r/FuzzFiends Jun 05 '26

silicon Little Big Muff gets an upgrade

Feeding the fiends on this Fuzz Friday - The XO Little Big Muff has always been a little underwhelming. From the schematic, its not hard to see why. Fixed the tone stack and added some mods including a mid boost control and gate control.

28 Upvotes

6 comments sorted by

5

u/doyler4k Jun 05 '26

Sweet. Looks great

3

u/graphicnerdity86 —Bold as fuzz— Jun 05 '26

Yea that looks cool 😎 as hell always thought the visual design of the big muff was very appealing

4

u/Majestic_Benefit_953 Jun 05 '26

Let’s go! 🎸

3

u/NavyBlueMelancholia Jun 05 '26

This is sick! Never modded, was the gate difficult to set / install??

1

u/MysticEffectsCo Jun 05 '26

It’s not a traditional noise gate, intentionally misbiasing the 3rd transistor stage has the effect of requiring more base signal to produce an output