Buffers. True bypass. Buffers...

[Joe Kramer]

- use your ears.

Yeah, do that.   

[ADR]

Right after the buffer, you insert some form of hum reduction, and when the signal returns to the station, just before a decent current driver sends it to the amp, you insert some form of hiss reduction.  Between that send and receive jack, you could stick whatever the heck you wanted to, whether buffered or not.

Ahhhh, Holy BAT-buffer Batman!

Should make some room in that for the BAT chicken soup and BAT shark repellent in there too! 

[R.G.]

I'd like to see a sort of "station" that you plug your guitar into, and feed your amp from, that provides a buffered in and out, plus an envelope extractor at the buffered input that can be applied to whatever the heck you want (but which would be used for some internal devices).  Right after the buffer, you insert some form of hum reduction, and when the signal returns to the station, just before a decent current driver sends it to the amp, you insert some form of hiss reduction.  Between that send and receive jack, you could stick whatever the heck you wanted to, whether buffered or not.  Heck, you could probably even stick yer old SPDT vintage pedals without having to modify them.  You'd have non-heavy-handed noise reduction and could eschew use of outboard gates and such.

Um... that may have been done, Mark, at least on a pedal level, not a separate box of its own. 

[Mark Hammer]

So, um, does Behringer sell it for $40 USD?

[R.G.]

Not yet...

[Melanhead]

Great article Jack and makes perfect sense ...

I'm running short cables live, and all my pedals are true-bypass, mainly because they're easier to make. I'm building a buffer pedal, to be the first in line, that has a switch to turn it off to hear the difference.

I've thought for a while that this may be the best both worlds ...1 buffer in the signal path, not 5 or 6!

But it really is all in the ears.

[amz-fx]

   

Disclaimer: I'm not aware of any pedalmaker that uses all those buzzwords so it is not a jab at anyone in particular. Just for fun!  Apologies to Scott Adams for the parody...

[Dragonfly]

   

Disclaimer: I'm not aware of any pedalmaker that uses all those buzzwords so it is not a jab at anyone in particular. Just for fun!  Apologies to Scott Adams for the parody...

[DDD]

"...Si transistor can get a cool sound just like a Ge transistor (but maybe not the SAME sound)..." - well done, Jack. Great! Down with "mojo" stuff and proudly declared mysterious legends!