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It's most expensive boutique pedals - as well as a lot of less expensive, but still more than a Behringer - that have the poor ones. They're pretty easy to identify - they're metal, round and go CLICK when you press them.
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The problem with Boss is the damage they do to the overall sound. Don't get me wrong, they're solid, and I couldn't care less about their size over mini pedals, they are great in so many ways, but I've recently removed about four of them from my chain. When swapped out for a cheapy true bypass pedal there was no contest, Boss pedals "muffle" things.
Yes I'm asking for trouble, but I'm a home player only and not risking failure on stage. Roland really should do something about whatever is wrong with Boss pedals.
It's very easy to demonstrate this with an all-Boss pedalboard and a level-controllable loop pedal. With the level brought back up to exactly unity, there's no change in tone at all. (You can actually modify the compander circuit on a GE-7 to do it, if you use one and don't want an extra pedal.)
Alternatively, don't worry about it and just turn your amp gain up slightly.
"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
It's so annoying, because it's been a major factor in the true-bypass nonsense - most people have no idea what the problem is (and as users, why should they need to really?) - they just plug in three or four Boss pedals and hear what appears to them as a 'tone loss'.
And so almost the whole world has gone back to using ancient technology which was replaced for still perfectly valid reasons... it's just about the only case I can think of in any technology where a superior system has been superceded by a clearly worse one. So much so that in order to keep up with fashion, Boss have started using metal switches on some of their newest pedals, even though they're in fact not in the audio path.
Bonkers.
"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
I have an almost exclusive board of BOSS pedals (see pedalboard thread) with a True bypassed Crybaby wah at the front followed very swiftly by the TU3, SD1, DS1, DS2, BD2w, CH1, DM2w, DD7, RV6.
I have plugged directly into the amp and then through the BOSS pedalboard with non-engaged and I cannot hear a difference.
I think either I have the impedance of the collection correct, good patch cables (homemade and Ernie Ball) or my hearing is 'cattle trucked' and I cannot hear the muffling.
My guess is that if I was to add another pedal then things may take a turn for the worst but so far I simply don't have this problem.
Just my 2p.
Ta
Though I'm feeling a bit gutted now after ICBM's thoughts, maybe I was a bit hasty. Still have a couple...
And this is just home playing at relatively low volume, it's probably meaningless at stage vols.
"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
But point taken, I'll check it out, I'd prefer the Boss pedals back if I could have them. Once I noticed the difference in sound I started going through the chain manually removing them and subbing in a TB equivalent, then vice versa, so I've manually done what you're suggesting.
But a TB switch would be the smart way to instantly flick back and forth. Works so well with the LS-2
If you can still hear a difference, really what you need is to have a true-bypass loop which you put the LS-2 into, and then the other pedals into the LS-2 loops .
"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