Members bmast160 Posted December 24, 2008 Members Share Posted December 24, 2008 http://www.lehle.com/about_Lehle/download/Lehle_Catalogue_2009.pdf does the sunday driver make sense to anyone? its going to increase the volume of the signal and increase the impedance. why would you want to increase the impedance...any cable you'd run it thru would take even more sound away from the treble and bass if the impedance is higher... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted December 24, 2008 Members Share Posted December 24, 2008 Me thinks you are confusing impedance with capacitance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andreas Posted December 24, 2008 Members Share Posted December 24, 2008 any cable you'd run it thru would take even more sound away from the treble and bass if the impedance is higher Actually, it's the other way around. Increased input impedance usually means a brighter, livelier tone. This is the idea the Zvex SHO is based on, among others. Like Tom said, increased capacitance in the cable will lose treble, but that's a different story. Anyway, if I read the Lehle catalogue right, the Sunday Driver is basically a high-headroom buffer/booster unit, with two input impedance modes; one is referenced to a guitar amp, which usually means about 1 megohms, while the other is four times that. The higher input impedance will - especially if it is the first thing the guitar pickups "sees" - most likely result in a brighter, more nuanced sound. The output will of course be low impedance, to drive cables etc following the unit, just like any other buffer/booster (or any active circuit, really). So, while it will probably be a nice piece of kit (it's a Lehle, and their stuff is notoriously good), in essence it is only a buffer/booster /Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChrisFFTA Posted December 25, 2008 Members Share Posted December 25, 2008 will they strike trouble given this already exists in the pedal world? http://www.aphekstudio.com.au/Aphek-SD.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andreas Posted December 25, 2008 Members Share Posted December 25, 2008 Oops. Although the two pedals are different in function - the Aphek is a low-to-mid gain overdrive, while the Lehle is described as a super clean buffer/booster/line driver - the name thing could be a problem. /Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bmast160 Posted December 26, 2008 Author Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 i thought buffers lower the impedance signal of the guitar from high impedance to low impedance so that capacitance does not take over as much and draw off high end and low end? but this pedal raises impedance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andreas Posted December 26, 2008 Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 No. You can select its input impedance (normal or 4x higher), but its output will always be low impedance. /Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T3 Posted December 26, 2008 Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 hcfx fails at electronics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bmast160 Posted December 26, 2008 Author Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 No. You can select its input impedance (normal or 4x higher), but its output will always be low impedance./Andreas ooooh! gotcha. makes sense now. do other buffers like the axess buffer do this too...or do they just have a really high imput impedance built in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members m_Calavera Posted December 26, 2008 Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 hcfx fails at electronics. hahaaa, bar andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Last Nerve Posted December 26, 2008 Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 I like Lehle products.Solid and really well designed.But I hope they didn't screen up too many "Sunday Drivers," as I can see there being a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blungo Posted December 26, 2008 Members Share Posted December 26, 2008 No. You can select its input impedance (normal or 4x higher), but its output will always be low impedance./Andreas Radial makes a unit (Big Shot) that has adjustable input impedance and output gain. I have one, it's a nice little device. Changing the input impedance really does affect the sound of the guitar a lot, from bright and articulate to warm and mushy and all points in between. The Lehle stuff is nice, but a little pricey for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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