Jero wrote:frigid midget wrote:It's a decent muff variant, but not much more than that impo. Plenty of controls, but it's not that insanely versatile...A well tuned muff type fuzz doesn't need any silly 'scoop' or 'crunch' controls imo, they're useless when you go too far from the center position, and only need minor tweaking if you switch amps/gtrs. Still just one or two sweet spots imo, the tone shaping options easily make things either too dark/muddy, or too harsh/brite, with limited useful range.
Don't pay too much attention to my opinion thoug, I have a horrible love/hate thing going with muffs, they're just not for me I guess...
I'm going to agree 100%
though I like muffs...thundercloud and plus ultra that I use are very diff, but also seem different from other muffs too...maybe I like a certain type and don't realize which it is
Yeah I actually think that's what it comes down to for me as well...Muffs seem to be picky with amps, guitars, volume, other pedals, my mood,...
The closest I came to keeping a muff: Musket (another case of too many annoying useless controls, a pet peeve of mine I guess). And than there was also this old Maxon D&S, from the '70s. Looked old and secksy, and sounded rad too. But I was too lazy to mod it for true bypass, a DC, and a led, plus I sorta missed the extra gain that the Musket had.
So yeah, Larssonn dude...I'd vote for the Musket. More 'useful' low end, more gain/bite,...Smaller footprint than the SP too, if that's at all a concern. Like I said though, don't ask me why it has two seperate controls for the gain, and the 'focus' control is rrrrreally subtle, if even that.
Still, way more versatile than the SP impo, really useable across the whole gain range, and the eq sorta gives you different muff versions/era's impo.
If it's an "unpredictable fuzz" you're after though...A muff would probably be my last choice