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johnnyseven wrote:I can do that no probs, it'll have to be a written comparison as I have no means of recording visuals or sound

That seems crazy in this day-n-age.

I agree but unfortunately I have no recording equipment (looking to get something soon though when I buy a new laptop) and I have a poobags phone whose video facility isn't so good.

johnnyseven wrote:and I have a poobags phone

You're off the hook for this phrase alone

I managed to have a brief go with my MBM Green Muff and band practice tonight and also managed to compare it to my EQD Hoof. This is my first propoer review on here so I hope it's ok. By the way my Green Muff has a blend knob, to blend a Saltboosted clean sound with the distorted sound, a mids knob and a diode lift switch.

My favourite sound from the Hoof is with the distortion at 12 (o'clock), tone at 3 and shift (mids) at 9 - the shift works in the opposite way to the mids on the MBM. I had the Hoof volume at about 10 and the MBM was nearly all the way up. I could get a very similar tone from the MBM with the tone and mids all the way up and the distortion at about 1 o'clock and the diode switch up, I didn't test at differing volumes. The sound was so similar that I couldn't really tell the difference. Obviously the Hoof has more treble and mids available than the MBM, it also has way more volume - however the volume on the MBM seems to increase as the distortion level increases, which the Hoof doesn't seem to do. I think the Green Muff also had more gain available.

In general the Hoof seems to have more, what I call, 'prescence' and the tone control isn't as drastic, the tone on the MBM goes from a nice trebly sound when fully clockwise to, to my ears, a dull or muffled sound very quickly - the Hoof seems smoother. The Hoof also seems to have a tighter bass sound.

I managed to replicate my favourite Hoof sound pretty well on the MBM Green Muff and with some tinkering you could probably do the same with other sounds. However the limits of the volume, tone and mids control means that you won't be able to recreate everything that the Hoof can do.

I hope this helps.

haha there is something so odd about your setup that saps treble, I've never known anyone to run the tone control wide open on a Muff before, it's normally transistor radio territory!

Bear in mind your Custom Muff also has the Blend circuitry there which will affect the amount of output available to a certain extent, even when blended "fully Muff". A Green Muff stock with mids control will have much more output available.

I am playing a Bassman, maybe that has something to do with it.

thanks for the write up J7, sounds interesting