Cream Buffer Board-Mount

Cream of the buffers

"Bought this buffer a week or so ago. I had the chance to put it together. I have a buffered pedal at the beginning of my board so I placed this at the end of the chain and I m shocked how good the result it. It s like putting new strings on my Guitar and I ve got upgraded pedals. It s so easy to put together ! Get one or two it s a no brainier" Dominic Edwarss - 07 September 2020

Just as described!

"Makes my fender amp sparkle even more than before. Love the highs i can hear now. Buying another one for the end of my chain. P.S Extremely easy and fast to assemble. Thank you Fuzzdog!" Morten H - 21 August 2020

High quality and works well.

"I bought this kit to solve a particular problem: the true-bypass pedal that is last in my chain is designed to work fine with a typical 1 MOhm amp input, but it's not so good with my amp's 10 kOhm effects loop. By putting a buffer in after the final effect, this problem is solved. I wanted to use a transistor-based buffer, because I'd read that op-amp buffers can sound cold and sterile. (I have no idea whether this is true.) I also wanted to make sure that I ended up with an input impedance of approximately 1 MOhm, and that I could drive my 10 kOhm effects loop without problems. I used a computer simulation to check the Fuzz Dog schematic, and concluded that it would do this perfectly, provided I used a high-gain transistor in the circuit. When the kit turned up, I was pleasantly surprised by the apparent quality of the PCB. A lot of PCBs I see are the non-plated through-hole type, and not particularly robust to mods and re-work. However, the Fuzz Dog PCB I received had nicely plated through-holes. While it probably doesn't matter for this, it was still a nice touch. The kit took about an hour to build. It worked first time, and solved my problem. Beginners should bear in mind that they will need to sort the resistors and some of the capacitors themselves. I recommend buying a multimeter that can measure resistances, as this is far quicker than deciphering the colour codes. Why did I give it four our of five rather than full marks? As I said, I think this is a very good kit. To be certain of getting my 1 MOhm input impedance, I did have to source a BC549C transistor as the one that came was a generic BC549 that tested as a BC549B with slightly lower gain. (It still would have worked quite well, but I thought I'd aim for perfection!) I also felt that a slightly more robust way to connect the signal ground to the chassis, as "trapping wires" isn't entirely robust. However, these are tiny niggles. This is a very good product, and I'd happily recommend it to anyone needing to solve the same problem." DA - 22 February 2020