Xploration • Curation • Recommendation
Intensive Care Audio's Death Muff it its own unique Fierce and Aggressively Textured variant- in a league of its own
So the long-awaited Death Muff is in - and a superbly textured next level evolution of a Muff. It’s high gain and expressive - and slightly raspy sounding at times - with quite a bit more ’Crunch’ to than the average Muff!
It has a unique 4th Control - labelled Chaos - which Overloads the Gain, essentially a Second Gain Control - taking it form high gain - to extreme - with lots of sustain and feedback sounding texture. It’s a very distinct sounding and reacting muff - totally at opposite ends to the relatively mild Electric Elk that I covered this morning!
The Death Muff is the angrier version of the circuit - beyond the higher gain even of the original 1969 Triangle Edition - it has an uniquely distinct complex distortion profile!
Controls - Chaos (Gain Overload), Tone, Volume, Fuzz.
Onboard you have a mix of BC337 and BC547 Transistors - which are the same as are used in the Intensive Care Death Drive pedal too. While here they sound quite a bit more aggressive and textured - no doubt due to a slightly different cast of supportingg character components.
I tend to have Volume and Fuzz on Max, Tone at around 3 o'c - and then the Chaos Knob variously at 9 o'c, Noon, and 3 o'c - depending no how textured and aggressive I want to go - sounds superb any which way really.
This is my 116th Big Muff variant - and this one totally earns its place in the reference collection. One of my favourite sounding Muffs for sure - in fact both of the ones reviewed today sound excellent. While I typically tend to gravitate towards the more aggressive flavours - like indeed are onboard this Death Muff.
The Death Muff is great value on the Intensive Care Audio Webstore - at just £149. Superbly well made - and including the on-brand footswitch topper - which gives the wedge-shaped pedal such and elegeant look. I know you've probably got a few Muffs already - but you haven't got anything quite like this one - highly recommended!
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