Electro-Harmonix Double Muff

Muff 1 and Muff 2 level knobs , single or double muff mode.
Nice box , missus.

Performs slightly better with humbuckers than single coils.
Also performs slightly better when left in the cupboard rather than connected to a guitar and amp.
Sounds like a broken transistor radio playing through a torn speaker cone , total garbage unless you need a novelty guitar sound.
Bought this on a whim off the net , big mistake , the only use I have for it is as a bass effect , passable for that.

Typical EH build quality , stupid battery access.

Tried to ask them some questions about it , but the boss was busy on his yacht snorting charlie off the top of dwarfs heads , whilst paying peanuts for his overpriced effects to be made in sweatshops in Asia , and selling the to dickh8ads like myself.

Doesnt matter what style of music you play , this pedal is unsuitable.
Dont be misled by the 'Muff' bit , its just that they couldn't call it 'Double Shite'.

It is very easy to use

The sound depends of the need of the player, single muff is very soft booster sound, though the output volume is very high, at the maximum it sounds a little noisy, good for blues rock of the 60 & 70.
both muffs sound very cool especialy at maximum, same output level who's very high.
if both are turned to maximum sometimes a little noise appears, but after all the harmony is excellent also for chords, with a very cool fuzzy sound, I tried to play voodoo chile, purple haze of jimi hendrix and also some rage against the machine and sounded pretty cool especialy if connected with the cry baby (jd original).
it is a little pedal but the sound that comes out is much better than many digital distirtion or ampli booster.

I like to play many styles from classical to jazz, what is important is the harmonic passage from a clean sound to the sound thru' 2muff.
i use a cutaway classical with bband & micro, a fender stratocaster 68, marshal vs, different pedals as chorus flanger cry baby.....
i actualy wanted a fuzzface but was attracted by the low price and and the good quality of this product.

Not much to screw up here. 2 "channels" controled by a switch, the single controlled by one knob and the double is controled by both knobs. It seems to me, on the double channel the Muff 1 knob adds volume more than anything, but the Muff 2 knob controls the fuzz. Ease is a very important factor to me. There is no manual, just a short paragraph on it and that is all you need.

I have a bad setup I have a Daisy Rock, Rock Candy Special (which I love) but I play out of a Randall RH100 G2 head (sux) and some crappy speakers that I am replacing next week. However, it is a stellar upgrade from the amp effects, and after playing through some tube amps at the store, I know it will be a pedal that I will continue to use after I upgrade my gear. I have a Boss Mega Overdrive which I will sometimes use in conjunction with the Muff. It really carries.

I'm in an original band-I love Queens of the Stone Age but my band is a little more punk/metal than them so this is great hybrid of Josh Homme's fuzz and a distorted sound. With the single muff I can dirty up my clean channel, and have that fuzzy feel. With the Double I can be fuzzy dirty or add in my Boss pedal and I am Death Star

My ONLY two cons. It is very loud, I will have to adjust my other pedal and my amp to compensate for this, it is something I will have to deal with at every gig. Second I was hoping for a little less overdrive. For the price that I paid for it why the f&*K not! The other concern is that this is more of a distorted/overdrive fuzz so if you are going for 100% fuzz you might want to try a different pedal. To me this is about as close to perfect you can get for under $60

I will still use my Boss Mega Overdrive but so far, this seems like a well built piece of gear. Haven't gigged with it yet, but it has worked for the couple of hours I have played it.

Haven't dealt with them

I've been playing about 3 years, 2 of them in a band where we play hard rock/metal/punk music with a melodic touch. This is a great pedal for me I am in love with it and if I had to replace it at this point, I would. I am just starting to get heavy into gear and this pedal has increased my options and seems to be something that I will always use even as I build my arsenal.

This is a great sibling for my Boss Mega Overdrive and it eliminates me using the crappy built-in effects my Randal RH100 G2 has. I could see where more seasoned players or people that want a specific sound would shy away from this pedal as it doesn't seem like traditional fuzz. It is just fuzzy enough for me and if you are a non-believer in processors like me, you can hear a lot of sonic capabilities with this pedal.

Esay to use. 2-knobs, muff-1, muff-2. 1-switch engages one or both. Pedal switch. Easy to get a good tone.

