JHS Pedals Muffuletta V2 Speculative Visualisation - a GPX Deviation

This is a sort of Bonus round follow-up to my recent JHS PackRat feature - where a reader commented that surely the Muffuletta needed to be brought up to spec with the other two - with a full 9 circuit modes.

I’ve featured a number of Big Muff articles on this blog - and this exercise was a simple one for me really - adding 3 more modes to reflect all my own personal favourite Muff varieties. So we add a Violet Ram’s Head, OpAmp / IC version as popularised by Billy Corgan, and split out the former Russian Mode to Green and Black varieties. Of course Josh has put out the Red Army Overdrive version too - which most agree is pretty much identical to the Civil War edition. And there is also a choice of a 1977 V3 Pi or the latter slightly beefed up 2000 V9 NYC Pi. In my mockup I’ve referenced the latter - but it’s not a big deal for me - either will do there!

And then like the Bonsai and PackRat - I’ve arranged the modes in chronological order of timeline. Josh could also drop one of those flavours and put in the fabulous Skreddy Mayonaise - that’s also a possibility for a more modern take on Triangle. Note that the Violet edition of Rams Head is slightly sharper and higher gain than the original V2 and many prefer that - while the best-selling Vick Audio Muff is the original Ram’s Head variety. Mike Vickery has sort of been a proxy mentor for me on Muffs - and my practical Muff knowledge comes mostly from him, while I of course also regularly reference everyones favourite resource - Kit Rae’s Big Muff Pi Page.

• 1. Triangle [1969 - V1]
• 2. Ram’s Head [1973 - V2]
• 3. Violet Ram’s Head [1973 - V2+]
• 4. OpAmp / IC [1978 - V4]
• 5. Civil War [1991 - V7]
• 6. Green Russian [1994 - V7C]
• 7. Black Russian [1998 - V7D]
• 8. NYC Pi (2000 - V9]
• 9. JHS [2015 - VX]

Big Muffs tend to have a lot more components than your average fuzz, rat or overdrive (circa 46 components) - so there may be limits on how easy all those components are to accommodate x 9. Note that for the PackRat Josh deploys 9 completely separate circuits - featuring 261 components overall - including no less than 40 switches, and 2 OpAmps OP07C and NE5534. For Big Muffs  - while there are quite a few more components in play - you might though be able to do some clever switching to resolve that to a degree.