Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face hates buffers... How does Joe use it???

That's a good question. I don't have the FF so I have not run into that problem. Here's a link to one of his pedal boards that shows both the wah and the TS in front of the FF.
Maybe someone more technical can chime in.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk88 … CN0256.jpg

Where abouts in Germany are you? I'm out here for the next year (maybe longer) on business. I'm in Gross-Gerau.

Is that Joes board? It doesn't quite look right to me. Looks like a scaled down version maybe? Where's the Lehle switcher and Whirlwind ABY?
I'm pretty sure on his main board Joe's only running the fuzzface through the Catagory 5 Super Lead/Bass. Perhaps that's how he gets around the buffer issue?

I've seen that board before. He's using the Super Chorus to go in to 2 separate amps. One to each input.. Then the delay on the bottom is going to the loop of another amp. Even on his regular board with the giant rig of doom, the Wah and Tube Screamer come before the fuzz BUT they go in to the whirlind selector. Whirlwind's second output goes into the LEHLE BOX. The fuzz comes AFTER the Lehle box. (Lehle box has 3 outs, one going into the fuzz)

I don't know if maybe the Lehle or Whirlwind boxes have something to do with it or not but when he has the fuzz on, it IS giving him a lot of noise should he stop playing. Its soul purpose is for leads so the fuzz is not left on during any dead space in a song.

The amp with the fuzz by itself is not the smoothest sounding when its engaged but you don't hear all that because the Jubilee sound is mixed with it. Thus a smoother sound, half broken up and fuzzy, other half smooth. -Seth

Guys, these old-related fuzzfaces are very temperamental with buffers before AND after it. So you can really test because there are buffers and buffers. Each one is each one and combines in a different way with these "old" pedals. I have a silicon fuzzface, a MXR Classic 108 fuzz. Despite it has a possibility to activate a buffer to correct this divergences on the input circuit, it remains unstable in its output. Nowadays I'm using only one buffered pedal after it (a DOD fx70 Flanger) and fortunatelly it changes just a bit the sound (became lightly more agressive). But others DOD pedals that I'd used (after the fuzzface) they killed the sounds (and tone...) of my pedal.
Probably this week arrives my new Bonamassa Wah. I will test how its buffer reacts on my fuzzface input. Luckily its buffer can set on or off.

I was under the impression that the JB Wah has an internal kill switch for the true bypass - search through the forum and you'll find Joe has already posted about how he uses it.  Dunno, but perhaps that has something to do with it?  I used the FF after a Vox wah and TS and the only way to get it sounding half decent was to place a buffer between the FF and the ABY splitter.  Now the JB FF is off my board because I don't really use it and I need to make space for other toys! (;

I love the wah. It sounds great out of the box. It's very thick sounding. It sounds the way I've always tried to mod my other wahs to sound. Previous attempts were unsuccessful but the JB wah is staying on my board

I think the Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face should be the first pedal in the chain. Put your guitar directely into the FF and all other pedals after it. In the first position it sounds KILLER !!!!! Very fat and smooth... great for solo

My setup: guitar > JB FF > JB Wah > Fulltone FB-3 > Lovepedal AMP 50 > TS 808 > Full-Drive 2 > AMP

How I said before the JB FF hates buffered pedals before it. So you have to be careful with boosts, ODs and Wah Wahs infront of it. That´s why I don't understand Joe's setup. It's impossible to use the JB FF after a buffered pedal like a TS.