Gibson solid bodys into Marshall JTM-45 reissue and Marshall 4x12. Alittle noisey, not bad. Simple, Set the knobs for your own tone. Works well with others(pedals that is). Effects chain= WAH, OD, DBL MUFF, DISTORTION, PHASER, DELAY. I can get the sounds I crave from the old recordings up to and including the new rock stuff on CD. Its a keeper for me. I wont bore you with who are my favorite guitar gods,,,theres too many. I love this little box. Yeah-----Elecrto Harmonix--BRAVO !!!! It can act alot like a treble booster, Fuzz, Distortion, Overdrive----its way cool. It depends on how you set the two knobs in conjuntion with each other. Some folks said it was hard to set a even output level, not me, I just use it in the double muff mode and use muff one to set a output level. Did I say I love this pedal. I give it a 10 for range sounds and price.

Ive had a small stone for 4 years now--no problems. This is built just as good.

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We play classic rock, POP, oldies, New stuff. This fits in my chain well. Im too old. I would buy again. I Love the range of sounds. I dont hate anything about this pedal (it looks cool, like all the EH stuff has for years). I sold a custom handmade range master and got this used for 1/4 the cost. More versatile IMO. I dont think it needs anything. It works well in our band situation. It helps me cop some of vibe from old recordings as well as newer stuff. Its a keeper on my board for the time being.

VERY EASY to use. BUT - it acts more like a light overdrive booster (muff 1) or a vintage fuzz pedal (muff 2). so you may have to use it like one of those - or both.
at first, i was worried about the "only 2 knobs"... one for muff 1 and second for muff 2. i worried about volume differences. but no problem here: muff 1 knob acts more like an overall volume, while muff 2 knob sets the fuzz/overdrive level for the double function.
that said - this pedal is very sensitive to your playing, use of guitar volume and your overall sound - i.e. amp!
i think, to help you choose or not choose it you still have to test it, bur don't expect either a bigmuff or a tube screamer. it's none of those, but imho much better than both of them!

my setup changes a lot. i'm an effect freak. i nowadays use lots of line6 things. so my chain is somethin like that: EH double muff > nobels pre-1 booster/or line 6 constrictor > ibanez tubescreamer ts10 > digitech whammywah > line 6 mm4 > line 6 verbzilla > line 6 echo park > line 6 dl4 (the letter change sometimes...) > hughes + kettner tube 50. i mainly play ibanez blazer guitars.

2 muffs: at first i got this one after the pre-1 and the tubescreamer, and everytime the guitar volume knob got over 5 there was a ugly wail. after some testing i put the doublemuff first in chain - quiet!
it is strange, but it seems to have to be in first place. no problems now.
the double muff was maybe the best thing i bought last year. i use it so much now, almost in every song. it's very versatile if you know how to use it. it would be great if you could switch between muff1 and muff2 via footswitch, but no problem here with kneeling down to switch.
against all my fears, theres no volume change between the two muffs, so there's really no problem swtiching between both in one song.

the sounds: just great. muff 1 acts as a booster, light overdrive. it does make your tone a little fatter AND darker/warmer. with an light overdriven amp, you easy get santana-style overdrive sounds. very good for soloing and bluesy or even jazzy tones.
muff 2 was the reason i banned my fuzzface from my board and now have space for some more pedals :-) it's IMO very near to a fuzzface, but nothing as muddy as mine (germanium). it acts very good with guitar volume. volume down to 5/6 you get a very crunchy medium overdrive (sound depends very much on your amp!). volume at max it's pure fuzz heaven. before a clean amp this is just amazingly heavy (i found out, that the muff 2 knob sounds best at maximum level - play with your guitar volume to adjust drive). if your amp is overdriven, you get a less distorted sound. it's rounder and warmer. with my H+K in heavy overdrive and the muff 1 it's wonderful lead tone. same with muff 2 and guitar volume at around 5. santana and D.Gilmour lead sounds here. very nice.

it's EH. it looks good, maybe is a bit huge for the insides, but nevermind. it's true bypass i think, the switch is metal and damn quiet. the switch is a little close to the muff 1 knob, but i am a careful guy!
i use this most of the time now. i never thought i would write something like that, but - how could i play without a doublemuff??? :-)

if you - like i was - seek for a good pedal for lead sounds - forget chorusses or stuff like that. this one makes your guitar sound very natural and yet stands out of the mix!

as it is not very expensive and you technically get two pedals in one - i may buy a backup for this one as it's so essential to my sound nowadays. (i never buy backups!).

have no clue. but i like their pedals (although this is my first EH pedal). they look good, are very innovative. capture the "good old sounds" and yet are timeless!
and - EH is way cool! i mean. they know how a pedal should look and sound!

i play in different bands. one coverband, so we have to play a lot of different styles and sounds. mostly i play shoegazing indiepop, 60ies/70ies psychedelic rock, 80ies synthiepop and indierock/new psychedelia. i am a pedal-freak. especially i love delays and phasers. and now the double muff. great gear.

Pretty easy to use, cause of only two knobs(though sometimes I wish you could control the tone but...)

I have an all american Fender 25th. Anniversary Strat and a Gretsch Corvette from 1961, and run 'em through the Muff=>Boss Bd-1=>Boss Gt-6 into a Sunn Model T reissue. I use a 4x12" Marshall 1960 Lead kabinet. Well that is my current setting, but I always experiment with the order of the effects, but now it sounds great. The Double Muff provides me with a rich fuzz that I boost with the Boss Bd-1. Then I just use the Boss Gt-6 to get the usual effects like delay, flanger etc.
Since both of my guitars are pretty old they're pickups seem to make a lot of noise when the Muff is fully on. But if I reduce the tone on the guitar, most of the noise goes away.
With this baby on and a phaser I can get almost the same fuzz sound Matthew Bellamy(Muse) uses in Plug In Baby.

Thats a tricky one... I haven't had it for a suitible period to actually grade that one.

So far, so good....hope it lasts!

I mainly play rock, anything from early rock'n'roll to the heavy sheit. Sounds great in my ears to what I'm playing...
I would buy it again if it should be stolen from me. It won the guitarist pick award and they are almost always right about things.
As said before, I wish it had the control functions the big muff has, at least for one of the two muffs.

Very easy to get a good sound out of it. its pretty straightforward how to use, nice knobs. the manual is as blatant as it gets so if you dont know how to use it after that im sorry you need more schooling.

Epiphone G-400 ---> Poly Chorus ---> Double Muff -----> Fender Hotrod Deluxe. i also have a big muff which i dont use anymore cause of this pedal. no hum, no squeeling, no unpronounced note. this pedal is the cure for mostly everything, it has sustain, volume, warmth. its very versatile, i can play stuff that ranges from deathmetal, grunge, punk, shoegaze, hardcore, and of course classic rock. anything you name it i can do it with this pedal. if you want feedback you press your guitar on a amp speaker or let it sustain and feedback. very grunge pedal i give it a ten. my poly chorus is awesome with it very pronounced compared to boss effects, this pedal sound similar to alot of others. but the poly chorus has alot of settings and this pedal accentuates all of them. it really is like having two boosts of the finest overdrive fuzz.

yes its very dependable it looks alot more secure then last pedals. (note if your not going to use adapters tinkering with the battery kinda sucks for this pedal because it tends to cause alot of problems with me so i use the mutli adapter i got from radioshack and it sounds awesome.)
defintely a goody if i take it anywhere its going in its bubble wrap box.

i have no experiance but they gave me a warranty card. i would rather fix it myself.

i play everything but mostly am inerested in noise bands and syd barret. i also love the pixies and this pedal sounds alot like the pixies to me. Ive been playing around 7 years. i would definately try and buy another this pedal is my personal fuzz from now on. my favorite feature is the double mode obviously, i wouldnt have liked it as much as a single alone its very two dimensional until you hit that double effect. iv compared this to ehx big muff(both russian and usa), boss ds-1, boss-md2, rat, turbo rat, boss xtortion, boss md-2, digitech rp100(distortions are crappy sounding to no ends). i chose this pedal because it has all the sounds i want and more it seems and its very affordable.

Simple and easy...Two drive/volume knobs one for each one of the two Muffs and the switch for the single/double mode.

