Help!I'maRock!
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One of the hazards of playing in hourly rehearsal studios in Manhattan is you get to play through a lot of roached out amps. You booked your rehearsal for the same time and day as you did last week, but today you're stuck in room 3 instead of playing through the cool shit in room 10. This is much of the reason I went to a pedal based distortion. Because I should be able to get a workable clean tone out of any amp and then add dirt from there.
One amp I play through regularly is a Bogner Shiva. This particular Bogner absolutely hates my tremolo pedal, a bantam box Catalinbread Valcoder. (There's a new Valcoder coming out this Spring. Mine is the old one.) When I turn the effect on, there's a large pop, the volume completely drops out, and everything goes to shit. Turn it off, no problem.
Now the many of you would say, "well, just don't use tremolo". This smiley is for you:
I had solved the problem by using my Z-Vex Super Duper at the end of my signal chain as an always on buffer. However, now I'm using the Super Duper to drive my new Skreddy Hybrid Fuzz Driver.
I brought my Ernie Ball MVP volume pedal to the last rehearsal in that room. For whatever reason, the buffer did not have the same effect.
Why would one pedal work and another not? Both send the signal through their circuit, and buffer the amp from the rest of the signal chain. Is there really that big a difference? Additionally, if i were to take a Boss pedal, say my LS-2 (which I'm not using in this project) and put it at the end, leaving it in that always on function, how would it's buffer be different?
Your thoughts greatly appreciated.
One amp I play through regularly is a Bogner Shiva. This particular Bogner absolutely hates my tremolo pedal, a bantam box Catalinbread Valcoder. (There's a new Valcoder coming out this Spring. Mine is the old one.) When I turn the effect on, there's a large pop, the volume completely drops out, and everything goes to shit. Turn it off, no problem.
Now the many of you would say, "well, just don't use tremolo". This smiley is for you:
I had solved the problem by using my Z-Vex Super Duper at the end of my signal chain as an always on buffer. However, now I'm using the Super Duper to drive my new Skreddy Hybrid Fuzz Driver.
I brought my Ernie Ball MVP volume pedal to the last rehearsal in that room. For whatever reason, the buffer did not have the same effect.
Why would one pedal work and another not? Both send the signal through their circuit, and buffer the amp from the rest of the signal chain. Is there really that big a difference? Additionally, if i were to take a Boss pedal, say my LS-2 (which I'm not using in this project) and put it at the end, leaving it in that always on function, how would it's buffer be different?
Your thoughts greatly appreciated.