carlaz wrote:iankinzel wrote:-Big Muff pedal bundle: different versions, like Triangle/Ram's Head/Op Amp/Deluxe/Civil War/Green Russian/Black Russian/"NYC Classic"/Tone Wicker, Muff Overdrive, Double Muff etc
A refreshed Big Muff stomp model would be a
great candidate for switchable circuitry options in an AmpliTube stomp model. Many physical clones and some EHX Big Muff pedals have at least some switchable circuitry options -- but the sky is the limit (or maybe there is no limit!?) in the digital realm.
iankinzel wrote:any of the quirkier Electro-Harmonix stuff: the Q Tron, the Tube Zipper, the Poly Chorus, the POG, the Ravish Sitar, the Flanger Hoax - any single one of those would be AMAZING to use
I'm a big ol' fan of EHX pedals, and pretty much anything based on their stuff is of interest to me!
Thanks!
Yeah, having thought this out a bit more, I'm thinking the Big Muff stomp model would be best served as something like this:
-main controls: VOLUME, TONE, SUSTAIN (like normal)
-toggle switch 1: TONE BYPASS (like on multiple real-life versions)
-toggle switch 2: WICKER or BRIGHT switch (like the Tone Wicker version & the reissue DBMs)
-multi-way mode switch: something like TRIANGLE / RAM'S HEAD / SOVTEK / MODERN. You could even consolidate this into something like VINTAGE / RUSSIAN / MODERN.
This is just an idea of what it *could* look like, focusing on features/models I already have from other VSTs (but would like to have integrated into Amplitube), while still keeping the overall model manageable in terms of programming/ease of use - i.e. you could go hog-wild and try to include literally every major circuit variation, but at that point you wind up with like a dozen variants and that just sounds tedious.
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Another trick I figured out in AMP4 was to put the 7-band EQ in front of the Muff stomp model, boost the midrange to simulate the tone bypass and then boost the lower treble to emulate the "wicker" switch on the Tone Wicker Muff (which turns off some of the high roll-off capacitors in the traditional Muff circuit).
Point being that this stuff is out there, and well within IKM's capabilities - and given how much notoriety individual versions have in their own right, with players treating the Russian & US Muffs as separate stompboxes in their own right, I bet IKM could make a tidy sum offering more versions of this legendary stomp box (like they already do with the Fuzz Face).