Hey, I thought you were all for modding them, it’s just a tool right?

*I agree, just saying…

Sorry I edited your post (I didnt change anything) I was meant to hit the quote button.LOL

Yeah I’m all for modding, to a certain degree. And I do hold slightly contradictory views on the subject, I’ll try to explain.

I wouldn’t mod a vintage Big Muff unless absolutely and 100% necessary (like to remove boominess or increase bass response and only if it was unusable for me in the stock condition). Very few vintage big muffs need modding. About the only ones I can think of are the triangle muffs, the two x 50nF caps need upping to 1uF ,that’s in a triangle with 1uF caps,if it has .1uF caps then they need changing to to 1uF too. That’s why I will never buy a triangle muff without at least 5x 1uF caps already in it…like the one you have.

I mod all my Sovteks but Sovtek big muffs aren’t vintage, they were only made in the 90’s. I don’t mod 3034 Big Muffs (could be classed as vintage) cause they are pretty well perfect stock IMO. I’ll mod any modern pedal with no qualms whatsoever. I’ll also do the same with any vintage pedal if it needs it but with old Big Muffs I do try to keep the original parts intact.
Basically if its a vintage big muff I try to keep it stock but that doesn’t mean I wont mod it either. Like my vintage (barely vintage,79/80) small stone, I added and LED to that but that’s only because I found it was necessary to indicate whether it was on or not when you have a whole bunch of modulation on like chorus, flanger, delay,tremolo etc. I’ve also added TB to all my vintage pedals.

Removing the IC’s from an IC Big Muff is paramount to removing the fs36999 trannies from a ramshead IMO. That’s one thing I will never swap in a vintage big muff, the trannies or IC’s, they give that individual pedal a lot of its individual characteristics.

I’ll true bypass any vintage effect as its 100% necessary in most cases IMO. I’ll also swapp a few caps in any vintage pedal if it makes it better (IMO) and usable.

SO on the one hand I’m against modding big muffs( the trannies,IC’s and resistors as that significantly changes the sound and bias of the pedal) and on the other I’m all for it(the caps because it only changes the bass and treble freq’s of the pedal,other than that the pedal still sounds the same).

I hope you can see my (slightly contradictory) point of view!
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And vintage gear sentimentality is stoopid if ones only sentimental because its vintage! (which is often the case) If ones sentimental because it sounds so damn good, then that’s another matter!

well that’s a metter of opinion/taste I suppose, but no they don’t sound awesome to me…