"Well, there's something you don't see every day..."
Xenomorph, Freddy Krueger, Gremlins, the Predator, the Evil Dead. Were these eighties monsters ever out of style (doubtful), they're alive as they've ever been well into the 2020s. While we're certainly tickled by the antics of Stripe and his brood, paralyzed by the hive of the Alien Queen and her offspring, and rattled and shaken by the Evil Dead and its horde, there is one '80s movie monster we can't help but return to. It is truly interesting that one of the most enduring icons of the supernatural lays not with masters of the genre like Carpenter and Craven but with Second City alumni.
Today, we're talking about one such monster and more. When it comes to beastly effects, who you gonna call?
This is the Mythos Pedals Big Puft Fuzz.
Somethin' Strange in Your Neighborhood
Introducing the Mythos Pedals Big Puft Fuzz
Nashville's Mythos Pedals is among the boutique pedal world's trendsetting tastemakers. Responsible for some of today's market's most exciting effects, the Mythos Pedals lineup is an enviable mix of vintage-inspired drives like the Olympus and the Herculean and other analog effects like The Fates chorus and Argonaut octave up. Wherever you look in the Mythos catalog, you'll be met with hardy, honest designs and undeniably expressive tones.
Halloween 2024 first introduced the world to the Big Puft fuzz. As part of a limited release conducted exclusively through Mythos themselves via their website, the first Big Puft was a large-and-in-charge "Pi"-style Muff circuit decked in a sugary-sweet aesthetic that conjured images of everyone's favorite, most adorable, city-leveling sailor. The original Big Puft was a formidable fuzz in the style of your classic "Pi" Muffs with a simple three-dial setup surely familiar to fuzz fiends of any generation. Initial response to the Big Puft was so electric that Mythos Pedals had no choice but to make a sequel. Today's Big Puft follows in a similar example on a smaller, more pedalboard-friendly scale with all its decadent, distorted tones translated and fully intact. Let's talk about it.
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing, something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us..."
That's a Big Twinkie
Mythos Pedals Big Puft Fuzz Design and Tones
Today's Big Puft fuzz follows in the example of its big brother from last year's Halloween release. The Big Puft at hand assumes a smaller-scaled size within a custom, bent metal enclosure. For Mythos fans seeking out an accurate size estimation, the Big Puft is about the size of the Mythos Oracle Analog Echo – definitively shrunk down from the original's authentic, imposing Muff footprint to a more manageable and form-fitting shape. This pedal is then, of course, treated to a marshmallow-colored, cavity-inducing coating reminiscent of the candied kaiju.
Mythos Pedals Big Puft Fuzz Controls and Tones
The Big Puft is designed with three streamlined effect controls. They lay out as such:
- Volume – The loudness of Big Puft's roar – capable of getting loud enough to reach the other side of Central Park.
- Tone – The frequency of Big Puft's screech – potentially hitting subway terminal-rumbling resonations.
- Sustain – The length of Big Puft's reign of terror – possible to reach into the range of interminable.
With the Big Puft, Mythos imbues players with the power to choose the form of the destructor. Big Puft's controls are simple and effective in creating formidable, fuzzy tones that range from a classically humble fuzzstortion to a harbinger of sugary end-times phoned in straight from Muff-strodamus. While Muffs can take many forms – Big, lil', civil, Russian – the Big Puft plays in that certain "Pi"-style that makes it perfect for all your '70s blues-rock righteousness and '90s alt-rock cynicism alike. The Big Puft balances the monstrously destructive fuzz tones capable of leveling a couple metropolitan blocks with the indulgent, marshmallowy sweetness of its exterior coating to make for a undeniably charming beast of a pedal.
Mythos Pedals Big Puft Fuzz Final Thoughts
Halloween is almost here once again. In the spirit of the spooky season, Mythos welcomes a decadent demon into our reality. The Big Puft is a classic example of Muff magic in motion and makes for a welcome addition to the Mythos lineup. Through the marvelous technical know-how exhibited by Mythos, we're brought an effect to give us the frights well past October. The time for Halloween traditions is nigh, but the Big Puft is no trick. Fire it up and spook your bandmates to be terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. With this pick from Mythos, all that's left is to wait for whoever wants to take a crack at the J. Edgar Hoover Drive. Any takers?
