jaydentaku Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 EHX have just released info on their new deluxe bass muff. http://www.ehx.com/products/deluxe-bass-big-muff-pi Foot switch for blending dry with distortion signal. Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) Oh! I NEED that now!!! DI out too! Edited December 11, 2012 by bartelby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewheresmybass Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Selling for £89 http://www.effectpowersupplies.com/electro-harmonix-deluxe-bass-big-muff-3677-p.asp I'm really looking forward to giving this a whirl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydentaku Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 I may have to buy this, making the big muff a bit redundant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EskimoBassist Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) DI Out? If this doesn't have speaker emulation on the DI then you're gonna have a bad day. Definitely some cool options on this but I'm still puzzled why it has a direct out. Edited December 11, 2012 by EskimoBassist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxpedal.co.uk Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 We're expecting ours next Monday 17th December. So, no guarantees, but it's looking good we'll be able to get any pre-orders out in time for Christmas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Oh my. GAS attack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) [quote name='EskimoBassist' timestamp='1355264441' post='1896225'] DI Out? If this doesn't have speaker emulation on the DI then you're gonna have a bad day. Definitely some cool options on this but I'm still puzzled why it has a direct out. [/quote] plus the one, not that i think it's going to stop me getting one ! Edited December 11, 2012 by ahpook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismuzz Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Woah... Blend knob and a crossover? Paint job looks awesome too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedaloFred Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Oh bloody hell. Just bought a LS-2 to help blend my Big Muff and now THIS comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima2876 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 LS-2 has two channels I think I'd still prefer Big Muff + LS2... modularity rocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG Flatline Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Not sure about this personally. Every decent boutique Big Muff clone has adjustable mids for a very good reason, not quite sure why they didn't include it on this. The DI out seems pointless for this pedal as well. The Crossover is a nice idea in principle, but having spent a lot of time using a blended crossover on a Big Muff I again can't see it being that useful, certainly not worthy of an extra footswitch though. Overall I don't think it's a big enough improvement over the Bass Big Muff to warrant the extra footprint, and I reckon they would have been better off just improving the BBM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenitram Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 What is crossover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 And I told myself not to buy more pedals!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 [quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1355387848' post='1897566'] What is crossover? [/quote] It works in tandem with the 'blend' function on this pedal - it let's you roll off highs/mids from your clean sound (leaving chunky bass) and filter any messy lows from the distorted sound, so the idea is that you'll get a better balance of the two - fat clean bottom end with big dirty miffed up mids/high end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Any videos of this knocking about yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1355614524' post='1900687'] Any videos of this knocking about yet? [/quote] I keep looking!! Probably still gonna buy it anyway! haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 [quote name='mike257' timestamp='1355432499' post='1898448'] It works in tandem with the 'blend' function on this pedal - it let's you roll off highs/mids from your clean sound (leaving chunky bass) and filter any messy lows from the distorted sound, so the idea is that you'll get a better balance of the two - fat clean bottom end with big dirty miffed up mids/high end. [/quote] That's the idea, but what happens in practice is: - You end up with less volume hitting the fuzz circuit, resulting in less gain and less distortion. - The mids and highs are very compressed due to the fuzz but the lows are not. The heavier you play, the heavier the bass, which might be undesirable. - When you hit that crossover foot switch, expect a volume drop since you are rolling off highs from the clean portion and lows from the fuzz portion. This was my experience of playing around with the original BBM with an SFX X&M crossover blender. In my experience, this particular fuzz retains plenty of low end by itself. A small amount of clean blend is required to add a bit of definition and dynamics to the sound, but using a crossover did not work out for me. Subtle usage of it though could certainly help situations where you have a high output bright active bass and need to both reduce the clean highs slightly to help the signals mesh together and reduce the bass hitting the fuzz to prevent getting overloaded and mushy. Still, at least this version has a proper blend unlike the original which requires modding to make usable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Personally, I think one of the better improvements over their basic muff (depending on how well it's implemented) could be the noise gate. It only takes £2 of parts and 20 mins soldering time to put a master volume on a normal BBM, even for an idiot, and the crossover would seem not to add anything for me personally, so the gate is the only tempter IMO. I would have far preferred them putting a mids pot in (ideally an adjustable frequency one !). But at least they are trying, and showing willing to try and better things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 (edited) It would only take £2 of parts and 20 minutes to add a gate also, if they are using the method from [url]rkerkhof.ruhosting.nl/Taas/Mods/Big%20Muff.htm[/URL]: [quote]Noise gate mod: This mod will quieten the Muff while not playing, thus a noise gate. To do this, add a 100k trimpot (wired as a variable resistor) parallel to the 100k to ground of the second gain stage (R14). The trimpot can be adjusted to taste to get the max noise gate effect.[/quote] Edited December 16, 2012 by dannybuoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1355651505' post='1900844'] It would only take £2 of parts and 20 minutes to add a gate also, if they are using the method from rkerkhof.ruhosting.nl/Taas/Mods/Big%20Muff.htm: [/quote] Hmmm. Interesting. Have you tried this ? Any specific links I can look at with pics etc ? I tried the partial link above but couldn't get anywhere with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 (edited) - Edited February 16, 2022 by Jus Lukin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxpedal.co.uk Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Just to confirm, we now have the Deluxe Bass Big Muff in stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 [quote name='fxpedal.co.uk' timestamp='1355858642' post='1903813'] Just to confirm, we now have the Deluxe Bass Big Muff in stock. [/quote] Please don't tempt me. I'm more then poor now after going on a pedal spree!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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