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Yes, that's Oolong. :)
So, does anyone out there specifically use a buffered pedal (Boss, Visual Sound etc...) to help with capacitance and high frequency rolloff?
I got my amp back from the shop and it's a lot louder and articulate and I noticed it's also kinda muddy... seems more noticeable now since it's been worked on. I realized that I have a lot of cabling in front of the amp usually, measured them today and at least 25 feet. According to the "conventional wisdom" out there, if you have over 18 feet of cable in front of your amp (including effects, patch cables etc...) you'll probably see a loss of treble.
So, given that I have no buffered pedals (yeah I've been a true bypass snob... guess I'm paying for it now!) I went out and bought a Boss DS-1 just for the buffering (cheapest pedal at GC that would do the trick). It actually sounds pretty terrible as a distortion unit, may use it as a bit of crunch for the clean channel.
Anyway I put it first in my chain right after my guitar and it does help. I was wondering if anyone else out there is doing this or maybe give it a shot if you are finding your tone with a lot of cabling to be too dark.
Edit - For the record I tried the amp with a very short cable from guitar straight in and it sounds really good. Fine for home use but when practicing/gigging with the band that's not feasible (need my tuner, OCD, wah etc...)
I got my amp back from the shop and it's a lot louder and articulate and I noticed it's also kinda muddy... seems more noticeable now since it's been worked on. I realized that I have a lot of cabling in front of the amp usually, measured them today and at least 25 feet. According to the "conventional wisdom" out there, if you have over 18 feet of cable in front of your amp (including effects, patch cables etc...) you'll probably see a loss of treble.
So, given that I have no buffered pedals (yeah I've been a true bypass snob... guess I'm paying for it now!) I went out and bought a Boss DS-1 just for the buffering (cheapest pedal at GC that would do the trick). It actually sounds pretty terrible as a distortion unit, may use it as a bit of crunch for the clean channel.
Anyway I put it first in my chain right after my guitar and it does help. I was wondering if anyone else out there is doing this or maybe give it a shot if you are finding your tone with a lot of cabling to be too dark.
Edit - For the record I tried the amp with a very short cable from guitar straight in and it sounds really good. Fine for home use but when practicing/gigging with the band that's not feasible (need my tuner, OCD, wah etc...)