
and just about everyone has a Boss tuner pedal. If a simple buffer solves the electric guitar problem is that really a problem? The Radial stuff is used by thousands of people in thousands of scenarios every day because their stuff works and sounds good in all those various situations. aside from pure crystal clean tones I've never done it. One thing that's not very common is to plug an electric guitar straight into a DI box. projectors & iPods, drum machines, basses with high output active electronics, standard passive P basses, acoustic guitars with all sorts of electronics, zillions of keyboards etc At some point or another I've connected anything you could dream of. In real world use just about anything with a 1/4 plug gets shoved into a DI box. There's always some loss or at least alteration with a DI box. The Radial JDV and Little Labs Redeye come to mind, the latter providing one helluva REAMPing solution as well. If for extra high impedance / adjustable impedance is a priority, there are any number of tools designed to accommodate. They are (generally) more concerned with input distortion than loading, as with active acoustic pickups, active basses, and line level audio sources, it is legitimately a much greater (and more common) occurrence.


Personally, grabbing a suitable buffer in the studio to minimize pickup loading - a Boss tuner will do - is a small compromise to make, in order to have the build quality, and sound, and functionality that the Radial products bring to the table. Radial makes great tools, that in the audio world, are very reasonably priced in light of quality.Ī manufacturer’s design decisions might not align with one’s wants or needs. If I do, I buffer before the input or after the thru.
