Euthymia ICBM Fuzz

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• Euthymia Electronics:

  You may have heard that for a period of time in the 1970's, Electro-Harmonix changed the circuit of their legendary Big Muff Pi* from one based on discrete transistors to one based on integrated circuit operational amplifiers. This is true.

  As a matter of fact, the opamp Big Muff Pi was the first fuzzbox I ever fell in love with, back in 1983. I didn't know that it was an opamp one until I bought my own Big Muff and thought it sounded different from my friend's. His later needed repair, and when I opened the case to check it out, I saw that the printed circuit board had a pair of integrated circuits on it, where mine had transistors.

  Over the next 20 years, I never again encountered a Big Muff Pi made with opamps. Mike Matthews of E-H went out of business a couple of times, then got into the vacuum tube business, started making Big Muffs again, and then launched a new Electro-Harmonix with a mix of historical E-H effects and new ones. Still no opamp Big Muff Pi.

  I myself started building and selling effects, helped greatly by the information available on the www, but when I tried building opamp Big Muffs from the schematics I found on the web, they didn't work. Finally, I got my hands on an actual unit, and sat down with it to see if I could learn its secrets and make my own.

  It worked, and once again I heard that immense yowl that only an opamp-based Big Muff circuit can make. And once again, the music-playing public can get that sound for their very own.

  Unlike the old one, mine has true bypass switching, a fiberglass printed circuit board, and a cast aluminum case. As with the rest of the Euthymia pedals, I use silver Teflon wire for all interconnections.

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