Electro Harmonix Deluxe Big Muff PI

This pedal is an amazing deal! I have always been into big muffs but the original design and variants are not always very responsive when you're dialing in your tone.

What I love about this pedal is that you get the classic NYC Muff sound if you only use the 3 classic knobs in the normal mode.
For added versitility, the bass boost function really gives my single coils depth.
The attack really helps bringing clarity into chordal work. I also use fuzz pedals while playing some chords or filling certain passages and with a regular Big Muff, there would be no note clarity for more complex chords. Not with this unit, chords are much clearer with the attack knob maxed.
Due to the nature ofbig muffs, they are really noisey. With the added gate knob, this is no longer a problem. It is extremely sensitive and I usually use it before 3 o'clock. If I want really prominent staccatofuzz sound, I just pump up the gate knob and get really gated fuzz sounds.

Another inovative feature I really like to use is the Mids part of this pedal. I have at least three ways I like to use it: As a normal mid boost, as a clarity enhancer or as a dramatic effect. You can really sweep through those mid frequencies and dial just the right amount.

If used with an expression pedal, it yelds some some frequency sweeping sounds just like a wah would. I usually set it and leave it but you can change it on the fly should you wish.

I woudn't change anything to this pedal. It's clear, noise free, fairly priced , has a low current draw and is realiable and durable.Amazing sound and quality we have come to expect from Electro Harmonix.

It's a Big Muff Pi with some extra goodies that you'll find to be quite tasty. If you have previously owned a Big Muff, you'll end end up scratching your head thinking: "why in all hell didn't they make this pedal before?"

There is a lot of tone sculpting with this one to keep you entertained and then some.
There is also an extra IN for an expression pedal to make things even more fun, In essence it gives you not only the Big Muff sound but a Fuzz Wah as well. If you leave the expression pedal parked when activating the secondary channel you get a second fuzz to jump to. e

Do your self and your tone a favor and get this pedal. You will not regret it.

UPDATE:

Sadly, the pedal died after a few rounds of use. And here's the funny thing:

at the time I bought it, I didn't have a pedalboard, so I used it on my desk and activated and deactivated it with my thumb.
The pedal started acting up [it wouldn't start immediately and the fuzz would ramp up slowly till it reached the gain I set it for. Then, it just died.

It's sad really because it sounded really great.

Thomann was kind enough to offer me a return in money or a chance to pick another product and I ended up picking the Ditto x2 back then [an excellent choice for a looper newb, I might add].

If I was certain that EHX had their QC in good order I would buy more of their products [by the way, I love their products and ideas] but I simply don't trust their build quality.

Excellent.Ive heard about the Big Muff for years but never bothered to check one out.I was pleasently suprised by the sound of this pedal. I play a downtuned Gibson Les Paul Baritone and it sounds really good through this pedal.I use it through a Laney Lionhart i also purchased from Thoman and together it is a great combination.You can get great Stoner/Rock/Doom sounds and even good metal sounds if you play around with it.The controls are easy to work out and are a great addition to the ones on a normal Big Muff pedal. They give excellent control to your sound and make it easy to create a great tone.I highly recommend this pedal.As always the service from Thoman is great.

This was my third muff in my pedal collection, after previously getting the Green Russian and Rams Head (both of these are great too, but I need other external pedals to shape their sound to my taste). I’m looking for these long sustaining lead tones. Usually fuzz tends to get brittle and losing tightness which I don’t really like, but this pedal has great mid frequency control, which can tighten those low ends and make melodies cut through the mix. I boost it sometimes with a tube screamer or with an EQ pedal to further sound shaping and it has become my main lead pedal. I usually plug it into a slightly overdriven clean pedal platform amp, like the Marshall Origin 20 head, or Laney and it’s pure joy to my ears.

I've got three different versions of the big muff: the little big muff, the deluxe big muff, and the deluxe bass big muff. I love the sound of a big muff, and I was hoping this would be a hug step up in usability. A lot of the additional features look like great ideas on paper, but are not executed well. The additional feature do offer some usable tonal options, but don't work very nicely. For example, I was hoping the mid eq would help me get a muff like tone that still cuts through in the mix, but the mid eq is kind of bad sounding and changes the tone in a way that sticks out badly. It only really works with very gentle settings. The same thing is true of most of the other setting too. They have to be set so that they are almost not doing anything. The gate is way too audible. I wish it had a smoother setting. The attack knob makes the tone sort of open up, as if the high frequencies were suddenly being let through more, but it also can get kind of nasty sounding and stops sounding like a big muff. I wish that Electro-Harmonix would instead just design a really good sounding 3 band eq for it and put a blend knob on it, but after using their Overlord pedal, I'm not sure they know how to make a good 3 band eq. I will keep this on my pedal board for now. If you are thinking about getting this deluxe version, try to play one in person first, and lower your expectations. It is a lot more expensive than the standard big muffs, but the features only make it a tiny bit more versatile.

I play in a band that covers a lot of early 1990s pop punk and power pop and so the use of a EHX Big Muff Pi is important in songs by Weezer and Green day in the band. I love the tone of the Big muff in general but it has a well known problem for not cutting through a band mix very well for solos and getting lost within the bass guitar and drums.
EHX have solved this problem brilliantly with the deluxe big muff.. one side of the pedal is the big muff you know and love, and is identical to my current pedal, however it is the mid boost and cut section that has been added that really makes this pedal worth the money. It gives you a second foot switch that when pressed can cut or boost your selected part of the mid range frequency, meaning you have 2 muff sounds on seperate pedals, and meaning you can set a solo tone that boost the mids and really cuts through the mix in a band setting. No more need to put a tubescreamer type pedal in front of the muff to get it to stand out. Also includes a noise gate and a pick attack section on the boost - meaning you can really dial in two seprate tones on your you big muff pedal - brilliant upgrade to a classic! Dare i say the definitive big muff pedal? I think so!

Best distrutionen! There are a number of dist. but there are two features that this is like me (playing electric trumpet) especially enjoy using this stompbox my floor pedal systems. 1 / A good gate that prevents the "acoustic noise" starts running when I'm not playing the trumpet. 2 / I have no wa-wa pedal, because the use of an external expression pedal to my Delux SLEEVE works as An incredibly wa-wa (filter sweep). It is quiet and works really well in all the different contexts I work as a professional trumpet player. Vsisst. It is a little bigger / wider than most dist. stomp box, but it is really worth the few extra centimeters. A professional stomp box in my professional reality.