As used by Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix, it's the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.
This one is an original 1976-1979 version and the words TONE BYPASS over the middle knob indicate it is a 3rd edition.
The gaffa tape is probably from some time in the 1980s.
The battery lasts an age, regularly gigged with in the early 1990s it's still using the same one I put in around 1992. Either that or it absorbs power from the rock tones passing through it...*
It isn't actually mine, it was lent to me by a mate. My mate also lent another effect pedal to someone else. I've no idea what happened to Candida Doyle or her band Pulp, but I don't expect she got round to giving him the effect pedal back either.**
It's probably time I reimbursed him for the loan.
* Ahem.
** I know he met up with some of them recently, I suspect he didn't mention the pedal.
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