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Home › Forums › Help/Technical Questions › Need an opinion on modding a Russian Big Muff Pi…
I’ve been working on a couple of big Muff Pi’s….Been fun modding both an NYC and a Russian.
The NYC is now a Guild Foxey Lady with a Boss-style power jack, modified tonestack, and a mid control and that allow the stock scooped sound and a bit of a mid boost, with everything in between.
The Russian has been modded to be like a Civil War BMP, which wasn’t very hard. The circuits between this version of the reissue and the Civil War are very similar. The only problem was the poor tolerance in several of the larger resistors. I replaced all those, and changed the caps from ceramic to mylar. I’ve also added true bypass and a Boss-style jack.
So my dilemma is, I need to install two switches on the Russian. But I don’t know where. One switch would go between flat mids and scooped, and the other would give you a tonestack bypass.
I have reservations about putting it next to the other controls, since these ones have a metal plate behind the black sheet metal. Kind of a pain in the ass to drill.
Any ideas on where it would look good?
Looks are irrelevant in tight and awkward pedals, put them between the in/out jacks maybe.
I wouldn’t be making aesthetic mods to older green/black sovteks in the first place. I mod the circuits to every sovtek i own cause i hate the sound of them but they look stock.They look cool but sound like shit stock IMO.
One of my sovteks is a ramshead muff (sounds spot on to ones I’ve heard too) and one is waiting to be modded into a ramshead, the green tank like one with the cast enclosure.
It’s one of 2000’s reissues, not an original.
I’d put it on the top between I/O, but I already put the DC jack there.