[sdiy] reamp?

[Grant Richter]

It is a rather poor design that is dependent on the source. Any halfway
decent design will have a buffer at the input to prevent loading on the
source. Also to prevent circuit action from being dependent on the source,
otherwise the device will behave differently with every guitar.

But these ARE guitar pedals we are talking about, and I have seen some
designs that are completely laughable. They may have been profitable to
sell, but they are still crap designs. There is just not that much you can
do with one transistor and a 9 volt battery.

> 
> If the fx box needs a high source impedance, why not put just a
> resistor in series with the input?
> 
> A transformer is much closer to a guitar pickup impedancewise.
>