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Question for the pedal experts. Buffered pedal affecting a true by pass pedal
Scenario is running a Voodoo Labs Proctavia after a Boss dirt pedal. I had fallen "out of love" with the proctavia since rearranging my pedal board. I was finding the sweet spot for heavy fuzz and octave up, without heavy sputter and gating to be super narrow.
I took it off the board, and was considering selling it. Before putting it up I gave it one last try. Guitar to pedal to amp. It was the pedal I had originally fallen in love with again. Crazy hairy fuzz, strong octave, and a huge range of great sound instead of a 20 degree range (on the knob) of good sounds. I put it in front of some buffered pedals and it sounded great. I have some other true bypass modulation type pedals, and some distortion pedals that aren't affected being after buffered pedals. Is it the Proctavia's architecture? Is it octave fuzzes? Really curious about this.
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A fuzz pedal should be the first pedal on your board, coming directly from your guitar. I think it's because it likes the high impedance signal from the guitar. If you put it after a buffered pedal it impacts the tone, as you found out.
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Check out the JHS Pedal Page on YT. He talks about pedal myths in one video and lots of pedal order stuff in another. It’s a place to start.
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Boss buffers can change the sound of a guitar significantly. On some guitars I don't even notice it, and on others, it just takes all the magic out of the tone.
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I know people say that fuzz shoud be the first thing the picup see's but I like fuzz after wha so that's my order and I don't notice a difference. I've also never noticed that a Boss buffer changes the tone.
BTW if anything the lack of a buffer is probably worse for your tone then having all true bypass pedals. That's one good reason for using one of those Boss tuners. Then at least you have something to help push your signal through all the junk on the floor I use a Sarno Steel Guitar Blackbox for that very reason. It's more of a line conditioner of sorts but it's essentially a buffer, something that helps preserve your guitar signal through a long chain. |