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At the very least you can tell us all that we're talking shit and it's all in our heads.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Always adds a little something to the sound.
Cornish stuff IS expensive, there is no doubt, but it stands up imho and is totally silent.
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By the way, I keep reading the thread title as 'Cornish butter' .
"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
Any tips on placement?
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Reviving this old thread as I finally got around to knocking up a Cornish buffer on vero. I also made a germanium buffer as well and stuck the two in a box with a toggle switch to flip between the two. I've tested the two against the buffer in my EHX Pitchfork, using an effects loop pedal to remove them totally form the signal chain, there were no other buffers in the chain.
https://i.imgur.com/ruCL0Ts.jpg
Straight away it's obvious that the Cornish, Ge and EHX all make a difference as you would expect. However, I'd be pushed to say I could hear any difference at all between the three different buffers with a clean sound. There was a just about perceivable bit of extra top end on the Cornish compared to the Ge if I ran them into a Fuzz face style fuzz, which i would not normally do anyway, but was useful way of exaggerating the effect of the buffers. Maybe if I ran longer cables I might notice more, although I was running through 15 or true bypass pedals and patches
Anyway it was an intersting exercise for £10 of bits and I now have a buffer I can use independent of the Pitchfork.
The circuit is a bipolar emitter follower with a boot -strapped bias supply to keep the input Z high.
I built several such circuits for front ends to ceramic PU cartridges (discos) but gave up such a complex design when the ubiquitous 28319 jfet became available!
Neither devices actually satisfy one of the definitions of a 'buffer' in that it should be 'transparent' . A TL072 or better IC will.
Dave.