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Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

Fuzz, distortion, and sustainer pedal family

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi is a fuzz/distortion/sustainer pedal first released in 1969, defined by smooth, heavily saturated fuzz with long, violin-like sustain. Controlled by simple Volume, Tone, and Sustain knobs, it has shaped rock guitar from Hendrix and Santana to Pink Floyd and The White Stripes, and anchors a long-running family of reissues and variants.

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  • Effects pedals

    Guitar and bass effects — overdrive, distortion, fuzz, delay, reverb, modulation, and more, in pedal, rack, and multi-effects formats.

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  • Electro-Harmonix

    Electro-Harmonix (EHX) is an American maker of effects pedals for electric guitar and bass, founded by Mike Matthews in 1968 in New York City. An early pioneer of affordable stompbox design, the company is best known for the Big Muff Pi fuzz, along with influential models such as the Small Stone phaser, Memory Man delay, and Electric Mistress flanger. After closing in 1984, the brand was revived in the 1990s and continues to design and build a broad pedal range in New York.

Models in series

  • Electro-Harmonix Op-Amp Big Muff Pi

    Effects pedal · United States

    The Electro-Harmonix Op-Amp Big Muff Pi reissues the late-1970s op-amp (IC, or V4) Big Muff, which uses op-amps and three gain stages rather than the four-transistor circuit of the classic version. The result is a huge, crushing, scooped fuzz favored for wall-of-sound distortion and heavy rhythm and lead playing, now in a compact die-cast chassis with true bypass and a Tone Bypass switch.

  • Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi

    Effects pedal · United States

    The Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi is an authentic reissue of the cult-classic mid-1990s Russian-made Big Muff, delivering thick, creamy fuzz with a devastating low end suited to sludge, doom, and stoner rock. It carries the vintage-correct army-green chassis with Volume, Tone, and Sustain controls and true bypass in a pedalboard-friendly enclosure.

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  • Electro-Harmonix

    Electro-Harmonix (EHX) is an American maker of effects pedals for electric guitar and bass, founded by Mike Matthews in 1968 in New York City. An early pioneer of affordable stompbox design, the company is best known for the Big Muff Pi fuzz, along with influential models such as the Small Stone phaser, Memory Man delay, and Electric Mistress flanger. After closing in 1984, the brand was revived in the 1990s and continues to design and build a broad pedal range in New York.

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