Electro-Harmonix Op Amp Big Muff - Demo
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Check out this demo and review of the Op Amp Big Muff by Electro-Harmonix, the pedal that Smashing Pumpkins made famous on their groundbreaking album, Siamese Dream. Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE. Just follow this link to my UA-cam channel:
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Time Codes
0:00 Intro Jam
1:07 Pedal Intro
2:20 Pedal Overview
4:09 Sound Demonstration
8:15 Outro
Gear:
Microphone: @512Audio Limelight Dynamic Broadcast Mic
Mic Pre: Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter CL-1
Interface: @UniversalAudio Volt 276
IR: Two Notes Torpedo Captor X
Guitar: Greco EG500 (LP Copy MIJ)
Pickups (Bridge): Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates
Strings: @ernieballinc
Amp: @OrangeAmplifiers TH30
Cabinet: @OrangeAmplifiers PPC412 (Simulated by Two Notes Torpedo Captor X)
Pedalboard: @Pedaltrain Jr.
Pedal Power: MXR iso-brick
Pedal Switching: @TheGigRigDaniel Quartermaster
Cables: @MogamiCable
Straps: @CouchGuitarstraps
Picks: @jimdunlopusa
Really enjoying your channel. Look forward to seeing more!
Awesome, thank you for the kind words! More demos on the way!
The tone circuit is responsible for the Muff's infamous mid scoop (as is apparent in this video), so disabling the tone circuit helps solve that without needing to boost the mids with another pedal. But I guess you could say it detracts from the character of the pedal somewhat.
Thanks for sharing @bilb3786 and for tuning in.
True. I've modded a NYC Big Muff with the Tone Bypass circuit (among other mods) and I find it particularly useful on solos, not so much on rhythm.
Watched a video from Stew Mac on this mod. I wasn't sure if that's where I wanted to the tone to got, but yeah they are super scooped. Not sure if that's a problem yet. haha.
Great video and demo. Really enjoy the way you present information
Thank you very much! Thanks for tuning in. More on the way.
I've just got one and you have reinforced my choice. Thanks my brother from Warren 😎
Right on!
You got some seriously great tones here. Liked, subscribed, now checking out your other videos.
Awesome, thank you!
Cool review🔥🔥
Thanks! 👍
Ive had an op amp muff for ages, it makes my little amp sound genuinely broken and very few other pedals can do that. i have a theory that its because its a solid state amp so technically its like 9 op amp stages hitting each other (including the active tone stack) when you add the muff. Idk im waffling lol cool pedal
I’ve had mine a few years now and I don’t see it going anywhere. I’m running it into a Klon clone now and it’s found new life.
Sorry for the glitchy audio. Still working out some bugs. Thanks for tuning in 🎉
I run an Origin Effects RevivalTrem into it as a clean boost. Using the EQ on that, I boost mids and highs and keep the Op Amp Big Muff Tone on to help dial in the frequencies after that
Happy 100 subs :)
Thank you @micahseymour2142!!!
Since I Brought the Op Amp Big Muff Reissue a few years ago, It has Defiantly been my favourite Big Muff Reissue of all Time, beside trying to sound like the Smashing Pumpkins It's Defiantly a pedal for Those Grunge, stoner, doom & shoegaze tone
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Amen. I’m a huge Hum fan, so I dig playing those riffs through it also.
@@andrewjohnolsen definitely a fan of HUM and Deftones, also I Think op amp big muff would be good to play in the meantime by spacehog
In the Meantime is a jam.
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I love mine, it's so huge and mean sounding but it's scooped nature just gets so lost in the mix. I wish the toggle was a three way switch like the Keeley Moon fuzz.
Have you tried boosting it before or after? I have the same gripe about the scooped mids. 3 way toggle would be nice. Thanks for tuning in.
@@andrewjohnolsen I have but I just haven't found a solution I'm really meshing with yet. Made By Mike makes a very popular clone with a dedicated mids control, I might get one some day...
Get an EQ pedal and push some mids 👍
There we go!
@@andrewjohnolsen Agreed. Throw a OD before it to boost it. That's the way to push these pedals. Or a RAT.
As the Op Amp Muff (IC Muff) has an even lower input impedance (55k vs 130k) than the earlier versions of this pedal which is already very low so it seems like offering a switchable buffer on the front end would be more useful than a tone defeat switch. If they wanted to get totally crazy an active mid boost would have been cool too. You can of course do these things the old school way by using other pedals along with the Muff but they obviously have additional cost and take up space on a pedal board. I suppose a cheap tiny green overdrive clone in front of the Muff would take care of handling the buffering and mid boost tricks pretty well.
It’s funny you mention a switchable buffer, because I’ve noticing some sag lately, and it’s bothering me a bit. Active mid boost would be amazing. Thanks for viewing and sharing @7171jay.
@andrewjohnolsen I owned a Big Muff a million years ago back in the 1980's and found it (to me) unusable for chords, just way too compressed and muffled. Back then in the dark ages most people had no idea about true bypass or buffers or what version of the Muff you even had, to me it was just a big fuzz pedal that didn't do what I wanted it to do. Now I know a hell of a lot more about how stuff actually works and have seen some videos, including yours obviously, on the Muff. The input impedance on them is pretty low so a buffer would certainly help if you want more clarity out of the thing and as well using a substantial mid boost I can imagine would also be a possible improvement to the beast. So either pedals in front of it to achieve that (I suppose your mid boost could be before or after) or a modded Muff Clone that has these things built in would make it a much more useful pedal. I had a tan Ross distortion after the Muff and found that way better but only liked the sound of it along with a very loud tube amp so I eventually sold that as well. Would be interesting to try both of those pedals again but I have found even older original fuzz pedals to be more my thing like the Fuzztone, Super Fuzz, Fuzzface and Tonebenders so I don't know that the Muff even with these tricks would be a sound I would want lately but it would certainly be interesting to check out.
I agree with you on the Muff and chords. I tend to feel most fuzzes are best suited to power chords and individual notes, which is how I tend to use fuzz, but particularly the big muffs.
Yea, I think nearly 100% of people who buy these have some sort of od.
When the tone is off on the pedal, why not use the tone knob on your guitar?
Single coil, bro.
Op Amp turn on is good for listening in headphones but through speakers, turned off is better sounding
Single coil my dude. Single coil.
Some humbuckers can split coil
No.
Is this not a good idea with an LP then? I've just bought it for Smashing Pumpkins tones but I only own an LP at the moment...
@@adamlitchfield3371haha im the same as you brother just enjoy playing music, I have both this pedal and a Les Paul custom, they work great together
it’s op amp on off switch, not tone hahah
That’s what I thought until I read the manual. “Tone switch removes the tone control from the circuit.”
@@andrewjohnolsen oww okay u right, great video btw!
Thanks for tuning in! Appreciate the kind words.
It can work without a tone stack, can't work without an op-amp. Always hated tonestack on muffs, so this is a godsend.