EHX Big Muff vs Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz vs Sonicake Fazy Cream vs Rude Tech 3MuF-14 | Cheap to Expensive

Today we’re comparing three Big Muff pedal variants – the Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz, the Sonicake Fazy Cream and the boutique Rude Tech 3Muf-14 – against the real thing: the iconic EHX Big Muff Nano fuzz!

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Get (some of) these pedals at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thocf/iw03ud5k0e
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXbvzL
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Every guitar player’s had a Big Muff at one point, I think. They’re an amazing and affordable way to start making walls of noisy fuzz distortion with any setup, and they’re also a fantastic option to instantly get tones like Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Smashing Pumpkins, Jack White and The White Stripes, Dave Gilmour, John Frusciante, Muse’s Matt Bellamy, and so many more!

Here, we’re taking a look at four Big Muff options at four very different price points, to see which might be the best fit for your pedalboard.

First up is the modern-day flagship: the Electro Harmonix Nano Big Muff. Legendary and iconic among guitar players, it’s the one everyone knows, and the one after which all the other Muff pedals came! Coming it at about $80/€80, it’s pretty darn affordable too. The Big Muff is also a might simply affair, with Volume, Sustain and Tone knobs all you need to start getting fuzzy.

Next up is the budget Sonicake Fazy Cream, which is mini both in size and in price – it only costs about $25/€25! A Big Muff instead of lunch today? Yes please! The Fazy Cream is very much a Muff circuit, and has the same three-knob layout as the EHX.

Also going for this approach is the newest Muff in today’s shootout, the Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz. Resplendent and eye-catching in pink and yellow, the Tiny Huge Fuzz is half the price of the EHX at around $40/€40.

Finally, we head into boutique Big Muff territory with the Rude Tech 3MuF-14. At around $250, the 3MuF-14 is three times the price of the EHX, and you could get 10 Sonicake Fazy Creams for that! However, with the price comes a bunch of extras, as well as extra quality – the pedal is hand built in Nashville, USA, by Rude Tech founder Jesse, who happens to be a former aerospace scientist. (This also explains why it looks like the cockpit of a fighter jet, by the way!)

The 3MuF-14 is at least three Muffs in one, though. You get Black, Green and Civil War Muff circuits here, plus a Tone Bypass control, a built-in Mids Drive overdrive pedal (with a trim , all to help you restore mids to your tone after the Muff circuit scoops them out), and plenty of options to swap out components on the inside too, with socketed transistors, op amps and more.

So, is the 3MuF-14 worth the price of asking? Well, hopefully you’ll get your answer here, and this video will help you decide which Muff might be the best fit for you! In the video, I play two loops – one on my Epiphone Les Paul’s bridge humbucker, and the other on the bridge single coil pickup of my Fender Telecaster – and this gives me the chance to really tweak the knobs and settings on all four pedals to hear how they compare. Let me know which one you think sounds best in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Intro and what we’re doing today
00:45 Electro Harmonix Nano Big Muff specs and info
01:23 Sonicake Fazy Cream specs and info
01:49 Joyo Tiny-Huge Fuzz specs and info
02:13 Rude Tech 3Muf-14 specs and info
04:11 Today’s rig and plan

05:19 Fender Telecaster alternative rock loop
12:52 Epiphone Les Paul rock loop

My setup was as follows: I ran the pedals into the front end of my Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic pedal amp, then went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That’s it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10R to record and play the loops. Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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AmpMan Classic at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/512777?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q4vkVO

Boss RC-10R at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/470055?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/daq4J2
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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