sted wrote:JoeMaMa wrote:sted wrote:My understanding is your fuzz should see a high impedance load such as guitar pickups, they don't like low impedance loads that typically buffered pedals might have in them, they also don't like the variances that most wah's give.
Dave Fox (Foxroxx pedals) explained it this way on TGP:
"A fuzz-friendly wah (like a newer Teese RMC pedal, which contains the Foxrox Wah Retrofit circuit) only has the buffer on when the wah pedal is on. Turn the wah off and the buffer is gone from the signal path. That's the whole idea behind it - the fuzz sees your guitar when the wah is off and you get the right fuzz sound and the vol knob cleanup effect. If you want a buffer in your chain, you would keep the fuzz-friendly wah before the fuzz and put a buffer right after your Fuzz Face."
Isn't the JB Wah supposed to be ("Fuzz Friendly?), that's why I bought it, I have a standard vintage style wah in the Teese picture wah (Pre-2006, not fuzz friendly). Shouldn't I be able to use the JB Wah in front of the JB FuzzFace? It's supposed to have a built-in buffer. I thought?
From Dave's advice you may need a buffer after it too maybe? Does it go into another buffered pedal of low impedance? That might be the issue, I don't know if the JB ones are Fuzz friendly or not, I'm guessing not if they are vintage inspired though.
Here is the AD directly from Dunlop website...............
"On the inside, it features large, vintage-style thru-hole components, a Halo inductor (for added harmonic content), an output buffer (to prevent impedance imbalance with vintage fuzz pedals)"
I've tried everything imaginable, fuzz first, Fuzz last, Buffered pedal before, after, and in-between, no buffered pedal, Fuzz and wah only, true by-pass, non true bypass, with other brand wah, with other brand fuzz(which worked out well), five different amps, ten different guitars, one buffered pedal, two buffered pedals(at beginning and end of chain) every conceivable combination.
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