Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
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Little Pigbacon
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
Maybe if it has a really low output impedance.
Maybe if it has a really low output impedance.
VergDan
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
Found the specs. My booster has 100 ohms output impedance.Is that considered as low output impedance? So can I see my booster as a buffer with a level control when it's turned on ?
Found the specs. My booster has 100 ohms output impedance.Is that considered as low output impedance? So can I see my booster as a buffer with a level control when it's turned on ?
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That's pretty low. Give it a try.
That's pretty low. Give it a try.
PFDarkside
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
Yes. I sometimes use a Katana booster at unity for a start of board buffer.
Yes. I sometimes use a Katana booster at unity for a start of board buffer.
VinceT
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
The only question would be whether you want a buffer before hitting your pedals or after - and where the Spark is placed. Mine is at the end of my board as a final "more" pedal, so it wouldn't cure guitar-board cable length issues before other pedals are kicked in.
That said, the Spark is a great clean boost and, at unity, would work very well for your application.
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The only question would be whether you want a buffer before hitting your pedals or after - and where the Spark is placed. Mine is at the end of my board as a final "more" pedal, so it wouldn't cure guitar-board cable length issues before other pedals are kicked in.
That said, the Spark is a great clean boost and, at unity, would work very well for your application.
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stratguy23
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
Yes to OP's question. The Wampler DB is a clean boost with independently switchable buffer. I currently use it and like it.
The Fulltone 2B is a clean boost with a buffer as well, though my understanding is that its buffer is operational only when the boost isn't on (i.e., unity gain).
Yes to OP's question. The Wampler DB is a clean boost with independently switchable buffer. I currently use it and like it.
The Fulltone 2B is a clean boost with a buffer as well, though my understanding is that its buffer is operational only when the boost isn't on (i.e., unity gain).
PFDarkside
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Great options Stratguy.
Great options Stratguy.
Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
You can always A?B test, too. Some people like bufferless long cable runs. Depends on the capacitance of the cable, and what your ears expect to hear. Try the guitar with a very short cable, then your long cable + pedals. How different does it sound?
You can always A?B test, too. Some people like bufferless long cable runs. Depends on the capacitance of the cable, and what your ears expect to hear. Try the guitar with a very short cable, then your long cable + pedals. How different does it sound?
devastone
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
It really warmed up the tone of Jimi's strats
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It really warmed up the tone of Jimi's strats
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Re: Can I use a clean booster as a buffer?
In order to take the most advantage out of the situation, you would want the length of cable that goes into the booster/buffer to be as short as possible, but the cable that goes out can be long, otherwise you run into the same issue of signal degradation going into the unit. Once in, that unit may compensate a for signal loss, but it won't compensate for anything you have done before it goes in - for any frequency shifting you have done by adding more and more capacitance in parallel with your pickups by means of long shielded runs.
In order to take the most advantage out of the situation, you would want the length of cable that goes into the booster/buffer to be as short as possible, but the cable that goes out can be long, otherwise you run into the same issue of signal degradation going into the unit. Once in, that unit may compensate a for signal loss, but it won't compensate for anything you have done before it goes in - for any frequency shifting you have done by adding more and more capacitance in parallel with your pickups by means of long shielded runs.
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