The buffer is not an effect pedal but it does have a nice affect on your tone. What happens when you have long cables or lots of effect pedals is that the capacitance and the resistance starts taking away from your tone, because cable and wire has resistance which takes the sparkle away from highs, and your bass will start becoming flabby. The buffer retains your guitar and amps original tone just like you had a really short cable and nothing else in the chain.
Even if you have non true bypass effect pedals, this will still help your tone because the buffers used in commercial effects are really poor. With true bypass effects your original signal is going straight to your amp but the resistance of the guitar cables and wire within the pedal will start breaking the signal down. The buffer brings your tone back where you want it.
The buffer is really small 1.9"x1.9"x1" it can easily be tucked out of the way on your pedal board. There are no switches to play with just a simple buffer that does the job and is small enough not to take up valuable space on your board.
If you have a large pedal board I do recommend running 2 of these one at the front of the chain and one at the end of the chain.
This runs on a 9v adapter only, its too small to use batteries. It uses Kobiconn jacks, blue LED, a military grade PCB, powder coated and screen printed and has a 2 year warranty.
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Need to split your signal? Don’t want to settled for a passive device that will kill your tone and cause signal loss? This is what you need! This little box of magic takes your input signal and splits it into two always-on outputs that are buffered so you don’t loose clarity or tone in any way.
Here are some of the uses:
*Plug your guitar in and use one output to send your clean signal somewhere like a mixer, separate amp, etc... and send the other output through your board like normal.
*Use one output to send a constant signal to your tuner and the other for your normal chain. This can help you defeat those volume pedal “tuner out” horrors!
*Split your signal in any way you can imagine!
The Wampler Pedals “Clean Buffer” was an extremely well-liked pedal during its production, known for its purity of tone and for offering fantastic buffering that allowed pretty much any gear to get along nicely. We've had constant requests since it was discontinued to make just a few more, or from people wondering when it would be coming back?.
The Wampler Pedals “Talent Booster” is another favorite from the past, a pedal which could make your tone not just louder, but better, too. Calls for another Wampler Pedals boost intensified when the “SLOstortion” was released, with many users loving the boost side of that 2-in-1 pedal so much that they've been requesting Brian put his mind to making Wampler Pedals users a new boost pedal that they could put wherever they want.
With so many people asking for a buffer and so many people asking for a boost, what could we do? The only reasonable thing, of course: we listened! And true to form, Brian figured “why do just one when we can do both?”
Meet the decibel+ Buffer|Boost, a pedal that offers excellent, stable buffering AND a fantastic clean boost, in one great, durable, easy-to-use package! With one single knob to accomplish everything, it trims the fat – we didn't want to make a booster that does too much to be considered just booster, but not enough to be considered a legitimate light overdrive. Plus, functionality like that tends to just run up the price. Brian's goal was to make sure that this pedal can buffer with excellent fidelity, boost like nobody's business, yet be as easy to work with as possible. No unnecessary complications of either function, and no sacrifices when it comes to the core tone!
Whichever you need from it, it's ready to deliver. Studio or stage, it's a one-knob problem solver toolkit in pedal form. Just dial that one knob where you need it to go and you'll have the functionality you need right then – and if you ever need it to turn from buffer to boost, or boost to buffer, it's as simple as adjusting that one control.
This may be the greatest weapon you didn’t know you needed.
For those of us who are a little “pedal happy” there can be some downfall to our tone. When running a pedal board with more than one or two effects pedals something called “capacitance” happens. This natural problem happens due to the amount of cable or line that you signal has to travel through, not to mention bad switching systems in certain pedals. The result is a very audible amount of high-end loss, weak signal, flabby bass and uncharacteristic pickup behavior in guitars. Another problem is the assumption that all “true bypass” is good. This isn’t true and actually can be worse than imagined.
This is were the “Little Black Buffer” steps in providing the perfect input impedance to your rig and giving you the final result of clear, natural tone that sounds like your plugged straight into your amp no matter how many pedals you use.
