![]() What’s an even bigger issue with this old style unity-gain FET bypass? Now factor in that there are two FETs per pedal required to couple the IN & OUT path, that’s an obvious loss of between 1dB-2dB per pedal. This loss of gain is in the low-Mids and Bass frequencies, resulting in that “tinny” sound now that the highs remained and some of the bass and mids are gone. What’s the issue with unity-gain FET buffered bypass?Īlthough my ears always told me that it sounded “tinny” and that there was signal loss, with the help of a my favorite Electronic Engineer (using some very expensive test equipment) we recently documented that each unity-gain FET buffer actually cuts the gain somewhere between 0.3 to 0.6 dB. It reduces the loading effect that occurs using long lengths of cable, and you remove the loud “popping” sound when switching the device on and off. What’s the benefit to unity-gain FET buffered bypass? a couple of Field effect Transistors (FETs) configured as unity-gain buffers ala Boss, Ibanez, etc, etc. What’s the pedal industries’ solution to this problem for the last 40 years? There can be so much signal loss that it sounds nothing like the sound of a guitar with a cable straight into the front of a great tube amp. Everything’s different now, most guitarists have elaborate pedalboards with 10 or more pedals being the norm, and tremendous potential for signal and tone loss with the many cables, connectors, and other pedals involved in the chain. ![]() True-Bypass (TB) switching was the ultimate way to achieve a clean signal path for many years. No other company offers EB…I invented it. ![]() NEW FEATURE Internal switch to choose between ” Enhanced Bypass TM” & True-Bypass, and with no popping sound in either mode. NEW FEATURE Class A configured discrete 2N5457 JFET input section, raising the input impedance to 1 mega ohms (previously 330K) and increasing the dynamics…resulting in significantly better interaction with both single coil and humbuckers. This buffer also had a positive effect on the sound, it reduced loading on the pedal’s hard-clipping stage, allowing more sustain of both the sound and the overtones. ![]() Translation, your sound remains consistent regardless of placement in today’s more complex signal-chains, loopers, and pedalboards. NEW FEATURE output buffer (when pedal is turned on in True-Bypass mode, or always when in Enhanced Bypass mode) which eliminates it from being influenced by effects that came after it. On we released a very new OCD, different enough that it warrants a V2 designation, an explanation and warrants a trip to your favorite dealer to give it another listen. Not a subtle change when turned on… not a subtle change when turned off (in E.B. The OCD has received many slight tweaks over the last 12 years, often incorrectly identified as “version 2, Version 3, V4, etc.” In reality there has always been only one version…Version 1, with very slight variations after that making them V1.1 through V1.7.
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