Comments on: Fuzz Review: Electro-Harmonix – Bass Big Muff Pi

By: matttehbassist

matttehbassist — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:25:32 +0000

^^ to the guy with the odb-3 question I say make the switch. I had an odb-3 and hated it so much it pushed me off bass effects for a year. While this might not be the situation I must say I am MUCH more impressed by the bass muff than I was with the odb-3.

On the dry switch i think the usability of it depends on your speaker configuration. I have a 1×15 and it sounds muddy when in I put it in dry/bass boost. So I think your speakers is something to think about when buying the pedal, (but you can work around it)

Overall this was a great review and instrumental in my purchase. THANKS BASSFUZZ.COM

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:32:50 +0000

I was wondering i really like the bass player cliff burton i no he used a fuzz box and a wha pedal now i am wondering with this fuzz box will i be able to get his sound for song like for whom the bell tolls

By: m@

m@ — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:47:01 +0000

i like this pedal. i don’t love it though. there’s just not enough gain for me. i guess if i had to describe it, it’s a “pretty” or “polite” fuzz. i’m gonna have to go back to my little big muff methinks.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:13:24 +0000

I have a Boss ODB – 3 which is the boss bass equivalent of the standard distortion pedal. They’re about the same price, do you think it’s worth a swap, bearing in mind this probably wouldn’t fit into my pedal case so it would be awkward to take around.

By: grygrx

grygrx — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:36:40 +0000

I had no problems at all with my active J.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:31:32 +0000

I was just wondering how this works with active pickups. I have a schecter with emg’s and i was thinking about getting this. If this one doest work to well with active pickups do you have some advice on one that does possibly in the same price range?

By: mathrockspazz

mathrockspazz — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:05:44 +0000

I agree that the Dry setting works really well; one thing I did find (opposite to some comments and the review), is that the volume does seem to effect the prominence of the Muff sound. Unless you are looking for serious gain and buzz-saw break-up, I think this pedal does a great job in Dry mode when you need some clarity or the detail of what you’re playing matters. I’m impressed with this pedal in Normal mode too, btw. Another thing, sustain and break-up are a lot different with almost all fuzz, overdrive, and bass distortion pedals depending on if you’re using a tube amp (or amp with a full tube pre-amp section) vs. a solid state amp. Gain and break-up, etc. (from a pedal) tends to come off “bad” with solid state and dynamic, organic, and “awesome” with tubes. All respect to solid state amp players!

By: Maibanez

Maibanez — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:14:12 +0000

I have had some 2 months and is a great pedal, it not big fuzz or gain as the others but it has a lot of low end (not like the other), it was just what I was looking for …. I read somewhere that the bassist Muse uses two AMP , one clean and one Muffed, you can do the same with this pedal in the dry mode the difference is you can do that with a single AMP … I have mixed with everything I have been crossed on my way in this mode (Delay, BassBalls, octave, overdrive, phaser chorus) and sounds great whit all…
alone is not worth it
but whit something else it’s great
I have all the others muffs it’s not the best but work better whit bass

By: grygrx

grygrx — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:12:44 +0000

I’ve not used the knockout, but it’s it an attack equalizer rather than an eq?

Either way, not sure it would work… the same way EQ pedals don’t really work in this scenario.

Muff – > EQ = Muff kills lows, eq tries to boost non-existent lows
EQ – > Muff = EQ Boosts lows, Muff kills them.

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:10:52 +0000

I was wondering how this pedal would compare to the standard Muff Pi combined with the Knock Out (with the Knock Out used to boost low freq.)