I think the QTron is analog and sounds very much like a wah pedal. I like my QTron.

Yes generally speaking enough current being supplied is the main issue. If you run a 300mA supply and the pedal needs 200mA it should be fine. The thing to remember is that if it’s a regulated DC power supply you will never have a problem.

Unrelated but interesting to note is that I had a Seymour Duncan Twin Tube pedal that was needing about 760mA at 12Vac or thereabouts. I used a 12Vac 2amp supply and it made the internal power supply transformer run very hot. This is because the supply was an unregulated AC supply. Sure it would run 12Vac at 2amps, but at only 1/3 the current needed it wasn’t loaded down enough to settle at 12Vac. In short the transformer was seeing higher than 12Vac.

I found the Memory Toy had a loose board inside that made it not work. I had to push the circuit board into the other board. Then the reason I got rid of it was because there was a dramatic volume difference between bypassed and effected signal levels. I didn’t really like the mix control going from full dry to full wet. I use an MXR Carbon Copy which doesn’t have the volume discrepancy. Also with the mix control up full it’s a 50/50 mix. Why that matters is that you have more control over setting it to say only a 20% mix level. The Memory Toy is at 50/50 at half way up. If you never use more than 50/50 which I imagine is 99.99% of the population then you basically have a pedal with half the sensitivity on the mix control.

One amazingly lushious sound is to run the Neo Clone into the Holy Grail on Flerb. It gives a very spacial sounding effect for clean guitar. If you turn either pedal off you lose the effect. The combination of the two is great on the spring setting but flerb takes on a whole other dimension.

“Hoarder” that just about brings tears to my eyes. I so know what you mean hahaha.

Worse how? That doesn’t make any sense at all. The buffer must be noisier. If you plug the buffered pedal into a high gain device you will hear hiss coming through. I compared an MXR Flanger with a Stereo Chorus. The Flanger has a wire direct from input to output and it’s dead quiet. It’s not true bypass they call that hardwire bypass. The input to the circuit has a high impedance buffer which prevents the circuitry loading down the input and bleeding off top end. The Stereo chorus is a buffered bypass and has no direct wire from input to output. It’s as noisy as all hell put into the same post gain stage. You have to know how to test the effectiveness of the bypass before making random statements. This is how completely incorrect thinking comes out to be used as a fact by someone else. Something isn’t right about what you’re saying. I don’t think your muff is true bypass if it’s worse than a buffered pedal. If it is true bypass you might be talking about the sound when it’s on, which is a totally different story. If it’s on it’s not bypassed so it could be worse and that I could believe. Or you may be talking about the loss of treble due to not having any input buffering between a guitar cable, the pedal, and another guitar cable. In that case the buffer would improve things noticably. However, the actual quality of the bypassed signal isn’t the reason you are noticing an effect.

In my simplest setup I use a Boss NS-2 and put all the true bypass pedals into it’s send/return loop. Then you have buffering on the cable from the guitar to the pedals input, and then more buffereing from the pedal to drive the cable from the pedal to the amp. That is ALL you need and you will never get any better sound by using any other pedals with buffers over all true bypass pedals. That’s my opinion because that is a fact. It’s not a question of belief it actually is the case. It’s not open to discussion. True bypass doesn’t color your tone, that is not open for debate.

Micro POG 172mA
Holy Grail (Nano) 101mA
Dr. Q (Nano) 1.95ma

The Memory Toy and Stereo Clone Theory arrived a few days ago. I didn’t like them so I have already sold them on eBay and bought another MXR Carbon Copy and Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus.