I never liked them myself, I always thought their music sucked!

No you don’t, you wire the switch so when its in bypass mode the input of the circuit is switched to ground. If you just wire the circuit to ground it wont work,ever.

For me it was around 1983-4, I was 5-6 YO and I used to listen to my sisters music, mostly the finn brothers split enz (which I no longer listen to but appreciate the talent). I had a ukulele at 3-4 but I never took to it. When I was about 12 I got my first slayer record, south of heaven, and that set in stone my love for heavy and powerful guitar riffs. The record itself was a present from my sister to my brother but he didn’t like it so he handed it down to me. I basically listened only to slayer till I was 13 then I got the bleach record by Nirvana and I started listening to other pacific NW bands and the pixies, the cure, RHCP, babes in toyland and sonic youth mostly. From the time I heard bleach I’ve been THE biggest nirvana fan ever since. When I was 13 I was gonna buy a drum kit cause I liked the beats the RHCP had going and thought I was destined to be a drummer. I never had the money to buy a kit, nor did my parents so 2-3 years later I got the guitar instead, mostly influenced by slayer riffs to do so. I got my first guitar at 15-16, it was an electric strat ripoff, I had an Ibanez soundtank distortion and peavey 10 watt amp, the guitar didn’t sound right so I ripped the bridge single coil out and hacked the pickguard up with a knife and installed a DiMarzio super distortion humbucker. I still have this humbucker… its in my Jaguar. The first song I learned was one I wrote myself (I’ve long forgotten what it was), I have never been big on playing other peoples music so writing songs just came natural to me. I didn’t have a tuner for a while in the beginning so I used to use alternative tunings a lot until I bought one. At 15 my love-lust of Fender Mustangs and Jaguars started to become an obsession and till this day they are still my favorite guitars.
My biggest musical influences (that which you can actually hear coming thru in my music) would be nirvana’s bleach and incesticide albums, slayers south of heaven, the melvins houdini and various pixies tunes and sonic youths daydream nation. Although my tunes sound original you can definitely tell where my musical influences are from.
My intense love for the big muff only truly happened about 5 years ago. Although I always liked Mudhoney’s sound and I knew a lot of it was a big muff it took me a long time to actually buy one for myself. Partly due to EHX not being in existence in the 90’s when I wanted one and a lack of old big muffs in my towns second hand stores.

I love music, but most of the bands I listen to were around in/since the 80’s and 90’s, I rarely buy new bands music, although an exception comes along every 5-10 years or so.

All in all, I’m very fussy with music, I’m not a perfectionist, not by a long shot, but I’m very strict about the bands I listen to, they really have to have something special to get my attention among all the crudy bands that exist.

What I don’t like is that there’s this myth on the interwebz that only vintage Big Muffs are any good…what, EHX cant make good pedals anymore?!?!?!?!

I have a mix of both vintage and modern and they all sound good and very similar, the differences are subtle!

Neither of the options.

On vintage EHX I dont install LEDs because that would ruin the aesthetics of it.
On modern pedals they have them so its fine.

I dont need LED on my pedals but if they have them thats fine too, its a non issue to me really.

It really no surprise the myth started that they were made from old soviet tanks IMO, they look like some piece of soviet militaria.

I’m still not happy with the way mine sounds, I been planning on turning int into a ramshead muff (10uF input cap version) for a while now but I’m too lazy to get around to it.

Its a wonder you needed to post this thread, being such an expert and all!
Its also a wonder you didn’t realize the IC big muff hadn’t been made for 30 years.

I cant begin to tell you how subjective your posts are, and they are nothing but subjective misinformation, I wont offer you a technical rebuttal about the circuitry of the big muff because it would make no difference, you seem to have your conclusions, all subjective, none objective.