Where is the Best Place to Put your Buffer? – Your Pedalboard NEEDS This
In this video we examine all things related to buffers. A buffer is a pedal that boosts your guitars signal to help it push through feet and feet of cabling and pedals. It seems that the more pedals you add to your board, the more the suck the life out of your tone. So I bought two buffers and placed them at various points in the signal chain to see how much of a difference they REALLY make.
Guitar: @yamahamusic Revstar
Amp: @victoryamps Duchess V40
Clean Signal Chain: Guitar -Ernie Ball Volume Pedal – Dunlop CAE Wah – PolyTune(Buffered) – UAD 1176(Buffered) – Class Reunion – UAD Enigmatic (Buffered) – Klone – HX Stomp XL(Buffered) – Generation Loss(Says True Bypass, but I have questions) – Hall of Fame(Buffered) – EP Booster
Fuzz Signal Chain: Guitar – Ernie Ball Volume Pedal – Dunlop CAE Wah – PolyTune(Un-Buffered) – UAD 1176(Un-Buffered) – Class Reunion – UAD Enigmatic (Buffered) – Klone – HX Stomp XL(Buffered) – Generation Loss(Says True Bypass, but I have questions) – Hall of Fame(Buffered) – EP Booster
Front=Buffer before Ernie Ball VP
Back=Buffer After EP Booster
Middle=Buffer After Class Reunion
00:00 Intro
01:09 What is a Buffer
03:07 Pedals that have Buffers already in them
03:42 When Should You Get a Buffer?
04:15 Three General Rules
04:59 The Test I wanted to do
05:21 How the Test is set up
07:34 Clean Chords
09:19 Clean Lick
10:43 Fuzz Lick
11:40 Fuzz Chords
13:00 My Thoughts
15:56 Outro
#Place #Put #Buffer #Pedalboard
Originally posted by UCG1PwmMqL5XQw1ax4ECCIYQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOSPfqxHBE
Thank you for the such a big work you’ve done!!!
I have a question.
If I have pedals in the Effect Loop. Where should buffers be put in this case?
Definitely at the beginning after the guitar, but what’s then?
Before the input in the amp?
Or the first after “Send” or the last one before “Return”?
Or 4 buffers (two before input in the amp and two in the loop)?
It’s confusing a bit 🙂
Thanks for the ansew!
I'm not yelling at you, so nobody be offended, but fyi a muff circuit has four transistors and doesn't mind where you put it in the chain nor does it mind seeing a buffer. It's the two-transistor circuits you gotta look out for, like a fuzz face or tone bender thing with cleanup and a whole different thing going on. Also just another bit of trivia, you don't really start getting any capacitance (tone suck) at all until you start to get over the 18-feet mark. If you ever wondered why you can buy 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, and for some reason 18-foot cables. For me the goal is a switcher, hopefully a Gigrig G3s, so buffers will be bypassed anyway. But at the moment my first pedal, a polytune, has a bonafide buffer which is great, and my last pedal is a delisle buffered splitter. You want certain impedances, and most stock buffers like in a boss pedal for example, don't have the ideal impedances of 1M ohm input and 100 ohm output.
Hi! I looked at your video because I saw the picture with the two same Jhs buffers I use in front and in the back of my board. So I was curious to see if your conclusion was the same as mine after lots of tests with many pedals actually on my board (14 without buffers).Glad it confirms my thoughts! So thank you for that. But it’s true for the fuzz, it really depend of the kind of fuzz you use, fuzz face and tone bender generally don’t have a tone control and it can affect the character of the sound. So…same conclusions ; ) Thanks again and greetings from Belgium!
I mostly chase sparkling cleans and tones for ambient. I just got a 29 Pedals Euna and love it. My board has about 10 pedals and it definitely helps with the brightness and articulation. Happy New Year and congrats on one year for your channel. Keep up the good work.