So - my question primarily to Joe if he gets to read this is - have you experimented with the use of a buffer? If so, where in the chain, what were your impressions tonally and are they worth the investment? Anyone else have any experience?īuffer makes all the difference in the world, depending on your pedalboard length (signal chain length), and whether the pedals on the board are true bypass, buffered, or badly buffered (top end loss from things like wahs, danelectro effects, etc). I have read that older distortion type units such as fuzzfaces HATE having a buffer put in front of them, so I guess it would have to go after my JBFF and before the Tubescreamer (which is modded for true bypass). I use a buffered ABY splitter from Buzz Electronics for my two amp split, so I am at least partially covered however my friend reckons my tone will benefit from a buffer at the front end too (so I have ordered their simple buffer at £27 to suck it and see). There's lot's of talk on the interweb about this, not least from Pete Cornish here in the UK who has worked with some well known stars - see here. He says it replaces lost top end that gets lost due to signal path length. One of my learned guitar buddies has been preaching the benefits of using a buffer at the front end of a pedalboard.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |