JHS Little Black Buffer

Traced from gutshots on the blog forum posted by hahafender, thanks for the pics buddy :o).  Some of the traces on the unused side of the opamp weren't visible but the left hand side is a generic opamp buffer and that's the important bit.  I think the resistors used on the other side we're just used as suggested by the IC manufacturers to do to unused channels.  Not sure why he didn't just use a TL071 and so not require the 2 additional resistors, but I suppose that does make it at least appear further removed from the common opamp circuit that we've seen lots of times before.

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This may be the greatest weapon you didn’t know you needed.

For those of us who are a little “pedal happy” there can be some downfall to our tone. When running a pedal board with more than one or two effects, something called “capacitance” happens. This natural problem happens due to the amount of cable or line that your signal has to travel through, not to mention bad switching systems in certain pedals. The result is a very audible amount of high-end loss, weak signal, flabby bass and uncharacteristic pickup behavior in guitars. Another problem is the assumption that all “true bypass” is good. This isn’t true and actually can be worse than imagined.

This is where the “Little Black Buffer” steps in providing the perfect input impedance to your rig and giving you the final result of clear, natural tone that sounds like you're plugged straight into your amp no matter how many pedals you use.