Guitar signal splitting

[Zaphod B]

Oh yes. Just about any transistor is no more than 300 ohm output impedance or so, unless they did something weird like make the final stage a gain stage (which nobody in their right mind would do). Chances are it's an opamp, and the heaviest possible load would be maybe 50K. No problem at all, even at 10K or probably even 1K.

Wow, I never would have guessed.

 

[notCardio]

Wow, I never would have guessed.

Same here, but my little bit of electronics education was 30 years ago and I pretty much haven't used it since. I'm not sure I followed all of that, but I'll take his word for it.

So if I wanted the same pedal chain in front of a bunch of amps, I could just Y the final output of the chain? Doesn't there need to be some sort of isolation between the inputs of the different amps?

 

[mshilarious]

So if I wanted the same pedal chain in front of a bunch of amps, I could just Y the final output of the chain?

Yes. Again, there must always be at least one pedal on or not in true bypass.

Doesn't there need to be some sort of isolation between the inputs of the different amps?

The short answer is no. The long answer is: how would you isolate them, and if you did, how would you isolate those six buffer devices from each other?

Important qualification: Probably a good idea to have all of those amps on a common power circuit (ground). Since they are small amps, I presume they aren't pulling more than a total of 15A.

 

[Zaphod B]

FYI, notCardio, I think all (at least most) Boss pedals are buffered bypass rather than true bypass. That's why I mentioned the TU-2 tuner pedal - it's utilitarian and will provide the buffering you need. It can also provide power pass-through for other pedals.

But there are tons of other buffering pedals as well.