Sunking: buffered or true bypass?

[Rocktifier]

I'm building a sunking and wanted to know what people's thoughts were about building it buffered or true bypass.  I know the original was designed to be buffered.  Anyone see any "pros" or "cons" to either approach with this pedal?

[jkokura]

Buffered sounds fine to my ears. The buffer doesn't suck any tone that I can tell.

Jacob

[eniacmike]

I think the buffer sounds great actually. I prefer it to the bypassed sound.

[Rocktifier]

I think the buffer sounds great actually. I prefer it to the bypassed sound.

Interesting...so you've built it both ways then and like the buffered?


Thanks guys

[camsna]

Buffered. The Sunking's buffer sounds great!

[eniacmike]

I think the buffer sounds great actually. I prefer it to the bypassed sound.

Interesting...so you've built it both ways then and like the buffered?


Thanks guys

I built the circuit up and hooked up the buffered output to my breadbox which I hook up to a true bypass switch (beavis board style) and compared the buffered to the true bypass signal and prefered the buffer so I ended up using the buffered bypass. you can do the same thing pretty easily. listen to the s4 pad that is the buffered output.

[jackbart1960]

Very cool to see this I just ordered the Sunking board last night with a Grapevine and was going to post this very question. I was planning to build it buffered but this just reinforces my idea. Always cool to have a buffered box to throw in a long chain.
Peace. J.J.B.

[JakeFuzz]

I didn't like the buffer. Switched it to TB the day I built it. Made everything after it sound really thin. Just my experience, sounds like lot of people really like it. I had it early in the chain, found it affected fuzz face type pedals the most.

[jackbart1960]

Jake just about any buffered pedal put before a FF type circuit is going to make it sound f'd up.
But from what I've heard and read (I really should be playing more) it's a good late in the chain box.
So the buffer to me would be a plus. Peace. Jack

[JakeFuzz]

Jake just about any buffered pedal put before a FF type circuit is going to make it sound f'd up.
But from what I've heard and read (I really should be playing more) it's a good late in the chain box.
So the buffer to me would be a plus. Peace. Jack

Very true. I guess it is where you are going to want to have it in the chain. I like it as a booster to drive my other pedals so I put it early. I knew it was going to mess with my FF pedals b/c of the impedance that design likes to see but it did do some weird things before my other drive pedals. 

[jackbart1960]

My FD II MOSFET takes on that chore. A very cool driver for the front end chain. But I just ordered this very board and I'll chime in with a education when I've got it built.
Peace. J.J.B.

[B_of_H]

the buffer on the previous project was terrible but that was due to an error.  The new layout/instructions are corrected and that buffer sounds good to my ears.  It really doesn't matter IMO. 

[JakeFuzz]

My FD II MOSFET takes on that chore. A very cool driver for the front end chain. But I just ordered this very board and I'll chime in with a education when I've got it built.
Peace. J.J.B.

I use an FD II Mosfet (the red one). The sunking and the fulldrive cover very similar ground, I still prefer the FDII at 18 volts to just about anything else I have tried. Sunking is more meaty and has better clarity but the fulldrive just has something about it.