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I have an Electric Mistress Flanger I built from plans online that sounds great, but it has the normal issues that everyone complains about with the original. So, I want to use a booster after it to bring the volume level back up, since the EM cuts the volume while in use. But, I also want to use a buff n blend so I can have control over the level of the effect. Both have buffers, and both are meant to have the footswitch soldered into the boards. Those are pretty much my two issues. I figure that two buffers wouldn’t be good in the same enclosure. I could use the stage 3 booster as well, but then that would invert the phase when coupled with the buff n blend, and the EM is not on the list of pedals you need the phase inverter for. Plus, the stage 3 also has a buffer.
So, my questions are, how do I get away with pulling off the buff n blend with the afterblaster in my EM? Do I need to leave one of the buffers unpopulated, and how do I go about that? Lastly, how do I use one with the footswitch and wire it to the other without using it’s footswitch pads?
If the EM does not invert the phase then place it in the loop of the Buff N’ Blend as is.
Place a Stage 3 Booster in series in the same enclosure after the EM/Buff N Blend.
No need to worry about the Stage 3 changing the phase because it is not in the loop. No need to worry about 2 buffers either.
That is about it.
Thanks Barry!
I hadn’t thought about it that way.
I was just going to jump the right parts of the footswitch pads in the blaster board to make it work. If I did that, which do you think is better to use, blaster or stage 3 still?
My only thought about your reply above, is that I want the booster to only boost the EM to a specific level, and not the EM blended with the straight signal at the same time. I don’t really want the straight signal boosted.
I think the booster needs to be in the loop after the EM, so the EM can be brought up to the same level as the straight bypassed signal, before they’re mixed back together. Then, the EM isn’t being drowned out by the straight signal at full blend.
If the stage 3 or blaster is back in the loop with the EM, then do I have to worry about phase again?
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