| The Metal Muff is now an integral part of my setup. It's the first distortion which was able to displace my beloved ODB-3 (Right: so now everyone stops reading on, because I'm an ODB-lover). It's not that it 'sounds like an ODB', but I mean it cuts through a band mix as well as an ODB-3.
One thing's for sure - it's much, much less noisy than an ODB.
Anyway - lately, I've been valuing the Metal Muff even more. I've set up a killer 'bass plus guitar' sound, using a POG into the MMuff for the guitar-half.
It goes like this: Bass into an NS-2 Noise supressor. Send on NS-2 goes to a CS-3 compressor. CS-3 out goes to the input of an LS-2 line switcher. Loop#2 of the the LS-2 contains POG into MMuff (loop#1 is left open, which is the same as a 'clean bypass'). The output of the mixer goes to the return on the noise supressor.
Now with the LS-2 set to the 'mix' setting, knob#1 is the bass-part, and knob#2 is the guitar-part (I run noon on #1 and about 9:30 on #2). The POG is set with +1-octave near full, and +2-octave a little lower (the regulars; not the detunes). The MMuff is set with the top boost off, the outuput at about 9:00, and the tone knobs all near.. like 1:30-ish.
Now the resulting sound is very good! I mean it sounds very much like guitar playing along with a bass, especially in a live band mix. The Metal Muff creates such rich harmonics... I'm thinking that many who say 'you have to have like a 1-5 (note plus a fifth) power chord (like a Unibass) for it to sound like a rythm guitar playing along' might think twice when they hear the rich, chiming set of harmonics that come out of this rig.
To change the 'guitar to more of a Metal tone, the mids control gets moved to about 10:00, and the volume goes to noon. This is also close to the setting I use for 'just plain bass distortion' sound.
Now here's a cool bonus: this entire processing rig fits into a six-place Boss pedalboard case! ..If you crowd a couple of the boss pedals, and run the MMuff sideways on the left end. Now with that I should admit that I actually always run an aphex Bass Xciter between the pedalboard and the amp... And often an RE-20 echo/reverb in there somewhere too.
I love my Metal Muff.
Joe | 
