Klon Buffer

 

 

So if you end up with more pedals on your board than you really need- like me, you might find one of these little things handy. Volume drop through a lot of pedals, or signal strength more to say weakens. One of these will re-invigorate your signal. I use the Silver Klon at the beginning of my chain. It's on a lot of the time in a subtle fashion, so boosting my incoming signal when on and doing the same when off with the built in buffered bypass.

To avoid my signal having to go through everything on the board, I use a 5 position true bypass looper. I've just finished making my own version of this. Will post later.

My chain is from IN🠊 Tuner 🠊 Klon / BUFFER🠊 loop1 distortion/high gain pedal/s 🠊 loop2 Overdrive pedal/s  🠊 loop3  Modulation -phaser, chorus, tremelo etc  BUFFER🠊 loop4  Delay 🠊 loop5 Reverb 🠊 Noise gate 🠊 EQ 🠊 Boost 🠊 Out to Amp. Right or wrong it works for me.

 The looper allows me to true bypass most of the pedals not in use at the time. With the EQ and boost at the end I don't find the need for a buffer there. I made this one up to sit at the end of whatever modulation pedals I have on board at the time.  It's these pedals I mostly suffered losses from and placing one here seems to have erased that problem well. I found a small box so it can be placed without much room grab. 

I've made another out of a used Mustard box- thought it seemed appropriate to the purpose of the circuit. Works sweet. Switchable with a 3pdt toggle, led indicator, wired the input straight out to a plug due to access restrictions. This one will go on my ultimate pedal board in the end.

The circuit is basically a trace of the buffer built in the Klon, small and easy to build with common TL072 ( probably many dual op-amps would work here). You can find circuit for this on many of the sites I've put up that offer layouts