I've noticed some tone loss on my chain when my compressor isn't engaged. All my pedals are true bypass and have heard that you can get a loss of tone if there are no buffered pedals in your chain.
I was considering trying to get a rarer-than-hen's teeth Dr Scientist Cleanness again, but would something as simple as replacing my TC tuner (TB) with a Boss TU3 help restore the tone. There is a marked difference between plugging straight into the amp and playing through the board with no pedals engaged.
Thanks in advance for your helpful words and suggestions.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Mine broke after a year or so and I hardly ever used it.
The whole process did make me think, and I can see why people have moved to FX8s and the like, it's just a simple plug-in-and-play. Maybe the hassle of and awkward UI for tweaking and the whole issue of creating patches on your PC is a pay-off for not having to put up with a tangle of wires, long pedal chains/buffer and TB issues, power supplies, strange board noises/humming and the like.
....looks nice though
I'm not convinced it's an upgrade - it's different. The extra-brightness mode on the 3 is worth having if you play outside in daylight, and it's supposedly more accurate, but I actually prefer the display of the 2 generally and find it 'smoother' to use.
You didn't break them - they broke themselves while in your ownership .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
As you were.
NB. I'm technologically illiterate, total Luddite.
@GavRichlist not much to choose between a TU2 and 3, far from convinced it's worth an upgrade if the TU2 functions properly.
My point is - a Boss buffer won't do what the Fairfield is doing. But if you have the Fairfield on all the time, you also have a buffer on all the time. I'm assuming the Fairfield is either the comp or the Barbershop (unless you play some real noisy music), in which case the question is: do you want compression or drive on all the time? If not, then a TU3 or dedicated buffer would sheen up your signal. It won't add whatever else the Fairfield is doing to your signal that you like, though.