EHX Big Muff vs JHS Crimson vs Tone City Matcha Cream vs Joyo vs Ibanez vs Sonicake | Fuzz Shootout

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Today we’re comparing four affordable Big Muff style pedals – the Tone City Matcha Cream, the Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz, the Ibanez 850 Mini Fuzz, and the Sonicake Fazy Cream – and the boutique JHS Crimson against the real thing: the iconic EHX Big Muff Nano fuzz!

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Every guitar player needs a Big Muff in their setup. It's an awesome and cheap way to start making walls of noisy fuzz distortion with any rig, and also a fantastic option to instantly get tones like Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Smashing Pumpkins, The Black Keys, Jack White and The White Stripes, David Gilmour, John Frusciante, Muse’s Matt Bellamy, and so many more!

Muffs come in all shapes and sizes too, and in this video I really want to showcase how good some of the cheaper Muffs are. To that end, we’ve got four of my favorites on the board today.

First up is the Tone City Matcha Cream, which is based on the legendary Green Russian Big Muff fuzz. Coming in at around $50/€55, the Matcha Cream is a mini pedal – so it’ll save you space on your board – and it has the standard trio of Big Muff controls: Volume, Sustain (that’s your amount of fuzz/distortion) and Tone.

Secondly, we have the Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz. Resplendent and eye-catching in pink and yellow, the Tiny Huge Fuzz comes in at around $40/€40, so it’s a very affordable way to get into the Muff game.

Third is the cheapest of the bunch: it’s the budget Sonicake Fazy Cream, which is mini both in size and in price – it only costs about $29/€29!

Fourth is the Ibanez 850 Mini Fuzz, which is a reissue of the Ibanez OD850 Overdrive - which was a Big Muff circuit! Or so say MusicRadar: “Originally a re-badged Maxon clone of a 1973 ‘violet’ era Ram’s Head Big Muff made for Ibanez with a couple of tweaks, the OD850 had a slightly more useful tone stack and crunchier character that set it apart from its muffy cousins, making it a collector’s piece.” (Source link: )

The 850 Mini Fuzz shrinks this awesome package of fuzzy fun down into mini format, and it comes with a price tag of around $89/€89.

For reference, of course, we’re shooting out the four budget Muffs against 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 (and actually cheaper than the Ibanez!).

But what I also wanted to do today was add a boutique flavor into the mix, and that comes in form of the JHS Pedals Crimson, from the brand’s highly respected Legends Of Fuzz series. The Crimson is a replica of JHS main man Josh Scott’s rare Red Army Overdrive.

So, with all that said, it’s time to hear the six Big Muffs in action, and hopefully this video will help you decide which one might be the best fit for your pedalboard. In the video, I play two fuzzy 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 six 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
01:18 Electro Harmonix Nano Big Muff specs and info
01:34 Tone City Matcha Cream Fuzz specs and info
02:03 Joyo Tiny-Huge Fuzz specs and info
02:23 Ibanez 850 Fuzz Mini specs and info
02:56 Sonicake Fazy Cream specs and info
03:20 JHS Crimson specs and info
04:43 Today’s rig and plan

06:08 Epiphone Les Paul rock loop
17:56 Fender Telecaster alternative 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:
At Sweetwater:

Boss RC-10R at Thomann:
At Sweetwater:
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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