https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermasterHello
Has anyone had any experience with a before and after using a switcher like the gigrig.
My setup....
8 pedals from guitar Tuner, Compressor, OD, Dist, Boost, Delay, Tremolo and later on adding in a wah.
My Boost is a fulltone 2B which has a buffer.... not sure how good a buffer it is. All the rest are true bypass. I was thinking that the fulltone buffer/boost will keep the highs intact in the middle of the chain.
https://www.fulltone.com/products/2bBut i was thinking if add a gigrig quartermaster will that improve tone, noise and general improvement in reliability....if i pedal goes down then the show will go on.
Its a lot more money to spend including the extra patch cable to buy. Just wondering if any one had experience and if its worth doing. All power going to the pedals is isolated.
Also would i need to put a buffer in-between buffer and the gigrig? or is i supposed to feel like you are plugging straight in the amp?
Thanks in advanced
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http://www.brightonion.co.uk/8-switch-strip-looper/
You can customise how you want, buffers, extra switches..
How can the gigrig be 2x the price of the brightonion?
is there a quality difference? Tone difference? Switching quiet better on the gigrig?
Most manufacturers I have seen state that the buffer should be at the start of your chain, in this instance you'd probably want it before the quartermaster.
Tone improvement is very debatable, if you use 2 twenty feet leads you will lose signal anyway.
If you have 8 pedals and you want a more flexible setup I'd look at the Carl Martin octa switch mk3.
It offers more than on/off and it has a buffer and amo switching etc
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
They're built great, reliable, noise free and so convenient that I wouldn't be without one on my board.
For me, being able to switch in the pedals in and out as I wish - without the the balancing act of reaching the top row of pedals, treading on the knobs of the pedals on the front row and accidentally changing the settings, nearly falling over and messing up the song , etc - is priceless.
I did have an 8 pedal board all wired with monster cable before I got the first QM8 and I have to say that the bypassed tone now with the QM is definitely purer and with a stronger signal than when I was running through all those pedals and jacks at once continuously.
YMMV but I love mine.
thats good to know!
Have you used a buffer at the start or the end to see if that improves things even more?
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
James Murphy who makes them has also been very helpful in the past with custom jobs.
Ive never owned the Quartermaster but I do own and use a G2. Now, it is overkill for my rig, as Im using less pedals than ever...
However, the G2 does something to my rig; my guitar sounds better just thru the G2 - is it the buffer ? Each pedal also sounds better too, and the isolation of each pedal is what works for me.
Might be info you already know, or might not help, but my findings as I perceive...
i was thinking about this and getting a tuner like this at the start of the chain before going into the quatermaster
https://www.tcelectronic.com/Categories/Tcelectronic/Guitar/Tuners/POLYTUNE-3/p/P0D5Z
Not sure what the buffer is like? Say compare to a boss? Pete Cornish have great buffers don’t they?
my reasons are the same as yours. If a pedal goes down or lead you can identify it and pure tone!
Polytune3 in buffer mode (they come set to true bypass), then the Quartermaster with compression, drive, modulation and delay in the loops, then out into my Flint set to buffer and finally a Ditto looper.
The buffer in the polytune is the same as the bona-fide buffer pedal they put out a year or so ago. https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/tc-electronic-bonafide