I always overlooked the Wiggler because I don’t chase tremolo tones much, but holy shit, that is one of the nicest trems I’ve ever heard, more like a harmonic tremolo than a standard one.

Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites. Showcasing weird pedals, but also popular ones and ACTUALLY breaking them down. I love that it's so much more than just "look at this weird thing!" Keep up the great work.

Thoroughly enjoyed the pro wrestler intro. That Wiggler sounds nice.

Again, another great video. Your excitement when you're playing with the pedals is contagious. And the presentation and overall vibe of your videos is incredibly genuine. Again, keep up the great work! Always looking forward to your videos. :)

Man and I thought the WORM was a freaky pedal 😂😂😂 Great video highlighting awesome gear!

Great video, looking forward to the deep dives on all of these

Haha, I was *not* expecting that shout-out at the end. 😄 But yeah, I'm definitely chuffed with the top jacks! I really need to get me one of those Tube Zippers...

Keep at it buddy, love your videos!!!

14:50 thank you for ‘going there’ and doing the research. You rock! I love my little Mesa boogie v-twin and took its 12ax7 tubes out for 12at7s to smooth it out and the difference was similar to what I hear here.

The "wurl" mode of the Wiggler sounds like they spit the signal, one with trem and one without. I like the "acey", it sounds like trem and vibrato at the same time. Thanks for doing these pedals. I thought they were just overly expensive when they were new. Boy was I wrong!!! VERY cool. Nice job.

Wow! Excellent opening riff!! Almost bought that Muffin a few years back.

Glad to see this, there's been a Wiggler for sale in my area for a very long time, given the size and power requirements, I'm glad I didn't take the offer. Still pretty cool though, thanks!

I loved this, I have the wiggler and used to have the English muffin and hot tubes (the one with actual tubes). Regrettably sold those two but the English muffin was one of the best drive pedals I’ve ever owned. Played through a 70’s fender bassman 100 head and Marshall 4x12 it sounded glorious. I tried some 12ax7’s too and it sounded massive and awesome but I found the 12ay7’s would clean up better with pick attack and guitars volume.

EHX is a master of product and design iteration. They have tried so many form factors on some of these effects. This one in particular always caught my attention. And yeah, that filter sounds amazing.

Very nice! Tube pedals are always fascinating. Long live 90s wrestling!

Always thought these were intriguing pedals and would buy a Wiggler or Tube Zipper if one came up at a reasonable cost. Please make the first deep dive on the Tube Zipper! It's just so different! Great video again. All the little gags! Plexit!! Haha! Good one!

I remember being obsessed with these pedals when I started playing, seeing them in every catalog. Never did get my hands on anything from this series but it definitely got me down the path to buying classic big box EHX pedals

Cool video. I really like the quick schematic breakdown. I think I'm going to order one or two of these. They'd be real fun to build a board for - especially one that doesn't use that whacky power jack. A charge pump/regulator would get it there.

Great intro! Love my Wiggler.

Awesome video. I’m sold on all 3!

Very nice and thorough review. I have an English Muff'n. Bought it brand new as a bass player but it didnt catch on to me as a 'muff' per say. (it kills the low end) For me this pedal has been an 'amp in a box' that I used in power amp in and fx returns of my amps, particularly when I switched to guitar and all I had around was bass amps. This pedal turned my bass amps in 'Faux guitar amps',

I’ve been wanting to see a video to explore these! I’m am so there for a tube zipper deep dive. I feel like there’s shades of raccoon labs ecto cooler present there. Great video! ✌️😃🎸

Muffin tone nailed all the nooks and crannies on that sweet, buttery backing track.

Good stuff as always 👍

I own an LPB2ube, while it now sits on the shelf, it gave my many many fun tones and stereo goodness

That Wiggler... amazing, but total missed opportunity for a stereo effect, particularly with all the real estate available for jacks. Tube zipper is honestly one of the coolest envelope filters I''ve ever heard, sounds amazingly versatile and I can't wait for the deep dive. English Muff'n... I mean it's a thing, it's been done many times before. This one has tubes but it's also a lot of pedalboard real estate. But then I've never been a huge plexi fan.

