Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

An Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi can be seen in this picture of John Frusciante's pedalboard.

"All I used in the White Stripes for seven years was an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff and the Whammy. So you might be hearing me building up to the note with the pedal."

Used on early TMV pedalboards

Edge has used the Big Muff Pi for decades.

Aubert's EHX Big Muff Pi can be seen in this photo of his pedalboard, taken at a Silversun Pickups show in 2006 at the Belly Up Tavern.

can be seen in the gear section

Beck's pedalboard can be seen 0:05 into the video. The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff is the first pedal from the left on the top row.

Interview from Guitar.Com "Always A Guitar Player" by Scott Tribble Guitar.com: Some people cite the Spencer Davis Group's "Keep on Running" as the first song recorded with a separate distortion pedal, as opposed to just overdriving the amp. Is that indeed how you did it? If so, to your knowledge, were you the first to do that on record Winwood: That is indeed how we did it. I think [the fuzz box] was called a Big Muff. I'm not sure that we were the first to do that on record. We just went to the music shop and picked up these gadgets and tried them out— it sounded good for that song.

Pete briefly used a mkIII USA-made Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi fuzz pedal in his rig occasionally in 1976, in the studio in 1977, and in the Gaumont/Shepperton gigs for The Kids Are Alright film. Rather than using this as a traditional floor pedal, the pedal was taped down on top of the Hiwatt amp rack, and was engaged by hand, as can be seen during Pete’s solo in Won’t Get Fooled Again in the The Kids Are Alright film.

Dunlop Rotovibe Digitech Whammy Pedal Dunlop Heil Talkbox (used on the “Man in the Box”) Digital Music Corp Ground Control Pro Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (used on his solo album “Boggy Depot”) Ibanez TS808HW Tube Screamer ISP Decimator MXR EVH Flanger MXR Bass Octave Plus MXR Smart Gate (x2) BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus BOSS CE-5 Chorus Ensemble BOSS TR-2 Tremolo BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner Eventide TimeFactor Xotic AC plus

This effects pedal was used at the recording sessions for "Nevermind".

In Guitar World's “100 Greatest Classic Rock Guitar Songs of All Time!” article, Big Muff distortion is credited for Gilmour's distinctive sound on Comfortably Numb.

"Here's a short experimental video by Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- look carefully, and you'll spot his Frequency Analyzer, Stereo Polychorus, and Big Muff Pi."

A photo of Flea's pedalboard shows he at one point used the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion pedal. More recent variations of his board don't include this pedal, however.

You can see the EHX Big Muff Pi in this picture from an interview with XLR8R.

Benjamin Booker can be seen adjusting the Big Muff on his pedalboard at 5:10 in this performance of "Have You Seen My Son?"

What's in the large console you use on stage? It looks very complex. "Well, actually it's not all that complex. It's a little rough to maintain. Things can get broken where it's shipped around. It's got a pair of Dynaflangers, a pair of MXR Flangers. It's got one input and four outputs – two dirty outputs and two clean outputs, all stereo. There's also two Big Muffs, Systec Harmonic Energizer – all these things are in pairs – Oberheim ECF, Eventide Harmonizer, MXR DBL, Mutron, DBX 162 compressors, Gain Brains, Kepexes, a Theremin and a Biphase. That's about it, and there's about 24 switches on the floor. I add to it every year. The Dynaflangers are on the newest thing. Oh yes, there's a Mutron Octivider and a DBX Boom Box. " - From the Guitar Player Magazine (May-June) in 1979, written down on the Frank Zappa Wiki "Wiki Jawaka"

Steve Howe states in this interview, on the topic of the Yes song "Sad Night at the Airfield"; "It starts with me using a late ‘60s Electro-Harmonix Big Muff which coupled up well with my volume pedal."

In hysteria and time is running out to name a few, this is how he gets the fuzzy sound similar to Matt bellamys fuzz factory on plug in baby, on his rig from the photo you can see the big muff on the board behind him and several people that have worked for muse have confirmed that with a plethera of other pedals he uses, the makn one to get the fuzz sound is the big muff

As shown on his pedalboard

On his official Instagram account, Ryan Adams posted these Pedals.

In this [scan of an article from the January 2006 issue of Bass Player magazine](http://i.imgur.com/OzGztkE.jpg), the "Signal Chain" section lists the Big Muff Pi among Adam's gear.

Emilys Pedalboard

In this photo, Jarman appears to be using Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

At 18:45 in this video rig rundown, Adam Day, Neal Schon's guitar tech, points out his Electro-Harmonix Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi.

