The Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker taps into the sonic power of the legendary Big Muff Pi, but creates new tonal possibilities at the flick of a switch, or two.
Use the Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi's Wicker switch to open up three high-frequency filters for raspy, sustaining distortion with top-end bite, or flick on the Tone switch to bypass the tone control for unabated tonal slam. Want the original Big Muff sound? Just switch off the Wicker and turn on the Tone. The ability to create your own personal Big Muff sound is what truly makes this the Wicked Wicker.
The Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker main features include:
I must to have pedal for rhythm guitar players.
Very fat an saturated sound, perfect for riffs.
I use with a vintage style Ibanez trough an clean tube amp channel, and it is amazing. The tubes are roaring with this pedal.
I think it best suits for semi-hollow, vintage instruments with warm sound, cause combined with the Muff you will get a fat but enjoyable sound,. but with very a clean and bright instruments it will be more like harsh.
The size is much more pleasant than the original Big Muff and its still massive.
The tone on/off switch is a good feature, cause when you have your own EQ settings most of the time you dont want to mess it up with your pedals, but if you want, its still an option. Also, I recognized when its the tone off, you get more gain and headroom.
The tone wicker give you more high-mids/presence. Useful when play muffed solos and you go higher in the fretboard.
I have to say i am not the heavy metal type, but when i heard this pedal, i just fell in love with in and wanted to add it to my pedalboard. So it has changed my beliefs :-). With or without the wicker tone it is amazing. The wicker gives it a beaming sounds, even funky i think. This is definitely a keeper. I use it with my Fender standard hss strat.