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  • February 3, 2009 at 6:10 pm #92569
    electro-melx
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    That’s my point my pedals are on all the time, so if a buffered pedal makes my fuzz sound nasally and compressed, I’m taking it out of my chain.

    are you talking about output impedance? that’s usually what makes fuzzes sound bad…a lot of the vintage types like to see a hi-impedance guitar signal, the double muff is like that.

    February 3, 2009 at 7:13 pm #92575
    julian
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    Yeah the trick is to put your fuzz before all of that.

    Though I put my Big Muffs after three buffers and two true bypass pedals! I don’t think it matters so much for them though. That’s more for germanium fuzzes and such that being first is important.

    February 3, 2009 at 8:37 pm #92586
    cabomano
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    The SMMH has buffered bypass as far as I know.

    “In Bypass mode, the mono/left input jack is connected directly to the mono/left output jack, the Right input jacks is connected directly to the right output jack. If no plug is inseted into the right input jack the the mono/left input jack will also connect to the right output jack.”

    as far as I know it doesn’t……unless my interpretation of the manual is wrong, it doesn’t trail when you kick it off does it?

    Nevertheless, nowhere does it say explicitly that the pedal is true bypass. Why would EHX be so cagey about it, especially when they’re so happy to state it with regard to other pedals?

    February 3, 2009 at 8:47 pm #92589
    Ned Flanders
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    The SMMH isn’t true bypass nor is it buffered. You cant even notice it, it doesn’t suck at all.

    February 3, 2009 at 10:47 pm #92614
    cabomano
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    Yeah, either way, I think we can all agree that it’s a great pedal. :metal:

    February 3, 2009 at 11:03 pm #92620
    julian
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    yes

    :rawk:

    February 5, 2009 at 2:02 am #92686
    PumpkinPieces
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    That’s my point my pedals are on all the time, so if a buffered pedal makes my fuzz sound nasally and compressed, I’m taking it out of my chain.

    are you talking about output impedance? that’s usually what makes fuzzes sound bad…a lot of the vintage types like to see a hi-impedance guitar signal, the double muff is like that.

    I really have no clue. Whenever I’ve had a boss pedal or once i had a dano tuna melt and a milkshake, no matter where it was in my chain it totally changed my fuzzes. I don’t use my big muff too much due to its loose wiring. All of my fuzzes use Silicon transistors and they’re no more than five years old. It’s just way easier to use true bypassed effects so I don’t have to worry about screwing up my sound and having to readjust everything just so I can have a chorus effect I’ll only use for one or two songs….. Obviously it’s rather a specific problem to the way I configure my guitar’s sound, so I’m not damning digital effects, they just aren’t for me. Buffered ehx pedals don’t seem to bother my signal at all….so good news there.

    As far as my memory man:
    The SMMH doesn’t suck anything in my experience just like everyone else says, great pedal, never letting it go, I was just curious. The number oen reason I have it is because it can do flanger/chorus sounds as well so if I need a trippy effect I can just dial it in rather than buying another effect.

    February 5, 2009 at 2:35 am #92688
    julian
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    The Milkshake and Tuna Melt aren’t digital, they’re analog. But they do have pretty bad bypass buffers.

    Anyways I think your comments about the SMMH get us to the point- EHX buffered bypass is pretty darn good.

    February 5, 2009 at 6:27 am #92702
    PumpkinPieces
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    I didn’t say they were digital. =[

    February 5, 2009 at 7:30 am #92703
    julian
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    Oh I thought you did by the way you phrased things when you said digital pedals aren’t for you right after talking about having trouble with Boss and Danelectro bypass.

    But digital pedals are for you, but only digital pedals with good buffers like the SMMH. :D

    And also I suspect you’re the kind of guy that could totally rock out on a digital pitch shifter of some sort.

    February 6, 2009 at 1:39 am #92757
    PumpkinPieces
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    Oh I thought you did by the way you phrased things when you said digital pedals aren’t for you right after talking about having trouble with Boss and Danelectro bypass.

    But digital pedals are for you, but only digital pedals with good buffers like the SMMH. :D

    And also I suspect you’re the kind of guy that could totally rock out on a digital pitch shifter of some sort.

    Haha I used to have a boss ps-5 and used it like jack white uses his whammy. However I’ve concluded for now that octave up isn’t for me right now since I play in two/three piece bands. However my microsynth’s octave down is quite useful. :thumb:

    February 6, 2009 at 3:11 am #92760
    julian
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    I bet.

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