yea, when i like first turn on my small clone when i play my guitar, i get a tiny pop. but now i know to turn down the volume and turn them on and off, thanks for that advice efilho!!

There isn’t really much you can do about it, it’s just a fact that a triple pole heavy duty mechanical switch will be quite clunky. If i’m honest I hate the things, I wish someone would design a ‘softer’ one…. I use ‘alpha’ switches in pedals I’m building for myself (which are much less clunky) but they only come in double pole, so you’d have to get rid of the led or build a circuit for the led (millenium bypass) neither of which is ideal…. but it’s possible if you know someone who knows what they are doing.

Agreed. Unless you can clearly idenify a problem with your buffered pedals… don’t mess with it!

I’ve got a messy combination of TB pedals and Buffered pedals. Plus a line driver embedded on my pedalboard, wich works wonders for one of my guitars (tele with passive, low gain pickups).

Haven’t really had any noticeable problems with my pedals. Only thing is that some combinations of DIST/OD pedals gives me some volume drop. But to blame that solely on the buffers is a bit of a gamble.

TB has it’s applications. So do buffers on pedals.

HAH! Those are the questions worth asking!

Anyway… you can try one of those pedal switching things… but a good one would cost US$500+

Your pedals would be always on and would be included/excluded from the signal path depending on how you configure your banks.
Some of the brands that have this:
– Carl Martin
– Voddo Labs
– Rocktron
– Cusack

Good luck!

Ed