If any of you have ever built any pedals , you can understand how satisfying , ( and addictive ) it can be . Building something with your own two hands and plugging it in to hear it roar over your speakers is a feeling that I ’ ve yet to match . For both seasoned and novice effects builders , there is a special place for that first pedal that ever graced your unscratched workbench . Yeah it was a mess , it may have had noise issues , pots may have been wired in backwards , and it looked like an octopus orgy on the inside , but nothing can truly best that first pedal . The very first pedal
I built was a BYOC Large Beaver Triangle version , and it was the third or fourth pedal I ’ ve ever owned . It was the first time I ever soldered a project of that size , and the first time I was exposed to resistors , transistors , and capacitors as building blocks for the sounds I know and love . I spent many hours soldering , cursing , de-soldering , and soldering again until I finally plugged it in . The sound that came from it I will remember to this day , and until now it is the standard by which how I measure all Muffs .
Since then , I have owned several Muffs , and played
through countless iterations of those little beasties . If I had a dime for every Muff I ’ ve played , I ’ d most likely have a fistful of dollars , and ears full of tinnitus . As you can imagine , I am a huge fan of BYOC , and I was very excited to try out its new line of mini pedals , straight off the assembly line . They look more or less the same to their big brothers , just shrunken down a bit with a few tweaks to the circuit . For today ’ s review , I got my hands on the mini version of their Large Beaver Ram ’ s Head , to see how it stacks up to its bigger brother and the plethora of other ’ s Ram ’ s Heads on the market .
BYOC
LI ’ L BEAVER ( RAM ’ S HEAD )
REVIEW BY YOEL KREISLER STREET PRICE $ 54.99
If any of you have ever built any pedals , you can understand how satisfying , ( and addictive ) it can be . Building something with your own two hands and plugging it in to hear it roar over your speakers is a feeling that I ’ ve yet to match . For both seasoned and novice effects builders , there is a special place for that first pedal that ever graced your unscratched workbench . Yeah it was a mess , it may have had noise issues , pots may have been wired in backwards , and it looked like an octopus orgy on the inside , but nothing can truly best that first pedal . The very first pedal
I built was a BYOC Large Beaver Triangle version , and it was the third or fourth pedal I ’ ve ever owned . It was the first time I ever soldered a project of that size , and the first time I was exposed to resistors , transistors , and capacitors as building blocks for the sounds I know and love . I spent many hours soldering , cursing , de-soldering , and soldering again until I finally plugged it in . The sound that came from it I will remember to this day , and until now it is the standard by which how I measure all Muffs .
Since then , I have owned several Muffs , and played
through countless iterations of those little beasties . If I had a dime for every Muff I ’ ve played , I ’ d most likely have a fistful of dollars , and ears full of tinnitus . As you can imagine , I am a huge fan of BYOC , and I was very excited to try out its new line of mini pedals , straight off the assembly line . They look more or less the same to their big brothers , just shrunken down a bit with a few tweaks to the circuit . For today ’ s review , I got my hands on the mini version of their Large Beaver Ram ’ s Head , to see how it stacks up to its bigger brother and the plethora of other ’ s Ram ’ s Heads on the market .
60 GEAR REVIEW // BYOC Li ’ l Beaver