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Re: losing tone from boss effects

6/20/2000 11:12 PM
jeremy	Re: losing tone from boss effects i have yet to try seperating the fuzz and the rest with the effects loop, since my amp is at my rehearsal space, but it sounds like that might fix it anyway.. someone mentioned a high output voltage... i'm not sure if its the same thing, but the fuzz drive is LOUD. the volume of the fuzz is equal to the clean amp sound at about 10%. i'm afraid to turn it up past half. would that cause my problem? coule i replace the volume pot with a lower value and fix that? i'm not sure what you mean about adding a buffer. as i said, the pedal sounds good alone, or anywhere in the path AFTER the boss pedals. if you place it in front of the bosses it loses it "fatness", even if its the only pedal that is on. sorry if i just re-stated what i'd already said. previously i had been using a big muff in the place where the FD is, and i can't say that i noticed the same type of loss in tone; but to be honest, i'm not so sure that the same thing wasn't happenning there as well. i guess the BMP could just be more forgiving. so if i wanted to try to do the buffer thing, where would i put it? oh, and how would i make such a creature? keep in mind that i'm about a 1 3/4 on R.G. Keen's experience scale thanks for all the help thus far!

6/20/2000 11:12 PM

jeremy

Re: losing tone from boss effects

i have yet to try seperating the fuzz and the rest with the effects loop, since my amp is at my rehearsal space, but it sounds like that might fix it anyway.. someone mentioned a high output voltage... i'm not sure if its the same thing, but the fuzz drive is LOUD. the volume of the fuzz is equal to the clean amp sound at about 10%. i'm afraid to turn it up past half. would that cause my problem? coule i replace the volume pot with a lower value and fix that?

i'm not sure what you mean about adding a buffer. as i said, the pedal sounds good alone, or anywhere in the path AFTER the boss pedals. if you place it in front of the bosses it loses it "fatness", even if its the only pedal that is on. sorry if i just re-stated what i'd already said. previously i had been using a big muff in the place where the FD is, and i can't say that i noticed the same type of loss in tone; but to be honest, i'm not so sure that the same thing wasn't happenning there as well. i guess the BMP could just be more forgiving.

so if i wanted to try to do the buffer thing, where would i put it? oh, and how would i make such a creature? keep in mind that i'm about a 1 3/4 on R.G. Keen's experience scale

thanks for all the help thus far!