Electro-Harmonix Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi Overdrive and Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal

Variety of tones available by adjusting the knobs. Plus stacking OD and fuzz/distortion is nice.

There's a good variety of tones that can be found in this thing. From splatty fuzz to balls to the wall distortion. It's a loose sounding pedal. If you like tight and refined, forget it.

A knob twisters delight! I would recommend putting all the knobs at noon with the "volts" all the way up to start and then experiment with each control from there. Lots of sounds can be coaxed out of this beast. Not a super high-gain pedal but plenty for my tastes (bluesy/garage/stoner/neo-psychadelic). The germanium really changes the character of the big muff circuit, this is a whole new pedal with a unique sound. From smooth low gain to nasty gated distortion, this pedal has a lot to offer. The overdrive side sounds so good I pretty much never turn it off! Roll back the volume on your guitar and it cleans up nicely. I love it!

The muff that cleans up with volume control , just wonderful clean sounds and work the volume and get spitting fuzz or full wall of sound , btw cleans up with both sides on!!! This pedal is incredible!

I am still wondering if the components are cheap or what's the reason behind such a good price this pedal just became my favorite of them. It brings the high end back into the signal chain, and you will be amazed on how good it sounds as a always pedal at low gain

This is now a main stay on my board. I push it with a Klone pedal in front of it. The OD gives a very nice sparkle to it, maybe a little dirt if you want for a clean channel, or can really push you dirt channels great. The distortion side has so many options, it can stay nice and crisp, or get the softer hendrix type fuzz. the voltage knob can make the whole thing get naughty in a hurry. love it to death. I run the over drive at near noon for the bias, gain, tone, and volume at 3 to 4. I run the Distortion side with gain at about 10, bias at 4, voltage at 1/2, volume at 3. the more the voltage goes down, the more it compresses. I have it set so it sounds almost like a distortion/fuzz/octave mixed pedal. sounds amazing on a clean channel, even sweeter on a lightly broken up dirt channel. I have run this through my highly modifies Fender Blues Deluxe (non-reissue) has marshall type power section running Gold Lion KT88's. Also put through my modified 6505 combo(not plus and with reverb in circuit has good clean). and it sounds great with my Rockerverb clean. The dirt on my Rockerverb is the only one that it gets kinda sketchy because I push SO much low end and air with the stack, partial due to running the Vintage 30's. the peavey set up Like an invective cab by peavey, and the Fender uses Celestion cream back heavy magnets.