I am now a distributor for Creation Audio Labs – The Redeemer TRANSPARENT GUITAR BUFFER Passive magnetic pickups generate a high-impedance signal. This signal quickly degrades as it travels out from your guitar through a cable - even expensive, high-end cables. Stomp boxes can further load the signal and degrade the sound, and a high-impedance signal is susceptible to unwanted noise from lights and other electronic gear as it makes its way to the amp. Even if you plug directly into an amp with a single cable, a guitar’s high-impedance output is still subject to a significant loss of sonic detail. A buffered signal effectively eliminates these problems. A unity-gain buffer circuit simply converts the high-impedance signal into a low-impedance signal - like that of a typical microphone. With a low-impedance signal, you can play through a 100-foot cable without losing highs, turn your volume knob down without the sound getting muddy, and even plug directly into a mixing console. Perhaps most importantly, you get to hear a sparkle from your pickups that had been previously masked. Because we’re used to the sound of a high-impedance signal, we accept it as normal, but once you buffer your pickups, you’ll be amazed at the presence and detail they’re capable of producing. Many manufacturers sell buffer pedals, but to reach such a pedal, the signal has to travel through a cable and thus suffer the negative effects of cable capacitance before its buffered. Here’s the advantage of an on-board system: The pickups’ output is converted to a low-impedance signal before it leaves the guitar. Check out a demonstration here: youtube/watch?v=XidKuHTlHG8
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:55:04 +0000
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