Muad'zin
Refugee
I tried to like Big Muffs and derivatives thereof. Haven't found a single one I get along with.
I know the feeling. I didn't like it at first either. I got a Buildyourownclone kit, built it and thought this is what everybody is raving about? Color me underwhelmed. Then years later I got the current kit with the mids selector switch, thinking there had to be something about it if everybody was raving about it, I was still underimpressed. But the mids switch does help though. Without a mids knob or switch most Muffs tend to disappear into a band mix, and there's nothing more frustrating as not being able to hear yourself, making you throw that pedal away in disgust.
Then I discovered Kitrae's Big Muff website, with the dozens of different Muff schematic and it became a sort of OCD thing to build them all. And see which one I would like. There's also a metric shit ton of vero Muff layouts on tagboardeffects which made it even more easy. Plus you can add the Skreddy mids switch to basically any Muff. And just flicking that switch from standard scooped to flat is enough to suddenly punch through the mix. Now I got 2 Muffs standard on my board and I couldn't gig without them, there's one on my keyboard too and I got dozens of the buggers at home. Personally the best ones in my opinion are the Violet Ramshead versions, the Civil War, the Green Russian if you're a bass player and basically any Muff made by Skreddy pedals. If you had to get only one, get a Skreddy P19. Or a Mojohand Iron Bell. Which is a P19 clone anyway with a mids knob instead of a mids switch.