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Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

This document provides the original schematic for the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion/sustain pedal. The schematic shows the circuit layout with component values. The summary notes that the pedal could be improved with modern power switching and a bypass switch, and that some component values like coupling capacitors may sound better if changed slightly from the original schematic.

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Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

This document provides the original schematic for the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion/sustain pedal. The schematic shows the circuit layout with component values. The summary notes that the pedal could be improved with modern power switching and a bypass switch, and that some component values like coupling capacitors may sound better if changed slightly from the original schematic.

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Pablo Rago
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ELECTRO-HARMONIX BIG MUFF PI

15k 15k 15k


0.1** 0.1**
500p 1u*
+ +
500p 1u* 500p
470k 1uf* 470k 470k
39k
100k
+

+
1u 8.2k 8.2k
100
100k 1k 100k 100 100
Sustain
+

390k 10k
9V
1u*
+

0.01
39k
Tone Volume

0.1
100k

0.004 100k 100k 2.2k

OUT
IN

The EH Big Muff Pi would probably be improved by modern input-jack power switching and a DPDT bypass switch.
This is the original schematic. The diode and transistor types are unknown. Probably any high gain NPN and 1N914s work.
Coupling caps marked by a * have been reported to sound better if changed to 0.1uf as have the ** marked ones if changed
to 1.0uf. The original transistors were marked SPT 87-103, and the original diodes were marked 525GY or 523GY (hard to
read).

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