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Well I Googled for the Cornish and got a schematic that looked right compared to the layout. I read simple schematics practically instantly after 60 years! Layouts I have to work out.
Dave.
It maybe adds an extremely subtle extra presence to my sound but that might just be my imagination. I certainly wouldn't spend £200 on one
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Are they really 200 quid? Some people are suckers, surely all it can do is prevent treble loss? If someone wanted something to add a bit more, a clean boost would act as a buffer and add a bit of presence if set a hair above unity and left on all the time...
Define "worth". Does it contain £200 worth of raw materials? Not even close. Is it a wholly original circuit? Experts here say no.
Will the Cornish name help the resale value? Yes, it will. Is it likely to be extremely well built, and good sounding? Yes.
The thing with the Cornish brand is that they started out to cater to top flight professional musicians touring the world and elsewhere, who needed gear that would be resistant to every single kind of electrical interference they might encounter, and impervious to years of abuse by roadies, artists, freight shipping gorillas, stage invaders and acts of God. Not only that, but if by some freak occurrence they did break, someone needed to be on hand quickly to fix them, because you can't cancel arena shows because the guitarist can't get his sound without his special pedal.
Do you need a pedal that's over-engineered to that degree to play in your bedroom? No. Do you still need to pay for all that if you decide you want one? 'fraid so.
For clarity, I don't own any Cornish stuff and probably never will- I don't need it and I can't afford it. But I can understand what he's charging all that money for (that, and he's making a living from it). More so than with some other builders anyway.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
I wonder if the big wow some get from the Cornish buffer is because they are comparing it to not running a buffer at all?
Having built myself literally the simplest, cheapest buffer circuit I could find (less than £2 in parts IIRC!) and having heard the difference it made to my signal, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Suckers? Who are you calling suckers?
Carlos Santana, Bryan Adams, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, David Gilmour, Sting, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Mutt Lange, Lou Reed, Jeff Beck, Stewart Copeland, Jimmy Page, Dave Murray, Noel Gallagher, Steve Hackett, Brian May, Matt Bellamy, Mike Rutherford, Tony Iommi, Hank Marvin, Joan Armatrading, Greg Lake, Mark Knopfler, John Wetton, Andy Summers, Rick Parfitt, Freddie Mercury, Roger Waters, Alan Holdsworth, Snowy White, Peter Banks, Cat Stevens…
… or just those Cornish owners on tFB?
Are you suggesting that being famous precludes being gullible? Don't make me list famous Scientologists.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
And as someone said above, the difference will be clear when compared with *no* buffer or boost.
But the difference to a cheap-and-cheerful handful of components costing a fiver is probably nothing.