PEDALS ALL THINGS EQUAL

The first thing a musician learns when they start down the rabbit hole of tone chasing is "everything should be true bypass... BUFFERS = BAD!". Ten true bypass pedals later, the same player wonders what happened to their tone. The truth is, poorly designed buffers are bad. Most guitars and basses use passive pickups which simply can't drive a signal through that many cables and pedals without losing some high end.