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Originally Posted by jcmjmp
Hey, all I know is that sometimes, theory and practice can be 2 different things.
A lot of the tone sucking pedals use a wire-bypass method but experience shows that this kind of setup can load the signal and suck tone. Case in point: The Dunlop Wah. Wire bypass works in theory on this pedal, but in practice, it doesn't do a good job. A switch is not zero resistance (probably close enough though) in reality and it also adds some capacitance in the path.
Like I said in an earlier post... it may not really affect anything as far as tone goes. The differences might not be detectable to the human ear, especially at the voltage levels.
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Not the same.
On a wah pedal, the wire bypass only bypasses the signal to the output jack, but you still have a load to ground imposed on the signal by the shit in the negative feedback loop on a wah because the input is still connected. When you leave the input connected while only bypassing the output jack to the input jack on a pedal, the input of the circuit will still pose a load to ground on the signal path.
This circuit is COMPLETELY different and cannot be related to a pedal bypass for this reason. Apples & oranges.