Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I like collecting BJFe designs, I like their simplicity and the fact that they sound really good. Here’s one of Bjorn’s latest offerings – the Baby Pink Booster. Here’s the description from the Bearfoot FX website; “+15 dbs of clean guitar friendly boost and a tasty buffer … Deluxify your drives ! If you’ve seen … Read more
The Sarno Music Solutions “Steel Guitar Black Box” is a product I’ve been aware of for a while but never really paid too much attention to. With me recently being asked to look at some full pedal board solutions I started to think about using tube based buffers a’la David Gilmour’s Pete Cornish pedal board … Read more
People like the Klon, they like anything to do with the Klon. People have been building up the Buffer section of the Klon and selling them as a standalone unit. Well, there’s the schematic of the buffer section and here’s a vero layout from Mcaviel: Now many people ask me why use a buffer? What … Read more
Pete Cornish doesn’t like true bypass: http://petecornish.co.uk/case_against_true_bypass.html So inside all of his pedals he includes a buffer to aid the switching process and act as a line driver for the remainder of the pedal chain. He sells these individually as the LD-1 (and LD-3 with the mute switch and tuner output). Here’s a description from the … Read more