drawbacks to using pull down resistors?

[Solidhex]

What negative sonic effects have you all noticed on having pull down resistors added to a circuit. I would imagine the changed impedance would make a pedal like a fuzz face or rangemaster sound a tiny bit cleaner. It seems to me the rangemaster builds I've made without pull downs seem "juicier" and more responsive, have a more dynamic feel. My imagination? What do you guys think?

--Brad

[petemoore]

  A path between signal path and ground will shunt [attenuate] all signal.
  Put a resistor there and this effect is reduced.
  A large resistor is used to provide a path to ground which [hopefully] doesn't degrade signal much, yet is small enough to discharge each of the  DC blocking caps [used for input/output] so they don't make a spike-surge of current to signal output when switch contacts connect them and they discharge, and make popping sound.
  So the pulldown resistors actually drain a teeny bit of 'juice' off the signal too, and shunt it to ground.

[Sir H C]

Put a large enough pull down at the front end of a really high gain circuit, and you will raise the noise.

[bluesdevil]

Maybe better to just wire the footswitch to ground effect input while in bypass mode and do away with the resistor?
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/switch_lo_3pdt_ig_dcjack.gif