A few of the devices Ernie Isley used on That Lady recording

in this pic, you see the big muff pedal, pedal favorite of the band Mudhoney....Fuck you all

This video shows some of the equipment used by Andreas for the recording of Sepultura’s album "Kairos". At 1:59 you can quickly see this pedal on top of the Marshall amp.

"On the early Kiss records, I used my tobacco sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard with a rewound hot pickup, through a Marshall stack or old Fender tweed amp, on most of the studio recordings. I used an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff to overdrive them sometimes."

In this Instagram photo, we can see that Tom owns Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi in his studio.

At 1:37 you can see part of a huge pedal sticking out and this is clearly a big muff.

He talks about it in this interview.

Guy who knew him personally as a friend and had seen his gear many times claims he remembers a distinctive PI symbol on the pedal. Also here is part of the conversation with him in which he cites Big Muff as Cliff's pedal: 'Yes I knew Cliff and saw his equipment many times over the years. Two of the first pedals I remember him getting were a Morley Power Wah Fuzz and an Electro-Harmonix bass balls. He used the Bass Balls briefly, but it did not get dirty enough for him. He tried a lot of Boss distortion pedals, but ended up choosing a Big Muff Pi. Cliff used that set up for quite a while with both his Randall and Sunn heads, at least up until the time he joined Trauma. After he switched to Mesa Boogie heads, he decided he liked the natural grind from the head better than the Fuzz sound from the Morley Power Wah Fuzz. So, he traded that for a Morley Power Wah Boost to help overdrive the front end of the Mesa head. In all the time Iknew him, he always had a Morley pedal on his Board. He also started experimenting with other pedals to replace the Big Muff Pi during the Metallica years. I remember a Tube Screamer for a while. Then he had a combination of a Tube Screamer and a Boss CS-1 Compression Sustainer going into the Morely Power Wah Boost. That is the last set up i remember him using. A Tube Screamer with a CS-1 and a Morley Power Wah Boost into a Mesa tube head.'

In this Instagram video of Black Pistol Fire performing a sound check, Kevin McKeown's Big Muff Pi can be seen.

Although the photo is dark and blurry, if we look to the top right corner we can see Matty uses the Big Muff as part of his rig.

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi can be seen in the bottom right corner of this photo.

Mark is just one more happy customer of the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff according to [*Mix Online*](http://www.mixonline.com/news/tours/all-access-florence-and-machine/368254).

Regarding the recording of Elbow's "Grounds For Divorce", Potter stated the following: > It was a Gibson Les Paul through an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff pedal and then I used a '54 Vox AC30 head with a vintage Marshall 4x12 cab. It's not like I thought 'I'm writing a rock riff, therefore I must use a Les Paul'. My favourite guitar is a Gibson ES-335, but I played it on that and it didn't quite have the sort of crunch that I was going for, so as soon as I picked up my Black Beauty Les Paul, that was it - it sounded great. Originally I just recorded the one riff and then I thought 'Well, how about if I track it two or three tones up the octave?' Then I did down the octave and then I played it on a bass, bending the note on that as well. When we twinned these four or five signals of the same riff played in five places on the guitar, it just sounded massive.

In this Instagram post, Chris Urbanowicz shows four of his pedals, including an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

As shown in this post.

Shown here in Cashion's live pedalboard setup at the Bottletree Cafe on 04/26/14

Corgan recalls: "My first mental recognition of the 'power' of the Big Muff came one night when i just happened to drop by a Catherine band practice. Catherine was Kerry's band in the 90's, and we used to share the same rehearsal space (they were the only band we trusted not to steal our shit and vice-versa). So i walked in and i just heard this tremendous ROAR and i thought to myself 'how are they making that sound?'. Each of the 3 guitarists had Big Muffs and the sounds was very Sabbath-like, just throwing this tremendous low drone buzz into the room. I knew that the band Mudhoney used Big Muffs but honestly they weren't using them like Catherine did. So i owe a debt of gratitude to Catherine for showing me the purple fuzz light. We used to try to use the pedals live but it was impossible for there wasn't enough clarity. We did use other Electro-Harmonix pedals live, like the Electric Mistress. We only had one of these in the beginning and James and I used to take turns over who would use it on a given night. Since we were mostly playing clubs we were looking for anything to take your head off and separate the sound of the guitar from the incessant din. The Big Muff pictured is 'the' one from Siamese Dream, the fuzz that launched a 1,000 other dreams i suppose. Almost all the heavy tracks were recorded thru this, solos included. Many songs would have as many as 8 fuzz guitars going at once. It was very difficult to record the tracks with this sound, but once it went right it was BLAMMO, a huge, huge sound. The settings you see in the picture are the exact settings for if you look close enough you can still see the pencil marks on the volume and tone. I had all sorts of theories of how to best use this pedal, including the idea that it only sounded its 'best' when used with a battery (as opposed to a power supply). I'm not much for going backwards but it is tempting to crack out all the old gear sometime and give it one more go. Maybe somewhere in amongst the 44 songs of Teargaden by Kaleidyscope I can find one such moment to do so. The sound of the combo of the Bat Strat, the Big Muff, and the Soul head with Mars cabinet is still unmistakable."

