EUNA or Buffer or Neither!?! Can You Hear a Difference? Or Is It Just Snake Oil?

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[Music] okay so what's happening here um I've got this uh I've got these three lovely pedals in front of me here and uh well there's more but here's what we're doing we've got a 29 pedals yaa which is a unit Elite Unity amplifier uh we've got the fox pedals K buffer and we've got the HX stop so um what I want to know is can we hear a difference between the K buffer and the yaa versus the stop so basically nothing right so if there's nothing going on no Unity buffer no or Unity amplifier no buffer that's one thing versus the yaa versus the the K buffer can you hear those differences and the way that I've got this going on is um I've got uh I've got the guitar coming into this Spaceman Apollo over here that's then jumping over to the Big Sky that you see the Big Sky MX coming into the Stop um and then I have a block right here that is toggled by this foot switch to uh to do the effects Loop which I have the yaa and K buffer in okay so how do we split those apart so I have the K buffer in the effect Loop of the unit so um I'll have to tell you what these are cuz these LEDs aren't necessarily visible but it we can do K buffer or Yuna or nothing via stop so let's hear what we have just our BAS tone um so we know what we're working with this is these aren't on these are not in the effects Loop effects Loop is off [Music] so all right so then that's what our Baseline is uh if I turn the effect loop on with the unit on this is what it sounds like [Music] K [Music] buffer [Music] nothing K buffer [Music] you [Music] know okay so um did you hear any differences uh or did you not you tell me now that's with the so the um yaa has these three toggles that uh are various harmonics um or frequencies that boost so to hear them let's let's uh let's just do a little thing so we'll hear them and eventually I'll we'll have them all on and then we'll we'll do the same tests again so [Music] so I think it's uh with this without looking at the manual so Jesse forgive me if I'm wrong harmonics bright and low uh so if they're all on it's [Music] this versus nothing [Music] [Music] so definitely a difference there between the uh unit being on or off uh let's do this round again and check it out so with all the switches up uh nothing so just to stop the K buffer or the Unice so this would be the nothing so just the [Music] stump [Music] youa K [Music] buffer nothing [Music] you [Music] know okay so um with the switches on I I definitely heard U the uni pop out and the UN is kind of designed to really just bring out all of those elements those frequencies that you quote unquote lose when you have a really long signal chain so it's basically as if you're not getting tone loss and I know I we're really just running this straight into here we're not hearing that tone loss we're we're not um there sorry there's no tone loss because of a long signal chain so I think that might even emphasize the effects even more because it's literally just boom you know straight into there now the K buffer is essentially the buffer from the uh the Clon circuit and a lot of people would use the Clon circuit um that that yeah whether it's the original or a clone with uh like the gain turned down because they like the sound of it as like a buffer so that's what the k buffer is whether whether we heard a difference between that being on or off or basically sorry meaning K buffer versus off in the stomp uh you know it was an it was a very minimal difference that I could hear maybe just enough that it's like oh it's a nice little thing you know and having this in the front of a of a longer pedal run might be cool um now the yaa at all of these on definitely brought in some harmonics and some tones that uh they were really nice to my ears with them all off it became a little bit less noticeable but still noticeable so do with that what you will is it worth getting a buffer is it worth having the yaa uh pop in let me know what you think and let me know how this is a terrible way to do the experiment I want to hear that too all right everybody until we meet again thanks peace