Switches and wire aside,all those caps(even the electro’s) and resistors,transistors look completely stock to me.

I’d swap the electro’s for new ones,could very well be the problem.
Also,like I said,some big muffs DO sound like shit,its just a fact!

Ron is right…but typically what I’ve seen is all caps are 100nF ceramics. 100nF= 0.1uF.

I also agree that big muffs with 1uF sound waaaaaaaaay better,the 100nF caps just dont suit it IMO and that’s why I hate stock sovteks.

I wouldn’t be surprised if them pots are original, in fact it wouldnt surprise me if the entire pedal was 100% original!

Fact is some big muffs sound like shit,some sound mediocre and some sound great, some are biased correctly and some are slightly gated, there’s so much variation its no wonder collectors have so many.

And the schematics,even EHX factory schematics I have aren’t 100% reliable because the builder could have like he done in your pedal put in different values than the schematic states.

99% of big muff schematics online are from one guy who traced HIS one pedal,it doesnt mean ALL big muffs are the same as HIS. I really only trust genuine EHX schematics and then the pedal can differ from them anyways.

No, what I’m saying is this:
The sovtek enclosures,especially the cast green ones rule, the overall look of the pedal and the big silver DPDT switches rulle too and I love the look of the sovteks,hence I bought them with the intent of modifying them to my liking!

BTW,playing thru a black sovtek gives you absolutely zero idea of what the NYC Reissues,originals sound like. they are apples and orranges as far as I’m concerned.

I dont have a problem with the Sovtek quality,aside from the cheap pots, I just dont like the sound of them,same goes for triangle muffs.

Its capacitor values in key places that make them sound like shit, for starters they use 2 X 47nF caps in the clipping stages (this is the one and only reason they are boomy as hell)when the absolute minimum should be 100nF and 1uF being ideal. All the other caps,aside form the pF caps which are fine are 100nF and at least 3/4 of them should be 1uF.

My favorite sovteks are the cast aluminum ones,this covers the first green ones and the so called “civil war” ones and the red army overdrive.The folded steel green ones are ok but not as aesthetically pleasing as the big heavy cast ones.

Big muffs are technically fuzzy distortions, not fuzzes, not distortions and definitely not overdrives.

BTW, there’s no DC jack on the Sovtek muffs. And IMO the plastic jacks are just as strong as any othere plastic jacks,just dont walk on cables that are in them, this goes for MXR/Dunlop too. And there was only one Sovtek muff with no nut supporting the plastic jacks,all others have a nut.

Also,the “built like a tank’ Sovteks (the cast aluminum ones)havent been made in over ten years, the current ones are light weight folded steel like the EHX classic enclosures.

The thing you will more than likely have trouble with is the pots,they are cheap as shit and always fuck up in the current issue (they’ve been the same cheap pots fo the past 8 years at least) models.

Here you go, it doesn’t have Electro Harmonix on it because it wont actually be an EHX pedal so I made it slightly different to the EHX one. The little “X’s” are for pots,a LED and 3PDT switch.
For best results print it on clear deacal paper and put it on a aluminum 1590BB box.

I’ll find it on my PC and upload it for you.

do you have the box still? you can scan it and photo shop it.

I have big muff graphic templates i made, they are for EHX Nano and XO sized boxes, any help?

I know!
On HCFX and TGP the IC muff is one of the worst among a lot of people but in my mind and among some of my friends its one of the best.

I always said its kinda like a regular muff going thru a crunchy marshall stack, not 100% but it has the same quality.

Anyways, I love them, I got mine for about !00 bucks last year or the year before (i cant remember) but 100 Bucks is pretty standard for these theses days although you can pay more like $150 and you can definitely pay much less.

People are missing out by dismissing it out of hand!