LOL that could be good or bad.

Agreed on using the DMM for overdrive. I recorded a track using a 1978 4 knob Blue/Red DMM to overdrive my ’68 Fender VibroChamp. I made ample use of the lofi Reticons. You can hear it about half-way into the song after the middle 8 breakdown when the power chords start crunching:

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6715668

BTW, no keyboards used in this recording, just guitars and EHX pedals (and a BOSS PS-3 since I didn’t have my HOG yet at the time).

As for the Muff, is the circuit of the Muff pretty much identical to my ’75 Little Muff Pi? I love that little box.

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I’ve never actually tried the vintage unit. I’ve always wanted to. It cracks me up to see the inside of the enclosure. The circuit board could easily have fit inside a smaller enclosure, but I guess they used the deluxe enclosure to make it easier to implement the direct out jack.

I’ve heard from various sources that the vintage Hot Tubes gets a very muffled sound, not much definition.

The reissue is brilliant, for what I want. You can set it to be very subtle, with just a hair of dirt, to all-out Big Muff style sustain. The EQ is the best part. It is not at all conventional, and the bass and treble controls are interactive (paracyclic) allowing you to get some very mid-range, throaty tones.

Haha, this will be an ongoing research project for me.

Okay, first up – I have no explicit evidence of this, but I’m pretty sure that Adrian Belew used an Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer for “Mr. Self Destruct”, the opening song from the Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 masterpiece, The Downward Spiral.

Evidence 1: http://books.google.com/books?id=RLmhhjBwtxYC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=NIN+belew+Downward+spiral&source=web&ots=xgbtjexxrO&sig=sRQre2FSpUY9vmU3W88iZ2A9nso&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA107,M1

Evidence 2: http://www.9inchnails.com/articles/adrian-belew-and-trent-reznor.php

Evidence 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_1o-fuRAQ&
Tell me that the chaotic loop at the end of the song is not using a Frequency Analyzer, I dare ya!

I wasn’t sure before if I was going to buy the Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker, because i already have a Big Muff Pi, a vintage Little Muff Pi, a Deluxe Big Muff Pi, a Reissue Hot Tubes, a Tube Zipper, and a Germanium OD.

But seeing your post, Mike, has convinced me that I now need this one. I can’t wait! :rawk:

I’m not a keyboard/synth player, but I’m always keeping an eye out for vintage Roland Junos on Craigslist. I love a lot of New Wave era bands that use an abundance of synth textures – these are probably my favorites: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showpost.php?p=25320152&postcount=1

Do you also use the Electro-Harmonix Mini Synthesizer? http://songsandsonics.com/tag/electro-harmonix-mini-synthesizer/

I would love to have one of those :love:

I’m at work, so I can’t listen right now; but I’ll check it out when I get home. :thumb:

Since I have 2 vintage Switchblades, I did a fun mod to one of them this weekend.

With the slide switch in the on position, it is a bypass looper with one loop. I use it for my Space Echo RE-101.
With the slide switch in the alt position, it is a channel switcher.

I just had to change the 1pdt footswitch to a 3pdt, and drill an extra hole for an output jack below the input jack.