Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UOkv1NKnU

Standard tuning?

That really is great — does the guy have a Web site? Mind sharing roughly how much it set you back?

Interesting! So you don’t remember any being screened ‘tube maze’ either? Plot thickens!

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I just checked mine (which I’ve had for years) and it says ‘envelope filter + distortion’ — you’re saying you’ve seen newer ones screened ‘tube maze’? Or is that one old too?

It strikes me as rather odd — as I can’t really see why the screen would have been changed (knobs may certainly change from time to time, but that’s a very simple swap — but changing the screen takes lots more intentional effort).

Curious!

To chime in with the others, the Tube Zipper has long been one of my personal favorites — it somehow always feels like a natural extension. Personally, I don’t use the self-oscillation much — one of my favorite settings was to make the filter a bit sensitive, and to then play a heavy rhythm through it so that it was always engaged, and then lighten up and play a muted rhythm so the filter could disengage. Sounded really cool. And yes, I like the distortion too.

fwiw:
https://www.ehx.com/blog/mogwai-big-muff-pi

(if you haven’t already, y’all should page through the EHX blog — https://www.ehx.com/blog — I think you’ll find some fun stuff there.)

I don’t know all the particulars of the Mogwai Pi, but my first guess is that it must have been a stock Muff with a custom screen (but I’m also happy to be corrected…).