What kind of ground noise?? Mine isn’t near noisy enough to use a noise gate. Then again I don’t use gates really. Probably should with all the muff”s on my board. There’s definately a noticeable drop on mine. Especially when playing it with a muff DG style. Right now I have it in a blend loop and when I bypass it there’s a noticeable increase in sound and noticeable drop in sound when engaged. I’m using a quality blend too. The barge concepts vbjr….it could use a level knob though. I’m working on a blender similar to xotic effects x blender now though which uses tl074’s as buffers and also has blend, volume, phase and 3 section eq. I hope it works!

Anyone wanna chime in thats in the loop?

The mistress sounded pretty close to the dem in that video. I thougt it was gonna suck until I realized he had the feedback maxed. Sounded pretty good when he turned it down to a moderate level though. You can tell the range is set pretty high from the factory though…atleast compared to where I like the range which I usually keep around 7 oclock….6 is no range. I’ll put it around 9 oclock too. If there’s an internal trimpot for range I can possiby see this replacing my DEM. Still waiting to hear a quality demo but lookn good so far.

Oops, just noticed the mistress does have the color knob aka feedback. That’s a plus cause I usually set and forget the range aka depth knob. Still hope there’s a trim for it and that it’s analog and voiced off the original or I’ve just wasted all this time posting about it. I REALLY hope it’s just the first nano version with it’s big brother to be released soon with more knobs such as level, blend and stereo outs!

I have 2 BMP boards I’m about to put together. 1 is a tonepad board and one is a GGG board. I’m thinking about building a triangle and Civil War muff. What VHE values did find worked best in your violet?

I will revert my previous statement that it’s “absurd” to think the vintage ones sell so much because of the looks. But I don’t think they sell so high strictly because of the looks. Sound, collectors market, and looks all play a big role but the sound is the biggest part. Same goes for the vintage green electric mistress. People don’t pay for those for the looks for sure. It’s about the sound that the current rI DEM can’t replicate….though it does get close.

I think to NOT reissue pedals is a bad move for EHX. Personally, I haven’t been too intrigued by anything they’ve released lately except for maybe the freeze although they have come up with some brilliant pedals. Just nothing I would use. They could also reissue the pedals looks and all and sell them for half of what the boutique makers charge. It really doesn’t take alot of time and money to build a big muff. Like Kit said, he could lone them his ramshead or give them the specs on the transistors and other components. Make it true bypass and add an led plus original graphics and could sell them for a minimum 80.00 and still atleast double what they put into it. Or they could sell them for about 150.00 or so and I guarantee they’d sell.

Bump. Anyone have one of these 5200 boards or even an original EM so I can see some gut shots? I just got one like this with the pots wrapped around the side and I’d like to try to get it fixed and figure out what the differences are. Thanks in advance.

This should help. Let me know how it works for you. http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/BigMuffToneControl/

And….a couple posts above. http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af286/fenderamerica/Pedal Schematics/BIGMUFFNYC3003ATONEBYPASS1.png