Plug your guitar straight into the input then out into your pedal chain. No need for a switch and it runs on any standard 9v supply.
In the footsteps of our long-ago discontinued Mr Magic pedal, we bring you the "final act" in boost magic...The Prestige! From buffer, to boost, to tone enhancer, the Prestige will prove to be a vital and necessary piece of gear for anyone's rig. With the boost knob set to zero, you have in your hands an amazing buffer/enhancer for long cable runs as well as a tool that will simply add some life back into your rig. When the Boost knob is in the first 25% you will get different flavors of the buffer/enhancer as well as slight volume increases. When the Boost knob is set between 25% and 50% you have a powerful, dynamic solo boost that adds definition, clarity and a little magic to your solos and lead passages. When set at 50% or more, the Prestige gives you the ability to break up your tube amp in a smooth and natural way resulting in real tube overdrive from the preamp section of your tube amp. The last 25% of the volume range can completely destroy your amp in the best way possible, resulting in rich soaring sustain, breakup, and on some amps even a smooth warm fuzzy growl.
This super small 1.5"x3.5" booster can do what needs to be done no matter what the task. If you need a little magic in your life, look no further!
The Super Chili Picoso is a deceptively simple pedal that performs so many duties and solves so many problems that it is a must have in every self-respecting musicians’ arsenal. Let’s go through a number of these, shall we?!
- Buffer. Have a lot of pedals and/or long cable runs on stage? I don’t care how “low capacitance” your cables are, they are going to roll off high frequency detail and signal strength. The Super Chili Picoso’s high input impedance (something like 10M ohms) and ultra low output impedance (around 3K ohms) doesn’t let a drop of your tone escape. Just turn the big knob counter-clockwise and go! The Super Chili Picoso is your buffer!
- MORE! Ever finding yourself needing a clean, uncolored volume nudge? Say you have your fuzz set just right and need to make your entire soundstage louder? The Super Chili Picoso delivers from a few decibels to upward of 35dB unadulterated clean boost! (Provided any gear that you have down stream has headroom to spare.) The Super Chili Picoso is your MORE pedal!
- Overdriver. Ever want to push your slightly self-overdriven amp into a satisfying crunch at the click of a switch? Say you have a lower wattage amp (or you are lucky enough to play a big ole amp LOUDLY) on the edge of breakup and need push it even harder without messing with your amp’s overall character, the Super Chili Picoso is your overdriver!
- Balancer. Do you have an old Danelectro U2 with low output pickups and a Les Paul with hot humbuckers and have a tough time achieving an equal volume level between the two while maintaining the sonic qualities of the two instruments? Set the Super Chili Picoso’s knob to make up the difference! There we are, nice and balanced!
DAN BULLDOG TRU FET
A good buffer can help prevent tone sucking issues like the loss of signal level, decreased high end frequency response and a complete lack of low end punch. This Buffer goes a step further by making it small enough so it can find a home on any pedalboard and has a unique tone to it.
Most buffers are meant to be boring, exact copies of your original signal feed to combat known issues such as cable capacitance and impedance issues. The Dan Bulldog actually sweetens up your tone!
If you are wondering WHO the HECK is Dan Bulldog?
Dan Bulldog is the translation in “another country” for Dumble Amplifiers.
Now, we are not saying that your amp is instantly going to transform into a $30,000 Dumble OD Special by using our buffer but Dan Bulldog amplifiers are known to have a Tru FET input section and are generally sweeter sounding amplifiers because of this..
Chances are you’re missing something even though you thought you were safe with all of those true bypass pedals on your pedal board.
9VDC – 18VDC Input
Very low current draw (4 mA)
LED Status
Super Compact Die-cast Case
3 5/8″L x 1 1/2″W x 1 1/4″H
Save your tone! The Neutrino is a simple boutique buffer pedal to give your signal the boost it needs before heading to your pedal board. Perfect for those of us who have a lot of pedals and/or long cable runs.
• Standard 9vDC Input
• Quality Components
• Hand Wired in the USA
