Experimental Guitar Looper Question. Need a dry signal.

[Jamforthelamb]

Hey everybody,
I'm going to dive into the experimental world here a little, so bare with me.

I have a Blue's Clues toy here that would sample a child's voice, and then give you the ability to play the sample back with some crazy effects added to it (echo, pitch mod, etc). I've already added input, and output jacks to it, and I wired up the "play" button to a 555 based LFO for looping of the playback.

I've always had an idea in my head of taking this device a step futher, and mounting it into a stomp style enclosure, and using it as a guitar effect. The thing that I believe it is lacking is some kind of circuitry that would split the guitar's signal in 2, 1 signal going through to the sampler, and one remaining dry and going straight to the output.

So, that's my question. Is there a circuit I can use that will allow me to spilt a guitar's signal in two without any signal loss ?

Forgive me if this has an easy answer, I'm still a noob when it comes to guitar effects building).

Thanks!
JFTL

[zpyder]

Is there a circuit I can use that will allow me to spilt a guitar's signal in two without any signal loss ?

You need not ask for forgiveness!  Sounds like a cool little circuit you've got in that toy there..
The answer to your question is: yes.  I've recommended these circuits to several people looking for variations of the same thing.  I've built the Splitter myself, but not the B. Blender.

Splitter-Blend by Run-Off Groove: http://www.runoffgroove.com/splitter-blend.html
B. Blender by Sean MacLennan: http://www.seanm.ca/stomp/bblender.html

They are practically the same circuit with one major exception: The splitter-blend is INTENDED to split a signal into two (with no signal loss), send it out to 2 different FX loops, and then blend them back together.  The B. Blender is intended to do the same, only with 1 FX loop and then blend that (the "wet", effected signal) back together with the dry (original) signal.  I think you can see that in actually both of these circuits have several possible uses... I use the splitter half of the splitter blend to route my guitar signal to two diff amps & fx loops.

have fun!
zpyder

[Jamforthelamb]

Thanks!

I'm running for my breadboard now!

I have another experimental project where I use a voice changer as a pedal. I think one of these might work for that as well!

WOOT! 

JFTL

[$uperpuma]

WOOT x2 for circuit bending!