Bass Big Muff or Nano Bass Big Muff?

What's the different? The feature? Quality? Price?

in a word? size....

now for a long-winded response if "size" didn't cut it for you: to the best of my knowledge (which is extensive) the only difference is a smaller PCB and Hammond-style enclosure... the bass big muff is heavily based on the 80s/90s Russian muffs that are voiced to be a little fatter in the lows. Bassists pay big money for those older Russian muffs now. They suit the bass very well... but the sound is easy to replicate with commonly available components as its not so different from any other muff apart from a few resistor and capacitor value tweaks... for my buck I would get a nano, there is no good reason for a big muff to be housed in a huge enclosure other than tradition. I've owned a couple Russian muffs of various vintages and they sound very much like a big muff. If you like that sound then any variant can work, especially if you have nothing to compare it to in person. Side by side they can all be set to sound very similar, but Russian ones and bass branded ones will definitely produce more lows without having to turn the tone control as far down, leaving you with more treble than an American guitar muff will produce when set to flatter a bass.

in a word? size....

now for a long-winded response if "size" didn't cut it for you: to the best of my knowledge (which is extensive) the only difference is a smaller PCB and Hammond-style enclosure... the bass big muff is heavily based on the 80s/90s Russian muffs that are voiced to be a little fatter in the lows. Bassists pay big money for those older Russian muffs now. They suit the bass very well... but the sound is easy to replicate with commonly available components as its not so different from any other muff apart from a few resistor and capacitor value tweaks... for my buck I would get a nano, there is no good reason for a big muff to be housed in a huge enclosure other than tradition. I've owned a couple Russian muffs of various vintages and they sound very much like a big muff. If you like that sound then any variant can work, especially if you have nothing to compare it to in person. Side by side they can all be set to sound very similar, but Russian ones and bass branded ones will definitely produce more lows without having to turn the tone control as far down, leaving you with more treble than an American guitar muff will produce when set to flatter a bass.

Thanks mate

I don't know if the it's the same with bass, and guitar muffs, but in my experience the smaller the muffs the worst sound. The nano Big Muff Pi, is ridiculously tinny, and horrible, where as the full size is the nicest. I have the tone wicker model which I think is a little big muff with the billy corgan mod (I love SP so I use it for that), an a high pass filter

I'm not finding the full muff yet in my town, but already played the nano. I can't compare it yet as I don't play the full muff. Thanks for the advice :)

all of them are exactly the same from the audience, no joke... I have owned piles of different muff variants.... once the band is blazing there's not a substantial difference. Go small and cheap. Only Gilmour makes them all sound different, but he knows some magic mojo that makes them all do things tonally the one YOU buy can never do for you no matter what you spend. He's a mutant. Don't sweat the small stuff. Its a huge sledgehammer of distortion/fuzz. Its going to obliterate your dynamics and add tons of weird harmonic overtones. That is all you need to know.

some of it is accounting for the difference in volume/sustain/tone pot tapers between the large, off-board pots in the big ones and the smaller PCB-mount pots in the little ones. EHX doesn't spend for great pots either way, but the big pots will be different than the small ones at the same settings... also, there may be some tiny variations in sound from smaller, surface mount components like caps and resistors even though they are the same value. Not all of them will be the same materials though in mini sizing and some argue that this changes their behavior in audio circuits even though science says this is impossible. Also, the little surface mount parts aren't QCed to the same tolerances as bigger parts by all manufacturers. There may be more variation between the caps and resistors ACTUAL values in the minis. For instance, I have a bag of good poly caps that are all within +/-1% tolerance of their labeled rating, but the same value in smaller ceramic disc caps has +/-5% variation. Sometimes that 5% either way is no big deal, other times its a huge thing.