JHS Russian Muff Reissue -- Thoughts?

Looks like a great way to ruin an awesome pedal.

 

Assuming they don't ruin your pedal when doing the mod. It's your money if you want to give it a shot but it isn't something I'd do.

 

Sounds like you've made up your mind. I don't care for the side knob myself, but my band's guitarist has a lot of JHS-modded pedals and they all work fine.

 

dOIT

 

I thought about it but went with the original. I needed a good fuzz tone. Not a bunch of fuzz tones. Just set it and forget it. So saved some cash because there is always the next pedal. Oh and the next and the next and the next......

 

Since the mods are essentially bypassed with the extra knob on 10 and the mode switch in the middle, you have nothing to lose if you don't find use of the extras.

 

Ugh, side knobs.

 

I hate side knobs as well, but in this case there's not much can be done. It's not like JHS can change the main circuit board.

However I never understood why some pedals are designed to have side knobs from the get go.

 

Right?

I think it would be preferable to add a knob to the top, but there might not be room inside. What does the knob on the side do?

 

There probably is isn't room to put the extras anywhere else. The knob and switches are in the area where the battery space is and the voids near the switch. Maybe they can do a smaller pot and locate it in the pedal..?

 

Yeah I was curious about it until I saw what the mods were and was like, really? Lame IMO. The pedal already kicks butt. I do however think that the Alchemy Audio mids/bright mod is the way to go if you did want it modded.

 

Major meh

 

Yeah, after a bit of reading, I'm kinda baffled. The clearly obvious mods to do on a muff are tone bypass and/or mid switch

 

Well, I have a Moscow mod in hand. If the Green Russian sound is IT for you, then the mod seems like a poor choice. The mods take the pedal totally out of the Muff realm. I haven't had my Frazz Dazzler out in a while, but I feel certain there is lots of overlap in the tones of the Frazz Dazzler and the Moscow modes.

Personally, I really like the Moscow mod, a little bit more with passive pups. My first 30 minutes with it, solo, sent me to many varied places, that were sonically rewarding. Fine tweaks on the feedback pot yielded some amazing overtones and octave sounds, in various degrees of instability. Additionally, as has been well documented in this forum, the stock Reissue Green Russian sounds are wonderfully bass appropriate and muffy.

So, if side controls don't give you spasms, and like me, a Moscow mod happens to end up staring you in the face, at a good price, I would not hesitate to check it out.

Sometimes, the less obvious, is more interesting.

 

Seconded. You can run the thing completely stock with the flick of a switch and having gated, synthy and sort of broken sounds as an option in a similarly small footprint is really nice. I like my Moscow modded Muff.

 

The only mod I would want for the Green Russian Reissue is a clean blend.

My recommendation is to pass