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Quest for the elusive Muff

DjangoKid

DjangoKid

Feb 27, 2013
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Tacoma, WA
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I love the Muff. It's the only kind of overdrive/fuzz that will always be on my board.

My first and only Muff so far is a Wren & Cuff Tall Font Russian. It was chosen based on the positive reviews here and elsewhere. I can say that it sounds perfect as an overdrive but gets a little lost in the mix at higher distortion levels, a known trait common to the circuit.

Now I want to find what for me is the perfect Muff (I'm not really certain what that is). I have a Stomp Under Foot Civil Unrest coming my way thanks to an unlikely accepted offer on Reverb. My plan is to do a comparison and flip one to fund a COG Grand Tarkin to do battle with the winner of this round.

I think this would be a good time to get a cheap recording setup and share with you guys too. Any help on that front would be welcome (I know nothing) and any other input as well. Has anyone done this?
 
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I love my ehx civil war..and even though people seem to knock them for bass, My '79 v3 muff is killer also. Also just scored a boss ls-2 in the TB classifieds to blend a little clean in with the fuzz and its pretty killer
 

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mmbongo said:
JHS Muffuletta. Get all the Muffs in one box! I love this bad boy. Of course I've had most of the others as well and loved them too. My other stand out favorites were the Wren & Cuff Box of War and Stomp Under Foot Civil War. But that Muffuletta is just so darn versatile and just drips with muffy goodness.
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Man that muffuletta does seem pretty awesome. That good huh?
 
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My green Sovtek and black Sovtek work well whether isolated or being tracked, and, as was mentioned a few posts ago, an LS2 can easily put you back in the mix with more of your dry (base/bass!) signal blended back in. In a loud and crowded live setting, an eq boost in the 600-750 range and another in the 1.7-ish range also help, with my current cab setup.
 
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I've been loving my TFR but I have noticed I have to really crank the volume to get it to be heard. Its got a glorious tone. I've wanted to try the SUF Civil War but in due time, I'm good in the muff department for now.
 
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gregmon79 said:
Man that muffuletta does seem pretty awesome. That good huh?
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It's gooood. Great thing is all the different Muffs within. Sometimes you want higher gain or lower gain, sometimes you want brighter or darker...they're all there. Normally I like a Civil War Muff, but I find that running by B7K into one overloads it and turns it to mush. On the Muffuletta I just switch to a lower gain Muff and it kills. It's also nice being able to use different ones for guitar.
 
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mmbongo said:
It's gooood. Great thing is all the different Muffs within. Sometimes you want higher gain or lower gain, sometimes you want brighter or darker...they're all there. Normally I like a Civil War Muff, but I find that running by B7K into one overloads it and turns it to mush. On the Muffuletta I just switch to a lower gain Muff and it kills. It's also nice being able to use different ones for guitar.
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How's the low end the majority of them?? Is the green/Black Russian the only one it's good on? I was GASn hard for the muffuletta when I first heard about it. But it died pretty quickly, I'm very happy with my fuzz n muff selections at the moment. Didn't see the alarm to spend almost $300 on new muff. Even if it has like 5 of them in one.
 
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