Speaking of Fuzz......

Its all in the fingers, or is it?

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Speaking of Fuzz......

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I've started using something in the Big Muff style. It seems to fill out the space between bass and guitar where keyboards might usually sit.
Having a problem with it disappearing when I switch it on. I check before the song and it sounds fine, but when I want it, it doesn't deliver. I have a Boss EQ pedal and I assume this is predominantly an EQ issue.

Adding volume works but the space between too little and too much is too small to gauge accurately. (That is a number 2's sentence if I've ever seen one.)

I'd ask for Forum wisdom but hey, I'm a realist. :rofl:
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Re: Speaking of Fuzz......

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Where do you have it in the chain?

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A lot of the Muff variants differ in brightness as far as I know.

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JHorner wrote:Where do you have it in the chain?
Pretty near the front. Immediately after the tuner and compressor actually.
And never use fuzz and compressor.
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i Find they disappear in the mix too. I’m too lazy to try sort it though. Just not meant to be, move on and try the next OD pedal thanks.

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Big Muffs take your mids and put them in the bin. A good remedy is to biff a tubescreamer before it to get the mids back or dial in a mid hump in your Boss EQ, either pre or post.

Or otherwise if it’s a big box big muff I can mod it to either switch out the tone stack completely (more vol, flat eq) or a three way mids switch (scooped, flat, boosted mids)
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I have the solution for you right here, Slowy. A WMD Arcane Preamp. It has 3 band EQ and does all levels of fuzz. Owes me 180.
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Conway wrote:I have the solution for you right here, Slowy. A WMD Arcane Preamp. It has 3 band EQ and does all levels of fuzz. Owes me 180.
But Conway, I have that disgusting pink fuzz that matches my disgusting pink coily cable. :D
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TmcB wrote:.....dial in a mid hump in your Boss EQ.....
Yeah, that works. Thanks Tony.
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Slowy wrote:
Conway wrote:I have the solution for you right here, Slowy. A WMD Arcane Preamp. It has 3 band EQ and does all levels of fuzz. Owes me 180.
But Conway, I have that disgusting pink fuzz that matches my disgusting pink coily cable. :D
:lol: Yes, yes you do.
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Check out the Dope Priest on this video, pretty epic sounding pedal. (4 minute mark)

Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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I recently picked up a big muff, and although it sounds cool on it’s own I can see it just doesn’t have mids to cut in a mix very well.
I tried a blues breaker pedal in front and that worked very well!
Video is just with the muff on it’s own.

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I used to have this type. Tone control helped a lot. Does yours have anything like that Slowy?

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Post by NippleWrestler »

There's a mid scoop around 1k where the high pass and low pass bands don't overlap, hence the mid scoop.

If you're handy with a soldering iron it's an easy fix for mid hump, flat mids, or more scoop.

I like a 47k/22nf combo in both hp and lp filters personally which makes it flat and means you can dial in what you need.

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Re: Speaking of Fuzz......

Post by NippleWrestler »

It's r5/c9 and r8/c8 on the board (or should be, but depends on the version of muff) that are responsible for the tone stack.

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