After sitting untouched for practically half a century, Bob Myer’s long-lost twin Op-Amp Huge Muff design has lastly been delivered to life because the EHX Huge Muff 2.

In-built partnership with JHS Pedals, the brand new Huge Muff 2 is described as “a sharper, louder, extra aggressive tackle the basic Huge Muff voice.”

In 2021, whereas digging via Huge Muff inventor Bob Myer’s archives for the forthcoming Electro-Harmonix historical past e book, Made On Earth For Rising Stars: The Electro-Harmonix Story, JHS founder Josh Scott unearthed one thing sudden: a hand-drawn schematic labeled “BIG MUFF USING (2 DUAL OP AMPS)”.

It wasn’t a variation anybody had heard of, however slightly, Myer’s personal try and reimagine his landmark fuzz utilizing the newer Op-Amp know-how that had emerged within the Nineteen Seventies.

“As soon as found, [we] breadboarded the circuit precisely as Bob drew it, and instantly knew they’d one thing value making,” says JHS. “We discovered that Bob’s design is exclusive when in comparison with the now well-known late ‘70s Op-Amp Huge Muff designed by Michael Abrams. Completely different clipping association, an additional acquire stage and varied different parts that made this misplaced model extraordinarily particular.”

The place the unique Huge Muff is understood for its “candy violin-like maintain”, the Huge Muff 2 is constructed to hit more durable. It dishes out a sharper edge, considerably extra quantity, and what the businesses describe because the “most pronounced low-end and midrange” of any EHX Huge Muff ever launched.

Controls stay reassuringly acquainted – with the same old Quantity, Maintain, and Tone knobs – on high of a basic big-box wedge enclosure.

Manufacturing is proscribed to five,700 items, with the Huge Muff 2 priced at $249.

The pedal’s launch additionally coincides with Made On Earth for Rising Stars: The Electro-Harmonix Story — a 500-plus-page archival quantity chronicling the corporate’s historical past, created with JHS Pedals, Third Man Books and archivist Daniel Hazard. The e book is accessible to pre-order now through Third Man Information.

Order the Huge Muff 2 at the moment at JHS Pedals.