So I have 5 HQ mp3 demos: one clean through the pedal, one with light parallel distortion, one with nuked parallel distortion, and then the two distorted versions by themselves. Just used a lil trappy beat I had on my M:S, and made sure to carefully align everything so it was in phase.
Everything is normalized to -1 dbfs True Peak before rendering to MP3 from wav in Reaper, no other processing other than the Big Muff pedal. I didn’t get the hardware plugin part set up so everything is recorded through my audio interface into Reaper from the pedal’s stereo output.
Pedal Settings were max Volume, min Sustain (adjusting M:S volume to taste for each distortion type), tone bypassed, wicker ON as the mix is very muddy and dull without it. There might be a bit of 60hz hum in the distorted versions, but I haven’t taken the time to see if that’s dirty power or not, so it could just be how i’ve set everything up for tonight. Will test further!
Next experiment is parallel compression with the Muff >:3
Clean:
Light Parallel:
Heavy Parallel:
Light Distortion:
Heavy Distortion:
haha that’s not the first time i’ve been called clinical but I definitely will continue to post my experiments! love big muffs ever since I got a bass muff after hs, so happy to have the stereo one now, and I think once dialed in nicely it’ll work well with my parallel chain
I just have a clone but it’s a dual pedal where one side is a ram circuit and the other is a tringle. my experiments have been more along the lines of “screeching intensifies”.
I started hacking together parts of a jam and am approaching something that sounds like metal or heavy punk guitar riffs, just that it was made with a synth so, I guess big muff can make nasty out of anything you run though it.
I have been using a green russian muff as my sole fuzz pedal for guitar for many years, it’s such a more-ish sound that you can really dig into, I love it! Not sure I’d be getting a hardware plugin version if it came out but can see the appeal.
i’m also curious about this! if the latency isn’t bad and it’s easy to incorporate into Reaper, I might use it as such whenever i’m mixing for parallel or heavily colored saturation! saves me a lot of processing power from all the oversampling i’m doing as-is
but I definitely will continue to post my experiments! love big muffs ever since I got a bass muff after hs, so happy to have the stereo one now, and I think once dialed in nicely it’ll work well with my parallel chain
