Sounds like the BMP is defective. Have you tried it on other amps, or tried other pedals with that amp to be sure it is not an amp problem?

I think strictly for marketing reasons any vintage BMP reissue should “look” exactly like the original. The current vintage pedal reissue market (MXR, ProCo, Ibanez, Colorsound, DOD, et cetera) have proven that works. People are buying the reissue script Dynacomp, like me for example, because it is made with the exact script version circuit so it sounds like the old one – and looks like the old one. There was clearly a market for the real vintage script font pedals and MXR took advantage of that and reissued it. Replicas of the vintage version were already being made by boutique makers using their own graphics, so there would have been no point in MXR making a reissue that had the sound of the original but did not look like the original. You could already have that. The same goes for the vintage BMP replica market. There are dozens of makers and you can currently get just about any vintage BMP version circuit.

When I think back to when I first played a Big Muff in the mid to late 80s, I would have loved to have my own Triangle Big Muff, but there was no place to get them back then (no local shops sold vintage pedals, no ebay), and I would not have been able to afford one anyway. I sure loved the way it soundeded – was blown away actually – but I loved the looks and cool knobs too. Had there been an exact reissue from EHX at a decent price I would have jumped on that in a heartbeat.

Chances of this happening are slim I think. Mike Matthews does not seem to be interested in the reissue market. He has said EXH already has the Big Muff territory covered and he prefers to make pedals that he can continue to make for many years rather than limited edition short runs. He also said if they could make a Big Muff sound better than the ones they already sell they would be doing it, so the folks at EHX must not care for the sound of any of the vintage units. I love the sounds of the current Big Muffs, but they are like night and day to the vintage V1, V2, and V3 BMPs I own.

I have seen one other V3 done like that. It’s probably nothing more than a mistake someone made when they cut the transparency used to make the two printing screens. The variances in Bug Muffs are endless

I have seen three demos now, I think. I assume you are talking about the one on the EHX home page, which is not the best. Who knows, maybe those guys liked those settings and that’s the best they could do. One of the others, Pro Guitar Shop’s vid I think, was pretty good. None of them show the range of tones I have gotten out of it though, but someone will do a really nice demo eventually.

Welcome to the club Post pix of the collection. Shoot some gut shots of the RAO guts if you can. I have seen very few gut shots other than the ones I own and I would like to see if there is any variance outside of the two known versions.