Soooooooo much cooler!!!

Take it back and get a replacement….

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.

If you have dirtortion in the pre-amp (e.g.: A 12AX7 tube in the pre-amp being “pushed”) it’s kinda good practice to have the modulation after the saturation. It really depends on personal taste but if you apply reverb on a saturated sound it sounds cleaner than distorting a “reverbed” sound. The latter would sound quite messy in my opinion.

I have a phaser before my distortion/OD. I like it that way. Gives a sort of a univibey sound, or almost like an oscillating filter when before the gain section.

But I keep delays, reverbs and choruses in the end of the signal chain. I think It sounds cleaner. But really… it’s more a matter of personal taste and “tradition”than anything else.

Just try different configurations and see what it sounds like. You might discover that breaking some rules gives you what you like better…

Hi Richard.

My two cents here:

Compressors right after the guitar and before your other pedals. (Maybe after the wah, but definetly before GAIN/OD/DIST pedals)

Muff should be (MY OPINION HERE) last distortion in the chain. This means that all other distortions come before the muff.

The volume drop can have so many different causes:
– Could be that the muff doesn’t like some of the buffers used on other pedals
– Could be because the MUFF is mid-scooped, so it “feels” like you have a volume drop and you can get really lost in the middle of a band.
– The room where you are playing at the moment, associated with the mid-scoop. So that the sound that comes from the speakers doesn’t resonate as you expected. Try your setup in different places, put your amp on a table, than at the floor, etc, etc. See what happens.

And finally, don’t put your gainy pedals (compression, overdrives, distortions, etc) in the amp’s loop. You could even fry the power section of your amp!!!!

Modulation and delays should be OK.

I would have it right after the distortion/OD pedals. But that’s just me.