Behold the King of Muffs (with demo)

[pryde]

Bow to the King of Muffs; seriously this pedal rules  . After mind-numbing experimenting on the breadboard for my ultimate muff I settled on this one. Much of the circuit is from a very early "hand wired" triangle schematic circa 1969 but with a changed tone stack, added AMZ mid pot. I settled on all 2n5088 transistors after going through many options. Notice all the big 1uf and 680n caps that barely fit on the Mudbunny board. The end result is a massive sound that has a ton of texture and pick-attack, exactly what I was after. The tone stack goes from super-scooped to tons of midrange bite. Loving this thing as it sounds great on both a strat or LP.
For the aesthetics I de-faced a "wrinkle black" enclosure from PPP and did a fitting etch on the top. Note the king's robe adorns tiny pi symbols to represent his suit. I also added a custom-etched face plate on the front of the pedal to top it all off.  Have a listen to the quick demo below.












[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/jpparlier/king-of-muffs[/soundcloud]

[lincolnic]

Looks awesome, sounds even better. Great job!

[jimilee]

Sounds great, whats the resistor on the skylift?

[selfdestroyer]

ALL HAIL THE KING!

lol Looks awesome and sounds great. I also biased since I am a sucker for any Big Muff.

[pryde]

Sounds great, whats the resistor on the skylift?

Decided on a tone stack resistor change after completing the build so I poked some sockets into the holes.

[Jakes Dad]

Oh, that is nice! 

I've only got five Muffs (Ram's Head, Violet Ram's Head, Triangle - all on GuitarPCB Muff'n boards; Green Russian - Mudbunny; Creamy Dreamer - aion Halo) built and one in the works (JMK Scuba Muff) - looks like I need to do another.

Chuck

[jimilee]

Is this a clone of the tone wicker muff?

[pryde]

Is this a clone of the tone wicker muff?

No not at all really. The base circuit is from a very early hand-wired version of the triangle muff. I then further tweaked it on the BB with different values on the coupling caps, emitter resistors and limiting resistors. Then changed the entire tone stack values using the Duncan calculator and added Orman's AMZ "presence" control (mids) to the tone stack.

So as much as any other boutique muff variation out there this is my own creation. FYI it has TONS of bottom end due to the large input and coupling caps so it sounds pretty swell with a bass also (IMO)

[jimilee]

Is this a clone of the tone wicker muff?

So as much as any other boutique muff variation out there this is my own creation. FYI it has TONS of bottom end due to the large input and coupling caps so it sounds pretty swell with a bass also (IMO)

You had to go there didn't you? You know I HAVE to build any bass oriented pedal don't you???

[ch1naski]

Pryde, that looks beautiful.
Stupid tapatalk app won't show soundcloud link.

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[murdog47]

Love it! Great job  One of my favorite Muff clips I've heard!

[jrod]

Sounds great! Love the enclosure artwork!

[juansolo]

Like it!

If you want, bung me the parts list and I'll add it to the spreadsheet. I'm all for getting as many muffs as possible into it.

[pryde]

Like it!

If you want, bung me the parts list and I'll add it to the spreadsheet. I'm all for getting as many muffs as possible into it.

Sure thing. I will get a BOM assembled

[slimtriggers]

That looks and sounds fantastic!  I've never been a Big Muff guy, more into Fuzz Faces, but this one has me interested. 

Looking forward to that BOM!