Recently added to Tichnor´s pedalboard at the time of the video shoot, The Big Muff Pi takes part in his pedalboard.

This image is the pedalboard of Edward Droste.

In this YouTube filmed on September 21, 2011 at the Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The Big Muff can be seen next to the two Line 6 pedals.

According to rig diagram by Guitar Geek, he used two Big Muffs : one old, and one new.

Seen on the top row of this pedal board.

According to Rich Robinson’s tech, he's “the only person in the world that can control a Big Muff and a Gretsch hollow body.” (22:03)

Mr. Jack Conte uses the EHX Big Muff Pi Pedal on his pedalboard.

Bob uses a Electro- Harmonix Big Muff for his bass

His pedalboard contains a Big Muff, a Mutron III, a Phase 100, and a Boomerang volume/wah pedal.

Peter Holstrom uses an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff pedal, according to [this interview](http://www.guitargeek.com/peter-holmstrom-dandy-warhols-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-2000/) by Guitar Geek.

For Marsden, his desert-island effect has to be an Ernie Ball VP Jr Volume Pedal because he says it’s the most expressive tool under his control. When it comes to actual noisemakers on his board, he has a Fulltone OCD, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, Electro-Harmonix POG2, a Strymon El Capistan, a Boss DD-7 Digital Delay, an Electro-Harmonix Bass Soul Food that he sniped from bandmate Emma Richardson, an EHX Cathedral, and a Danelectro Reel Echo. Everything is controlled by GigRig QuarterMaster QMX8 switcher and it all stays in tune thanks to a Boss TU-3 Tuner.

In this 2015 photo of Coombes performing in Cardiff, there is Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi in his pedalboard.

Mary-Laura used a Big Muff on stage since 2007 until "Fire Like This" era. She still uses it in studio.

This photo comes from TPOBPAH's 2012 performance at Hard Rock Cafe. One of the pedals in his pedalboard is the EHX Big Muff Pi.

Original triangle version, built by Jim...appears on Conventional Wisdom and many others

At 6:37 minute mark, Bunford's pedalboard is fully shown, and one of the pedals visible is the EHX Big Muff Pi.

Last pedal in the chain

Instagram pic shows a EHX Big Muff Pi in Patrick's pedalboard.

In this collection of pedals photo posted by Ekstrom on his Instagram profile, the EHX Big Muff Pi can be seen.

seanthomasodonnellMy pedal board for these Reeve Oliver shows. And before you ask, YES THE OS-2 IS MODDED.

The brilliant Lee Gaze

In this photo, Blake appears to be using Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

In [this interview](http://www.reverendguitars.com/artists/12-questions-with-sergie-loobkoff/), Sergie says, "I use a Big Muff and Dynacomp pedal…mainly from leads and a boost for choruses."

Seen on pedalboard. Source: [Effettidiclara](http://www.effettidiclara.com/pedalboard/metz/chris-slorach)

See the reference under "Other Fx" on the official Homepage of Spock's Beard, where Alan is playing in: "Other FX Echoplex, Talk Box, DS-1 Distortion, Mutron, Vintage Univibe Pedal, Leslie Speaker, Big Muff Pi"

According to this photo, Wilson (at least) posseses Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

Sledge is known for his use of a Big Muff distortion pedal.

But there is one very important aspect of the Seattle/Olympia/Portland grunge guitar legacy that Love claims as her own. "I contend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff, before the rest of the boys," says Love. "It was when I was in this purist Sixties garage band called the Venerays, with Kat Bjelland

"Nina's pedal board with washi tape #verucasalt #shescrafty #teamcoco #bigmuff #fulltone"

if you look down near steves feet where his pedal's are, you'll see the BigMuff, a vital part to the mudhoney tone, and used on everything!

