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inspector fuzzMemberQuote:Quote:whoa!!! how is your muff stash mate? very nice. i am blown away with the history and who uses the muff. did boston use the muff say on the first recording? anyway , i am stoked to be apart of it. i don’t know if the collector thing has bit me…maybe it has( two ruskies,a reissue and a tone wicker). how are them big black russians! way nice. like my green one but black. wow. i may look into the bass muff being what they are based on. cheers kitrae. i did read your site months ago which was so informative. your site also helped me put ebay back into perspective. i actually walked away from the search for awhile. again, thanks for the information and replies. thank you to all of you muff folk who have filled me in…i will persevere with my tone wicker. it’s just so convient being it has a boss type 9vac adaptor jack.aloha.
Glad you liked the site. If I remember right, that Boston guitar sound was a 70’s Marshall amp with an attenuator on it to soak up the power from the tubes and give that amp on 10 sound at low volume. I think Tom ran that into a wah pedal with a fixed setting to get the mids tone he wanted. Some of that stuff does sound Muffish, but it wasn’t a Muff
i was just wondering with the boston sound being my cover band went and learned more than a feeling. the small clone and muff was just about there. maybe a bit more bottom. bass player was not to happy. ha ha.
i ‘ve been on ebay usa. a heap of muff. maybe i am bitten by the muff bug.
inspector fuzzMemberQuote:They were not used much in the eighties that I remember, but the eighties were not the best time for guitarists who would have used that sound, and EHX was not in business for most of that time either. But the eighties is when the value of the old Muffs started to increase. The nineties brought them back to the market, and back to the fore front with a lot of grunge/alternative bands.Here is a partial list of some Muff users.
http://www.kitrae.net/music/music_big_muff.html#MuffUserswhoa!!! how is your muff stash mate? very nice. i am blown away with the history and who uses the muff. did boston use the muff say on the first recording? anyway , i am stoked to be apart of it. i don’t know if the collector thing has bit me…maybe it has( two ruskies,a reissue and a tone wicker). how are them big black russians! way nice. like my green one but black. wow. i may look into the bass muff being what they are based on. cheers kitrae. i did read your site months ago which was so informative. your site also helped me put ebay back into perspective. i actually walked away from the search for awhile. again, thanks for the information and replies. thank you to all of you muff folk who have filled me in…i will persevere with my tone wicker. it’s just so convient being it has a boss type 9vac adaptor jack.aloha.
inspector fuzzMemberback in day of the first L.A metal invasion of the early eighties,maybe late 70’s , where was the muff? you would read about the marshall ts-9 combination or mesa boogies. i did see a sovtek ad in a guitar world mag (93) . it stated the mig amps and at the bottom above the tubes…the sovtek big muff pi. was there a mob using muffs pre pumpkins…just curious.i just love em.the tone wicker is a bit different though. do you guys like them?
inspector fuzzMemberi guess melon collie was a bit more metal sounding. i believe the silver sun pick ups use muffs. do you know which ones? i am still curious about the latest influx of muff use. aloha!
inspector fuzzMemberright!well thanks for the heads up. while i am on here can you kind folks in muffland fill me regarding the tone wicker muff? how do some of you folks compare it to say the russians(green/ reissues) and the standard nyc reissues. i can’t get a decent sound out of my(T.W) . i amy try it again at practice at snare drum volume but … i don’t know . may part with it. do most of you muff users use the muff for a lead tone or rhythm tone- both?. i get a ripping rhythm sound out of my muffs (excluding the tone wicker). just curious.
inspector fuzzMemberwhy all the hype regarding the muffs? corgan used the muff back in 92-93ish. the record with the teeth was mellon collie??? and he used a jmp 1 pre amp . what has caused the latest muff rage? the silver sun pick ups? my introduction to the muff was a total fluke. i am fairly new to the muff which is a long story.i love the nyc re issue, the greenie and black russian re issue. through a clean amp it just rocks. not that qtsa/pumpkin’s sound. the combo of my guitar and any clean amp just sounds like appetite for destruction of all things. a chainsaw!pure hard rock. it’s a very clean sound compared to what the muff is renown for. i scored i think. with my les pauls my tone is too hot. i don’t like it. with the floyd equip strat …just pure hard rock. with the small clone i got rush’s limelight / boston’s more than a feeling sound. it’s insane. i ‘ve got a tone wicker muff which i am struggling with. with the tone switch off the sound gets brutal but not quite there when compared to the russians and the nyc reissue. the tone/volume dip is kind of nasty though. may need a looper just to balance out the volume. stoked.
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