Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi V9 Early Version 9 EC3003-A board Frantone era REHOUSED Klon Klone Tribute

Big Muff Pi V9 (EC-3003A) re-housed in a Klon tribute case.

Gold case, Oxblood knobs, Purple bezzled LED. Cherry Pi on back cover w/ rubber feet.

Pedal has a matte clear coat applied.

Looks like a Klon clone. Sounds like a Frantone era V9 Big Muff Pi.

Great footprint compared to the original giant EHX case.

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.

Fran spent a few months building prototypes of variations on the classic Big Muff circuit design, as well as some new Muff designs. Mike Matthews and several other E-H employees reviewed and tested these dozen or so different prototypes. One of the classic version prototypes was chosen to be the new USA Big Muff, the ninth version. The circuit architecture is essentially the same as the original Bob Myers BMP design, only with a new set of component values. This was nothing new in the history of the original Big Muffs, as there were literally dozens of different variants of the circuit throughout the 1970s. In 2000 the Big Muff returned to production once again in New York, now in Matthews' Long Island City facility.