On 30/01/2018 18:08, Glennbo wrote:
> In news:p4pf05$hlm$
1...@news.albasani.net the killer robot John Braner
> <
m...@myhouse.com> grabbed the controls of the spaceship cakewalk.audio
> and pressed these buttons...
>
>>>> I've got a new song out. It's called "Stable Genius" - you can check
>>>> it out here:
>>>>
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13686314
>>>>
>>>> It features the usual cast of characters, but this time I got a new
>>>> real live Big Muff fuzzbox (off ebay) ;-)
>>>
>>> Dig the fuzz tone. Cool song.
>>>
>>> I sold my Big Muff Pi back in the 70s. Wish I had kept that one.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for listening G'bo!
>>
>> I was playing with some plugins, and then I got the idea to try the
>> "real thing". I love the sound of a Big Muff Pi too - so I got one off
>> ebay (there are loads on there every day)
>>
>> I got the green one - with the "tone wicker", just because that was
>> the one for the best price at the time. I don't care about the tone
>> wicker - it's just a normal Big Muff - like the red one. I don't like
>> the soviet ones as much either - they seem a bit darker to me. I like
>> the "bite" of the original ones ;-)
>
> I guess I haven't seen the tone wicker thing.
>
> My very first guitar setup when I was 17 years old was the very same
> Gretsch twin twelve amp I that I still use today, although I use it as a
> speaker cab for a low watt amp now, a Yamaha FG160 acoustic guitar with a
> high output DiMarzio sound hole humbucker, and a early 70s Big Muff Pi.
>
>> I noticed there are some brand new op amp ones now too. Maybe Big
>> Muffs are making a(nother) resurgence ;-)
>
> They are doing something similar with the Ibanez Tube Screamers, which I
> had one of the old versions of I wish I had kept. There are two different
> chips they used over the years on them, and the first gen like what I had
> is the one everybody seems to prefer.
>
https://www.ehx.com/products/big-muff-pi-with-tone-wicker
It just adds a little more top end when you turn it on.
There's also a switch to bypass the eq section - which makws it like the original Big Muff