! SMMH size enclosure, presets.
-Mix (Duh)
-Frequency (Duh)
-Sweep (Envelope control over freq)
-Speed (Speed of the envelope sweep)
-Feedback (Output of the pedal goes back to the input.)
-Presets (As on POG2)
Two switches:
Filter (As on the Frequency Analyzer)
Exp (Switch between freq, sweep, and Feedback)So. Thoughts? Opinions? GAS?
nobody would ever want the resonator. XOing the whole polychorus would rawk.
deluxe big muff sounds cool but presets would probably make the sound quality suffer and you don’t need presets with a distortion pedal. needs a compressor in it if it’s gonna be deluxe
macrosynth? all that on an analogue design? no way.
deluxe filter matrix sounds cool. that pedal really needs a proper XO treatment
well… you can’t really fit all this stuff from Macro synth on anything smaller than… let’s say… HOAX-sized box. BUT it sounds absolutely awesome
I’d probably buy this and since i’m not a fan of synthesizers (yet… no experience, but the demos doesn’t convince me) you can count that as a succesyou know there is a Deluxe Big Muff, right?
yours DBM… dunno. I probably wouldn’t buy it. as said – you dont need presets on a distortion…I own the jekyll and hyde by Visual sound and I don’t even need to bend and set the knobs… ever. when you find some sound, it’s THAT SOUND. if I’d want another sound, I’d buy a Big Muff (oops, I did :clap: can’t wait).
I think that the magic of muffs is that they are
1)pretty much simple
2)small
3)flexibleso I don’t know… you don’t need monster like that
those other two things… nothing for me i shall say
Quote:As to the Macrosynth, I did mention a HOG sized box…oh, sorry, my bad!
about the DBM – i get it, yeah… but you know – when it comes to distortion, i’m more of a guy that likes combinations of pedals and work wih the volume pot. I think, that combinations are far more creative and you can find some interesting sounds with it
i’m not a fan of those “super-duper pumped-up stompboxes for your whole life”. when it has a good sound, it’s good… and when you can figure out how to use your pedals together to get a pile of good sounds – well, that’s some good working with your pedalboard about the fully analog signal path – yeah, i know, no problem
not a bad idea, i’m sure it would fit alot of people… just not my deal
and i totally don’t mind bending down and re-setting my pedals
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I’d probably buy this and since i’m not a fan of synthesizers (yet… no experience, but the demos doesn’t convince me) you can count that as a succes- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
