Your web site is mind bending great!
Thank you so much for you awesome work.
Your site help me date my Rams head Muff.
There is nothing like it on the web.
I urge everybody to check it out.
Bill Ruppert

PS I used a Big Muff as a hand drum on the last Effectology show.
You may get a kick out of it!

Shortly after, I heard Jimmy ran off to England. with the manager of the Animals who dug him. The rest is history, and it was in England that Jimmy became Jimi Hendrix and quickly developed his super unique electric space style. I was fortunate enough to see The experience when they first came to New York City. Jimi called me up and said” Hey Mike come on down, I’m playing at xxxx ( I forgot the name of this small club ) Dynamite!

Whenever Jimi went into a recoding studio in New York Ciy, he invited me to hang out. I did this at 3 different studios, with the last one being Electric Ladyland, the one he funded and owned.

Long story… Well here’s the rub. When Jimi invited me to hang at studio # 2 ( I forgot the name ) I went down to show him a new device I was working on. It was a 4 inch ceramic cased speaker that I screwed into the body of a guitar. it had small power amp. So, some portion of the guitar signal was bled into this little power amp and into the screwed in speaker which made the guitar vibrate and easy to get instant hot sustain. I took it to ask Jimi what he thought of it. When I walked into the studio, there on the floor, plugged into his guitar and amp, was the Big Muff. I told Jimi I made these and he said he just bought it at Manny’s and I said yeah Henry told me. I then showed Jimi the guitar with the screwed in speaker with feedback circuit. he tried it and said “hey Mike, I think you’ve got something here.”

Now WHY did I tell you this whole story ? Well, some time in the late 70’s, a guitar magazine writer that interviewed me asked me “when did Electro-Harmonix come out with the Big Muff ? Not thinking too much about this I blurted out around 1971. Well, it was really 1969. Over the years, Hendrix purists took this 1971 and said, Jimi couldn’t have used the big Muff because he was gone by this time. Well, I wanted you to know the real facts. Enough of this story for now. I’ll give you some other good ones another time

Mike

PS Our latest expansion of the Big muff is 2 units we came out with several months ago. One is the Bass Big Muff. Here, we spent a lot of time modifying the Big Muff so it was ideal for bass guitar, and did not lose low end. It’s a hot seller. The second new version is the Big Muff with Tone Wicker I wanted to hear again what the Big Muff sounded like if I hadn’t inserted those 3 roll off capacitors. So, we put in a switch so that the user could have the option of taking them all out or leaving the Big Muff the way it was. This time, the raspiness option sounded good to me, and it helped a lot to open up natural; feedback between guitar and amp. Then I tried a second thing, We put in a switch to completely take out the strong tone control of the Big Muff. This gave a really wide sound. Now coming out soon is a blockbuster movie “It Might Get Loud” starring the 3 icons Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page. Jack builds a one string guitar and feeds the signal though a Big Muff, and then blares though an amp…and gets loud and moves a cow in the pasture. I can imagine where this sound will step to when Jack tries this same thing though a Big Muff with Tone Wicker. He’ll start a stampede