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Old 14th July 2002   #11
mwagener
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the problem with the A/B box is: it's loading your guitar. The input impedance of a tube guitar amp is at about 1M ohm and the output of a "normal" guitar is at about 250 K ohm. So, when you combine (parallel) two 1 M ohm resistors (as in amp inputs) your impedance goes down to about 500 K and that is low enough to affect the 250 K output of your guitar by bringing down the (already minimal) output current of the pickups. The best way around this is buffer amps which separate the guitar amp inputs from each other. I've used a Boss chorus pedal before, as Mike sugested, and it works pretty well. Maybe the signal in the Boss goes through a couple of buffers, dunno. I also tested the unit at http://www.radialeng.com/News/HighLights/JD7.cfm
and it sounds great. I think the streetprice is somewhere around $ 500.
My advice: use a Boss pedal until you can get the LittleLabs PCP.
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