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Quote:Quote:As someone who owns many vintage Big Muffs, I can tell you it has nothing to do with the looks. It’s all about the sound. My favorite looking Muff is actually the current V3 look. I like all of the Big Muffs, but the sound of a V1 or V2 is like night and day to a V9 reissue.
Reissues would be interesting, but it is not possible to make a production pedal that will have the same sound as a vintage one without the old components and transistors, and they are no longer available. EHX would have to pick a particular Triangle and RH example to copy as well, since the tones vary so much from unit to unit, and they would have to use modern components like the cloners do.
Basically what you would have would be a BYOC Large Beaver in a vintage style Big Muff box. That won’t have the mojo a vintage Muff tone has, but a BYOC gets 90-95% there anyway, which is good enough for most people, especially people who have never owned a vintage Muff, but want one. I don’t think it would hurt the collectible market at all since those guys will just claim the new ones don’t have the sound since they use new components. I think it would be a good idea for EH, and I know it would be successful. They would have to release them in the old style boxes with the exact graphics to do it right. Some minor change on each to make them externally different from the originals would be good, like an LED, and an internal change like true bypass, so EH could claim they are “better” than the originals.
ok, I believe that for you it is all about the sound, but can I suggest to you that you are in a very small minority? …. and the reason they sell for high prices on ebay is due in a big part to vintage guitar equipment collectors and investors that are not buying them for the sound.
……If EHX did re-issue them, why would they need to have ‘the exact graphics and original case’ like you suggest for them to be a success if it’s only the sound that people are buying them for? … You know why!!!!! looks, looks, looks.
they go for so much in online auctions simply because so many people want them, and the amount that want them just for tone are certainly not the minority. if it was all for looks, no one would care about the clone companies, because none of the clones ive seen look at all like the original, which doesn’t bother me or anyone that i know who owns the clones. fans of pink floyd and david gilmour are probably a majority of the people wanting to buy one because of how extensively he used the rams head and triangle, the pedals would sell extremely well as reissues and it would be for the tone, not the looks. they could manufacture them with a pink and purple casing with cows on it for all i care, i’d still buy it.
