What do you look for in a muff?
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What do you look for in a muff?
What kinda of features and mods would you want in the ultimate muff?
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
I would put a bypass on the tone stack, put one of the clipping diodes on a switch, integrate a momentary feedback loop, call it Eau Claire Thunder and release it in January. 

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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
aen wrote:I would put a bypass on the tone stack, put one of the clipping diodes on a switch, integrate a momentary feedback loop, call it Eau Claire Thunder and release it in January.

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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
aen wrote:I would put a bypass on the tone stack, put one of the clipping diodes on a switch, integrate a momentary feedback loop, call it Eau Claire Thunder and release it in January.
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
I'd put in a 3 band Baxandall tone stack, switches to change the diode clipping to asymmetrical and bypassed. (try a Boss DS-1 or some such with out the clipping diodes and you'll see why)
change the cap values to pass more bass and add a blend control.
Rename it the Thunder Storm, claim it's an all new circuit and start a wait list (makes it more exclusive and there for more desirable and pricey) in December so I could get the market before Aen does.
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change the cap values to pass more bass and add a blend control.
Rename it the Thunder Storm, claim it's an all new circuit and start a wait list (makes it more exclusive and there for more desirable and pricey) in December so I could get the market before Aen does.
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
i pretty much echo everything that's been said here - diodes on a switch is keen, should have them for at least for the second set. a rotary would be even better - jumpers, silicon, germanium, mosfet, LED... some people like options. also, there's really no point in the original tone stack values IMHO. give that sucker flat mids *and* the ability to bypass the tone stack completely. 

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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
first give it the hyperion girl paintjob
then
switch out its innards for a hyperion with the starve knob mod

then
switch out its innards for a hyperion with the starve knob mod

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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
this might sound dumb, but the best muff type thang i ever owned (hey, my hyperion is still in the mail) was the way huge foot pig, which never gets much love. i figured the tonefactor huckleberry would be a clone of it, but it was not nearly as muffish. the foot pig was like a football hooligan tossing a brick into your stomach, it just had this punch to it that i never heard from any other fuzz.
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
just played a hyperion for the first time.
this is the modern big muff sound. look no further!

this is the modern big muff sound. look no further!

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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
jdavyd wrote:just played a hyperion for the first time.
this is the modern big muff sound. look no further!
I am just curious if somebody could contrast a Muff, a Hyperion, a Soda Meiser, and a Torn's Peaker.
I have yet to play any of them but a Muff and I have to admit I wasn't real excited about the Muff I had played. Too homogenized and not enough dynamic range for my tastes.
I am just finally getting into fuzz after a very long time using minimal or no effects into an old Gibson Falcon Tube Amp.
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
the soda meiser is like a toxic, mutated resident evil 4 boss coming out of your amp.
and that's before you flick the chaos switch.
and that's before you flick the chaos switch.
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
tigerdriver wrote:the soda meiser is like a toxic, mutated resident evil 4 boss coming out of your amp.
and that's before you flick the chaos switch.
RE4 scared the shit out of me. No, I lied, the castle level was dumb. I freaked out when I heard people talking spanish around me for like a few weeks though.
And uh...I'm not a muff kind of guy...so...*quietly exists*
Accually I have a Supercollider on the way, thats supposedly a bassy, middy, smoother muff, so I guess we'll see.
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the samples sound AMAZING.
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Re: What do you look for in a muff?
This thread isn't at all what I thought it was about. 


