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Was talking to my church's guitar player about the pedal board I am building for me and my son and told him that I didn't think I needed a big looper because all the byoc pedals I was going to build were true bypass. He said he did not think that was the case. The footswitch wiring all looks the same.

Here are my current projects:

Analog Chorus (I think so, but documentation doesn't say so);
Classic Compressor (True bypass);
Tremolo (Not sure)
Mimosa (Not sure)
Parametric Multiband Compressor (True bypass)
ESV Germanium Fuzz (True bypass)
Classic Delay (Not sure)

Thanks

bestw

All the pedals you have listed are TB.

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The VAST majority of BYOC pedals are true mechanical bypass, using a 3PDT footswitch to physically disconnect the effect circuit from your signal path in bypassed mode. Additionally, this switching configuration turns an LED on or off to indicate that the pedal is engaged (on) or bypassed (off).

There are a few that use an electronic means of bypass called the "millennium bypass" that uses FET-based electronic switching to isolate the effect circuit from your signal path. Very effective, but the switching requires that the pedal be powered, which is not the case with true mechanical bypass.

I'm probably forgetting one or two, but the only BYOC kit I can recall offhand that didn't use one or the other of these two bypass methods was the no-longer-offered Silver Pony. It stayed true to the original Klon Centaur design by incorporating an input buffer that was always in the signal path. This of course requires that the pedal always be powered in order to pass signal, whether engaged or in "faux bypass".

EDIT: One more non-TB BYOC pedal--the Soaring Skillet, which stays true to the original Ibanez FP-777 Flying Pan design.

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And keep in mind that there are advantages AND disadvantages with true bypass.

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Thanks all; theoretically I want to build one pedalboard, with three major paths, that can be used by me and my two sons, including one who plays both bass and guitar. With all the various combinations of compression and effects, I only think I need one 8X looper to run the 13 pedals, three of which are Boss (Buffer) pedals. I only use compression but the Bass/guitar player likes to try to use everything at least once in each worship service.

bestw