Can anybody comment on the difference between the new USA muff and the vintage ones?
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John's big muff settings
Started by openparachute, Jun 16 2008 03:17 AM
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Posted 22 February 2010 - 08:29 PM
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 12:57 AM
Basically, the trend with Muffs has been that newer means better sounding and more reliable. (This is true about the Big Muff Pi itself, not alterations of it. The Little Big Muff Pi is horrible.)
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"Well, it was put to me by "that guy" when I was, like, four. So I went into my parents' record collection and found a rock'n'roll compilation. And when my mom asked if I wanted to move to L.A., I said, "Yeah," because I knew that was where the rock stars were. I was seven. Then when I found punk and listened to the Germs, I started seeing how I was part of this. I remember being out on the baseball field when I was 11, and I felt like such an outsider. Standing there in right field, I started making up an angry punk song in my head, and I went home and wrote, like, 20 songs in a row. I realized it didn't even matter if I knew how to play guitar yet." -John Frusciante
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 02:14 AM
ive heard that the older muffs used germanium diodes...and that theyre a little brighter. but thats about it
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 10:47 AM
fenderfunk14, on Feb 24 2010, 08:14 PM, said:
ive heard that the older muffs used germanium diodes...and that theyre a little brighter. but thats about it
Yeah, but they were hella unreliable for it, and germanium really isn't the right feel for a Big Muff Pi imho. Don't go vintage, man.
"Take that fucking sign down." -John Frusciante
"Well, it was put to me by "that guy" when I was, like, four. So I went into my parents' record collection and found a rock'n'roll compilation. And when my mom asked if I wanted to move to L.A., I said, "Yeah," because I knew that was where the rock stars were. I was seven. Then when I found punk and listened to the Germs, I started seeing how I was part of this. I remember being out on the baseball field when I was 11, and I felt like such an outsider. Standing there in right field, I started making up an angry punk song in my head, and I went home and wrote, like, 20 songs in a row. I realized it didn't even matter if I knew how to play guitar yet." -John Frusciante
"Well, it was put to me by "that guy" when I was, like, four. So I went into my parents' record collection and found a rock'n'roll compilation. And when my mom asked if I wanted to move to L.A., I said, "Yeah," because I knew that was where the rock stars were. I was seven. Then when I found punk and listened to the Germs, I started seeing how I was part of this. I remember being out on the baseball field when I was 11, and I felt like such an outsider. Standing there in right field, I started making up an angry punk song in my head, and I went home and wrote, like, 20 songs in a row. I realized it didn't even matter if I knew how to play guitar yet." -John Frusciante
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Posted 22 August 2010 - 01:40 PM
hey guys, i just found a picture that shows johns big muff settings during the SA time.
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Posted 07 September 2010 - 10:12 PM
Mr. Maniac, on 19 June 2008 - 12:45 PM, said:
the last thing he used instead of the big muff was a Electroharmonix English Muffin'. You can hear it also on the studio version of "Especially In Michigan"
he also used it on enough of me or one more of me
but instead of the Big Muff he uses a fuzzrite (its on the left of the DS-2 in the pic)
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