“Each effect has been recreated using detailed component-level modeling, faithfully capturing the behaviour of the original analogue circuitry”: Electro-Harmonix launches six of its most-famous pedals as plugins

Electro-Harmonix has teamed up with MixWave to present six of its most-loved classic guitar effects pedals as guitar plugins.

Available now for the introductory price of $109, the EHX Classics Bundle comprises three versions of the ubiquitous Big Muff fuzz pedal, plus the Andy Summers-approved Electric Mistress Flanger/Filter/Matrix, the Deluxe Memory Man Echo/Chorus/Vibrato, and the warbling Come As Your Are electric guitar tones of the EH4800 Small Clone chorus pedal.

You can, of course, buy each of the four plugins (the Muffs are all in one) separately. These are presently being offered at a discount rate of $39 each, regular price $79 for the Muffs, $69 for the rest.

For many players, these sounds will need little introduction. They have been pedalboard staples for decades. But if you’re approaching Electro-Harmonix sounds from the DAW side rather than the hardware side, they might be a unfamiliar, so here’s what you are getting.

The Big Muff plugin bundle features the original Big Muff Pi, the Ram’s Head Big Muff, and the Russian variant. The latter is what you want for “darker, heavier” tones, which is to say that it has a more aggressive character, more low-end oomph.

The Ram’s Head is the Muff many Pink Floyd fans would hear and instantly think of David Gilmour, with its smoother fuzz sound a more gentile proposition. The Big Muff Pi? It’s the Big Muff Pi, so it’ll give you that dreamy saturation, the sustain that has this weird violin quality on single note melodies.

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The Deluxe Memory Man plugin keeps the 500ms delay time of the original unit. It is one of the most iconic analogue delay pedals of all time, a BBD-driven unit used by a who’s who of players but notably the Edge, Robert Smith, Ed O’Brien, and so on.

MixWave says this digital version was created using “component-level modeling, faithfully recreating the behaviour of its bucket-brigade delay line, modulation circuitry, and analogue signal path”.

Where the Deluxe Memory Man was, there was often an Electric Mistress, too, providing movement to your tone, that could be subtle, or like a jet, or by using the Filter Matrix you can turn it into a static comb filter and use it to tease out all kinds of captivating textures that can make a single chord something transcendent.

Finally, the Small Clone presents you with the most simple take on chorusing you will find. There is a switch for Depth, and a Rate knob, and yet that is all you need to get going. The circuit does the rest. Simple, but then, in the hands of Kurt Cobain, it helped change popular music for good.

The Electro-Harmonix Classics Bundle is available now, see Electro-Harmonix or MixWave for more.