Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
So i was playing yesterday while trying out my new chorus (thanks crook tele).
Its true bypass. SOunds good etc - especially on its own, and bypassed is great too.
Then i plugged into my pedal board (i uplugged the chorus from the chain) and noticed a huge amount of tone loss. Its all dark and muddy with everything bypassed. All my pedals are sexy expensive ones, and all my cables are lava cable. The only pedal that isnt true bypass is my deja vu delay at the end of the chain (that has buffer or TB option). Using the dejas output buffer, things are marginally better - but still far from being as nice as the straight in sound.
the chain is:
MXR CAE wah
fulltone deja vibe
fulldrive
GT500
Deja VU delay
so i got to thinking about buffers....
and i took out the MXR wah and plugged in my old morley - BAM! all my high end came back even running thru the rest of the pedals. Morleys have a great buffer circuit. Still, its not quite the same as plugging straight in. I know, i know, im being picky right? The other problem is, ive grown to like the inductor based wah, so id like a nice buffer, but with the wah tone of my MXR.
So i guess i need a small buffer at the start of the chain and all will be cool right?
Easy.
But ive just noticed fulltone deluxe wahs have a new buffer circuit built in. Its one of the "fuzz friendly" things.
Now this buffer is only engaged when the wah is ON. When the wah is off, everything is still true bypassed. I want a buffer that is "always on" kinda like the morley ones. Trouble is....they make my fuzz face sound weird.
Question:
If i need a regular high to low impedance buffer first in the chain to stop all my true bypass pedals from sucking my tone...what happens if the wah has a "fuzz friendly buffer" integrated into the wah as well?
Its true bypass. SOunds good etc - especially on its own, and bypassed is great too.
Then i plugged into my pedal board (i uplugged the chorus from the chain) and noticed a huge amount of tone loss. Its all dark and muddy with everything bypassed. All my pedals are sexy expensive ones, and all my cables are lava cable. The only pedal that isnt true bypass is my deja vu delay at the end of the chain (that has buffer or TB option). Using the dejas output buffer, things are marginally better - but still far from being as nice as the straight in sound.
the chain is:
MXR CAE wah
fulltone deja vibe
fulldrive
GT500
Deja VU delay
so i got to thinking about buffers....
and i took out the MXR wah and plugged in my old morley - BAM! all my high end came back even running thru the rest of the pedals. Morleys have a great buffer circuit. Still, its not quite the same as plugging straight in. I know, i know, im being picky right? The other problem is, ive grown to like the inductor based wah, so id like a nice buffer, but with the wah tone of my MXR.
So i guess i need a small buffer at the start of the chain and all will be cool right?
Easy.
But ive just noticed fulltone deluxe wahs have a new buffer circuit built in. Its one of the "fuzz friendly" things.
Now this buffer is only engaged when the wah is ON. When the wah is off, everything is still true bypassed. I want a buffer that is "always on" kinda like the morley ones. Trouble is....they make my fuzz face sound weird.
Question:
If i need a regular high to low impedance buffer first in the chain to stop all my true bypass pedals from sucking my tone...what happens if the wah has a "fuzz friendly buffer" integrated into the wah as well?
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