gilmourish | 9 years ago

Review of the JHS Pedals Muffuletta.

Signal chain:
Guitar - Fender CIJ Stratocaster, with D Allen Voodoo 69 neck and middle pickups and Seymour Duncan SSL5 bridge pickup
Pedals - JHS Pedals Muffuletta
Amp - Laney Lionheart L20
Mic - Shure SM57

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The Muffuletta offer five classic Big Muff tones and new, tweaked by JHS. Now, multi version pedals are nothing new. The Royal Beaver from Big Tone Music Brewery was one of the first and last year, Electro Harmonix released the Big Muff Deluxe. Both are capable of some really impressive tones and options but the exhaustive amount of knobs and controls frightens off many.

The Muffuletta feature the familiar controls for volume, tone and sustain, as well as a mode control, allowing you to choose between the six different Big Muff circuits. It’s all analog and they’ve used original Big Muff pedals as a reference for both tone and circuit design. What’s impressive is that all this is fitted into a small MXR sized chassis, which should find room on any pedalboard.

I’ve seen a couple of reviews with A/B tests between the original Big Muff models and the Muffuletta and the result is impressive. I’ve done similar tests with my early 70s Ram’s Head and green Sovtek and they’ve really done an amazing job capturing not only the tone but all the characteristics of each model.

The Civil War mode sounds fat and smooth, with a nice amount of mids and a crispy top end. David Gilmour used the early 90s Civil War for his 1994 Pulse lead tones and the Muffuletta captures that throaty character and rich sustain perfectly.

JHS hasn’t specified which model they’ve used for the Russian mode, although most pictures I’ve seen show different versions of the black Sovtek. I’m guessing they’ve either used the best features of both the green and black or an early black, which is very similar to the later green. Either way, I’ve compared this mode with my bubble font green Sovtek and it’s hard to tell them apart. Very similar to the Civil War, with slightly less low end and an overall darker character.

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