Hello,
I have 2 new (about a year) TC Electronics - Corona Chorus, and a Hall of Fame. I asked a guy at their shop about internal buffer and true bypass and he was adamant,
almost shouting about about it "I hate true bypass, new buffers these days are so much better for your signal , etc etc, screw true bypass, If I could have it my way they would never make another true bypass ever!!"
He seemed upset. so I put the trim switch in "buffer" mode and I think I heard a bump in the high end. This was in my Corona Chorus. So I realized the new HOF I had probably had the same thing. Here is the question: I have 8 pedals. can you have too much buffer in your signal? will it sound bad, or is it the more added buffer the better? I thought true bypass was all the rage as it did not suck power when not using. I have 5 true bypass and 3 with buffer, the Boss DD-3, and the 2 TC Electronics HOF and Corona that can go either way. I have the buffer switch on the reverb and chorus at the end of my signal path, and the DD-3 I guess buffers automatically, it is at the end of my chain also.
Should I have both those buffers on or just one? Does anyone have an opinion on this, besides the guy at the shop who almost stroked out on the phone?
Thanks,
Steve Buffington
I have 2 new (about a year) TC Electronics - Corona Chorus, and a Hall of Fame. I asked a guy at their shop about internal buffer and true bypass and he was adamant,
almost shouting about about it "I hate true bypass, new buffers these days are so much better for your signal , etc etc, screw true bypass, If I could have it my way they would never make another true bypass ever!!"
He seemed upset. so I put the trim switch in "buffer" mode and I think I heard a bump in the high end. This was in my Corona Chorus. So I realized the new HOF I had probably had the same thing. Here is the question: I have 8 pedals. can you have too much buffer in your signal? will it sound bad, or is it the more added buffer the better? I thought true bypass was all the rage as it did not suck power when not using. I have 5 true bypass and 3 with buffer, the Boss DD-3, and the 2 TC Electronics HOF and Corona that can go either way. I have the buffer switch on the reverb and chorus at the end of my signal path, and the DD-3 I guess buffers automatically, it is at the end of my chain also.
Should I have both those buffers on or just one? Does anyone have an opinion on this, besides the guy at the shop who almost stroked out on the phone?
Thanks,
Steve Buffington
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