Buffered Bypass?
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rspst14
Tone Cat
Re: Buffered Bypass?
With true bypass, the signal avoids the circuitry altogether. With a buffered bypass, the signal travels through the circuit, which is designed with buffers at certain points to help keep the signal intact. When designed properly, you shouldn't notice any signal degredation with a buffered bypass pedal, and in some cases, it's actually better to have a buffered bypass than a true bypass. This is the case when long cable lengths are involved.
Ryan
With true bypass, the signal avoids the circuitry altogether. With a buffered bypass, the signal travels through the circuit, which is designed with buffers at certain points to help keep the signal intact. When designed properly, you shouldn't notice any signal degredation with a buffered bypass pedal, and in some cases, it's actually better to have a buffered bypass than a true bypass. This is the case when long cable lengths are involved.
Ryan
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
Unseen
Re: Buffered Bypass?
Hehe I despise true bypass...and solidstate is all what there is in those buggers
Buffers are far from equal, like everything else they get better with the price.
Hehe I despise true bypass...and solidstate is all what there is in those buggers
Buffers are far from equal, like everything else they get better with the price.
some_dude
Raging BB Gunologist
Re: Buffered Bypass?
It's generally good to throw a buffered pedal in your signal chain somewhere if your total cable length (guitar to pedalboard + cable between pedals + pedalboard to amp = total length) is over 20 to 25 feet. You also need to add an additional 3 to 6 inches for each true-bypass pedal in your chain.
It helps keep down signal degredation and restores your missing highs and mids.
I run 20 feet of cable to the pedalboard, and another 20 feet of cable to the amp. I use a Boss GE-7 as a buffer (it's the only pedal between my guitar and my amp except for a true-bypass distortion). If I take it out of the signal path and just run the TB distortion by itself, my tone sounds like sh*t.
Generally though, the buffer on a Dunlop wah is crap (or so I've been told, I have an older one that's been TB'd), and if you can get it TB'd, you'll be better off.
It's generally good to throw a buffered pedal in your signal chain somewhere if your total cable length (guitar to pedalboard + cable between pedals + pedalboard to amp = total length) is over 20 to 25 feet. You also need to add an additional 3 to 6 inches for each true-bypass pedal in your chain.
It helps keep down signal degredation and restores your missing highs and mids.
I run 20 feet of cable to the pedalboard, and another 20 feet of cable to the amp. I use a Boss GE-7 as a buffer (it's the only pedal between my guitar and my amp except for a true-bypass distortion). If I take it out of the signal path and just run the TB distortion by itself, my tone sounds like sh*t.
Generally though, the buffer on a Dunlop wah is crap (or so I've been told, I have an older one that's been TB'd), and if you can get it TB'd, you'll be better off.
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Re: Buffered Bypass?
Can't say for sure, but everyone beat me to it,yeah the BOSS thing, or a variation of it, the buffered crybabies have an extra transistor/fet at the front, depending how it's done (like the jfet BOSS stuff) I'd take the buffered bypass over a true bypass anyday, for the main reason of lower output impedance. However some vintage fuzz pedals and such respond kinda funny over not getting the pure guitar as such. A true-bypass though is great though like Ryan siad, if you don't have long cable runs. Kudos to Rid too!
Some buffers a regular transistors as a small amp, although this works they tend to have a lower input Z and a higher output Z (which tends to make fuzz faces get upset, ...it also makes the fuzz face do what it does in *it's* circuitry) ... so the kinda give you a gain boost, then cut it back ... to so it comes back to unity ... the idea is to make up for any losses. unlike the Jfets which hav a very high in Z and low out Z, the preserve the frequency response of the signal, much better ... and don't get loaded down by what ever follows easily.
Hey Rid, were the heck are my opto-coupler specs at ... :butkick: ...
:laugh2:
Fritz6 said:
Can't say for sure, but everyone beat me to it,yeah the BOSS thing, or a variation of it, the buffered crybabies have an extra transistor/fet at the front, depending how it's done (like the jfet BOSS stuff) I'd take the buffered bypass over a true bypass anyday, for the main reason of lower output impedance. However some vintage fuzz pedals and such respond kinda funny over not getting the pure guitar as such. A true-bypass though is great though like Ryan siad, if you don't have long cable runs. Kudos to Rid too!
Some buffers a regular transistors as a small amp, although this works they tend to have a lower input Z and a higher output Z (which tends to make fuzz faces get upset, ...it also makes the fuzz face do what it does in *it's* circuitry) ... so the kinda give you a gain boost, then cut it back ... to so it comes back to unity ... the idea is to make up for any losses. unlike the Jfets which hav a very high in Z and low out Z, the preserve the frequency response of the signal, much better ... and don't get loaded down by what ever follows easily.
Hey Rid, were the heck are my opto-coupler specs at ... :butkick: ...
:laugh2:
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
Unseen
Re: Buffered Bypass?
Argh sorry man.....we are swamped in projects...I'm actually going to work on a saturday
Duh!
Hope to get a look on them then.
Argh sorry man.....we are swamped in projects...I'm actually going to work on a saturday
Duh!
Hope to get a look on them then.
Burkwieser
New member
Re: Buffered Bypass?
Or you can just buy my GCX and Ground Control in the trading post. :laugh2:
Or you can just buy my GCX and Ground Control in the trading post. :laugh2:
Re: Buffered Bypass?
LOL!, ' just messing with you Rid.... :laugh2: I hope you get some personal time soon, don't get too burned out man. :cool3:Rid said:Argh sorry man.....we are swamped in projects...I'm actually going to work on a saturday
Duh!
Hope to get a look on them then.
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