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mong vintage fuzz enthusiasts,
“buffer” is usually a dirty word.
This idea of touting “true bypass”
as a feature came from the vitriol
spouted by tone-hounds on forums bashing
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Boss’s use of buffers, which would always
invariably screw with their perfect vintage
fuzz tones. This anger was directed mainly
towards Boss, who in its early years were
one of the first mass adopters of the
Battle of the Buffers: 4 Tone-Suck Stoppers