Electro-Harmonix Double Muff

Great idea. Great layout. i'm assuming you have seen this pedal.

I have spent about 6 hours with it and i'm very happy with the over all vibe of this pedal. BUT!! READ THIS! it has two personalities. i started off running it strait into the clean channel of my hot rod deluxe. muff 1 only. nice overdrive, no sustain. muff 1 and 2 together pretty fuzzy, no sustain. muff 1 acts like a master in this
configuration. I ran into my true bypass vintage rat r.i. into the d-muff and the same result great tones that complimented the rat nicely
but on it's own, NO SUSTAIN. then i plugged my danelectro chicken salad into it (the d-muff) and WHOA!!!!same with my boss od-3 and i'm talking with the other effects turned off. super sustain and much brighter and crunchier. my true bypass rat or soul bender sound like shit with buffered effects in front of them. I'm talking night and day here with the d-muff. if you own one please try this now. HELP ME!!
did i get defect? once again this is a true bypass effect that increases gain and sustain w/ buffered effects before it. i.e. boss,danelectro even when they are off.

this is a great fuzz or o.d. when you want alot of presence. muff 1 by itself is a very sweet. with a buffered pedal before it, more like a treble booster. and a damn good one. 1 and 2 together after a buffered pedal can wail with crisp top and bottom. i've owned 100 pedals. None of them E~H this thing sounds incredible. great price and quality. god bless the U.S. I just cleared some space on my board for this. Very impressed. please help me w/ the bypass/buffered question if any one knows.

Very easy to get great fuzz tones out this because of just two knobs and a switch, knobs control amount of fuzz and switch allows the circuit to cascade into one another! it apears to be a unity level but increase the fuzz and volume goes up to, can get very loud! I thought the ideal of cascadeing the two fuzzes would be catastophic sounding but it's not that bad, if your used to a big muff this won't scare you a bit! I don't miss a tone knob either, it seems EQed just right for me

Sound quality is a ten for me, BUT! I plan on using this pedal for one thing and one thing only and that is slide guitar! Lap steel and conventional guitars in open tuning, this can go pretty much in front of any amp and give you that big muff sound that is so expressive for slide work very organic tones for that, I used to have a little muff that I loved much more than the big muff and I read that this is basically a reissue of that with the added feature of the cascading cicuit, I get exactly the fuzz tone I need with this unit, a strat in open D and you get BAD MOTOR SCOOTER tone spot on with a little english on the slide the break up on the decay is priceless! as far as setup I'm just using this for slide, usually a Fender blues JR with a 60's Harmony meteor set up for playing on the lap and a couple of open tuned mexican strat's I haven't replaced my Fender lap steel I sold, but I plan on getting a dobro soon that I play all the time at a local store, the harmony is pretty good though. various slides usually heavy glass but depends.

I have a Russian bigmuff for backup but the American E/H stuff is a lot better, no slam on Russians but I have a lot of E/H gear both original and reissue Russian and U.S. and all the problems I've encountered have been with the russian stuff in particular two small stone failures, The new American stuff should make you stand up and salute, great sounding great performing gear at a great price made right here! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON! for once in my life alot of my boss gear is mothballed in the closet.

I,ve never delt with them, in the old days radio shack and a solder gun with your buddies hanging over your shoulder was the unofficial customer support for E/H products. NASCAR and I assume E/H have come a long way.

I play in a classic rock cover band, been playing since 1979 and have owned just about everything in the past and still own alot gear although a Vox valvetronix, Schecter C1+ Fender strat and 79LP standard does the stage duties for me if lost or stolen I would definately buy another I also have the graffic fuzz which I mainly use as a EQ (great pedal)but the double muff is definately the slide supremo super champ for me. in that catagory a solid ten!

Its impossible to NOT be able to work this thing. There's two modes: Muff 1 and Muff 2. There's two dials. Muff 1 and Muff 2. The dials adjust the gain of each mode. There's a switch and an LCD. that's about it.

