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I've got the Donner version en route. Will report on sondz.

Behringer VD-1 Vintage Distortion

Biyang Fuzz Star - same as the Akai, GFS, and a dozen others with that 3 mode switch. The switch really just does volume stuff. I just shipped mine to Richard, but I dug it.

Guyatone HD-2. Tone is wired as being permanently halfway, which is where it belongs anyway.

MOEN FUZZ MOO


Looks ridiculous. Haven't played one though. Sounds powerstarved with certain settings according to youtube demos.

I couldn't get that thing to sound like a muff if my life depended on it. DID NOT LIEK.

Yeah, imma catch some flak for it but I traded a NYC BMP for it straight up because the muff wouldn't fit on that pedalboard I sold your nephew. It sounded so much the same to my less trained ears in the store at the time.

I still have the octoplus you sold him.

I'm still on the lookout for a Muff clone that can do palm mutes. I tried building my own to a Ram's Head circuit that Mike posted up ages ago and it works fine apart from a gated decay, which hints at mismatched trannies or some other stupid soldering mistake. It has plenty of volume on tap but won't kick my MBM IC muff off my board and I'm not sure I can be arsed to fix it with so many other things to get done.

I don't buy into the idea that ram's head/triangle era are inherently *better*, but the more transparent, crisper sound is something I'd like to use every now and then. Are any of these cheap-and-cheerful boxes clones of those early units, or are they based off the Russians and modern reissues?

Mooer/Donner/Eno is triangle muff.

Maxon Fuzz elements "Earth" (Ram's Head Muff)




TL;DR, so listen at :35 and 2:10

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ULTRA JUST CRUSHED IT

This one got a few of us feverishly wanking back in the day on JS. I remember Matt and Sia[meseDreamer] were really fond of them. Based on gain-reduction mod for green muff...? Aimed at Pumpkins fans when the green and black Sovteks were all you could get, in any case.

theshadowofseattle wrote:ULTRA JUST CRUSHED IT

AND I WANT THEM ALL, don't you?

So glad to see that The Japanese Maxon is still so meticulous and thorough in designing/building these things, their pedals are always expensive but you're guaranteed to get good stuff. Among the bunch, the Bee-Baa and Scrambler Clones in particular sound exactly as I remember hearing the ones I've played/owned.

pretty good and pretty cheap is this thing:

Excellent info here Shad, Andi and all - I'll include all this info in the 'list of cheap pedals' thrad when I can be arsed.

Nick wrote:

SHAD: I have one of these lying around that I'll sell you. Say, $100?

theshadowofseattle wrote:Behringer VD-1 Vintage Distortion

This is a turd in a metal box... shockingly bad pedal.