@mattmayhew5497
I've watched this 3 times now... massive eye opener! Love it, thanks for the effort guys n girls.
@adalbertoschuckjr.1509
50:58. The buffer BEFORE Fuzz affect only when you turn down your guitar's volume. This is because Fuzzes use to have very low input impedance. So If you try to clean up the guitar's sound with your buffer on, it will respond in a very different way if it is off. Try this....Ah, you tried in 52:80 - 53:11. That's it Mick. The Fuzz with a buffer doesn't respond to your volume control the way you are used to. If you guys think, old Fuzzes are the opposite of what is wanted in a audio circuit. Instead of having High Input impedance and Low Output Impedance they are exactly the opposite: Low Input Impedance and High Output Impedance. And this is the key of their ´particular tones. Exception is the Big Muff.
@ArchitexMaze75
An hour twenty on the dreaded topic of motherbuffers!!! That must of cleared up any confusion now, mind you always happy for the content and the input of knowledge and better understanding of signal chains, why not i say keep em coming! cheers lads
@chrisegg7936
first 12 minutes and 15 seconds are the new be-all/end-all of buffer explanation. I appreciate you all recording another hour for us even though you didn't need to =p
@josephgsell1779
Thanks guys for the extended video and lots of information appreciate it
@copperaudio9664
Inductive reactance and capacitive reactance create a frequency filter to the incomming signal. Some AB-Y and input buffers allow you to tune that filter and can make a single coil pickup sound fantastic. Twin-city calls it "load correction"and has a "drag" knob. Z tone calls it a "Sharp tp Bold" knob.
@davidhamma8744
Greetings from Portland, OR! Thanks for being there and doing what you do. Today I'm staying home sick so...self-care with TPS! Definitely the clearest explanation and demonstration I've seen of what a buffer actually does and why you might or might not want one in your signal chain. I have a small board of mostly true bypass pedals with a Boss tuner in the middle between the dirt pedals and the modulation. It seems to work well there but now I am curious to hear what it sounds like if I put it all the way at the end. I used to have it at the beginning until I got a germanium treble booster which is almost always on. Any comments or suggestions you might have about middle vs end positioning for that buffer would be appreciated.
@bbbro34
Jimi used to use a really long cord and it was the coiled cords making it even longer, and I think that is what helped to tame a single coil Strat going into a cranked Plexi and really, in many ways, aided his tone by having that bleed off. Look up any pic of Jimi playing and you will almost always see him with that long coiled cord. Add to that that most of the pedals back then that he would be using probably were not true bypass and thereby giving a certain kind of buffering there...
@gregjones5349
Sorry a bit late to the show on this vid. Got a question though: I use a Line 6 HX effects for all my effects (including drives) and use a 4 cable method which means I have 40ft of cables (4 x 10ft). Would I need a buffer external from the hx effects or will an effect within the hx effects (like an ep booster or klon clone) cover this? And where would i put it? Thanks.
@smellytele9629
Not one single Impy Dance. Not a low Impy Dance or even a high Impy Dance. (joking aside, this is a video I very much needed to see, thank you!!)
@Rob...0...1
Fantastic upload, the best out there, by far, that covers such a crucial topic. Well done folks. Subbed. Isn't the ultimate goal to have the guitar sound exactly the same when going into your amp with a short lead, as that same guitar going through every pedal combination - when switched OFF(!!) - on your pedalboard (looper or not) ?? Surely, when paying a lot of money for an amp, you DON'T want any colour/change/degradation in sound when the pedals are off ?? If I was fortunate to have a Dumble, I sure as hell don't want it's sound affected by any pedal when they are off. For anyone who likes the 'darker' sound caused by loss of top end etc when certain pedals/lead lengths etc are used - you can achieve that SAME sound by tweaking the amp and/or adding an EQ pedal. Most folk don't want their expensive amps/guitar sound affected - they're paying for the amp's sound, not the degradation of that sound. I'd like to think this is a very reasonable request.
@RodClark
Chip me out of my underpants with a toffee hammer, I love these nerdy episodes.
@Pead929
I tried to explain buffers to a friend and i explained it with Hot Wheels boosters. Your cars are the fastest right after the booster but after a few turns they need another booster. The way it clicked for him
@dancehallc
I just spent a while playing around with my Boss TB-2w a couple of different places in the chain flicking the bypass switch on and off... dang it, I think I need a buffer. Will probably just switch my PolyTune 2 mini for a PolyTune 3.
@josephryan8899
how are you turning on buffers in the pedals with them off great video
@J1JL
29:20 i agree buffers after true bypass overdrive pedals
@RSBurgener
I need a buffer because my rig is cheap and my signal goes through hell before it comes out of the speaker. I need to get more out of what I've got because it ain't gonna transform into Boss and Wampler and Keely anytime soon.
@raulalluti7776
22:00 excelent playing
@chipsterb4946
A buffer is (or at least should be) a 1-to-1 amplifier. There’s no such thing as a noise free amplifier as far as I know, and it’s really difficult to build a completely, truly transparent amplifier. That’s why too many buffers starts sounding like crap. I heard a difference between the true bypass Rat and the buffered TS-9 before the extra cable was added and I didn’t like the TS-9 buffer sound as well. IOW the TS-9 buffer is not transparent. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been adding a lot of new pedals. Almost all of them are true bypass but I started hearing tone loss as I added 6th and 7th pedals. No long cable runs, but it turns out switches, patch cords, and jacks/plugs add a lot of capacitance too. After a lot of research, I got a Pure Tone buffer from TrueTone (price raised now to $59.99 direct from TT). Put that after Wah and Fuzz Face, before everything else and it really cleaned up the tone. Interestingly, turning on the buffer (Klon type) in my Tumnus Deluxe colored the tone a bit to my ears.
@johndogwater