English Muff'n

[tomhanzo]

Hey Justin hows it going.

So i was looking around your site and found a pic of your board and saw an EHX english muff'n on it.

I was wondering if you could give your take on it, like what you use it for and how it sounds on bass.

 

[jmjbassplayer]

It's good...grainier than I thought, but a cool and hefty low end. Pretty unique voice. Worth trying out.

JMJ

 

[icarussmicarus]

I'd plus one on the grainyness thing. It's weird, its got great low end but the graininess makes it seem like it has artificial treble. When I had mine I would set it treble cut slightly, middle bumped slightly, bass straight up, and it still sounded like it had a mid scoop! It's quite aggressive and would be perfect for the kinda of modern overdrive sound bass players cop in dancey rock stuff. Reminds me of the bassline in Club Foot by Kasabian.

If you wanna hear it live there a clip of my band playing a cover of QOTSA's Feel Good Hit Of The Summer and I have it on the whole time. I'm playing a J bass so it doesn't sound as hefty as Nick's overdriven P.

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[tomhanzo]

I'd plus one on the grainyness thing. It's weird, its got great low end but the graininess makes it seem like it has artificial treble. When I had mine I would set it treble cut slightly, middle bumped slightly, bass straight up, and it still sounded like it had a mid scoop! It's quite aggressive and would be perfect for the kinda of modern overdrive sound bass players cop in dancey rock stuff. Reminds me of the bassline in Club Foot by Kasabian.

If you wanna hear it live there a clip of my band playing a cover of QOTSA's Feel Good Hit Of The Summer and I have it on the whole time. I'm playing a J bass so it doesn't sound as hefty as Nick's overdriven P.

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good cover mate sounded awesome. yeah man i think i may invest in this pedal. What kind of tubes do you run in it Justin? what about you Icaruss?

 

[icarussmicarus]

Stock tubes. It gets TONS of gain when cranked. Full on barnfire fuzz out. So I can't imagine wanting any higher gain tubes. Lower gain tubes might be interesting though since it pushes up into mid gain a bit to early IMO. But I don't know jack about tubes.

 

[tomhanzo]

well i think i may get the tube zipper instead. it has the cool filter and can self osolation.