The wiggler and tube zipper are magnificent. I have both and they are inspirational.

Reverend Reeves Gabbrels…his work with Bowie was insane. I was not aware of a Reeves signature guitar but will investigate!

The X's in the Muffin sound brighter and clearer - like NEW tubes. Maybe a touch more overdrive but to me, better tone. The T's had more mud.

17:45 “a thought experiment that nobody has the heart to stop”. Amen. They power Jack coming outta the side is a real pain. But it’s worth the sound. My Wiggler is in line with a moog murf 105. They make very interesting cousins.

That muffn sounds fantastic. Not quite the plexi thing but it’s own thing. Pick of the bunch for me

Just found your channel, great stuff!

I collected all these tube pedals a few years ago. It cost me about $1,500 total and I have no regrets, but I’m a collector. The only ones that I recommend to players rather than collectors are the Wiggler and Hot Tubes. You’ve already discovered how cool the Wiggler is. The Hot Tubes is a really great overdrive that can get a good amount of gain. The controls on it are somewhat unintuitive and can actually self-oscillate, which is pretty unusual and no other drive pedal I have does that. I think it’s a lot better than the English Muff’n. The Black Finger is just a compressor that can squish like crazy. Not any big surprises. The Black Finger from the ‘70s squishes like crazy all the time, but the tube one has more control and lets you dial it back. The LPB-2ube actually sounds pretty bad when you feed one side into the other for overdrive as EHX suggests you can use it for. Otherwise, it’s just two pretty plain boosts in one. The Tube EQ has an expression pedal input, which you can use to make filter sweeps, which is why the Q is so emphasized on the art, like their Q-tron/Doctor Q/etc. pedals. I have the 12AY7 mic preamp but I haven’t really had any opportunity to use it. I know mine is functional from testing it briefly, but you’ll find a lot of very positive reviews saying it sounds amazing and is a great bargain for a tube preamp of such quality, and on the other hand a ton of people saying theirs are very noisy and fickle. There’s a forum thread somewhere where the designer of it weighed in on things and he admits there had to be some compromises, but he still seemed pretty proud of the end result. Your English Muff’n tubes are surely not original as you surmised, but EHX has always said that the English Muff’n uses two 12AY7s while mine came with, if I remember correctly, a 12AY7 on the right and a 12AX7 on the left. I found a forum post from when the pedal was just released where someone said the same thing. Apparently EHX decided to change it just before it went on sale and never updated their ad copy. I tried it with two 12AY7s and decided it was better with the 12AX7 anyway.

I’d love to watch you do a deep dive into the Blackfinger Compressor from the same series. I think it definitely needs to be demonstrated in a mixing capacity as well. Throughly enjoyed this video as all your others. 🤘

I have the wiggler! it was always quite noisy until I opened it up and rerouted the power to the bottom of the pedal. It's ac and runs relatively high current for a pedal and the internal wires from the pcb to the power jack ran too close to some of the circuit. I wish it was something they'd addressed before release, but it was also an interesting learning experience!

The english muffin is my secret weapon on my board . it can nail that searing SRV tone pretty close if set correctly using a Strat and a Super Reverb .. had it for years now . maybe i should buy another in case it breaks down someday

Tube Zipper has a lot of questions and seems like it's a bit skeptical. Brilliant.

I have the same three as you in my EHX collection. All great.

Love my English Muffin & Black Finger is a seriously special thing!

The Tube Zipper is glorious!

6:50. The Conversation is required viewing to be in my cult! Rock on!

Damn ... I loved Hacksaw!!! Do you remember the Sheepherders!!🙌🏻

I sure miss my Wiggler ever since it stopped working about 20 yrs ago. The only always on pedal I’ve ever had on my board. Kept it on the Acey vibrato, rate at about 8 o’clock and intensity about 11:00 and it made Everything sound better

I used to have a Wiggler and I regret selling it. Almost bought one last year but remembered I need to drag that adapter everywhere

I used a zipper as my main bass drive for years. Robert Been of BRMC did as well.

