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  • August 25, 2010 at 11:31 pm #80649
    Dirty Clean
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    Hi,

    I just purchased a Bass Big Muff for my guitar. I run my: guitar-> bass big muff-> amp.

    Now, when i engage the pedal in dry mode with the knobs, say at all 12:00 (or any position for that matter) the guitar signal seems to get a bit quieter/muffled/lower sounding. Furthermore, when i roll the DRY knob all the way back to the dry end, so its just clean, you can hear a fair difference in tone and volume when you turn the pedal off and on.

    BUT….

    When i place any other pedal (various boss pedals or a danelectro mini pedal) right before the BBM turned off (other pedal not even engaged) it solves the problem and my signal/tone remains intact when i engage the BBM off and on, it sounds great.

    Now my question is: are those other pedals, even turned off, boosting my singal, so when i turn on the BBM its sounds level and consistent with my clean guitar tone?…OR is the BBM just built like that? OR is my BBM unit faulty?

    I just find is strange plugging in a random pedal right before it, turned off even, solves the problem.

    thanks, any help is appreciated.

    -T

    PS, i have tried this with a bass and a bass amp, and using battery power too and the same thing just happens.

    August 31, 2010 at 5:42 pm #111181
    srinivassa
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    I’m probably only cursory help at best, but I’ll give the post a bump.

    I have had this happen with several pedals (not just EHX). Right now, the combination of pedals I use for my bass is taking a few dB out of the signal (even with all pedals off). It didn’t do that before. I just got one new pedal and a new pedal board, now everything is so quiet. It’s like a bedroom amp all of the sudden. (one of the pedals actually is a BBM)

    Did you try using the dry JACK in the mono-pedal configuration? It may not tell you anything. It will probably be full volume, if memory serves.

    Now the bypass should work fine with just the BBM. Pedal on + dry switch on, I think that does eat a few dB. Bypass (pedal off) should be full volume however.

    I’m not sure how the dry switch is meant to work. It seems dumb to me. If I want dry, shouldn’t I just turn the footswitch off? Or what sound is supposed to come out of that switch anyway? I never use it. I’m also not sure why you mention a ‘dry knob’ because the BBM doesn’t have one. Unless you have some legacy version I’m not aware of.

    That’s all I’ve got. Hope it helps.

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