The Abandoned Idea Dumping Ground

[sevenisthenumber]

A pedal that makes you sound like whats in your head. It could connect to the brain stem by means of a an "expression" jack....
Could work if we were in the year 3004.
We could imagine tone and then it would be produced through the pedals output to an amp...

[Taylor]

Stuff along those lines isn't too impossible or even that far off - but it won't have anything to do with guitar. I've seen some experimental designs intended to interface brain activity to computer control - it's just a couple of steps from there to brain synthesis.

[blueduck577]

we all know the fuzz face doesn't like buffers and needs to see the guitar directly... i've always wondering about creating buffer whose output impedance resembles that of a guitar so we can use our fuzz faces after buffered bypass pedals

[earthtonesaudio]

we all know the fuzz face doesn't like buffers and needs to see the guitar directly... i've always wondering about creating buffer whose output impedance resembles that of a guitar so we can use our fuzz faces after buffered bypass pedals

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That reminds me of another of my orphaned ideas:



On one side, a guitar input, buffered output, and a circuit that senses the setting of the guitar's volume potentiometer.  On the other end, a second pair of jacks that let you "splice in" a variable resistance that is controlled by your guitar volume pot.  This would let you control the fuzz with your volume knob no matter where it was in the chain.

[sevenisthenumber]

we all know the fuzz face doesn't like buffers and needs to see the guitar directly... i've always wondering about creating buffer whose output impedance resembles that of a guitar so we can use our fuzz faces after buffered bypass pedals

great idea! Anti-BUffer!

[Taylor]

BBD is overkill - try delaying with a two-stage phaseshifter first 
Be aware, that the positive and the negative halfwaves will not neccessarily be "interconnected" anymore,
but will look sheared off, and sound like that. Which sure can sound interesting though, especially when phased against each other. (Fuzz-Phase).

Can you explain this a little further? What makes a waveform interconnected? Is there some amount of phase difference after which the two halves would be separate?