[sdiy] reamp?

[Tim Escobedo]

The union between guitar and fuzzbox is a holy one, and any "buffer"
between the two constitutes tampering with God's grand plan...

At least that's what they taught me in Sunday school.

--- Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
>


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