Sooo cool. EHX is def my favorite company. No one else would make something so impractical. Could you imagine a Strymon tube zipper?? Hahha No. Keep the weird stuff coming Mike.

The Tube zipper is a great pedal!

Some of these pedals make a lot of sense (LPB 2tube, Black Finger, Tube EQ), others are novel but potentially useful (Hot Tubes, Muff'in) and then there's the Wiggler and the Tube Zipper. While they sound amazing, I cant imagine how tubes are gonna possibly affect the modulation effect itself other than through the gain stage. At that point is just better to have the same non-tube pedal in the same chain as a tube preamp/compressor (pedal)

Okay, so isn't the English Muff'n really the front end of a tube amplifier? It sure lays out in the schematic like that. Anyway, great breakdown (see what I did there?) of these pedals. The opener using the Gecko delay was more Gilmour-like than I would have thought. Which brings me to this; Why isn't the English Muff'n part of the Big Muff family, or is it? Thanks again for the great episode.

Hey! Nice video with the three tube pedals from EHX! On mine Tube Zipper the tubes does not light up. I got the effects running, the valves even got hot but they do not light up. Is there any problem with that? Should I change the tubes?

Shame you didnt showcase the hot tubes one! Thing is an absolute beauty of a pedal, hard to find tho haha

Man, you forgot about the Black Finger 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I'd love to hear your recommendations for the cheaper alternatives you mentioned. Im a newcomer to pedals and am find it fascinating learning ✌️

Gotta give it to EHX. Making the weirdest and wonderfull pedals 🙏

I had all three and they all broke. The Tube Zipper went through three warranties. The Hot Tubes was better in the tube version though.

Does the English muffin have the glow lamp too??? Or no??

dude i replaced the tubes in my english muffn and ill tell you what not only is that thing to protect you from stepping on the tubes but mine glow red themselves not bright but they glow lol

There's another really rad "8th" pedal in this series, though not really a pedal as there is no foot switch. The 12ay7 Mic Pre.

Have you or anyone you know had any experience with the Hot Tubes one? I’m super interested in it but there’s basically zero information or videos of people demo’ing one that I can find. I’d really love to get one but shelling out $200-$300 for one without ever hearing it is a big risk.

Have English Muffin,try other pedals,but it always ends up back again,it is the go to 12ax7 pedal

Bone Saw!!!

As much as I was getting all hyped that I needed an English Muff'n. In the back of my head, I was thinking, "Angry Charlie, Angry Charlie, Angry Charlie, modern components, practical design, small footprint." You validated my thoughts at the end.

dude i put ax7s in my english muffn and it sounds great. now i think i may go back to ay7's tho lol i dont know shit about tubes i just remmeber being told it would dirty it up more and at the time i was like lets do it.

I want a Tube Zipper…..that’s what she said

I always thought tubes in effects were just an ornament. Sometimes true and sometimes not. I had an early Tubeworks, tube Driver (couldn't afford a Chandler). Nor real good.

17:35 Is that a dig at me?! I hate top mounted jacks.

Do you have a music podcast?

Sadly, the Plexit is not too soon but too late

Demos need a cleaner amp setting!!

I hope the full bridge rectifier is a reference or I will unfollow. Jokes aside, when I was young and discover mi first ehx pedal in 2012 or something I dreamed scrolling in the ehx site about having those pedal with the bulb where all the toan is contained. I never had the money at the time and when I had the money I realized that I could not stand having those chunky delicate stuff. I threw my pedals around, I'm a disaster, I accepted my fate with only throwable pedal

Had an English Muffin years ago. Horrible noisy pedal. Love EHX tho.

They took the conversation off iTunes

And sadly none are in production The Hot Tubes was best

The Muff’n is a preamp made to sound like a classic Marshall. It’s is not a dirt box and it is not a Big Muff. If you don’t plug it in a power amp you are using it wrong

Do you think your millennial and zoomer viewers will understand the "series of tubes" reference?

Please please do an episode about the EHX Flanger Hoax. That one should be fun!