This here’s a special fuzz box built for the lovely Jana Hunter of Lower Dens.  It’s a clone of a specific Big Muff from the late 70’s known as the “IC” Big Muff.  These were from a short timeframe when the muff was redisgned from its standard 4-transistor layout to one using 3 gain stages provided by two integrated circuits.  Sound like a bunch of fancy mumbo jumbo?  It is, but the point is that the shit sounds different!

These were in fact the black sheep of the Big Muff family and used to be available on the used market for prices ranging from two to four cents.  That is until Siamese Dream came out and everyone realized that they sound pretty dang kickass.  They have same scooped mids that all muffs have, but where the others have a distortion sound that’s really smooth and almost overdrive-y, this one sounds like a crushing wall of disaster.  Its super cool. 

Controls are:  Volume, Tone, Sustain (L-R)