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August 31, 2010 at 6:17 pm in reply to: order all the EHX pedals you’ve owned from favorite to least favorite #111183srinivassaMember
1. Bass Big Muff Pi
2. Metal Muff
3. Holier GrailHonestly, I like the two muffs a whole heckuva lot. Bass Big Muff works great for guitar as well as bass. Metal Muff is great for that dark dark tone. I don’t know why it’s so low on a lot of lists. It seems like anything grunge or dark (not necessarily metal) would take on that pedal well. Holier Grail is a decent verb pedal, but it’s huge. Plus, it carries that rediculous gate feature that you basically have to keep off. I’ve noticed that it is low on a lot of people’s lists. I kind of wish I got the Holy or Nano version.
srinivassaMemberI’m probably only cursory help at best, but I’ll give the post a bump.
I have had this happen with several pedals (not just EHX). Right now, the combination of pedals I use for my bass is taking a few dB out of the signal (even with all pedals off). It didn’t do that before. I just got one new pedal and a new pedal board, now everything is so quiet. It’s like a bedroom amp all of the sudden. (one of the pedals actually is a BBM)
Did you try using the dry JACK in the mono-pedal configuration? It may not tell you anything. It will probably be full volume, if memory serves.
Now the bypass should work fine with just the BBM. Pedal on + dry switch on, I think that does eat a few dB. Bypass (pedal off) should be full volume however.
I’m not sure how the dry switch is meant to work. It seems dumb to me. If I want dry, shouldn’t I just turn the footswitch off? Or what sound is supposed to come out of that switch anyway? I never use it. I’m also not sure why you mention a ‘dry knob’ because the BBM doesn’t have one. Unless you have some legacy version I’m not aware of.
That’s all I’ve got. Hope it helps.
srinivassaMemberI am probably all wet about the booster pedal. It would still just cut the boosted signal on the top and bottom ends, below the actual notes on the instrument. You wouldn’t be able to boost high or boost low.
Probably our friendly neighborhood EHX representative is right. It does what it says it does, changes the characterists of your attack. Makes an lp sound like a fender, etc. Not something I would appreciate much, personally. I’d rather just A/B my fender and my lp.
EHX usually makes very cool pedals though. It’s likely that this is right up somebody’s alley. The video included on the site is cool, but you better have good audio because the difference in the pedal settings is extremely subtle.
Still, this could be a solution for people who want a split coil but don’t want to mess with coil tapping. Or it could do the reverse for people who play single coils.
srinivassaMemberI love EHX, and I have been trying to decide on buying this pedal. It seems like it would be good for not only changing the brightness of your attack style. No one says what it does when low boosting is applied to a humbucker. Could be another good way to get a darker tone. I love the Metal Muff or a Big Muff boosted by a Tube Screamer. Nice dark dirty distortion. I was wondering if the pedal would give me a stomper for less of the same.
The thing I don’t agree about with the above post is the boosting. You claim a 6db to 12db boost to the selected frequency range, but that does not really make sense. From the description of the pedal, it seems like it would only cut. No boosting action was ever described. A 6-7 pole filter is a very steep corner cut filter. I am guessing essentially only affecting freq <85Hz for low and >6.5kHz for high. The fact that the pedal sounds flat with both tone knobs turned fully CW (zero cut) and dry fully CCW (no dry) supports this.
Now, if you ran a booster in front of this, that could be a different story. That sounds like a pedal I would buy. That would allow you run fully CW low and high freq filters at a significant boost. Dry would also boost when turned far enough CW.
Seems like a better pedal that way to me. Don’t know why they didn’t include a boost knob on it. It’s a bit subtle running like it is now.
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