"*I’m playing the Rockerverb and I have an* ***Electro-Harmonix Big Muff**, a standard BOSS overdrive, digital delay, chorus… I mean, I like to mess around with Micro Synths and the Line 6 digital delay pedal. That’s fun."

Bad Motor Scooter was a "Big Muff" into Fender 3x10 Bandmaster

Doyle was using a Demeter Preamp through an unknown power amp and Celestion-loaded 4x12's. All rhythm tracks doubled (if not tripled). The usual Devastator guitar with Duncan Invader pickup. Same thing live. However....Daniel Rey (producer) is a big fan of JCM 800's and I wouldn't be surprised if they made an appearance on the record. The few times I saw them live with Dez Cadena, he was using 5150's. FWIW, the classic Misfits sound was a Big Muff thru Ampeg V-4 heads and cabs.

As stated in [this Premier guitar article](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/19867-deap-vally-down-with-the-fuzz?page=2), she uses a Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi, saying, "It's hard to imagine using any other fuzz pedal."

keenemachineHow much fuzz is TOO much fuzz though?

Brittany Howard discloses her gear in this 2015 interview

Starting at about 3:33, a Big Muff can be seen at Ty's feet

"I think my absolute favorite pedal has to be the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff. I’m a bit obsessed with fuzz pedals, and I own and love different ones, but this one just can’t leave my board because it does things no other pedal does for me. It has a bit of a mind of its own. I love trying to control noise, and the Big Muff seems to love it too, because when I turn it on with the sustain setting all the way up it squeals and squelches in between what I’m trying to play, and snaps to catch the notes I try to get out against waves of massive low end. It’s thick and disgusting and I love it," David says, in Paste magazine's [article](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/14-guitarists-talk-about-their-pedal-boards.html?a=1).

10th paragraph down and 10th line this is listed by robin

Kat can be seen here using a Big Muff live during 2015.

In this instagram photo of Ben's pedal board, you can see the large Big Muff Pi from Electro Harmonix.

A Big Muff Pi can be seen in this Instagram shot

It can be seen on his pedalboard

An Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi can be seen in [this](http://www.guitargeek.com/pepper-keenan-down-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-2008/) detailed gear diagram of Pepper Keenan's Down stage setup.

Look at the photo

You can see on his pedal board an ElectroHarmonix Big Muff pedal.

In the begining of the video, you can get a quick glimpse of the pedalboar Joel uses. I see a Wha but cant see which one it is. But next to it, you can clearly see a Big Muff Pi.

"xtra distorted big muff mod by @nkdkds"

in this picture you see the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

Tucker uses an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi, according to [Paste magazine](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/14-guitarists-talk-about-their-pedal-boards.html).

actualemente usa un fuzz factory

Minilogue's studio is surrounded by serene nature outside of Malmö, Sweden. It's here that Sebastian Mullaert and Markus Henriksson compose their lush, evolving techno suites with a variety of hardware and software - with Live at the center of each musician's setup. In the video below, Sebastian gives us an overview of Minilogue's technology.

An Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi can be seen on Jurel Sónico's pedalboard, at 8:28 in this live Adelaida video.

In this photo of Goodman's pedal board you can see his Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

In this picture, from Wolf Alice's gig at The Boogaloo, London, on 24/02/15, Ellie Rowsell can be seen with an Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi on her pedalboard.

Starting around 3:50 in this interview from 2015, Tim Showalter begins breaking down his pedalboard. At 4:40 the Big Muff Pi is seen between the EQD Speaker Cranker and Hoof.

Gave out full rig information during a hotel room phone interview some time in 2000

In this picture you can clearly see the Big Muff.

That massive thing on Stuart's pedalboard on the left is a Big Muff Pi.

Used for live fuzz sounds, in front of the amp

According to this article Pope uses a Electro-Harmonix Big Muff

The item can be seen into this video.

At 1:27, the Big Muff can be seen at Andy's feet between the Blues Driver and volume pedal.

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi can be seen at 7:25, right side of screen, on the table with a Korg MS-20.

"Analogue synthesizers have a big advantage: you can drill them open. (...) You can't do that with prefabricated software synthesizers." — DUB TAYLOR TECH TALK feature, taken from Slices Issue 1-09

"Eddie started right out learning the pedals—the wah wah, the **Big Muff**, and phasers and shit. We bought all the gadgets in the world, [especially] once Bootsy got with us." - George Clinton

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi is pictured here on Michael Franzino's Instagram

mauricio duran use a Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

The big muff has been my main lead since day one

“I used an [Electro-Harmonix] Big Muff for a lot of the crunchy stuff".

in the center of the pic

It can be seen in Izzy's pedalboard in a live show.

