Favorite Big muff variant?

[drgonzo1969]

I have been exploring the endless amount of PCBs and vero layouts for Big Muffs. I know this is a huge category and everyone is different, but what are your favorite big muffs. clones, varients, mods... alll things muff. I have a JHS modded Big Muff Pi. This is the only muff I have ever had my hands on. It's great but I want to see what other muffs have to offer. thanks for any input.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Bought:

• EFE Dope Priest #7 (big, heavy, thunderous and still somehow clear sound for a muff)
• Earthbound Audio Beast (the added oscillation is a lot of fun)
• Sanford and Sonny Bluebeard (cuts through anything, best without tone stack)

Built:

• Shika (Hizumitas)
• Desertron
• Muff DLX
• Engorged Gherkin

 

[BuddytheReow]

The ultra stoner mk 2

Biohazard - Ultra Stoner Mk II - Grind Custom Fx

Hey all, Here is a stripboard layout I found for Grind Custom Fx "Ultra Stoner Mk II" layout. What enticed me to build this was the DOOM switch and SHAPE control and neither disappointed me once this fired up. I took my time to build this over the past 2 weeks since I've had to wfh for a while...

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[Erik S]

I built the Dream Fuzz (op amp muff). I prefer it to my ehx nano muff.

 

[Betty Wont]

Bayonet Fuzz - PedalPCB.com

Compare to Blackout Effectors Musket Fuzz

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This one does it all for me. Heavy, loud, and tight.

 

[Dan M]

The ultra stoner mk 2

Me too!

2x Muff: Aion Osiris + Grind Customs Ultrastoner

This is an older build, complete with: 1. Part selection that was too large and had to be jammed/bent into place 2. Melted cap corners 3. General janky soldering and assembly But it is a beast! The boards are Aion Osiris, so the Pharaoh side was straight forward. The Ultrastoner needed...

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[drgonzo1969]

I’m gonna build all these on Vero.

 

[Coda]

Triangle: 69 #2, 70 #10(? I can’t remember exactly, it’s the one in the PPCB build docs), 72 #2.

Ram’s Head: the 47, the 73, 73 Violet, 73 #5, 76 # 12 (maybe, which ever one is the Mascis)

V5 OpAmp, Civil War…

 

[drgonzo1969]

Triangle: 69 #2, 70 #10(? I can’t remember exactly, it’s the one in the PPCB build docs), 72 #2.

Ram’s Head: the 47, the 73, 73 Violet, 73 #5, 76 # 12 (maybe, which ever one is the Mascis)

V5 OpAmp, Civil War…

Big muffs are like Pokémon right? Gotta catch em all

 

[BuddytheReow]

Big muffs are like Pokémon right? Gotta catch em all

Yea. Catch em all, but never use half of em

 

[drgonzo1969]

That’s what friends are for haha. I keep one or two and disperse the rest.

 

[Coda]

Big muffs are like Pokémon right? Gotta catch em all

I have built all of the ones I listed…plus a few others (Raincoat, Fuzz War)…

Yea. Catch em all, but never use half of em

At the end of the day, BMP gonna BMP. They are all different, but they basically do the same thing…

 

[DeadAirMD]

I love the Stomp 73 (violet) Muff version I built on the Muff board from here. I got another Muff board and I'm going to be an absolute and socket the whole board so I can try out every version. Which ever one I like best, I'm going to solder to the sockets.

Also been sitting on the Aion Osiris board, which I'm going to put together after I build MBP Archibald tube driver this week.

I love the Muff, pun intended.

 

[Coda]

There are variants where there are only 4 or less component differences. With those I build them both in the same box, with the different components on a 4pdt toggle. You can also mod the tone stack in various ways: for example, a toggle that gives you stock tone stack, or one with boosted mids…

 

[cdwillis]

EFE/DAM Dope Priest and the the 72 Triangle #2 (with NPN transistors) off the Kit Rae site (very close to the Hizumitas). Generally, I like the ones with the 47nf clipping caps better it seems. You can turn the tone control further clockwise for more cut without it sounding like a can of bees. I have one I made a build report for (the pink muff) where I tweaked some things around to use 1uf and 560pf caps in the clipping sections and it sounds really good too: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/another-day-another-muffin.12091/



This Shin Ei Sekova clone was another great one

 

[KR Sound]

I'm designing on I call the Infinite Sustainer or Pi to the 100th digit. I'm not quite finished though.

 

[cdwillis]

Are you sure that's not a Fuzz War variant?

 

[BuddytheReow]

I'm designing on I call the Infinite Sustainer or Pi to the 100th digit. I'm not quite finished though.

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What, no tone control?

 

[eh là bas ma]

I am always impressed by the Big Muff Op-Amp. Among my favorite fuzzes along with Fuzz Factory from Zvex and DoD Punkifier (ppcb's pacifier).

There's also a great EHX suboctave fuzz called Deluxe Octave Multiplexer, available at Lectric FX as Dowtown Fuzz. A "hidden gem" that sounds amazingly good.

According to the docs, there is a standard big muff tone control, but I wonder if the built-in fuzz circuit is some big muff variant ?

https://lectric-fx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Downtown.pdf

 

[Feral Feline]

I plan on making my own concoction of Muff values... Tweaked to taste!