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Ned FlandersModerator
I always though that version tone control did operate backwards to all the other versions?!?!?!?!?!
Ned FlandersModeratorThis one: http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=116
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Ned FlandersModeratorNope but shipping is very cheap. Just order like 4 of them so you have 3 spares. shipping will be only about $5.
Ned FlandersModeratorSee, I cant stand crud like david gilmour, metalica, blues, keith richards, SRV ,van halen and glam metal and other crap like that.
I like experimental and old school 70’s/80’s brittish/US punk and 90’s grunge etc. And by punk and grunge i dont mean whats beings pushed by record companies.I mean stuff like DK,DRI, Lard, Babes in toyland, Nirvana pre nevermind but including incesticide, Mudhoney, Melvins etc etc blah blah blah.Ned FlandersModeratorSlayer rock dude, even cobain was a big Slayer fan!
Ned FlandersModeratorif you got any other brand replacement pot you will have to drill the enclosure and the stock knob will NOT fit on it either.
If you cant fix the stock pot, buy an exact copy of it it from smallbear electronics.
Link:
http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=159this is identical to the one you broke.
Ned FlandersModeratorMy point is they dont palm mute like kerry kings rig or max cavaler’s rig! Its just not gonna happen on a big muff.
Metal Muff? Definitely, but that’s not a big muff, its a high gain distortion.
I can get decent palm mutes out of big muffs too but nothing like SLAYER, they just wont do it. and if a pedal is a distortion pedal is should palm mute like SLAYER, that’s my own personal test to decide whats a fuzz and whats a distortion, whether/and how well it palm mutes.
And that’s also why I consider the big muff a fuzzy distortion, rather than a distortion or a fuzz.
But anyone wanting to sound similar to SLAYER shouldnt be playing big muffs anyways.
Ned FlandersModeratorChris often uses it or another oddball EHX pedal.
Ned FlandersModeratorIts not a distortion like the metal muff is a distortion because it doesnt chuga chuga palm mute like a distortion. if you cant do this with a dirt pedal its not a distortion IMO, and I couldn’t care less what its got inside. Distortion pedals palm mute well, very well and no big muff (or transistor fuzz for that matter) palm mutes well.
It is a real big muff, there’s no doubt about it. It sounds as Big Muff as any other two versions of a big muff does.
Look at the schematic, , its a Big Muff!
Just cause it uses one 4558 and one 741 doesnt mean its not a big muff. Just cause one big muff uses a 10uF input cap compared to another with a .01uF input cap or 2N5088 transistors compared to BC550C transistors doesnt mean they aren’t big muffs.
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, its a duck!
The IC big muff sounds like a big muff therefore it is! What makes it sound like it does is irrelevant.
Ned FlandersModeratorThe knobs on russian big muffs have a screw you loosesn before you remove them, once loosened they practically just fall off.
You can fix the pot, you will need to de-solder it,remove the bottom pot casing and re-assemble the pot itself, its easy and it only goes together one way so you cant get it wrong.
Ned FlandersModeratorSolder a 1/4watt 4.7Meg resistor from input jack in to input jack ground. Should solve the problem with out any negative side effects.
Ned FlandersModeratorOne of the best pedals too IMO, I love mine! I payed about $100 for mine (IIRC) plus $25 for shipping to Australia so I was pleased.
Ned FlandersModeratorYeah you pretty much have to take it over the jacks first, you end up bending to top plate if you dont. I did this first time I opened mine.LOL
The little washers that are between the chassis and PCB are a prick to line up, I just glued mine in place.
August 19, 2009 at 12:44 am in reply to: BIG MUFF PI (russian) no L.E.D. light? but works fine. #100703Ned FlandersModeratorDoes the LED have a + connection? Does it have a – connection? It needs both to light up.
My guess is its not connected correctly/come un soldered if you replaced the LED and it wont work still.
Check the Limiting resistor is working too.Ned FlandersModeratorYou’ll know if its un-flippable anyways, the traces will touch the enclosure when you try to put it back together and it wont work when on.
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