Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Big Muff π


  This guitar pedal makes such a sludgy shitfizz of a racket that Mudhoney named an album after it.  Righteous.  The original was made of thin, metal-coloured metal.  I used to have one of the original pedals, but I seem to remember trying to fix it with a soldering gun and frying it badly.  This green beast was made by a brilliant Russian company, Sovtek.  When the USSR failed, there were a lot less tanks to make, so Sovtek took to making music gear.  The pedal is made of satisfyingly heavy military-grade steel and cold war toggles.  This particular pedal has seen a lot of action – it’s covered in a thin film of dried fake blood, real blood, beer, and several other assorted spattered liquids.   The orange MXR pedal was trippy, man.
  Things are clicking.  Good clicking.

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