I never tried the SC, but the Bluebeard is like a really great old school muff, but without the low end loss and the addition of usable frequencies on the tone knob.
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Oh, so the only reason people sell them for 300$ is because of the wait. Gotcha.
The supercollider doesn't loose any low end but I can't compare it to the Bluebeard since I never tried one. The supercollider is very tweakable and has a nice growling after taste.
I've had both. They are nice muff clones. I think the SC is a little nicer build quality, a little more flexible, and a little easier to lay hands on. The bluebeard had just a little more... sparkle/harmonic content in my recall.
My experience with the GGG-tuned Muff (which we found nearly identical to the Bluebeard in another thread), is that it does lose some low end. A swap of a capacitor and resistor in the tone stack helps retain the lows better.
My experience with the GGG-tuned Muff (which we found nearly identical to the Bluebeard in another thread), is that it does lose some low end. A swap of a capacitor and resistor in the tone stack helps retain the lows better.
LONG story short: The Blue Beard PCB board was built by JD Sleep over @ General Guitar Gadgets. Sonny Simpson of Sanford and Sonny hired some people to build batches of the Blue Beard. It is almost identical to the regular GGG-tuned version of the Big Muff Pi kits that General Guitar Gadgets sells.
Do some searching on the forum. There have been a couple threads about the pedal.
You'll have more ability to finetune a sound on the SC over the BB, plus a nicer silkscreen over no paint...
