Electro Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Fuzz

I have been waiting for this for years.

Muff copies and originals have been going for 200 Euros online for ages now, and finally EHX have reissued this killer pedal for a sensible price !

Fuzz pedals are amongst the simplest of circuits and the price inflation as a result of EHX not being in the market was getting ridiculous.

This pedal is great, easy to use, records like a dream, sounds better than my Tiny Terror HW tube distortion and is nothing. NOTHING, like that current NYC Big Muff. It is more subtle, usable and articulate by a milliooooon miles

Most important for me was how this pedal pronounced all of the strings, even when playing and open chord, This was not the case for the NYC version, that has all of its bass frequencies completely overpower anything that is played on the first three strings.

Another thing was the natrual sustain of this pedal, which was the complete opposite to the NYC pedal's almosted gated sustain.

This pedal is a big suprise to me and the price will blow the Hoof, the Musket Fuzz, and all the rest of the boutique manufacturers with their overpriced fuzz boxes out of the water. Thank you EHX, welcome back!

Ever since I started looking up fuzzes to add to my pedalboard, the big muff became a primary choice in that matter. After watching several videos and reading reviews online on the various bif muff reissues, I knew the green russian had to be my final choice.

The green russian is more bassy than the other big muff reissues - which fits nicely in my setup. It carries a lot of sustain, perfect for gilmourish lead sounds. Moreover, it is very easy to dial the tone and fuzz you want as it only has three knobs - if you dial just a notch on the sustain knob, you can get a more overdriven sound, but as you start to get the knob closer to the 9/10 o'clock mark, the fuzz sounds are quite notorious.

It is built nicely and its size is very adequate to fit every pedalboard. Personally, I pair the green russian with a tubescreamer and the sounds I get from those two pedals are fantastic. Definitely recommend the green russian big muff fuzz if you are a fan of the big muff sound and if you're looking for a fuzz with bassier tones.

Bought this pedal because I wanted a good fuzz pedal for an affordable price and I am not disappointed!

Out of the box, the pedal has a very sturdy build quality, but is not too heavy or large that it would weigh down your pedalboard. The rubber pads on the bottom covering each of the corners are a nice touch. All the knobs have a high-quality feel to them and operate with no problems, and the footswitch is reliable.

Sound wise, this pedal certainly packs a punch. Compared to the other Big Muffs, it has a much more bass and mids focused output than, for example, the Triangle Big Muff. It is warm, but not muddy, and the tone knob offers a wide range of sounds from moody My Bloody Valentine tones to brighter, Slowdive-esque tones.

I would certainly recommend the Green Russian to any fan of shoegaze, acid rock, psychedelic rock or other similar genres. It can be easily incorporated to a budget pedalboard. It's the only fuzz pedal you'll ever need!

The real thing. It sound amazing. I mean not just that classic russian big muff tone (it have it all); you can hear the nouances, that's where you separate the pro's gear from the others even good. This is the best big muff of the bounch without doubt. I had a lot and I settled with this since it came out.
That'a a more thing I found on this that's really good: you can use it also at low gain settings and this makes me blow away because hardly you can do it with the muffs. You can use it also as a strange overdrive and I can tell you it does.
Construction tank style,
Knobs with good and regular course, they just have the right amount of stiffness.
Form factor for me is perfect, I appreciate the mooer style form factor but I really like to see the pedal when I stomp on it.
Price point is perfect.
I can not see any cons.
Please don't touch it!

This is a centerpiece of my board, even though it is the cheapest pedal on it. I wish to upgrade it someday to the original green russian fuzz, but until that happens this is a solid substitude

I am trying to recreate the black keys sound, and i have maybe not really a correct guess, but a cool sounding one - i use big muff as my stock overdrive. I really like their sound in live in crystall ballroom, for example the song thickfreakness - dan has a very heavy fuzz at the beginning and then he switches to lower gain sound which has a lot of low end and very bright mids. I do that low gain sound with big muff. It doesn’t fall apart when you play both low strings and high strings. I am 80% sure that is not what he is doing, but it sounds cool)

Tone knob is also a fuzz/ gain knob here