pedrozepelim
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From your experience, how many pedals in front of an amp (and let's assume they're all true bypass, and connected with quality cables) would take to start affecting your tone?
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I think once you get to 5 or 6 pedals, you should use a loop/switching system.
if they're all true bypass, the only thing you'd have to contend with is cable capacitance from the long line of cable that you'd be using, which is remedied with a decent buffer. so, if you don't have any pedals on, then theoretically you could have heaps in your chain and not suffer any 'sound degradation'.
Like someone else said, probably "depends" on each individual setup. IMO, if I only had 5 or less pedals, 3 or 4 most likely would be " always on" so then your only contending with a couple pedals. Most pedals are TB today, so that set-up I think would be fine. 5 or more pedals, I feel you need a looper. Not only to keep all that mess organized and out of the signal, but also ease of operation. Plus in my setup, I have mostly vintage pedals, most of which suck tone and need to be isolated.![]()
One pedalboard builder actually reports a typical loss of 2dB in setups consisting of more than ten true bypass pedals driven by a buffer with very low output impedance.if they're all true bypass, the only thing you'd have to contend with is cable capacitance from the long line of cable that you'd be using, which is remedied with a decent buffer. so, if you don't have any pedals on, then theoretically you could have heaps in your chain and not suffer any 'sound degradation'.
Yeah, I agree with you. It depends on the individual set-up. I can't see myself not using a tb looper anymore. Love my Rocktron patchmate loop 8, fully programmable, channel switching ect. Its a nice unit, like the Voodoo lab stuff as well.Well, if any pedals are always on, then the first always on pedal is going to be loading the guitar with it's input impedance and decoupling all the subsequent devices and subsequent cable from loading the guitar. It effectively will be buffering the guitar from the subsequent stuff. So that's a different scenario that a chain of true bypass pedals switched off.
Also if you're using a bunch of hardwire bypass pedals like those vintage pedals switched off -- that's another scenario that's also very different from a chain of true bypass pedals switched off.
So, like I said. It depends.