Further OT: Tone Suckage (was Re: Electro Harmonix Freeze - Vortex Patch)

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

Even getting the resistance right in a volume pedal can matter. I was 
surprised to find that my Lovepedal Eternity Fuse overdrive really, really 
does not like being right in front of my 25k Ernie Ball volume pedal 
(which I went with over the 250k because it is sitting later in the signal 
chain). I've had to make sure that something that isn't true bypass is 
sitting between the two.

Mark

On Mar 6, 2011, at 4:08 AM, Rainer Straschill wrote:

> 'sucking tone' is a term that I've only heard from guitarists so far, 
>and which they use to describe an (unwanted) effect on the guitar sound 
>when going through some box (which can be an effect, or an amp, or a 
>cable etc.). One aspect of tone suckage is less high frequency content, 
>another one might be loss of dynamic range, often not as this effect per 
>se but low dynamics masked in noise perceived as a loss of dynamic range, 
>some change in the way your guitar signal chain responds to your playing, 
>or tube voodoo.
> 
> The most famous kind of tone sucking is plugging your guitar into a low 
>impedance input (e.g. mixer or soundcard) in combination with a guitar 
>with passive electronics, possibly even a vintage one. This will 
>inevitably lead to a high-frequency rolloff.