Big Muff VST

[RunBeerRun]

http://ele4music.com/vst/efm-muff.zip

Cool, I'll try it out!

Edit: not bad, sounds like basic distortion into a high pass filter.

[pattonfreak1]

take the worst distortion vst you can find,
but it will be better than Big Muff...

Oh man, just f**k off, seriously, you stupid f**king dumb person. How can you POSSIBLY have any backside left to f**king talk out of?

Is this board absolutely fed up with this Village Idiot or what?

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH BOYEEEEEEEEE!

[Sickle]

[pandashake]

Is that in the Reaktor Library, Sickle?

[shamann]

Alan lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife Lisa and her two daughters, Tabitha and Brittni, three cats, four Guinea pigs, a lop-eared rabbit, a giant Labrador called Harrow and an 18-hand Clydesdale called Dante.

And a parsons in a pear treeeeeeeeeee.

Don't know if it makes a difference to anyone, but Audio Damage's Fuzz+ is based on a MXR pedal, not an EH.

[Hink]

Alan lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife Lisa and her two daughters, Tabitha and Brittni, three cats, four Guinea pigs, a lop-eared rabbit, a giant Labrador called Harrow and an 18-hand Clydesdale called Dante.

And a parsons in a pear treeeeeeeeeee.

Don't know if it makes a difference to anyone, but Audio Damage's Fuzz+ is based on a MXR pedal, not an EH.

first , second thanx for that, I might try it tonite...

[pinkjimiphoton]

take the worst distortion vst you can find,
but it will be better than Big Muff...

you obviously don;t know big muffs, dude...
i;ve used them since about 1970, and for what they do, NOTHING else comes close.

and there isn;t a vst in existance that can even come close/

[pinkjimiphoton]

take the worst distortion vst you can find,
but it will be better than Big Muff...

I can't even begin to tell you how much I agree with that...much of my "guitar thinking" goes against today's conventional wisdom so it is no surprise that this one does too. Honestly in the 70s and 80s around here no guitar player over the age of 15 that I knew would admit to using one. In fact EH itself was considered by many to be toy makers. I often compare it to Hondo guitars of that era, but bear in mind that when I thought like that I was in my late teens and early 20s. I threw my Big Muff out a window with great glee, these days nostalgia has made EH more than it ever was.

Keep in mind that at one point there fuzz was a new concept and there was not the vast choices we have today for pedals. Quickly though Dunlop, Maestro, Morley and MXR made their mark and EH was the "el cheapo" models.

On top of that you had to like fuzz to begin with, as a kid I was of the thought it was the only kind of distortion available for guitar. When I got my first tube amp I finally learned that overdrive was much better for my needs than fuzz.

A lot of people do not know that there was two other versions in the Muff series, the little big muff and I think the other was baby muff or mini muff...I really can't remember but a little googling will find it. It actually had a 1/4" plug coming out of it and you plugged the whole box into your amp jack. I put the guts from one of those in my guitar and it was my first (and worst) pre-amp. The best of the muff series was the little big muff.

I imagine Rene that you could make a fuzz vst better than the any EH in your sleep, unfortunately a lot of people like to romanticise that crap and do not understand that technology has improved distortion for guitars by leaps and bounds since the original Big Muff.

Okay KvR shoot me down now, it always happens when I say this about EH...but back in the day it really wasn't all that

dude, you are SO full of shit!
the tiny box you refer to was a muff fuzz, and it was just an op amp set for eternal gain.

the linear power boosters also had a plug attached...almost the same circuit.

but big muffs were and are used by some of the finest guitarists on the planet...because nothing else sounds like them.

whether punishing a clean toned amp with fuzz, or overdriving a distorted amp, they are equally valid.

if you are a guitarist that knows how to use one, and understands the knobs on your guitar aren;t just there to look pretty, you can get damn near anything out of them, from brittle glassy clean to smooth sustain to out and out pure square wave raunch.

if it's good enough for gilmour, ....nuff said.

[xoxos]

http://ele4music.com/vst/efm-muff.zip

got anything more venturesy? i'm asking preemptively for cg surf rock session this weekend.

[vurt]

who knew muff would be so controversial?

[xoxos]

who knew muff would be so controversial?

don't mess around dude this is GUITARS. and some of the participants are known americans.

[vurt]

careful with them there axes...

[pandashake]

who knew muff would be so controversial?

Hell hath no fury like...

[pinkjimiphoton]

there is a difference between distortion and fuzz

Could you explain the differences?

easily.
a fuzz is a schmitt trigger, basically a preamp with diodes to clip the top and bottom of the waveform.
they sound very buzzy to almost flatulent, that's why they are called fuzz..
it is an unmistakable sound.
fuzzes also tend to be ridiculously dynamic.

distortion can be achieved many ways, but is usually created by cascading gain stages into overdrive and adding filtering and eq.
distortion can almost sound "clean" in certain circumstances,and are oten not as dynamic as overdrives or fuzz.

in the case of a big muff, you have ( depending on the version) a combination of a preamp, a fuzz AND a distortion.
it uses diode clipping ( i usually replace them with jumbo red led's for more buzz/crunch)as well as cascaded gain stages which gives it a huge and wooly sound unlike the majority of distortion devices..
a big muff also has compression similar to a cranked marshall.
indeed, that was the point of it in the first place, to immitate the sound of a marshall dimed.

they were consideed an essential art of most guitarist's rigs, and were specifically advised back in the 70's by things like the heavy guitar bible.

they are a specific flavour of distortion that is ridiculously useful.

[tomg]

http://ele4music.com/vst/efm-muff.zip

got anything more venturesy? i'm asking preemptively for cg surf rock session this weekend.

Sorry.. So far no. IMO the only thing in software that even gets close to a surf guitar sound is the Line6 gearbox.