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  • February 16, 2010 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Green Russian Knob and Battery Door Project. #107566
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    I’d be very interested in some early Sovtek Muff knobs! I’m glad to hear you are going to undertake this project. I look forward to checking them out when you put some into production.

    January 13, 2010 at 7:28 pm in reply to: NPD – SOVTEK #106380
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    Thanks guys…I really dug the reverse logo look. It would be cool if they did issue some of their newer pedals like that as well. I’ve always know it as “reverse logo” or “reverse graphic” over the years. The funny thing is that there used to be these things called Lamb’s Head” muffs, but I guess they don’t have them anymore! The Ram population must of over took them. :) The odd thing is that it should technically be “Ram’s Head” but usually I see “Rams Head” or “Ramshead”. Ah, the semantics of fuzz pedals! I guess it is appropriate given the unique title of the pedal. lol.

    January 11, 2010 at 10:19 pm in reply to: NPD – SOVTEK #106334
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    It seems we bump into each other (and Kit Rae) all the time now :)

    Thanks again for checking on the switch, I really do appreciate it. I wish there was a place to get more of the rare Sovtek parts. I do like most Muff versions (the early Sovteks being my favs), but I had 3x 3034s so I decided to sell the two extra. The reverse graphic is a 3034, which I kept. They are pretty crazy sounding…way saturated! I did have one that was on the lower part of the gain spectrum, but the other 4 (? I’m losing count now…) have had that over distorted bass and lots of gain–had to keep one for recording. I really enjoy the texture that a good muff provides.

    January 11, 2010 at 9:21 pm in reply to: NPD – SOVTEK #106327
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    Congrats on the cool muff! Those are my favorite issue of muffs–therefore I consider it heresy to mod them :) The 150k pots are stock and only came on the Green Thin Font versions (traced a bunch of them). If you have extra muff parts after your modding, please PM, and I’d buy them from you for fixing a couple that I have, plus a home build.

    You have a nice collection in that photo. Here is my collection (minus a few that I just sold):

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    April 8, 2009 at 10:52 pm in reply to: Big Muff Versions! #95468
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    Cool, you can PM those that you have–I’d really appreciate it. Thanks for getting back to me so fast.

    April 8, 2009 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Big Muff Versions! #95466
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    Thanks, I already can build and source parts, what I was asking for was your schematic and transistor info you said you had for Kit Rae (which I quoted). Any of that info would be great. The transistors and some of the caps in mine are unreadable.

    Also, since you guys are compiling info, I found that my particular Green has stock 150k pots.

    April 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm in reply to: Big Muff Versions! #95450
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    2n5088 is definitely NPN, I build effects and I use them all the time. All PNP Big Muffs were positive ground and all NPN were negative ground.
    Russian trannies are weird, some are marked some are not, i have the numbers of some, i’ll find them and post them.
    The green sovtek transistors are about 700hFE, the same as the US RI versaion, 700 is considered high gain. I know the gain because I removed them and measured them.
    With the 3 RI’s there are value changes and types of component changes. I’ll PM you the schematics.

    Hello Ned Flanders (love the name!),
    I love the Civil War and Green (especially early thin font) Russian muffs. I’ve owned about a dozen different models and have built a couple myself. I was never satisfied with the results of my home builds. They sounded good, but didn’t exactly sound like my favorite Russians.

    I was wondering if you could send that info about the Civil War/Green versions and the transistor info to me as well. I have a good sounding greenie right now, but would go nuts if I could build one that sounded the same in a smaller box. It’s like cooking, and I just haven’t quite got the right recipe yet!

    Thanks!

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