I sure am, I got a little big muff from the postman this morning too (bargain, couldn’t resist) wiggler will arrive thursday.

looks like the Graphic eq might be a couple of weeks though..

and the tone wicker is maybe 4 weeks away….. 😥

I’m always asking for seconds when it comes to ehx…

…..now where’s this picture of the Big muff with tone wicker?

:doh:

The autograph is on the bottom of the box. It’s a standard BMP box.

have you reversed the lid for the picture or does it not have the ‘big muff’ screen print?

Great, now I’m having Soul Preacher G.A.S. I’d been eyeing them for a long time, but I ended up finding a great deal on a White Finger in its original wooden box, so I jumped on that instead. I don’t regret it, but now I want both

Speaking of Soul Preachers, I have a Deluxe Big Muff Pi (blend switch version), which has a Soul Preacher built into the circuit. The compression used in isolation (without the fuzz) doesn’t do a very good job of compressing the attack. The compression kicks in just after the attack, and it’s pretty noticeable in an unpleasant way.

Does anyone know the Dlx BMP well enough to know if it’s supposed to be that way, or if there’s a way to adjust it?

yeah, I know what you mean…ideally I’ll pick up another to rehouse….or get someone to clone it (I have a schematic)

I dunno…..there might not be room for it anyway, we’ll see down the line….I’d like it to look like this.

and with knobs etc..

Looking good there, mate. Now that I see the Punkifier in context to the rest of the board, it does stand out quite a bit. Still, it always freaks me out to see people rehouse vintage pedals 😥 But I agree, somehow it seems out of place visually.

here’s my ‘under construction’ pic. (a mess of wires and pedals at the mo!!)

It will have my wiggler on it and an XO graphic fuzz and Big Muff/TW before the end of the month hopefully…I’ll have my whammy and wah off board and maybe the tuner if there isn’t room for it.

I spend a lot of time playing with pedal order. I have a general rule I setup by, but there are always exceptions to the rules, and those exceptions generally produce the most interesting results.

Compressors are tricky, because they also sound good at the start of the chain to help the tracking of the Pitch Shifters and the Filters. But I like how they smooth out the peaks in filter effects or deep modulation. They help with issues of overloading in The Worm, The Flanger Hoax, and the DMM. They also help with volume drop issues.

For standard, in-the-box functionality, I follow this chain:

Pitch shifting – HOG
Sustainer – vintage BlackFinger
Filters – Qtron+, Micro Synthesizer, Octave Multiplexer, PolyPhase, Tube Zipper, Zipper
Dirt – Big Muff Pi, Deluxe Big Muff Pi, Little Muff Pi, Hot Tubes, Germ OD
Wah – Muff Fuzz Crying Tone Wah
Compression – Black Finger (reissue), White Finger, Soul Preacher
Modulation – PolyChorus, PolyFlange, Electric Mistress, Deluxe Electric Mistress, Small Stone, Flanger Hoax
Tremelo/Vibrato – Wiggler, Pulsar, The Worm
Delay – Deluxe Memory Man, Stereo Memory Man (original)
Reverb – Holiest Grail, Holier Grail, Holy Grail
Equalizer – 10 Band Graphic EQ
Looper – Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai, 16 Second Digital Delay

Slacker

EHX pre-1983:
Crying Tone Wah (3006A)
Deluxe Big Muff Pi (1330)
Deluxe Electric Mistress (w/ green on black graphics)
Deluxe Memory Man, ’78 blue 4-knob (Howard Davis delay time mod)
Deluxe Memory Man, ’78? blue 5-knob
Electric Mistress (18v)
Electric Mistress (9v)
HotFoot
Instant Replay w/ Trigger Pad
Little Muff Pi
LPB-2
Mini Mixer
PolyPhase (Howard Davis LFO rate mod)
PolyFlange
Small Stone v.1
Small Stone v.2
Small Stone v.3
Switchblade x2
Volume Pedal
Zipper
10 Band Graphic Equalizer (black)
10 Band Graphic Equalizer (silver)

EHX: post-1983
16 Second Digital Delay with Foot Controller
Big Muff Pi, NYC RI (stock)
Big Muff Pi, NYC RI (RonSound Classic Hairpie mod)
Blackfinger (tube)
Deluxe Memory Man (built in power, Howard Davis delay time mod)
Flanger Hoax X 2
Germanium O.D.
HOG
Holy Grail
Holiest Grail
Hot Tubes (PureTube version)
Micro Synthesizer
Octave Multiplexer
Pulsar
Q-Tron +
Stereo PolyChorus
Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai
Tube EQ
Tube Zipper
Wiggler
Worm

BOSS:
PS-3 Pitch-shifter/delay
PN-2 Tremelo/pan
GE-7 Graphic EQ
LS-2 Line Selector
TU-2 Tuner

Misc:
Digitech Synth Wah
Digitech XP-1000
DOD FX80B Comp/Sust
Dunlop GCB-95 Crybaby
M-Audio EX P (x2)
Labyrinth (DIY)
Roland RE-101 Space Echo
ZVex Fuzz Factory (gold sparkle)
ZVex Lofi Loop Junky

Here’s a soundclip I posted using 3 different EHX distortions: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6820524

Deluxe Big Muff Pi, Reissue Hot Tubes, Germanium OD

There are only 2 different riffs, each played 3 times.

Can you guess which distortion was used with which riff?

Riff 1a
Riff 1b
Riff 1c
Riff 2a
Riff 2b
Riff 2c

Ok, as promised, I managed to find the camera (hidden in the strange compartment at the top of a chest of draws with a door that opens from the bottom that i used to call the “cakey” when i was a kid).

Some mysterious stuff there. I tried to get my amp in the pic as much as possible without showing up how much of a mess of boxes and cables there is next to it – and excuse the random jar of small change – that is my dad’s, i don’t know what its doing there really.

For the sake of any questions – the squiffy little guitar is a hofner shorty that i bought on tuesday. Its actually lovely to play and sounds pretty good too. Simply put in the photo because it was small enough to fit.

Then the pedals: The wah is first in the chain – its a vintage JEN “mister crybaby super” that i managed to get for £15. The 2 silver pedals are a Marshall JH-1 OD/Distortion and ED-1 Compressor. The vox is just a channel/reverb switch for my amp. That odd colourful pedal is a Danelectro Talkbox, it does the job, although i wish i’d got something a little better. The orange pedal is a Boss DS-2, which is very underrated IMO. The next 3 need no introduction – EHX Big Muff and small stone, and a small clone in the FX loop. Also in the FX loop is that bashed up danelectro delay pedal which cost me £2. All these are powered by a godlyke PA-9UK or a SoundLab Pedal Power 450.

The amp is a laney VC30. I run all my distortions into a very slightly overdriven amp all the time – it just thickens up the sound and smooths off the harshness that comes from the transistors and diodes.

Long post, but i love discussing gear a bit too much