Buffer Circuitry... which pedal in the chain?

[JB]

Starting out with some pedal building... JD. Sleep's TS808 and a Ross clone from geofex. I was planning on using the comp to even out the level from the guitar and then run the signal through the TS. I've read that the 808 can load the signal quite a lot when its switched in, so I was going to put a simple JFET buffer on the input to try avoid this.

My question is whether it would be better to put the buffer section on the input of the compressor instead? I plan on having the compressor on pretty much all the time... how much would it load the input?

The plan is to have Guitar-->Ross-->TS808-->Crybaby-->Amp.

Any thought or suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers,
James

[cd]

I've read that the 808 can load the signal quite a lot when its switched in

Total load of BS.  The input Z is at least 510k, which will not load down anything.  The input transistor is a high Z buffer.  You could change it to a JFET but that would not accomplish much.

If you're going to leave the compressor on all the time, don't worry about the buffer at all.

[petemoore]

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[JB]

Hey, thanks guys... totally missed the buffer already on the board.

Cheers for clearing that up.

James