Questions for those of you who have built the Opamp Big Muff

Started by tcobretti, July 04, 2008, 01:32:53 AM

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tcobretti

Is it as noisy as the transistor based BMP?

Is it as fuzzy as the transistor based BMP?

col

It's a very different sound and quite distinctive. Loads of fuzz and sustain though, and the one I built is more stablemy personal preference is triangle, op-amp, re-issue in that order. I tried the op-amp version with a ross comp clone in front and it sustains for ages and is great for stoner type sounds.
Col

Gila_Crisis

the whole sound of the op BM is preatty in the flavor of the standrad transistor BM. but there are some difference, i fell the sound is more focused than the transistor BM.
and it's a lot more quiter of coarse, when i turn down the guitar volume i got no hums!

tcobretti

Ok, thanks for the info.  I've been thinking about building one because I kinda like the BMP but don't like the noise.

rackham

Definitely build one. ;)

I've done 3 so far and they really are cool, not particularly noisy and pretty bonkers sustain even without a compressor in front.

Experiment with the cap values across the clipping diodes, there were (are) apparently a few different models with different caps.