I use a Gibson Les Paul > Maxon OD808RI > EHX Double Muff > Vox Wah > Fender Blues Junior. This thing is great. I like the Muff 1 mode. It has very glassy highs, great mids, and sufficient bass. It REALLY cuts through the mix. Its like a fuzzy overdrive. NOT distortion. Muff 2 has a lot more bass and moderately more gain. Supposedly more than the regular USA muff, but I don't notice too much of a difference at all. I don't really use teh Muff 2. I like overdrive, plus, muff 2 mode doesnt cut through as well, too bassy for my liking, and i just don't need that much gain. I'd be fine if this pedal just had the muff 1 mode. But, i'm sure if i used a single coil guitar, i'd use the muff 2 mode. This sounds just as good (if not better) than my maxon, but gives me a different sound. I love it.

I've had two ehx pedals before this. the russian ri big muff which fell apart cos its made like complete crap and the usa big muff which was sturdy, but didn't sound that great imo. this one seems alright though.

I play rock (like Oasis, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Interpol), blues, jazz, and funk. Mostly all fused together. If it were stolen, i'd DEFINITELY get another one. I got this one on sale (the local store had all effects 40% off the retail price) and I love it. Its hard to find great natural sounding overdrive/fuzz pedals that are versatile, inexpensive, and that can cut through the mix. I can't stand not being able to hear myself. Out of all the distortion pedals I've had, this and the Maxon are the best. And here's a list of most of the dist/od/fuzz pedals i've had before:

Boss Super Overdrive
Boss Blues Driver
Boss Metal Zone
Boss DS-1
MXR Distortion +
EHX Big Muff Pi
EHX USA Big Muff Pi
Fulltone Distortion Pro
Fulltone Soul Bender
Danelectro Fab Tone
Ibanez Smashbox

So, its not like I don't have any clue on what I'm talking about. I love the clarity, yet the nastiness of it. I also love the simplicity. I walked in the store and had NO clue as to what I was going to get. I saw it for the first time, checked it out, and took it home. Its focking great, especially since it was SO inexpensive. I don't suggest it for metal, but if you want an overdrive with some fuzz, or moderate gain fuzz distortion, I'd check this out. Also check out the USA Big Muff.

This thing is almost impossible to sound bad, the attack is very clear when unit is activated.

I use the Double Muff with an Ernie Ball Stingray Bass and a Fender Precision loaded with a Dimarzio Model P and 1968 Gibson EBO Pickup into a Gallien Krueger 400RB-III stack. The Double muff can get a tad noisy with active pickups, but they always sound great regardless. The Double Muff is the perfect medium between the American Reissue and the Sovtek Big Muffs.

I've never had a problem with Electro-Harmonix pedals, owning almost a dozen of them, I love them to death, and they're very solid. No complaints here.

Electro-Harmonix' customer service is my only complaint, their website is lacking and their staff is less than knowledgable. After recieving an email about the Double Muff and a few new units, I called and they weren't sure about release dates, or whether or not they could get me a smaller tshirt. After putting me on hold, they returned only to refer me to their website. Though I hear their repair guys are quick and knowledgable.

Recieved mine in the mail today and I guess the resaler was as anxious to try it as I was. He popped open the ceramic disc and tried out my pedal for a bit, I didn't mind the footpring but opening the box for the first time is Oh, so much fun!

I plugged it in right away, both dials vertical and in single mode I punched in and my bass goes from clean to a nice, smooth almost fuzz, rather subtle, but lovely. I crank the gain a bit and it gets a bit clankier but still a slightly timid fuzz. I love it! Flip the switch to double, and the two faced beast goes from timid little schoolgirl to all out, in-your-face fuzz! Much harsher than the American reissue in tone, but warmer than the Sovteks, a perfect medium! It's very in your face, but still much clearer than it's Big Muff brotheren, as the treble pushes through, but so does the bass! It's chunky and still manages to let through a nice bassy tone!

But of course, the usual gripes with Electro Harmonix pedals...they're a tad noisy with active electronics and they have 1/8" 9V adapters. Other than that, I can't say a word, and who can argue with something they call a muff!

Long story short: Five out of five jumpy guys, great name, great sound, great pedal. Let's just not turn this into the OD250 and have everyone running out and buying one 'cause I love 'em.