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Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi XO

Fuzz pedal from Electro-Harmonix belonging to the Big Muff series

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Published on 05/03/13 at 09:04
Value For Money : Excellent
Analog fuzz effect. Built like a tank.
3 knobs: sustain, tone and volume.

UTILIZATION

Adjusting three knobs: ultra classic and easy.

SOUND QUALITY

See below!

OVERALL OPINION

The Little Big Muff is proposed to unnecessary ridiculously low price, so to deny it even if, a priori, it is not necessarily the fan as it gets! I personally have always been a fan, the Big Muff has been my first pedal acquired over 35 years ago now! So finally amazing, I think she is better now and it really pointless to spend triple for a vintage model 70's.
It is now much more versatile because it allows the game rhythm (the sound made was just mush on early models). But where it excels, as in the past, it's good for solos. This pedal, as everyone knows, I suppose, offers endless sustain even at low volume and creamy tones. Whether with a Les Paul or a Stratocaster, it never belies its warmth making it a cheap alternative to the Dunlop Fuzz Face. It reacts quite well to the volume knob on the guitar and even offers a crunch sound really nice and original. Of course, it can not substitute for a true overdrive (MXR, in my case) but this is somehow not what it is. No, Little Big Muff love charged sustain leads, gorged saturation, the furious flights but also lyrical and melodic solos (cuckoo David Gilmour: Here the pedal must be associated with a phaser and a compressor for the solo "Time").
Sensitive and progressive settings allow large variations and sculpt his sound is a breeze. Of course the knob "Sustain" turned fully will certainly need a good Noise Gate, but it is the lot of all high gain pedals and it does not snore as other distortions.
The Farication suffers no negative criticism, at least if you do not mind the boxes a little "as forged". The switching effect is noiselessly.
This pedal is part of the history of modern music, so do not forget to do this, you also part of the story for just one euro fifty!