Last week or so, I watched “Fuzz: The Sound That Changed the World“. Really cool documentary on the fuzz pedals.. and about the people that build them. In that movie, there was a small clip of J. Mascis and his Big Muff collection, it was pretty awesome. I wish they had more footage of the collection and him talking about it, but here is a quick shot of his collection of older vintage Big Muffs.
As you can see, it’s a pretty hefty collection of older Rams Head, Triangle Muffs, etc. Pretty cool. Yesterday, someone tweeted about a Rams Head Big Muff on eBay, so I had to take a quick look. This, of course, led me to think how it stacks up with Big Muffs of today. I went to YouTube, and started my search, and what always seems the case, there is a Gearmanndude video that is exactly what I was looking for.
Here we have Gearmanndude comparing the Rams Head Big Muff vs. the Big Muff of today:
So how did you think it sounds? Definitely different.
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12 years ago
I think the price for the ram’s head was a little high considering the condition of the case, but the good thing is that it works perfectly. I recently got that fuzz documentary from netflix. Probably watched it about 20 times already. It inspired me to pick up a vintage foxx tone machine, vintage univox superfuzz, and a vintage fender blender. Think im going to ebay my boss me70 and jackson dinky to grab some more vintage pedals. Anyhow it might take me some time but i would love to do a review, and maybe even a youtube video. Gearmandude is my hero!
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12 years ago
Tony.. that’s cool. vintage stuff is fun. That fuzz vid is great. Seen it a few times too. Another route.. that can be fun is build clones of those vintage boxes. They’re not 100% true due to design changes/variations.. and especially components, but you can come up with some great stuff… and they’re pretty darn easy.
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12 years ago
Actually BYOC is what first peaked my interest in vintage pedals. I bought a prebuilt BYOC leeds fuzz a while back. It’s a little louder and not as warm as my univox superfuzz, but its still an amazing pedal. As soon as I learn how to solder I intend to start building my own. Let me know if you have any good resources for beginning pedal builders.
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