The Big Muff 2: A Lost Piece of Electro-Harmonix History

Hey everyone, it's Josh and I have my friend Daniel Danger here. What have we been up to? So, for the last four years, Josh and I have been developing a massive visual history book about ElectroHarmonics, which I think is the greatest pedal company of all time. That's your opinion.

It's called Made on Earth for Rising Stars. It's being published by Thirdman Books, which is Jack White's publishing company. It's an exhaustive and expansive look into the history of the company from its foundations to about 2008. things you've never seen before, rarities, documents, hundreds and hundreds of pages of the deepest dive into the deepest nerdom of guitar pedals.

It's like a lost scroll. [music] It's definitely like a tomb. It's like walking into a portal of history. There's so much stuff.

[music] There's actual like prototype crazy units. There's like big muffin protocs. [music] There's so much stuff that like we can't really get into it right now. We'll get to that later.

If you're a fan of this channel and all of the historical deep dive things you've seen over the years, this book is that on steroids. You're absolutely going to love it. You can pre-order the book right now. There is a link in [music] the description.

You can click that and go straight to the website. But one of the things that stuck out was in our digging, we discovered something pretty incredible, a lost Big Muff circuit from the late '7s. And here it is, the Big Muff tube. An official collaboration with ElectroHarmonics and JHS.

It is a completely unique Big Muff [music] that no one has ever seen, ever played, that we literally found in an old [music] moldy cardboard box in some notebooks. We brought it to life. It needed to be made. It needs to be played.

You can grab it right now. >> [music] >> In 2021, we had just finished Pedals the musical. Daniel's favorite thing he's ever seen. And yeah, it's beautiful.

>> A true New Yorker. A little rough, a lot of scruff, no room [music] for fluff. Just call me. >> And we get this email from a relative of Bob Meyer, the inventor of the Big Muff.

I always thought he was dead. I read an obituary for him. >> Yeah. No one ever thought the guy was alive.

So, he ...