Passive blending or reducing the effects of buffers on sickly fuzzes

[joeychickenskin]

Hi

I built this parallel looper a few months ago primarily to blend different fuzzes in parallel (ie Mastotron and Foxxtone) however for my more sickly fuzzes such as my beloved Fuzzrite, the buffers interfere with the signal going into the fuzz rendering it unusable.

Is there anything I can do to either the parallel looper or the fuzzes to be able to blend fuzzes, or is there a means of creating a passive blender for two fuzzes by sending the guitar signal to the two inputs of the two fuzzes in parallel without a buffer and then connect the outputs to lugs 1 and 3 of a pot with maybe an LPB1 before output or would splitting the signal drastically change the sound of the fuzzes because of the shared (diminished) power of the guitar signal from splitting it (would this sound like rolled-off guitar volume)?

Most importantly, am i missing a simple solution? I could live with blending just 2 fuzz pedals.

Thank you for any help

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/jfet-parallel-looper.html

[blackieNYC]

I think your best bet is to build a pickup simulator - basically half a cheap transformer, which mimics a pickup. See AMZ   It's in there. They work great.
Have an active splitter made of two parallel FET buffers. A splitter without isolated outputs might not work as well in this particular application. One or both outputs from the FETs would go to a pickup sim.  With a bypass switch.

[Plexi]

Tame all the classic fuzz's is a very complicated thing.
They're very temperamental whit everything you place before and after..as we already know.
Months ago I tried to reach any solution to a similar situation:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=116867.0

Conclusion: you can tame a bit, and make it more friendly... but it'll change all the nature and dynamics of the beast.

[joeychickenskin]

That pickup simulator seems like a great start.  My guess is that there may be some colour but I could live with that if it meant that I could blend fuzzes or even put my DM-3 in front of my fuzzrite.

I love that percussive glam sound of delay before fuzz and while I can put it before a lot of fuzz pedals it would be amazing to get that specific sound.

Thanks for the link to the other thread.

Thank you and thanks for the link to the other thread.