Very easy to get nice sounds...if you know how to control the sound of your guitar...its output its the frequencies it gets at the the input overdriven!

There is a manual from EHX but you wouldn't need this...

Fender STD Telecaster/Ibanez RG-70 guitars -> Double Muff -> Boss DS1 -> Mini Q-tron -> Korg AX1 -> Boss DD-3 -> Danelectro Slap Echo ->Marshall JCM 900 head/Marshall MG412A 4x12",120 Watt cab

No real noise at all...only on very loud settings and when recording i found a little noise but not annoying at all. It's an analog pedal after all!
You can reach sounds from smooth overdrive to really nasty distortion. I play indie/alternative/post rock and I have found a setting that gives me the perfect sound for every occasion.
The muff(drive) knobs are very sensitive...even small changes can be clearly heard!

Come on now...EHX pedals are tanks!
Of course I gig it without back-up. Although I would like to have the money and buy 1 or 2 Muffs more to modify them by myself...

I have the pedal almost for a year and I've never had to deal with EHX for service or troubleshooting issues. Neither had my bassist that also owns some of their stuff.

Great stuff...I use it for its overdrive sounds mostly and I usually don't push it to its distortion limits. I use the Boss DS-1 for heavier sounds...but the truth is that I very much like the sound I get when I have the Double Muff in single mode with the knob at 11 o'clock and the DS-1 at full gain!!!

This little shit rocks hard!!! It is the best piece of stompbox equipment I've ever had in my Distortion section of the pedalboard!!!

It's lack of controls tended to make this pedal harder to use for me. The single muff mode is pretty straight forward and simple to use. The double muff is where it get tricky. It's difficult to get a good combo of resonable volume (so it doesn't drown everyone else out when you click it on) with a high ammount of fuzz. When I get this pedal really screaming it's WAY louder than my clean signal, which was a bit of a problem. Also, there's no tone knob. However, I had no problems finding a good array of tones using different pick ups/tone settings on my guitar. But here again I run into the problem the difference between my clean tone and the tone with this pedal. A set up on my guitar that sounds good clean might not sound so hot when this pedal is on. Also, the manual is nothing but a borchure.

I play a mexi strat through a 72 bassman ten. I just use a distortion pedal (either this one or a danelectro daddy O) and a tuner, pretty basic. I do love the sound of this pedal. It can be hard to get the exact sound you want out of it but when you find it, it's beautiful. It sounds a lot like my old russian Big Muff on muff 1 and about to 9 o'clock on muff 2 but after that it just sounds like a muff on steriods. Really loud, noisy lots of feedback. Perfect for me since I play bluesy garage rock (think MC5, stooges). However aside from my band I play blues and Jazz with friends and get good tones out of it for both of those (the muff one setting can be very smooth and quiet. Plus, the true bypass is an very good feature.

I've never had any problems with any EH pebals. They're tanks.

Never dealt with them. However, I did read in the manual that you have to pay shipping to and from if you send it in under warranty which I think is bullshit but they will fix it for free.

I like this pedal a lot, mainly because it fits well with my style of music. I wanted a pedal that was a little over the top, very loud with a lot of feedback and that's what I got. In addition to that I got a pedal and has a lot of subtle fuzz tones that sound excelent and very smooth which I didn't expect but were definatly a pleasant suprise. I really which they would've put a tone and volume control on it. But, If I lost it I would buy it again.

It's easy to get started, but it's hard to get exactly the sound I'm looking for. The manual doesn't tell sh*t, but that's no problem, had fun for a few hours trying to figure it all out.

I'm using a Fender Champion 30DSP with it. Works okay. It's nice to combine the single muff with the amp drive. The double muff gets outta control over 12 o'clock. Nice for experimental things. I have it for half a year, and I still think I can get a lot more out of it. The only thing I miss are a few more controls.

It won't need a backup. I accidently dropped a heavy whiteboard on it, gave some scratches, but no real damage. Everything still works.

I play a lot of styles. For my band I play surf and british old school punk. It's not the thing I was looking for, though it's a very good thing. I think it would be better if it had a little more controlknobs. I would probably buy something that suits my style better if it was stolen.
Ow ppl....stop giving 10's and 9's for everything, you like it okay, but 10 should only be for the very best you can get.