Electro-Harmonix Classics English Muff'n Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal 

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First of all, I've owned this pedal for about 4-5 years now without a tube change, so I can vouch for its reliablity. It has NEVER "failed" "acted up" or "not worked" on me.

I tend to use Fender amps for their pristine clean tones, and use pedals to colour it. I'm running it through a Concert 2 (like a suped up Deluxe Reverb), before that, a Hotrod Deluxe.

There really is no other way to mimic a Marshall with a couple of cookin' EL34's, but I think this pedal nails that attitude pretty darn close.

The muffin just hits that creamy plexi territory with authority (Cream, Hendrix), and can open up to the harder styles of 70's rock (Wishbone Ash, Thin Lizzy, etc).

Only complaints I had are the size of the adapter, and the placement of where it plugs into the pedal (on the side, little fragile thing). It should've been put up between the in/output jacks where it is less likely to get bent if the pedal is tipped over.

I have fine tuned my amp and pedal to get a very close sound to Duane Allman's on the Fillmore East album. The only thing holding this pedal back is that you just can't replicate tube sag without actual overdriving power tubes (where the marshall sound comes from).

If you don't want to shell out, or be limited to a marshall amp, try this pedal out. Be patient, I found I had to dial the treble to 0 before I could REALLY dig into it. Also swapped the left 12AX7 for a 12AY7 to warm it up a bit. Kind of limiting, but it works for that 60's marshall tone.

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actually this thing sound so great and professional that I am still learning how to use it right. sound is just awesome but to use it in a way to get out most of it seems to be quite a task if u know what I mean.

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This is the best sounding pedal I have ever played. I am using an old Peavey Bandit 112, and this pedal makes it sound like a high dollar vintage amp. If you are in the market for distortion or overdrive, and you are thinking about it, do it. A high dollar Marshall or Vox will get you most, if not all, of these sounds, but if you can't afford one of those, this will suffice.

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So I got this pedal for Christmas, having wanted one for sometime. I hadn't ever played one, but I'd watched a lot of demos, etc. When I first started playing it, I plugged it into my Vox and thought "hmmm, I think I just had my family waste their money on me for this one." All I got was a screeching, bright tone which matched a few of the demos I'd watched. But then I sat down patiently for a few hours and tweeked the knobs on both this and my amp, trying to stay as close to my clean tone as possible. And now, this is probably one of my favorite pedals on my pedal board! It's warm and rich tube overdrive that also boosts the signal sent to my amp, yielding a loud, raunchy tone that must be a god-send. Paired with my MXR MicroAmp boost it just makes my leads sing and my rhythms full and powerful. I play in an up-and-coming band in Athens as the only guitarist and this just makes me stand out with authority.

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This pedal is great for achieving the warm, rich sound that people refer to when they're talking about tube distortion. It's 3-tone stack allows you to dial in the perfect sound to suit your needs and then some. I swapped the tubes it came with for TAD 12AX7s for more gain and man, this pedal screams. I currently use it at the front of my FX chain, but have put it at the end to act as a preamp (which is basically what this pedal is) with good results. Anyone looking to add 2 more tubes to their preamp or looking for real tube sound to use with their solid state amp, should seriously consider getting this pedal.

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I play Death/Black Metal. I have a lot of different pedals in my collection, this one somehow stacks up with every other "Metal" pedal I have. In the end if you are experienced enough to know how to tweek all your settings properly, you'll get a tone you want. This pedal makes my Behringer LX1200H half-stack sound like a real beast, I love it. Oh, I "did" take out the (2) 12AY7EH tubes and replaced them with Gold Series GT-12AX7-R tubes as soon as I opened the box.

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I solely wrote this review to agree with Pots4 and Blake. THis is a great addition to a low watt rig. I've played it through CHAMP 600's and VOX AC4TV's, and it does great. Especially if the right tube is replaced with a 12AX7(I replaced mine with a GT Chinese 12AX7-C, awswome!) Great tone! From ZZtopp to Cream to ACDC, it does the brit valve thing. would not consider it a high gain pedal. Very bright, can get down and dirty.

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I wasn't impressed. In my opinion it was a lot like a old DOD super distorion. Nice clean overdrive or a little fatter over drive. These tube pedals to me seem to keep too many highs, and I really don't like that. I like really smooth creamy tone, and these tube pedals don't produce. This isn't like an old Chandler tube driver. More like a tube eq. I overall just wasn't impressed. I'm biased as I love fuzz pedals, always have. I use a Keely fuzz head and a big muff, from cracked sustain to wide open. Overall, I think it would hold up for quite awhile, EHX has great quality with a few exception, aka "the black russian big muff" however, lately their stuff is rediculously tough.

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Running this unit through a Fender silverface champ (70's), Maxon od9 , Gibson sg and a telecaster. You can get a good overdriven sound. Be careful with the low and high controls. HIGH- anything past 9 o clock sounds horible. LOW- very interactive with the MID control. Turning up the low almost forces you to turn up the mid. I like to keep it around 8 o clock. Gain sounds good anywhere in the 7 to 2 o clock range. Pedal works best with one 12ax7 in it. also sounds good using the maxon od9 to push it a little harder.I gave it a high value rating because if you are looking for the 'BRITISH' sound it does it very well

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I bought this box based on a EHX demo, thinking at the time that the overall tone and dirt coming out of it would be a nice addition to my petal board. As a distortion box, the Muff'n is pretty weak. All you'll get out it is a stock 60's sound, something akin to very early Cream. Where the box really shines is as a pre-amp/overdrive. It makes anything you put behind it sound better, cleaning it your signal and boosting it before it hits your amp. If you have a tube amp, it's like adding more tubes to your preamp section (2 more, to be exact) and thereby beefing things up a bit. For this purpose it's great, but as a stand alone dirt box, I'd probably look elsewhere.