Excellent condition with the original box

Early 2000s big muff

About the Electro-Harmonix Frantone Era

V9 Big Muff Pi

Electro Harmonix NYC V9 Big Muff

Nicknamed the Classic NYC (New York City)

Big Muff Pi. Early on, it was referred to as the NYC Reissue Big Muff Pi, even though technically it was not a reissue of any previous version. Since the 1991 return to production of the Big Muff manufactured in Russia, E-H founder/owner Mike Matthews found that there was also a demand for a true American made Big Muff. EHX began working on a new USA Muff in the Astor Place facility in Manhattan, New York. Fran Blanche, superb boutique pedal maker and founder of "Frantone" , was an engineer at

EHX from January 1999 to the Summer of

2000. She was responsible for the design of the huge EHX tube burning and testing machines, with J.C. Morrison, and was also given the job revising the circuit for the reissue New York Big Muff.

Version 9 “NYC REISSUE” BIG MUFF (USA 2000) – The tone is in the same family as the old version 6 Big Muffs from the early 1980s, though this is not actually a reissue of that version. Component values were changed, making it a bit more muffled (muffier?), and modern sounding, without the clarity of most of the early vintage USA Muffs. The first version is the most like the old early 70’s Big Muffs, with a bit more note clarity than the later revisions.