A big muff can be seen on the floor here. In 1979/1980 performances a fuzz can be heard on private idaho which would appear to be this pedal.

the pedal is on the left

:20 clearly the signature big muff at the bottom of the screen with it looks like a boss tuner and maybe another boss distortion?

I made this photo in the practice space

Guitar solo at the end of "Curtains will Retreat"

Artist said: "astroflexagram @astroflexagram #pedalboardfreak #shoegaze #guitarporn #spaceecho #electroharmonix #deluxememoryman #bigmuff #mxr #phase90 #dittolooper #bossps3 #smallstone #ravishsitar #twintube #tech21 #sansamp #pulsar #greenmachine #aramateffects #bossdd5 #bosstu #guitareffects #guitarfx #seymourduncan #1spot #geartalk #pedalboard #alienspacebuttons #drugs #toys Foto: @renconde"

He used Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi pedal we can see this item in his personal items.

Big Muff Pi can be seen in the bottom left next to the Big Fuff Triangle Muff

Pedalboard on the tour of 2010

Vitor Brauer tells me in a direct message the pedals he use

We can see the pedalboard of Felipe Aguiar in this picture

> "After acquiring a decent starter electric guitar, naturally, my next purchase was a guitar pedal, and that came in the form of the Ibanez FZ7 Tone Lok Fuzz. From there, I got a wah pedal as a birthday present, a Tube Screamer I saved up for for months, an upgrade to my fuzz pedal [the Big Muff]..." First visible in this video at 0:46.

Main distortion unit in live shows

He uses an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

"I was using Fuzz Faces, Big Muffs, and like.. whatever overdrive I thought was God’s gift to overdrive and then sold it three days later."

"No disco usei muito fuzz. Experimentei o fuzz face em algumas faixas, O Sunface da Analogman, Bigmuff, e o FZ-5 da boss."

Vitor Brauer says the pedals he have in his curiouscat

In [this image from the Veldt's Facebook page](http://imgur.com/a/iQq7U), we see Danny's rig, which includes a Big Muff Pi.

Seen on this picture of his pedal board

We can see fernando motta pedalboard in this picture

Fender shared this photo of Alex with his pedal board which included a EHX Big Muff Pi

used in the solo for deep grass, blow and charlamagne

We see the lead guitarist (left) use the big muff on his pedal board

On pedalboard nº1

Usado durante 2017.

James shows & discusses his use of this in this video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7h20so9jSE

"I have a Big Muff..."

Not sure if used in studio, but Matt uses this pedal live a ton.

The item can be seen in various photos

Reverb.com video interview with guitarist and singer Komo Katsurada; he takes you through his current pedalboard and demonstrates a few sounds.

> I’m running my guitar through an MXR Distortion Plus, it’s like an early ’80’s late ’70’s distortion pedal. There’s an MXR Phase 100, a Geoffrey Tease Real McCoy wah pedal and this Big Muff, I forget what it’s called.> - Erik "Ripley" Johnson at Positive Destruction (positivedestruction.wordpress.com) 14/11/2011

I took this pic of Evan's Board after they played at the Gothic Theatre in Denver 10.14.17

This one is used fo solos mainly.

He can be seen with effect on his pedalboard

The Big Muff is clearly visible on the pedalboard.

Can be seen on the right of Jakobs pedalboard (in front of the drum kit).

Used on a lot of Chroma songs, main fuzz I used on that album.

Pedalboard del coco

You can see the Big muff alongside some other pedals on his board in this photo on his instagram from nov 24th, 2017.

Visible on Poulsen's pedalboard in this live performance of Kiev's "Loot Recovered" at 0:45.

Eduardo da Floresta uses the big muff pi for boost

On this picture of A-chan's pedalboard you can see an EHX Big Muff Pi,this has been added to her board since the third album of Kinoko Teikoku. Note: She started using an EHX Nano Big Muff Pi for live shows but at some point she replaced with the big box version.

in this video the bassists pedalboard can be seen and an Electroharmix Big Muff can be seen at the top of the board.

We can see his pedalboard in this post

video from instagram

Listed on one of her Bandcamp releases

this instagram pic shows abby's pedalboard, which includes a big muff nyc