Mike's Pedal Thread

[Mike]

£75

[robert(original)]

duder, i don;t know how you can dick around with those scratch pcbs, they would make my brain hurt since im used to using the pro style green ones.
but then again, you are a pro and im a novice so im sure that you are well versed in these ways.

[Mike]

PCBs make sense if you're making a lot of standard designs like you guys do.

I build to order, so a lot of what I do is customised in some way, so it would make less sense for me to get PCBs made.

I enjoy the veroboard process to be honest, but that probably makes me weird.

Definitely have to post this fantastic video Hurb made of his IC Muff:
[youtube][/youtube]

[robert(original)]

word, i mean, we do 5 boards at a time, making ours easier to work with just for the repition aspect, but doing sinlge order jobs it would be silly.
im just saying man, you are a fucking loon, but a great goddamn loon for what you do. i feel like i should dig out my saltbooster and look at the guts now...

[kim]

mike what's teh most bass heavy distortion you're doing ? too much fuzz in my pedals i need something tiiight.
something dark sounding.

[Mike]

Umm.. I'm not sure what you mean, can you find a sound example?

[stewart]

Green muff w/ tone switch? Big bottomz.

[kim]

lol sorry, just hurb's post and the fact i've been after a cheap distortion pedal that doesn't sound like it eats mids and all hissy you know. just something tight enough for tighter/fast metal/punk sounds, not like a boss metalzone, used to have one, it's good for metal i kinda liked it but sounds a bit too sterile, and a big muff is too hairy/undefined for anything but powerchords...so more or less inbetween those two..dark distortion with a bit of hair/character. i know this post sounds like a mess haha. i was after a dod death metal, it made me smile when i tried it at a friend's but still not totally it, and not gonna bother with eq pedals. i like the distortion on my rocker but for silent recording i've nothing but fuzz no distortion and the simulator on garageband sounds so fake.

[Bacchus]

Have you thought about the Boss OCD, Kim? Or it's Behringer counterpart? It's great. Really tight and detailed sound despite being really, really gainy. Heavy as fuck.

This is a bit of a derail, sorry.

[crowleyisamuff]

And I should point out, that layout was almost entirely crowley's work: I just adapted it from WordArt (*spit*) to Illustrator.

And painstakingly coloured in all the fucking text.

Thank you both a bit late, but this pedal is class! There is extra horrible fuzz noise when Tomassi suffers from withdrawal symptoms, oh and my mam think's it's loud

[Mike]

haha glad you're enjoying it - I make 'em loud, them Fender Blenders.

[Mike]

New builds:

[Mike]

[taylornutt]

That IC Muff looks sexy with the Large Jaguar knobs and the SaltShaker in blue with white knobs reminds me of my Baja Tele. Very Cool. What's the Black box?

I hope someone buys and demos your Ram's Head Muff soon. I really want to hear that compared to the IC muff.

[Mike]

Yeah I liked the way those ones came out too.

The Black Box is a Green Muff with a tone bypass toggle.

[Mike]

More work this weekend before I started hacking up gunk off my chest.

Smashing Pumpkins themed IC Muff





A couple more standard IC Muffs








And a personalised Germanium Fuzz Face



Group shots:

[Haze]

Looks like those IC muffs have been good business, glad to see the weekly updates.

[Bacchus]

Aye. In fairness, if your name is known and trusted on all these guitar forums and beyond, and you start making that Muff, it's only ever going to sell like fuck. Good idea, that.

The black one is really black. I like it.

[Mike]

Yeah people seem to be into it, and in all fairness it does nail that Siamese Dream sound, I can't help but run through about 3 or 4 of the riffs I can hamfistedly play when I test them.

Cheers guys.

[serfx]

Yeah I liked the way those ones came out too.

The Black Box is a Green Muff with a tone bypass toggle.

and.. i want it, how much?