Fuzz

Muff Buffet

Name: Muff Buffet
Brand: Smear Audio
Price: 4.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

€4.90$5.90£3.90

VST3AUCircuit-derived model

Muff Buffet is our tribute to the most-cloned fuzz circuit in guitar history, served four ways on one plate: Ram's Head, Big Muff Pi, Green Russian, and the late-70s Op-Amp Muff, each modeled component-by-component down to its own transistor betas — or integrated op-amp gain blocks — diode clipping, and passive tone-stack values instead of one fuzz with EQ presets bolted on.

Switch eras and you're not just reshaping the tone control — you're swapping the whole gain stage underneath it. Ram's Head brings the fullest, most American low end; the Pi opens things up with a brighter, more mid-present voice; Green Russian tightens and darkens everything into that famously compressed, buzzsaw Soviet character. The Op-Amp Muff trades transistors for four cascaded integrated-circuit gain blocks and a triple antiparallel diode feedback stage — the square-edged, violin-like sustain that defined the alternative-guitar revolution of the early '90s and built Billy Corgan's wall of sound on Siamese Dream. A dedicated Mids control lets you dial back in whatever the classic scoop takes away, so the fuzz can sit up front in a mix instead of hiding behind the guitar.

Bolted on the front is a built-in Tube Screamer-style overdrive with its own Drive, Tone, and Level, switchable before or after the Muff. Stack it ahead for a tighter, more focused push into the fuzz's clipping stages, or drop it in after for a boosted, saturated output — two pedals sharing one signal chain, the way it actually happens on a pedalboard. Or switch the Muff off entirely and run the overdrive on its own — plenty of iconic tones started life as nothing more than a screaming mid-boost.

Current version 1.3.0 (9 August 2026)

“Feast on Fuzz”

Schematic parameters

Sets the gain feeding the first clip stage. Low settings stay closer to a raw, spitty push; higher settings drive the cascaded transistor stages into the Muff's signature dense, singing sustain.

Big Muff Pi and Electro-Harmonix are trademarks of Electro-Harmonix. Tube Screamer is a trademark of Ibanez. Muff Buffet is an independently developed product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or licensed by Electro-Harmonix or Ibanez. Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Siamese Dream are used for descriptive reference only and are not affiliated with, and have not endorsed or sponsored, this product or Smear Audio. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.