What's your favorite pedal board buffer?

[BrianS.]

Re: What's your favorite pedal board buffer?

Yeah, I've only got 5 pedals on my board, but I do notice some loss of signal strength when I don't have a buffered pedal in there.

[LReese]

Re: What's your favorite pedal board buffer?

K - I'm going to geek out a bit....

Aside from Fuzzface clones, I find some pedals like the Hartman Flanger and the Fulltone Choralflage sound different when fed from a buffer. Not sure what I like better, but it can be different. All in all, a buffer at the beginning of the chain (or immediately after those pedals that sound better with a non-buffered signal) seems the way to go. Most pedals (a Badgerplex pre seems to be an exception) should give a buffered-signal equivalent signal to the amp when on. As usual, YMMV.

I like the idea of what I think Pete Cornish wants to accomplish - feed each pedal the signal it sounds best with so that's why all the buffers. If the buffers are transparent I'd think that approach would be acceptable.

[hermetico]

Re: What's your favorite pedal board buffer?

My favourite one is Wampler Decibel+.
It's a buffer and a booster in a pedal (even that I don't use the booster capability).
It sound as good as the Xotic EP Booster.
High Quality, perfect sound.
I am running it a 12V, tho.