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01-14-2019, 08:25 AM
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Traingle Muff Fuzz Review
 Well, now. The first reviews started coming out in November and I decided to put the new Triangle Big Muff Pi reissue from ElectroHarmix on my Christmas list. My lovely wife obliged so I've had the pedal for a while and have had a chance to run a pretty good chunk of guitars through it. Perhaps I can offer a perspective that will be useful to folks on the board here. You can always find someone else who will be more obsessive/compulsive about history and/or comparison, but I suppose I have a more pedestrian approach, and besides, how wordy should you get about a three-knob fuzz? Whatever the case, my review is offered up HERE, for those who wish to indulge and find out if the pedal is worth your pennies. Enjoy!!! Bob
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01-14-2019, 10:40 AM
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bob: great review, as usual. would be interesting to do an a/b with an original.
i use a fulltone fulldrive 3 that has both overdrive and boost. glorious tones. play music!
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01-14-2019, 11:52 AM
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If you follow the link in my review to Kit Rae's Muff Fuzz page you can see what he thought of it. He had collected seven or eight original Triangle Muffs and allowed Mike Matthews of EHX to sample them. Mike apparently decided to use one of Kit's as the exemplar that they based the reissue on. Kit compares them pretty well.
Bob
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01-14-2019, 12:32 PM
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Great review. I recently watched a documentary that seems to be recently done about Electro-Harmonix on YouTube. Interesting company. Interesting owner.
I asked in another thread if anyone had experience with the Green Russian Big Muff as the local used guitar emporium had (emphasis on had) one for sale. I ended up getting a used Boss Blues Driver BD-2 for 50 bucks.
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01-16-2019, 08:21 AM
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I had a green Russian Muff but that was when I was a dumb kid. I never could get any useful tones out of it and one day it broke so I simply threw it in the trash... If only I had known I could get 400 bucks for it today.
Since then I've tried a few others and finally settled in on a violet rams head clone. It's more of a fuzz then anything but not like a death fuzz either. Muff's are the best.
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01-16-2019, 11:03 AM
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I have an original that was already well used when I bought it in the '70s, and a green Russian version from the '90s. I actually prefer the green one - sound is roughly the same, but it's less noisy than the big '70s metal can. Nothing does the cello/violin sustain thing like a Big Muff.
Nice review.
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01-16-2019, 11:39 AM
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Nice review (as usual for you). I always look forward to them.
I made great use of a Ram's Head version for a couple of decades before I retired my stomp boxes and went guitar-cord-amp (though with the amp having tremolo). Now I'm thinking of setting up a pedal-board again (I had one brief revival of that idea nearly a decade ago) and I've just ordered the triangle version you reviewed due to it's smaller size and, I hope, nice sonic flavor. Like you mention, I kept the volume below Noon on mine, usually going into a clean channel Fender amp.
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01-16-2019, 03:17 PM
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Bob
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"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' " Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring THE MUSICIAN'S ROOM (my website)
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