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Quote:Quote:Hi,
I’d like to buy:
Sovtek Red Army Overdrive and EHX Axis Fuzz
if you know where I can find one, it will be awesome!
I’ve got both. $1500 each OK?
That’s just mean
Quote:Thanks for the replies. To be frank, I’m not finding too much love for this version of the Muff. I don’t think this is Fran’s best work.Quote:The tone is in the same family as the version 6 Big Muff, though this is not actually a reissue of that version. It is a bit more muffled (muffier?), and buzzy-fizzy sounding, without the clarity of most of the vintage USA Muffs. Mids are very scooped. The bottom end of the tone differs from vintage USA made Muffs from the 1970s. It does not react as sharply to pinch harmonics as the V3 Muff and does not work well with palm muting.This description is it in a nut shell. I decided to seek out the “vintage” tone mentioned in the description above.
I looked around for various Muff circuits on General Guitar Gadgets etc. I built up their version on a prototype board, I used common as muck 2N3904 transistors and the thing buried the V9. I am most disappointed, I thought EHX has been building these things for so long they must have it down to a fine art by now. Not so.
I dare say it is time to pull out the soldering iron.
I wouldn’t say don’t buy a Muff pedal, but don’t make an eBay purchase, hear it first.
It all depends on what kind of sounds you are looking for out of a Muff and what kind of music you like to play. Honestly, I did not care for the V9 that much when I got it. I was used to Sovtek Muffs and thought they performed much better for what I like to play, but the V9 grew on me over time. Some people love the V9 Muffs and dislike the older ones. Try a vintage V2 or V3 Muff, or a vintage Muff clone if the current one does not suit you and you want more clarity to the tone. Stomp Under Foot makes some decent vintage USA clones.
Quote:Quote:Here are pix of one. V3 board, V4/V5 box and graphics, with knobs usually seen on V4(and later) Muffs, not on the V3.
Kit, is that a PNP muff? w. 2N5087s? Looks like they’re in the board the wrong way round for a regular NPN muff. That’s a pretty rare bird if it is…
Gold legs?I don’t know. The person who emailed those to me was trying to find out what he had, but he did not say what transistors were in it. V3s were made with both PNP and NPN tranys. I have two V2 Muffs with 2N5087 tranys facing the other way like this, so I assume that is what these are, though I have never owned a V3 with those. It’s likely they were used on V3s since they were on V2s though.
